Deerhunter in Dallas

The Loft has really cool wooden floors. Dallas, I will miss you so.

Maddow is my hero

Dear Tony

I have no questions for you.

Promise!

Who knew Mccain was so funny!

John Mccain speaking at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner




He still had some more funnies later... I'll replace the video when I find one.

Gato Poder!

It was dark... no one was there... I thought Cat Power was a pretty big act. I guess she's not... at least in Dallas!



Lord help the poor & needy -- Cat Power -- Palladium.

Ps, Karl Lagerfeld was spotted in the audience.

Cha no aji

The Taste of Tea: a Japanese film by Katsuhito Ishii.



I highly recommend it if you have patience, a few hours and are a sucker for that type of movie that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Austin.......

Is overrated! But I know some wonderful human beings that live there. I spent my fourth of July weekend in ATX. Barton Springs + Marelynn = good times. These are the friends are strangers I spend my time with:

B.G.

Miguel Briones. Check out his music at
http://www.myspace.com/miguelantonybriones

Carlos

Stranger

The King Playing with the Queen

The Nasher is pretty cool.

Max Ernst

Spider

I found another Calder at the Nasher Sculpture Museum in Dallas. (!!!)

I fell in love with this guy in D.C.

On the wild side...

Some of my vast adventures with JMK in D.C. included finding places paaaaaaarrrty. Left to our own devices, we apparently found the sketchiest places in the city.

Our first misadventure began with the entire SHFW crew. We made our way to a so called Platinum Club in the Chinatown area because one of the crew members was still only 20. After repeatedly being harassed while we waited in line, we decided a $20 cover was just too much. So we left and never saw the inside of the club despite our youngest crew member’s insistence that it looked like a really interesting place and that we should return. Tragedy befell Platinum a few weeks later when there was a fatal shooting outside its doors.

Then, looking to experience the Dupont party life, we made our way to Club Five due to my friend iPA’s suggestions. Club Five “has been temporarily shut down while authorities investigate a Memorial Day weekend stabbing.”

Chinnn!

The two clubs we sort of went to are the two clubs that were shut down by recent D.C. crackdowns. We sure do know how to pick ‘em!

Read the story on the WaPo Web site. Thanks for the story, JMK.

Marelynnisms: Sex

marelynn:
jajajaa

it is possible

sex isn't everything

which is hard for me to understand

but it is what i hear

lol

I'm famous!

Not really! But I do share a name with a German bookstore. Well, it was in Vienna too. Not sure where else!

I know the coolest people

Age Likely to Be Key Factor in Presidential Campaign

by Linda Wertheimer

How could he have known that she was only 15?

They were all 15.

I'm too old for this.

I always thought I'd tap out of reasonable concert age at 27. I never wanted to be one of those 40-somethings still rocking out with a pompadour at a Morrissey show. Not that there's anything terribly wrong with a 45-year-old wearing tight jeans, a leather jacket and a wife beater during summer in El Paso, I just didn't want to be that.

Anyway, my concert-going ways decidedly ended on Sunday when I watched Rilo Kiley at the Palladium. I started listening to Rilo back in, oh, 2003 or so. I didn't realize how much of a teeny bopper band they were until I saw them for the second time. Even though their latest album (Under the Black Light) made me barf a little, (you can't listen past song six, seriously) I still had a soft spot for Jenny & Blake and didn't want to pass up the opportunity to check out the venue again. The show was a terrible, terrible experience, though not really because of the band's performance.

I had the misfortune of standing in front of probably the most annoying bitches in Dallas. Is it really necessary to belt every song? I understand if you're close to the stage at a show it more than likely means you're a fan, thus you'll probably sing to some of the songs. Singing is acceptable; singing so loud so you can hear yourself crooning along is not.

