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Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane

It was a night in July, I think six years ago
Why'd I eat the acid? I don't know
I wasn't thinking and I wasn't scared
Why'd I eat the acid? I wasn't prepared
The last time I did acid I went insane

I was hanging with some friends just getting loaded
When all of a sudden my mind exploded
I had a flash that I was gay and I got paranoid
I was sitting on the floor listening to Pink Floyd
The last time I did acid I went insane

And I was drawing crazy pictures and before I was done
The picture starting pulsing like an alien lung
And I said "oh my god, this has just begun"
And It was twelve more hours before I was done

We were up on the rooftop and I'll tell you the truth
I was convinced I woulda fallen offa the roof
And these weird metal things all around that space
Were teleporting me from place to place
The last time I did acid I went insane

So we ran back downstairs where it's better to be
But I was trapped in spiral staircase infinity
And when we got to the door I couldn't go inside
'cause it was the gates of heaven, and I had died
The last time I did acid I went insane

And this kid named Grim, he punched a cat in the head
He could read my thoughts, that's what he said
And he described what it was like, but I didn't believe it
Like lifting a rug and seeing stars beneath it

oooo oo

And the first rule of tripping was - don't be with people you don't trust
The second rule of LSD - the rooftop is not a good place to be
The third rule is to be prepared
The fourth rule is to not get scared
The fifth rule is to stay serene - "turn off your mind and float downstream"
The sixth rule's to have a good friend at hand
The seventh rule, I hope ya understand
Is not to look too deep into your soul
Or you might find a hideous, hopeless, hole
Of hatred, hunger, infinite idiot, mindless, meaningless,
Nothingness, nothingness, nothingness,
Nothingness, nothingness, nothingness,
Nothingness, nothingness, nothingness,
Nothingness, nothingness,
And that's what I did...

And every aspect of mine that I selected
Was instantly and completely dissected
I saw the horrible emptiness within
The reasons behind everything
And it was that moment that I went insane

Cause I figured why bother doing anything again
I didn't understand the thoughts revealing themselves to be
The truth behind everything I'd ever wanted or need
Revealed itself to beeeeeeee

Unnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
winding

(low, murmurring voices)

I've just discovered the meaning of life!
I've just discovered the meaning of life!
I've just discovered the meaning of life!
I've just discovered the meaning of life!

Hey folks,

I love Halloween. Any holiday that consists primarily of candy, fake blood, and horror movies is basically unbeatable in my book. As such, I did my show this week with a "spook-tacular" theme (puns are so rad!). Anyway. Hope you dig it. Leave a comment with what you're wearing as a costume. And, as an extra special one-time-only gift, here's an mp3 of the show (link will expire).

The playlist:

Things that Are Square 10-29-09

disney - Haunted Mansion/Grim Grinning Ghosts - Disney

Chain and the Gang - Cemetery Map - Down with Liberty...Up with Chains!
Beat Happening - Pinebox Derby - You Turn Me On
The Cramps - Human Fly - Gravest Hits
Old Time Relijun - Vampire Victim - Lost Light

The Gothic Archies - Dreary, Dreary - The Tragic Treasury
Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead - ...Has a Good Home
North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative - Do They Know It's
Hallowe'en? - Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?
The Specials - Ghost Town - The Singles Collection

Best Friends Forever - Ghost Song - Romance Conflict Adventure
Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bande a Part
RJD2 - The Horror - Deadringer
Suicide - Ghost Rider - Suicide

Tom Waits - Murder in the Red Barn - Bone Machine
Tracy Jordan - Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30 Rock
Jan Terri - Get Down Goblin - Singles
Daniel Johnston - My Baby Cares for the Dead - More Songs of Pain

John Zacherley - Coolest Little Monster - Spook Along with Zacherley
Jeffrey Lewis - If You Shoot the Head You Kill the Ghoul - It's the
Ones Who've Cracked that the Light Shines Through
Dwarves - We Must Have Blood - The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking
Misfits - Skulls - Walk Among Us

The Residents - Fine Fat Flies - God in Three Persons
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Song of Joy - Murder Ballads
Liars - We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
Thee Oh Sees - Ghost in the Trees - The Masters Bedroom Is Worth
Spending a Night In (For George in Costa Mesa, CA)

The Angels of Light - All Souls' Rising - Everything Is Good
Here/Please Come Home
Fantômas - Spider Baby - The Director's Cut

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - A Hymn to the Morning Star - Of Natural History

Feel free to tune in any Thursday night, 6-8pm PST on KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine, CA, and worldwide on the internet at KUCI.ORG, and the radio presets of iTunes. It won't be as spooky-scary, but hopefully I can still show you a good time.

