Man in Gray were awesome at the Continental last night! If you missed the show, they will be playing another rockfest on October 18th at the Acme Underground, also in the East Village. Becca and friends from Sarah Lawrence hauled it all the way into the city from Bronxville -- Becca, you rule! As usual, many photos were snapped, which I will blog soon.
There are a lot of great White Stripes photos surfacing on the web (visit Bryan, Laura, Christina, and Eva). Events like these tend to attract New York webloggers -- I could have been a dork and socialized through the crowd asking, "What domain are you?" but I refrained. Strangely enough, it seems as if many photobloggers held the same vantage point as I did at the concert, which makes me wonder if we were standing practically next to one other, oblivious to one another's weblogging identities. Yeah, I'm a dork.
I'm finishing up reading American Psycho. I read it last summer as research for some cultural studies papers I was writing, and since I missed Bret Easton Ellis' lecture and the screening of his new film in Chelsea last week, I figured I would read one of his novels as compensation for missing his talk. I thought Less Than Zero was a decent story (yet a horribly melodramatic film adaptation, except the Bangles' "Hazy Shade of Winter" cover as theme song and James Spader's usual yuppie jerk character) but much weaker than his later American Psycho, which, in my opinion, is quite amazing. I have yet to read The Rules of Attraction and Glamorama, but I feel as if I should have a full-time job before buying the non-necessities. The job thing will happen soon, hopefully.
Are subway fares really increasing to $2? Booooooo!
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