No, I don't want to hear your rendition of The Frug while the real band is performing another song. The Frug sucks ass anyway. I do not want to hear your conversation about how much you love Jenny, but hate Blake, and your awesome list of trivia you looked up on Wikipedia before you came to the show. I do not want to hear you yell obscenities at the guitarist while he's telling the crowd a quirky anecdote. Grrrrrrrrr. It really made me angry. I wanted to turn around and punch them in the face, or at the very least rip their ovaries out. I will eat your babies, bitch! I didn't though, because I am an adult. I could have just moved out of the way, but I wanted to try and get some pictures. I failed at getting decent pictures thoug. I was too far, it was too dark, and my camera sucks too hard.

I don't think the show was much better in Austin either. I had a friend tell me he was surrounded by 12-year-olds making out the entire show. Booo. Sad times indeed.

The actual performance was just OK. I don't know why it wasn't fabulous. But I just wasn't blown away. Unlike Jose Gonzalez who gets better every time I see him, I was just a little underwhelmed with Rilo Kiley. But then again, there were mostly adults at the Jose show in DC. I forgot I have video from there. I'll have to post it one day. It's three months overdue. Rilo Kiley was cute, I guess. But they cut one of my favorite songs, Spectacular Views, short. Oh well. Such is life. The only thing I was happy about is that they played a lot of older songs.

So, I'm not a photog, but since I hate reporting, I guess I gotta start somewhere. Once I pay off my Best Buy debt, I'll charge it up all over again for a decent point and shoot and a starter SLR and maybe even a camcorder! For now, here are the blurry pictures, and video from Rilo Kiley:

I think Dream World is the best song on Under the Black Light. There's very few songs you can actually listen to.



Can you hear the teenagers singing? Yeah. I've said this before, but sorry my camera craps out at about 3 mins. =(

Set list:

It's a snack pack, yo

A little hobby of mine is to go to shows far away from home, take crappy pictures, even more crappy video, and then post them on this here blog. My first show I checked during my three month Dallas intern stint was RZA as Bobby Digital at The Loft in Dallas. The Loft is the second floor of the Palladium Ballroom. It's a small venue, so I think you're almost guaranteed an awesome show if the act is any good. How was the RZA?? Fucking phenomenal. I don't really even know anything about RZA, other than, you know, the whole Wu-Tang thing, Jarmusch & Tarantino scores and I have listened to Birth of a Prince. Anyone who samples Billie Holiday is OK in my book.


The show was somewhat of a surreal experience. Being one of the few women at the show at all, much less at the front of the stage, I became somewhat of a mockery target. I'm sure I was the only girl who went alone. I'm not sure if I was being hit on, just being made of fun, or if the dudes giving me grief were just on drugs. I'm leaning toward drugs. Anyway, it was my first hip-hop show, I guess, if you want to call it that.

The belt buckle from one of the dudes in the Black Knights (I think). There was a whole little face under there!


Stone Mecca. Opened for the RZA & played with him for his set.



Trying to pull a BT and take feet pictures.


Guitarist from Stone Mecca.


Bobby!


I don't know what was going on here, but I thought it looked kinda funny.

Wooing one of the few ladies at the show.

The show was a good 1 and a half, maybe 2 hours a long. He talked about Wu-Tang non-stop and even did an extra song, Something I Want -- his collaboration with Vincent Gallo. The few videos I took and the track list can be found on the post below. I do have some Stone Mecca videos I will post later on.

Next show is Rilo Kiley at the Palladium. Stay tuned!

Yeaapp!

My first show as a Dallas transient was the RZA. I took some crappy video. Enjoy.

The track list:

Digi Intro
Long Time COming
Drama
Str8 Off The Block
Digisnacks
The Grunge
We Pop
Grits
Fast Cars
Glock o Pop
Love Jones
Must Be Bobby
Brooklyn Babies
Drink Smoke Fuck
Suicide
Nowhere 2 Run
Wu Tang 1 Fuck With
Reunited
Duck Season
Try Yi Yi Yi
4th Chamber
Tearz
Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Don't Be Afraid
Creep
No Regrets
U Can't Stop Me
& somewhere in there Something I Want (For Real)

Digi Intro

Drama

Grits

Something I Want (for real)

When Machetes Attack

No seriously. This is sad.