<3,
Kyle

bands I've seen more than once:

10+ times:
Elsinore - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Illini Union 9/29/06, Taste of Champaign 2007, Sweetcorn Fest 2007, Urban Outfitters 8/24/08, Pygmalion 2008, Record Store Day 2009, IMCFest 2009, Green Music Fest 2009, Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09, Pygmalion 2009
Headlights - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07, Canopy Club 3/6/08, IMC 4/18/08, Canopy Club 6/6/08, Urban Outfitters 8/29/08, Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 3/14/08, IMCFest 2009, Pygmalion 2009

eight times:
Morgan Orion - IMC 11/5/06, Red Herring 3/8/07, Red Herring 3/29/07, Red Herring 7/6/07, UIUC Main Quad 8/8/07, IMC 8/20/07, Cloud Factory 9/22/09, Channing-Murray 10/14/09
Zmick - Red Herring 4/14/07, Red Herring 5/5/07, Red Herring 11/2/07, Canopy Club 1/25/08, Sweetcorn Fest 2008, Canopy Club 8/23/08, Canopy Club 9/1/08, Canopy Club 9/22/08

seven times:
New Ruins - Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07, Red Herring 5/5/07, Pygmalion 2008, Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08, Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09, Courtyard Cafe 9/4/09, Pygmalion 2009
Common Loon[artist] - IMCFest 2007, IMC 5/4/08, Pygmalion 2008, IMCFest 2009, Record Store Day 2009, Taste of Champaign 2009, Pygmalion 2009

six times:
Me, Him and Charlie Miller - Iron Post 5/16/07, Iron Post 10/6/07, IMC 10/19/07, IMC 11/16/07, IMC 1/11/08, Iron Post 8/15/08

five times:
Mit'n - Red Herring 4/14/07, Iron Post 5/16/07, Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07, Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07, IMC 5/4/08

four times:
Nine Inch Nails - Assembly Hall 2/10/06, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 7/3/06, Scottrade Center 8/20/08, Bonnaroo 2009
Duke of Uke - IMC 11/5/06, Iron Post 4/20/07, IMC 10/19/07, Espresso Royale 5/27/08
Fireflies - IMC 9/13/06, IMC 10/27/06, Red Herring 3/8/07, IMC 11/10/07
Organic Flow - house show 1/25/08, Taste of Nevada 8/24/08, Courtyard Cafe 9/13/08, IMCFest 2009
World's First Flying Machine - Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 3/14/08, Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09, Caffe Paradiso 10/2/09
The Hood Internet - Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 12/13/08, Bonnaroo 2009, Pygmalion 2009

three times:
David Bazan - Pygmalion 2006, Caffe Paradiso 9/23/06, Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08
Shipwreck - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Krannert Art Museum 1/24/08
Yo La Tengo - Pitchfork 2006, Lollapalooza 2007, Pygmalion 2008
The Dresden Dolls - Metro 10/15/05, Lollapalooza 2006, Vic Theatre 10/20/06
Kaki King - Wall to Wall 2005, Highdive 10/13/06, Wall to Wall 2007
The Roots - Area: One 7/15/01, Lollapalooza 2007, Kirkland PAC 3/29/08
Triple Whip - Iron Post 2/18/07, Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07, Red Herring 5/5/07
Ryan Groff - Iron Post 2/18/07, Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07, Pygmalion 2009
Spoon - Foellinger Hall 10/28/07, Pitchfork 2006, Lollapalooza 2007
KiKi and PeePee - Living Room 12/14/07, Living Room 1/4/08, Red Herring 1/25/08
Good Night & Good Morning - Error House 1/12/08, Error House 1/19/08, Pygmalion 2009
Krukid - Red Herring 11/2/07, Kirkland PAC 3/29/08, Canopy Club 12/13/08
Mordechai in the Mirror - IMC 5/4/08, Caffe Paradiso 10/3/08, IMC 5/30/09
Decibully - Pygmalion 2008, Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09, Pygmalion 2009

two times:
Incubus - Area: One 7/15/01, Assembly Hall 10/13/02
Jeffrey Lewis - IMC 11/5/06, Channing-Murray 10/14/09
My Morning Jacket - Foellinger Auditorium 12/5/06, Bonnaroo 2008
The Chemicals - IMC 10/27/06, Sweetcorn Fest 2007
Silversun Pickups - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Lollapalooza 2007
Caleb Engstrom - Pygmalion 2006, Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Lollapalooza 2006, Assembly Hall 3/3/07
Ohtis - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Pygmalion 2009
Andrew Bird - Lollapalooza 2006, Pygmalion 2007
Death Cab for Cutie - Lollapalooza 2005, Foellinger Auditorium 10/13/05
Dustin and the Furniture - UIUC Main Quad 8/8/07, Living Room 1/4/08
Corn Desert Ramblers - Red Herring 4/14/07, Iron Post 1/16/09
painkillers - Iron Post 6/16/07, Iron Post 1/16/09
The Decemberists - Foellinger Auditorium 4/15/07, Millennium Park 7/18/07
Withershins x2 - Red Herring 5/5/07, Living Room 12/14/07
Charles Joseph Smith - Red Herring 5/5/07, Red Herring 11/2/07
Alleyway Sex - IMC 6/30/07, Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Lollapalooza 2007, Bonnaroo 2009
Megan Johns - IMC 8/20/07, Living Room 12/14/07
Dark Meat - Sweetcorn Fest 2007, Pygmalion 2008
Sonny Landreth - Wall to Wall 2007, Blues Brews and BBQ 2009
Smashing Pumpkins - Braden Auditorium 10/4/07, Adler Theatre 8/8/08
Man Man - Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07, Canopy Club 10/16/08
Kenny Knowles - Red Herring 11/2/07, Red Herring 1/25/08
Yeni Raki - Red Herring 11/2/07, IMC 11/16/07
Hathaways - Red Herring 11/2/07, Pygmalion 2009
The Beauty Shop - IMCFest 2007, Krannert Art Museum 1/24/08
Maritime - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08, Green Fest 2009
Company of Thieves - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08, Courtyard Cafe 1/25/09
Broken Social Scene - Bonnaroo 2008, Foellinger Auditorium 10/19/08
Derek Trucks Band - Bonnaroo 2008, Ellnora 2009
Jonathon Childers - Canopy Club 8/23/08, Pygmalion 2008
You & Yourn - Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08, Pygmalion 2009
Oceans - Courtyard Cafe 3/13/09, Pygmalion 2009
Maserati - Courtyard Cafe 3/13/09, Pygmalion 2009
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Courtyard Cafe 9/4/09, Rocket House 9/4/09
Peninsula - Cloud Factory 9/22/09, Channing Murray 10/14/09
The Avett Brothers - Canopy Club 9/7/08, Canopy Club 10/22/09

