wonderful pop sensibilities

While I do pick up The Stranger every week, it seems like the music section is a little... oh... let's call it myopic. Check the Up & Coming section for in any given week, where a number of shows for each day of the coming week are listed, and a trend emerges: show after show, band after band, is written up for their "catchy, smart pop" or "rock with gorgeous pop sensibilities," etcetera, etcetera. They'll usually cover any big, national, touring act (regardless of genre), but for the smaller stuff, it's always cute, catchy pop (ranging from gentle, jangly indie pop, to medium-heavy rock with the requisite pop trappings).

What rankles is that there are so many good, interesting, and unconventional bands in this town... you could likely find one of them any week you went out. You wouldn't know it, though, reading The Stranger: the music listings all read like descriptions of songs you'd hear during a movie where Zach Braff is either falling in love or moping.

I hate those fences anyway

Well, that clenches it-- I'm never growing up. The whole suburbs, family, house with the white picket fence vibe is really not going to compare to going out to tape the Barefoot Barnacle show last night (which sounds roughly like anything recorded at the back of El Corazon would sound: not too great), and wandering back to The Octagon for a ubik., Red Rapture, Barefoot Barnacle, Hunab Ku mass jam. I'm pretty used to going to sleep around 6:00/7:00 AM on nights like that. And then there's the whole beer-on-balls thing which... I just don't know if a blogger post is going to capture that kind of magic.

In other news: the ubix.cube.bot is fully fleshed out and readily available. Those little suckers rule (example: I just posted a picture of Joel's bot battling pagers)