(All photos for this entry are posted here) Pete, Paul, Mark, Anna and I wandered down to 21st street on Saturday night to check out the Golden Hill Block Party. It featured The Adored, Fifty on their heels, and Jezebel, with a DJ in-between bands. I wasn’t familiar with any of the bands, but the …
Monthly Archives: October 2005
The Long Now’s Orrery
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, but finally got around to it after reading at Boing Boing that the Long Now project unveiled their prototype, the Orrery clock. Jacob Appelbaum has some great photos of the event. What is all this fuss over a clock? Discover has a lot of good …
NK
The quality at BBC dropped a notch on this story of an American tourist in North Korea: “To be honest, I was surprised with how friendly and warm-hearted they [North Korea assigned tour guides] were… They had their photos taken with us, told stories about their lives, answered our questions – some to more of …
I&W and Calexico show
Califone opened the concert up and had some help from I&W on a song. I like some of their stuff, but they usually go weird-experimental-jazzy half way through it. It throws me off. Still worth lisening to though. Calexico was next up, and they rocked the house. Great sound from them all, had the crowd …
Iron & Wine and Calexico at HoB
I just picked up tickets for Anna and I to see Iron & Wine and Calexico tomorrow night at the new House of Blues in downtown San Diego. Should be a good show, I’m a big fan of Calexico. I expect a lot of indie-folk-desert-bluesy action. The UT has a good write-up on the Iron …