one time:
The Who - Deer Creek 7/26/97
OutKast - Area: One 7/15/01
Moby - Area: One 7/15/01
Hometown Hero - Assembly Hall 10/13/02

Doris Henson - Pageant 7/7/05
The Crimea - Pageant 7/7/05
Billy Corgan - Pageant 7/7/05
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Lollapalooza 2005
M83 - Lollapalooza 2005
Liz Phair - Lollapalooza 2005
Cake - Lollapalooza 2005
Billy Idol - Lollapalooza 2005
Primus - Lollapalooza 2005
Pixies - Lollapalooza 2005
Weezer - Lollapalooza 2005
Saul Williams - Lollapalooza 2005
Dinosaur Jr. - Lollapalooza 2005
Ben Kweller - Lollapalooza 2005
Drive-By Truckers - Lollapalooza 2005
Arcade Fire - Lollapalooza 2005
Dandy Warhols - Lollapalooza 2005
Dave Mason - Brookhaven Amphitheater 8/19/05
Eric Burdon - Brookhaven Amphitheater 8/19/05
Andy Summers - Wall to Wall 2005
Vernon Reid - Wall to Wall 2005
Youth Group - Foellinger Auditorium 10/13/05
Mucca Pazza - Metro 10/15/05
Faun Fables - Metro 10/15/05

Mary Timony - Foellinger Auditorium 10/28/05
Moving Units - Assembly Hall 2/10/06
Phat Phunktion - Mills Recital Hall 6/26/06
Theory of Everything - Aroma Cafe 7/13/06
Nels Cline Singers - Pitchfork 2006
Bonde do Role - Pitchfork 2006
CSS - Pitchfork 2006
Aesop Rock - Pitchfork 2006
Mission of Burma - Pitchfork 2006
Os Mutantes - Pitchfork 2006
The M's - Lollapalooza 2006
Stars - Lollapalooza 2006
Mute Math - Lollapalooza 2006
Secret Machines - Lollapalooza 2006
Sleater-Kinney - Lollapalooza 2006
VHS or Beta (DJ Set) - Lollapalooza 2006
Ween - Lollapalooza 2006
Be Your Own Pet - Lollapalooza 2006
The Go! Team - Lollapalooza 2006
Peeping Tom - Lollapalooza 2006
Particle - Lollapalooza 2006
Calexico - Lollapalooza 2006
The Flaming Lips - Lollapalooza 2006
The New Pornographers - Lollapalooza 2006
Manu Chao - Lollapalooza 2006
Catfish Haven - Lollapalooza 2006
Manishevitz - Lollapalooza 2006
Benevento-Russo Duo - Lollapalooza 2006
Matisyahu - Lollapalooza 2006
Queens of the Stone Age - Lollapalooza 2006
Watery Domestic - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06
Psalters - IMC 9/13/09
mewithoutYou - IMC 9/13/06
Danielson - Pygmalion 2006
Lorenzo Goetz - Illini Union 9/29/06
Ostinato - Illini Union 9/29/06
The Kingdom - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06
Viva Voce - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06
The Red Paintings - Vic Theatre 10/20/06
Sxip Shirey - Vic Theatre 10/20/06
1090 Club - IMC 10/27/06
Irving - IMC 10/27/06
The Slip - Foellinger Auditorium 12/5/06

