Fruko Y Sus Tesos - "El Preso" Live at Q Club

video from the show I posted about here a few weeks ago

Some cool plaster statues based on Egyptian Hieroglyphics that my friend had in his storage space

apparently if i had gotten there a few days earlier, I could have snagged these for like 20 bucks, but its probably better that I didnt take these home anyway... my living room looks enough like the storage annex of a tomb already..

Visiting my sister in LA

My sister Xeni has breast cancer.. so I flew out to see her this week, to keep her company, and try to provide some support for her while she goes through Chemo treatment #7. We went out to eat this afternoon after visiting the clinic where she got a shot that helps to boost her white blood cells again. We are both expecting that she'll have quite a few very difficult symptoms like extreme fatigue and aches throughout the next few days..... so we made the most of the evening, and walked back home the long way to enjoy the sunset over the beach in Santa Monica...

Guilty pleasure: Jane's Addiction - playing in Richmond VA at the National tomorrow night!

I can remember the first time I heard Jane's Addiction - it was almost midnight, and my parents were asleep and I was probably supposed to be in bed... Then I caught the premiere of the video for Mountain Song on MTV's 120 minutes. The video totally blew my mind... and apparently was banned from MTV shortly after I saw it. (for mild nudity .. actually, girls in diapers - in the video) Having been a punk fan thanks to my sister, and a metal fan, thanks to my friends at the time - this band seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. I remember asking my friend, Jerome, to pick their album up for me (Nothing's Shocking - released on August 23, 1988 ) the next day because he was going to the record store (Peaches) to get, uhhh.. Danzig's first album i believe. . I can remember listening to Ocean Size, and all the other songs that followed on that album on a "cassette walkman" many times (in my backyard after a snowstorm that fall and winter, on long wandering walks through woods, riding my bike through the city, and at dusk alone in a tent in the mountains once... etc)


Actually, I have similar memories of the album "Ritual De Lo Habitual" which I also picked up right after it was released (also on cassette) - it had rained hard all afternoon, and I had skipped the bus from school and taken a detour on my way back home to stop at local record store, Plan9 -- I left with Jane's Addiction's Ritual De Lo Habitual - on cassette. When I got home, I went upstairs to my room and discovered sections of my bedroom ceiling had been leaking all day and plaster and water was everywhere.... I popped in the tape into my walkman and commenced to cleaning up the mess.... this song, "Of Course", and actually, pretty much the whole album, takes me back to all of those colorful, magical memories of my teenage years, where the future was unwritten - and the world seemed very strange. The album still remains to this day one of my all time favorites.

So anyway, this band, Jane's Addiction, who captivated me so much as a young punk/metal/hippie teen is playing here in Richmond tomorrow night at the National as part of their Escapist tour. Ive seen them a few times in recent years (last time was the NIN/JA tour), and though their sound has changed quite a bit, their shows still fill me with a certain awe and ecstatic love for life....

here's one of my favorite songs from "Ritual".. it transports me back to that feeling every time....



UPDATE: here's a video I took at the show -

PODCAST - If Music Could Talk - March 4, 2012 - Spring 2012 Fund drive

A "lightly" edited podcast from last Sunday's Spring Fund Drive show -- Please donate and support WRIR Richmond Independent Radio! http://www.wrir.org

Music from India, Ghana, DR Congo, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam

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PODCAST - If Music Could Talk - Feb 26, 2012

OMG Like, Random!! this show was all over the place.... and you will like it!

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