Please RSVP for goodie bags

Being a DMN intern (sort of) comes with perks.



Yup, that's DMN chapstick. WTF?

This & That

The view from the top level of the TXCN parking lot.

We went to a Rangers game last Thursday. I forgot who they were playing already, but I've never had better seats at a professional sporting event. Working for the media owns! The Rangers won. I've yet to see a pro football game. Next time. For sure.



The fools I hang out with.

Journalism sans grammar

Half the news room vanished at Scripps this Spring. Some left because of illness, others retired or got better job offers. For the lowly interns it meant free goodbye luncheons.

During one of these famous lunches, Kevin Diaz, the chief correspondent for the Minnesota Star Tribune Washington Bureau, said something that renewed my interest in becoming a journalist.

“I’m not a grammarian,” he said. I just write. Other people fix it.

I am often overcome by self-doubt and insecurities about my writing and reporting abilities, but those three sentences changed my outlook. Kevin Diaz, you’re my hero.

I am not a grammarian. I’ll just write, talk, listen, explore. Other people can fix it for me.

Start Spreading the News

I'm leaving today.

Goodbye D.C. (Hello EP)

I don't live here anymore:




If I can make there, I'll make it anywhere.

Marelynnisms: MySpace

marelynn: lol
abandon his watch
jajajaja
over TOP EIGHT on MYSPACE
lol
calm down
calm down

The Friendly Squirrel

At one point during Vincent's Washington, D.C., vacation, we ran into a friendly one-eyed squirrel. He was pretty bad ass. He was kind of gray and obviously weathered, but squirrels are a rare sight in EP, so seeing this little guy come up to us was bitchin'. I wanted to keep him!




Hello, Vincent!


Goodbye, Vincent.



I tried to take a picture with him too, but he ran to the other side of the tree. Sad times. So here's me and a tree.





I wish I wasn't so whiny! I will keep my mouth shut next video.

Second to Moscow

Wheaton! At 588 feet, the Wheaton Station escalator on D.C.'s red line is the longest in the Western Hemisphere.








I also found this video on youtube. Jonna and I tried to make one of our own, but we failed. This one I thought was pretty good. There are some real dramatic ones out there. Woodley is pretty hardcore too, Wheaton is even more so! Enjoy.

Equus

At Laurel Park...

Marelynnisms: No Pants

This might make no sense to anyone, but Marelynn and I have some of the most ridiculous Gmail chat conversations ever. I shall begin my chronicling.



Mj: He has socks but no pants?
amazing!
The fact that he has a blog is so odd to me
I have no pants
but i have a blog.

UTEP

In other news, my green UTEP sweatshirt caused quite a commotion on Columbia Street today. I’m exaggerating, but three people pointed it out, and I even had a conversation with someone about UTEP playing in the big dance.
It’s silly, but it makes me really proud to be from EP. El Paso is badass. We are badass. Sure, it has its problems, but there’s no other place I’d rather be from. Not even San Fran.

The end of an era

Sucio, Sucia, Chachito, Grisel, iPA


This is probably my favorite picture of all time. It is perfection. This picture, these people, made me who I am now. I'll never stop being nostalgic about what thus far I consider to be the happiest time in my life. I remember staying up all night talking about Comandate Marcos, and Grisel possibly running away with his caravana; Dark rooms, white rabbit, sitting indian style in a circle, apple sour vodka--my life better than I had ever imagined. Other than Drew (perfection all on his own), who is missing from the picture, there's no other three people that I have shared more with in my adult life (post 22-years). Perfection... perfection.

Sophia

I am convinced Sophia Loren seduced the entire world because of her breasts. At least that's what the biography I'm reading about her suggests. Her features somewhat bird-like to me, but I can't help but like her either way. One so be so lucky as to have those boobs at 70.