scurvine - Iron Post 1/19/07
Nonagon - Iron Post 2/18/07
Gnarls Barkley - Assembly Hall 3/3/07
Hinter - Red Herring 3/8/07
Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Krannert Center 4/5/07
Greg Spero Trio - Red Herring 4/14/07
My Brightest Diamond - Foellinger Auditorium 4/15/07
The Living Blue - Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07
Lynn O'brien - Boneyard Arts Fest 4/21/07
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Virginia Theatre 4/29/07
Jose Gonzalez - Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07
Santa - Red Herring 5/5/07
Dorian Minor - Red Herring 5/5/07
Water Between Continents - Iron Post 6/14/07
Carbomb Lottery - IMC 6/30/07
OUTCAST TO SOCIETY - IMC 6/30/07
Vexed Youth - IMC 6/30/07
Hollowed Out - IMC 6/30/07
Slint - Pitchfork 2007
GZA/Genius - Pitchfork 2007
Sonic Youth - Pitchfork 2007
The Polyphonic Spree - Lollapalooza 2007
Electric Six - Lollapalooza 2007
Blonde Redhead - Lollapalooza 2007
LCD Soundsystem - Lollapalooza 2007
Daft Punk - Lollapalooza 2007
I'm From Barcelona - Lollapalooza 2007
Silverchair - Lollapalooza 2007
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Lollapalooza 2007
Patti Smith - Lollapalooza 2007
Interpol - Lollapalooza 2007
The Postmarks - Lollapalooza 2007
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Lollapalooza 2007
The Black Angels - Lollapalooza 2007
TV on the Radio - Lollapalooza 2007
Pearl Jam - Lollapalooza 2007
A Drum and an Open Window - IMC 8/20/07
Michael Kammin - IMC 8/20/07
Poster Children - Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07
Oh Astro - Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07
Toubab Krewe - Wall to Wall 2007
Campbell Brothers - Wall to Wall 2007
Yohimbe Brothers - Wall to Wall 2007
Harry Manx - Wall to Wall 2007
Tony McManus - Wall to Wall 2007
Alex de Grassi - Wall to Wall 2007
John McLaughlin - Wall to Wall 2007
[artist]Jorma Kaukonen[artist] - Wall to Wall 2007
Banning Eyre - Wall to Wall 2007
Buddy Guy - Wall to Wall 2007
Dianogah - Pygmalion 2007
Weird Al Yankovic - Assembly Hall 9/28/07
The Bravery - Braden Auditorium 10/4/07
The Extraordinaires - Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07
Bob Dylan - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Elvis Costello - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Amos Lee - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Western Civilization - Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07
Mount Eerie - Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07
Too Much to Carry - Red Herring 11/2/07
Michael Malinsky - IMCFest 2007
Infinite Imagination - IMCFest 2007
JigGsaw - IMCFest 2007
Kilborn Alley Blues Band - IMCFest 2007
Candy Foster and Shades of Blue - IMCFest 2007
Murali Coryell - IMCFest 2007
Shirley King - IMCFest 2007
Matt Rocks - IMC 11/16/07
Jenny is a Boy - Living Room 1/4/08
Toby Foster - Living Room 1/4/08
white. wrench. conservatory - IMC 1/11/08
Zachary Morris - Error House 1/12/08
Wabash - Error House 1/12/08
Clever Coil - Error House 1/12/08
The Fix - Error House 1/12/08
1999 - Error House 1/19/08
The Signal - Error House 1/19/08
The Drastics - Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Mustard Plug - Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Inspector Owl - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08
Egon's Unicat - Courtyard Cafe 3/1/08
Manic Sewing Circle - Courtyard Cafe 3/1/08
Evangelicals - Canopy Club 3/6/08
Tall Tale - Canopy Club 3/6/08
The Guess Who - EPCOT Center 3/20/08
Kronos Quartet - Krannert Center 4/3/08
Unwed Sailor - Courtyard Cafe 4/12/08
Ryan Lindsey - Courtyard Cafe 4/12/08
Corn tha Coon - IMC 4/18/08
Islands - IMC 4/18/08
Stars of the Lid - Staerkel Planetarium 4/22/08
Christopher Willits - Staerkel Planetarium 4/22/08
Jookabox - Canopy Club 6/6/08
MGMT - Bonnaroo 2008
Battles - Bonnaroo 2008
Fiery Furnaces - Bonnaroo 2008
Minus the Bear - Bonnaroo 2008
!!! - Bonnaroo 2008
M.I.A. - Bonnaroo 2008
Chris Rock - Bonnaroo 2008
Metallica - Bonnaroo 2008
Les Claypool - Bonnaroo 2008
Soul Rebels Brass Band - Bonnaroo 2008
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Bonnaroo 2008
Gogol Bordello - Bonnaroo 2008
B.B. King - Bonnaroo 2008
Levon Helm - Bonnaroo 2008
Sigur Ros - Bonnaroo 2008
The Morningbell - Bonnaroo 2008
The Coup - Bonnaroo 2008
Bela Fleck - Bonnaroo 2008
Ladytron - Bonnaroo 2008
Robert Randolph - Bonnaroo 2008
Aimee Mann - Bonnaroo 2008
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Bonnaroo 2008
Jake Shimabukuro - Bonnaroo 2008
Grizzly Bear - Verizon Wireless 8/3/08
Radiohead - Verizon Wireless 8/3/08
Identity Crisis - Iron Post 8/12/08
Beat Kitchen - Iron Post 8/15/08
A Place to Bury Strangers - Scottrade Center 8/20/08
Foghat - Sweetcorn Fest 2008
The Brother Whys - Canopy Club 8/23/08
Snowsera - Canopy Club 8/23/08
Herbert Wiser Band - Canopy Club 9/1/08
Justin Gordon - Canopy Club 9/7/08
Jaik Willis - Courtyard Cafe 9/13/08
Coco Coca - Pygmalion 2008
Times New Viking - Pygmalion 2008
Eureka Sky - Pygmalion 2008
Everthus the Deadbeats - Pygmalion 2008
Pontiak - Pygmalion 2008
Wye Oak - Pygmalion 2008
Robots Counterfeiting Money - Pygmalion 2008
Monotonix - Pygmalion 2008
Dan Deacon - Pygmalion 2008
The Lonelyhearts - Pygmalion 2008
Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Pygmalion 2008
Gentleman Auction House - Pygmalion 2008
Pattern Is Movement - Pygmalion 2008
Titus Andronicus - Pygmalion 2008
Black Mountain - Pygmalion 2008
Centaur - Pygmalion 2008
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Pygmalion 2008
High Places - Pygmalion 2008
Animate Objects - Pygmalion 2008
Asobi Seksu - Pygmalion 2008
Peter Piek - Canopy Club 9/22/08
Passafire - Canopy Club 9/22/08
Hopewell - Aragon Ballroom 9/27/08
My Bloody Valentine - Aragon Ballroom 9/27/08
The Abacinators - IMC 10/5/08
Dizzy Chair Time - IMC 10/5/08
Roberta Sparrow - IMC 10/5/08
The Independents - IMC 10/5/08
The Queers - IMC 10/5/08
Tim Fite - Canopy Club 10/16/08
Land of Talk - Foellinger Auditorium 10/19/08
CX Kidtronik - Canopy Club 11/5/08
The Death Set - Canopy Club 11/5/08
Girl Talk - Canopy Club 11/5/08
Fotosputnik - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
The Hentchmen - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
The Fleshtones - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
Starflyer 59 - Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08
Ice Water - Canopy Club 12/13/08
Tractor Kings - Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08
Hum - Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08

Frightened Rabbit - Courtyard Cafe 1/22/09
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Courtyard Cafe 1/25/09
Matter of Face - Red Herring 1/30/09
Jackhammer Hoganson - Red Herring 1/30/09
The Night Brigade - Red Herring 1/30/09
Wastebasket - Red Herring 1/30/09
Checkerboard Stalemate - Red Herring 1/30/09
Eugene Mirman - Courtyard Cafe 2/14/09
Pomegranates - Canopy Club 3/14/09
John Vanderslice - Courtyard Cafe 4/2/09
The Mountain Goats - Courtyard Cafe 4/2/09
The War on Drugs - Courtyard Cafe 4/3/09
The Hold Steady - Courtyard Cafe 4/3/09
Five Peace Band - Krannert Center 4/7/09
The Butts - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Soy City Stranglers - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Obi Wan Kenblo Mi - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
River City Rebels - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
The Casualties - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Sunset Stallion - IMCFest 2009
We Landed on the Moon! - IMCFest 2009
The Ruckus - IMCFest 2009
Faux Coup - Illini Union 4/30/09
Crazy/Agile - Illini Union 4/30/09
Local H - Illini Union 4/30/09
Light Pollution - Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09
The Foundry Field Recordings - Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09
John Hoeffleur - Iron Post 6/2/09
Ave Marling - Iron Post 6/2/09
Your Yellow Dress - The Stanley 6/8/09
Passion Pit - Bonnaroo 2009
Motion Potion - Bonnaroo 2009
Tobacco - Bonnaroo 2009
Dirty Projectors - Bonnaroo 2009
Animal Collective - Bonnaroo 2009
St. Vincent - Bonnaroo 2009
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bonnaroo 2009
David Byrne - Bonnaroo 2009
Pheonix - Bonnaroo 2009
Mynameisjohnmichael - Bonnaroo 2009
Chairlift - Bonnaroo 2009
Katzenjammer - Bonnaroo 2009
Robin Hitchcock - Bonnaroo 2009
Bon Iver - Bonnaroo 2009
of Montreal - Bonnaroo 2009
Wilco - Bonnaroo 2009
The Mars Volta - Bonnaroo 2009
Russian Circles - Bonnaroo 2009
Bruce Springsteen - Bonnaroo 2009
High on Fire - Bonnaroo 2009
Erykah Badu - Bonnaroo 2009
Okkervil River - Bonnaroo 2009
Neko Case - Bonnaroo 2009
Phish - Bonnaroo 2009
Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Pinetop Perkins - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Bob Margolin - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Brilliant Pebbles - Green Music Fest 2009
Sybris - Green Music Fest 2009
Say Hi - Green Music Fest 2009
Tapes 'n Tapes - Green Music Fest 2009
Art Brut - Green Music Fest 2009
Heyokas - Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09
Hot Cops - Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09
Pet Lions - UIUC South Quad 8/23/09
Tosche Station - Terror House 8/23/09
Moons - Terror House 8/23/09
Straight No Chaser - Terror House 8/23/09
Cloud Mouth - Terror House 8/23/09
Cougar Den - Terror House 8/23/09
Nurses - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
Throw Me the Statue - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
The Brunettes - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
War - Sweetcorn Fest 2009
My Werewolf Diary - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
The Beets - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
Vivian Girls - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
Chicha Libre - Ellnora 2009
Frank Vignola - Ellnora 2009
Junior Brown - Ellnora 2009
The National - Ellnora 2009
Yea Big + Kid Static - Parkland 9/13/09
Matt and Kim - Parkland 9/13/09
Mt St Helens Vietnam Band - Pygmalion 2009
Owen - Pygmalion 2009
Japandroids - Pygmalion 2009
Liz Janes - Pygmalion 2009
Brooke Waggoner - Pygmalion 2009
Joe Pug - Pygmalion 2009
Skream - Pygmalion 2009
Girls Next Door - Pygmalion 2009
Low - Pygmalion 2009
The Antlers - Pygmalion 2009
Autolux - Pygmalion 2009
Zach May & The Maps - Pygmalion 2009
The Horse's Ha - Pygmalion 2009
The Books - Pygmalion 2009
Iron And Wine - Pygmalion 2009
Porno Galactica - Pygmalion 2009
YACHT - Pygmalion 2009
gazelle - Pygmalion 2009
RJD2 - Pygmalion 2009
Thankful Tree - Cloud Factory 9/22/09
City Center - Cloud Factory 9/22/09
The Vertebrats - Amara Yoga 10/1/09
Bunny Zewt Suit - Channing Murray 10/14/09
David Sedaris - Virginia Theater 10/16/09
Infirmary - Terror House 10/24/09
DOTK - Terror House 10/24/09
Cloud Burial - Terror House 10/24/09
Maltross - Terror House 10/24/09

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Doves
The Answering Machine X5
Dutch Uncles X2
Casio Kids
Whitest Boy Alive
Bombay Bicycle Club
The Depreciation Guild
Kid Rock
Sparky Deathcap
Lost Knives
Mayhem
Thus Defiled
Liam Frost
Defiled
Reuben X2
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Goo Goo Dolls
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Ty Cobb
Dan Mincini
Calvin Johnson
Los Campesinos! X2
Jeffrey Lewis
Bearsuit
Mudhoney
The Heads
The Catheters
Little Hell
Hell Is for Heroes X3
Copy Haho
The Coral
Hokum Clones
Tramp Attack
White Belt Yellow Tag
The Pattern
Har Mar Superstar
The Von Bondies
The Beatings
Foo Fighters
Cave In
The Blueprint
The Vandals
The Music X2
Kav
Beecher
The Officers
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dream Theater
The Raveonettes
The Icarus Line
Oceansize X3
Biffy Clyro X3
Scenes
The Molotovs(Gay)
Tyla(Gay)
Darling(Gay)
Steel Rules Die(Gay)
AFI(Gay)
The Beautiful Mistake(Gay)
Funeral for a Friend(Gay)
Cult of Luna(Gay)
Married to the Sea(Gay)
To The Bones(Gay)
Flashguns(Gay) X2
The Libertines(Gay)
The Heartbreaks(Gay)
Towers of London(Gay)
The Paddingtons(Gay)
Babyshambles(Gay)
Elviss(Gay)
American Hi-Fi(Gay)
The Crookes(Gay)
Taproot(Gay)
Murderdolls(Gay)
Post War Years(Gay)
Amen(Gay) X2
The Wildhearts(Gay)
Hidden Revolution(Gay)
Paper Route(Gay)
Johnny Foreigner(Gay)
Audio Karate(Gay)
Tsunami Bomb(Gay)
thisGIRL(Gay)
Snow Dogs(Gay)
Face to Face(Gay)
Alkaline Trio(Gay)
Phantom Planet(Gay)
The Mannequins(Gay)

Leeds Festival 2003 - Metallica(Gay), Placebo(Gay), Linkin Park(Gay), Blur(Gay), System of a Down(Gay), Sum 41(Gay), OK Go(Gay), AFI(Gay), Hundred Reasons, Mars Volta, Evan Dando, Biffy Clyro, Serafin, Funeral for a Friend(Gay), Sparta, Less Than Jake(Gay), The Darkness(Gay), The Streets(Gay), Primal Scream, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

Leeds Festival 2004 - Jurassic 5, The Distillers(Gay), 50 Cent(Gay), Placebo(Gay), The Streets(Gay), Dropkick Murphys(Gay), The Rasmus(Gay), The Icarus Line, Roots Manuva, 2 Many DJ's,DJ Format/Abdominal, Mike Patton/Rahzel, Sick of It All, Dillinger Escape Plan

Creamfields 2005 - 2 Many DJ's, Roni Size, Paul Oakenfold, Faithless, Audio Bullys, Tidy Boyz(Gay), Mark EG(Gay), Amber D(Gay), Fatboy Slim

OK, here are the rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can't think of 50 other artists. Oh, and list the first concert you ever saw!

1) Mull Historical Society (first ever!)
2) Cut Copy (x2)
3) Field Music (x4)
4) Röyksopp
5) Sigur Ros (x2)
6) Belle & Sebastian
7) British Sea Power (x5)
8) Malcolm Middleton
9) The Twilight Sad (x2)
10) !!!
11) Jeffrey Lewis
12) Midlake
13) Midnight Juggernauts (x2)
14) The Spinto Band
15) Mew
16) Dan Deacon
17) Caribou
18) Menomena
19) Secret Machines
20) Malajube
21) Deerhunter
22) Super Furry Animals (x5)
23) Gomez
24) Lemon Jelly
25) The New Pornographers
26) Architecture in Helsinki
27) Engineers (x3)
28) Clor (x2)
29) Idlewild (x5)
30) The Earlies
31) Hope of the States (x4)
32) Frightened Rabbit
33) Radiohead
34) Low
35) Peter Bjorn & John
36) Yo La Tengo
37) WHY?
38) Asobi Seksu
39) Four Tet
40) Bright Eyes
41) Hot Chip (x3)
42) No Age
43) New Order
44) The Hidden Cameras
45) stellastarr*
46) Brakes
47) Islands (x2)
48) School of Seven Bells
49) Fever Ray
50) Vashti Bunyan (x2)

OK, here are the rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can't think of 50 other artists. Oh, and list the first concert you ever saw!

1) Mull Historical Society (first ever!)
2) Cut Copy (x2)
3) Field Music (x4)
4) Röyksopp
5) Sigur Ros (x2)
6) Belle & Sebastian
7) British Sea Power (x5)
8) Malcolm Middleton
9) The Twilight Sad (x2)
10) !!!
11) Jeffrey Lewis
12) Midlake
13) Midnight Juggernauts (x2)
14) The Spinto Band
15) Mew
16) Dan Deacon
17) Caribou
18) Menomena
19) Secret Machines
20) Malajube
21) Deerhunter
22) Super Furry Animals (x5)
23) Gomez
24) Lemon Jelly
25) The New Pornographers
26) Architecture in Helsinki
27) Engineers (x3)
28) Clor (x2)
29) Idlewild (x5)
30) The Earlies
31) Hope of the States (x4)
32) Frightened Rabbit
33) Radiohead
34) Low
35) Peter Bjorn & John
36) Yo La Tengo
37) WHY?
38) Asobi Seksu
39) Four Tet
40) Bright Eyes
41) Hot Chip (x3)
42) No Age
43) New Order
44) The Hidden Cameras
45) stellastarr*
46) Brakes
47) Islands (x2)
48) School of Seven Bells
49) Fever Ray
50) Vashti Bunyan (x2)

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Akercocke
Khyam Allami
Anathema
Art Brut
Arboretum
At the Gates
Bauhaus
The Black Velvets
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Butthole Surfers
Buzzcocks
Carcass
Caribou
Cats & Cats & Cats
Nick Cave
Charger
Children of Bodom
Clutch
The Cooper Temple Clause
Corrupted
Cracktown
Cynic
Dalek
The Damned
The Decemberists
Diagonal
The Dirtbombs
Dirty Three
Down
Drum Eyes
Earth
Earthless
Electric Wizard
Entombed
Exodus
Extra Life
Eyehategod
Fantomas
Feeder
Stanley Forbes
Fucked Up
Future of the Left
The Gates of Slumber
Girlschool
Goblin
Adam Green
Harmony Rockets
Richard Hawley
Heaven & Hell
Kristin Hersh
The Horrors
Iron Maiden
Jarboe
Jeffrey Lewis
Karma to Burn
Kasabian
KateGoes
Rose Kemp
Kylesa
Manatees
The Master Musicians Of Bukakke
Mastodon
melt banana
Melvins
Misfits
Misty's Big Adventure
Monotonix
MUM
My Bloody Valentine
The Ordinary Boys
Nadja
Napalm Death
Nashville Pussy
Nazxul
Nifelheim
Nissenenmondai
Obituary
OM
Orange Goblin
The Paddingtons
The Pastels
Pestilence
Pissed Jeans
Pontiak
Rahzel
The Rotted
Rotting Christ
Serafin
Soilent Green
Sonata Artica
Sonic Youth
Soulsavers
Squarepusher
Sun Ra Arkestra
St Vitus
Stebmo
Marnie Stern
Sunn O)))
Taake
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Television Personalities
This Will Destroy You
Thorr's Hammer
Torche
Ufomammut
Velofax
Victorian English Gentlemans Club
White Noise
Witch
The Wizard And The Frog
Wolves In The Throneroom
Wooden Shjips
Yo La Tengo

1. What are you listening to right now?
Wasted Life

2. What song makes you sad?
Lou Reed - The Bed

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Big Green Tractor... seriously the song is about romancing a girl by taking her for a ride on his tractor... and it plays at least twice a day at work unless I forcibly change the dial

4. Your all time favorite band?
yikes. The Screamers are always up there. Two Gallants and The Zounds are pretty high as well. velvet Undergound holds a special place in my heart. Billy Bragg and Leonard Cohen . Nick Cave in any iteration.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
lately I'm getting into Ramblin Jack Elliott

6. Best female voice?
hmm Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, Odetta, Anita Lane, Cat Power

7. Best male voice?
Leonard Cohen, Leadbelly, the guys from Two Gallants

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
70s punk; lately folk and blues

9. What do you listen to, to hype you up?
The Epoxies

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down?
Belle and Sebastian

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
Jeffrey Lewis opened for that chick from The Moldy Peaches who did all the music for Juno. She was a bit much, but Jeffrey Lewis I would marry in a second. *hopes he's reading and waves*

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
lately I'm not hardcore into anything in specific

13. Most hated band?
whoever sings that fucking tractor song

14. Song that makes you think?
probably The Decemberists and B&S since they're a bunch of literary twats. Also, Crass makes me reconsider everything I believe.


15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Two Gallants and Kid Dakota; they're pretty much two of the only bands still touring I really love so it'd be awesome if they got famous enough to come visit dc on a regular basis.

16. Coolest music video?
Probably not what you mean, but Jeff Lewis and The Books both have visual accompaniments at their shows and both are very fucking cool. Jeff Lewis does his own comic book story things while The Books raid thrift stores, etc and splice together weird films. Both can be found on the you tube I'm sure.

17. Music video with the most babe watch?
I don't know I don't watch standard music videos.

18. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up?
So into You as covered by Shudder to Think;

also if any attractive man wants to be the Janis Joplin to my Leonard Cohen(it's my fantasy, I get to receive), we can rent a room at the Chelsea Hotel and play the song and you know how it goes

19. Can you play a musical instrument?
nope

20. Ever been in a mosh pit?
um kind of. Been on the outskirts pushing people back in when they get to close to the edge, not much of a mosher though.

21. Are you in a band?
no, you need talent for that

22. Ever dated a musician?
no

23. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
yes!

24. Best chick band you know of?
Bikini Kill is my "chick" band of choice

25. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
idk I didn't work today

26. What do you think of Classical music?
usually don't go out of my way to listen, but I will sometimes put it on at work

27. What do you think of Country music?
I like the non-lame kind that doesn't involve taking my girlfriend for a ride on my tractor. Hoyt Axton, that kind of thing. i suppose I lean towards folk/bluegrass/cowpunk rather than country country.

28. What do you think of Death metal?
eh, I can take it or leave it.

29. Last BIG band that you saw live?
um I saw the Who with the 'rents. Probably the BIGGEST band I've ever seen.

30. Are you a groupie?
nope

31. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
yes.

32. What famous musician would you like to fuck?
something about Nick Cave's receding hair line and matching handlebar mustache is bizarrely appealing in ways it wouldn't be on anyone else

33. Worst concert moment?
um well at the jeff lewis show these weird high schooler kids tried to befriend me.

34. Funny concert moment?
moldy peaches' girl actually puts on a good show if only I didn't not particularly care for her music. so anyway she's wickedly funny and at one point stopped singing and all the little high schoolers kept on singing and it was comical comical comical.

35. Sad concert moment?
eh well Jeff Lewis show again I guess. a bunch of love songs when you're recently broken up with a boyfriend is not good for the emotional well being. especially when you start texting him and he doesn't answer because he's fucking some other girl.

36. Best local act you can think of?
merm... The Evens; are they together any more? and do they transcend local?

37. If you were a musical instrument what would you be?
banjo

38. Do you listen to the radio?
only at work

39. Do you watch music TV?
no

40. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40?
does anyone actually follow the charts? I assumed they just all listened to the same radio stations which resulted in the charts.

41. Have you meet any famous musicians?
Once I rubbed against both Ian Mackaye and Henry Rollins. I also shook hands with the guy from CKY at a concert once and I thought he was just doing the hand touch thing, but apparently he wanted a shake and he told me I had a weak handshake and should work on it. r.i.p. the downtown

42. Are any of your friends/family/etc. musicians?
a decent amount play instruments just not particularly professionally or organized-ly; My cousin is a music teacher.

43. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
The Buzzcocks - Boredom

44. Song that describes your life?
eh I'm tiring of this

45. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
no

46. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music?
no, but it makes the shows more fun

47. What famous musician do you want to marry?
I'm not the marrying kind. oh except for you Jeff Lewis *waves again*

48. Favourite movie soundtrack?
I don't watch movies

49. Any musician pet hates?
no

50. What do your parents listen to?
my dad listens to show tunes from Broadway; my mom used to have this divas CD featuring mariah carey, shania twain, etc; they both enjoy the beatles and meatloaf; apparently they were both cool once as I've purloined enough records from them to suggest that. Daddy's Zappa, David Peel and The Lower East Side and Velvet Underground, Mom's Led Zeppelin

51. What are you listening to right NOW?
Lou Reed - Perfect Day

52. Do you wear band etc T-shirts?
sometimes

53. What do you think of people who do?
I once fell in love with Tom from physics due to his awesome t-shirt collection. I was too scared to talk to him so I'd try to coordinate wearing my Minor Threat shirt with his wearing of his Minor Threat shirt so I could be like "hey, you like Minor Threat too? I had no idea" and then we'd make out in the distance but it never worked out for me and anyway his myspace was full of love for his girlfriend. hah. This was a very long time ago.

54. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to?
thoughtwise I belong with the Punks, but actionwise who knows

55. What song is stuck in your head right now?
none

56. Do you sing in the shower?
usually no, unless I bring my computer with me

57. If so, what? If not, why not?
I'm usually focused on cleaning myself out

58. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself?
be one myself

59. How important is your partners taste in music to you?
it's nice to go to concerts together and have something to talk about. I don't think I could love someone whose taste was completely terrible.

60. Hanson moves in next door to you, do you go introduce yourself, or do you arrange to beat them up?
They never did anything to me, but I'm not the meet and greet kind of gal.

61. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, you dig?
yes, just shrooms, yes

62. Do you cook to music?
yes, I do most everything to music

63. Do you sing in the toilet?
nope