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            <title>boy, it&#39;s one to let go</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Lauren)</author>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Life has been going smoothly, which makes for some pretty boring blog updates. (or a lack thereof) My first week of classes is over, and I&amp;#39;m really enjoying everything so far. My German class has an intensive amount of study work, but I&amp;#39;m okay with that. We&amp;#39;re reading &lt;em&gt;Extremely Loud &amp;amp; Incredibly Close&lt;/em&gt; by Johnathan Safran Foer for my Narrative class and I have to make myself stop reading it so I don&amp;#39;t get too far ahead. If you&amp;#39;re into postmodernism and stream of consciousness writing, seriously, look into it! Safran Foer also wrote one of my favorite books ever, &lt;em&gt;Everything Is Illuminated&lt;/em&gt; which has a really fun movie made from it starring my hero of all time, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Hutz&quot;&gt;Eugene Hutz&lt;/a&gt;. Anyway, things are just really fun around here. What a boring statement! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s also nice being able to walk to really anywhere I want to go.. or, ride my bike. Thankfully it&amp;#39;s stopped raining for a while so I can continue my routine of riding around in the early mornings when not many people are out and walking. I think getting a bike from my dead great uncle is one of the best things that has ever happened to my emotional state!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, I&amp;#39;m getting the back of my hair chopped off and snuggling Chuck a lot. We&amp;#39;ll probably get into an adventure. I love all you guys and miss you terribly. Though, Jorge, your sister is a pretty cute replacement!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you&amp;#39;re the one who gets burned.&amp;quot; ~Buddha&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Start wearing purple</title>
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Took this at Get Loaded in the Park yesterday. It&amp;#39;s been a while since Mosh and I went to a music festival. The desire to spend hours getting to and from a glorified field, queue for chemical toilets and listen (coz you rarely get to see anything when you are my height) to bands you love for half an hour sounding shit because it&amp;#39;s too windy for the sound system has strangely worn off. &lt;br /&gt;
But this was Clapham Common a mere 20 mins walk/bolt home and there were some good bands playing so we thought we&amp;#39;d give it a go.&lt;br /&gt;
There were times I loved it (down at the front jumping up and down to the fab as ever Gogol Bordello) but there were also times when I hated it. &lt;br /&gt;
The queues, the shit food, the warm drink, the scrum for the loos, the way you didn&amp;#39;t stand a chance of enjoying the music unless you were somewhere near the stage but as the day wore on, down the front attracted more and more pissed up twats who&amp;#39;s idea of a good time was to push each other around and jump on each other so that you were half watching the band and half watching to see if an elbow was coming towards your head. &lt;br /&gt;
And no one told me you had to go in fancy dress, I haven&amp;#39;t seen such efforts since the Oakham Guide and Scout Carnival 1982. It&amp;#39;s a shame my camera battery died.&lt;br /&gt;
Still I was brought back to Clapham with a bump when someone threw a tartan picnic blanket on the stage during Supergrass.&lt;br /&gt;
And it was only a 20 minute walk home.&lt;br /&gt;
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            <title>Lollapalooza&#39;s here!</title>
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It&amp;#39;s hard to believe that it&amp;#39;s already August, and odd that I&amp;#39;m attending my second Lollapalooza since moving here. Crazy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after an oddly productive morning at work, I left the office to meet Jess for lunch then headed to meet our friend Josie. She&amp;#39;s in town to join in with the shenanigans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When we dropped her stuff off and endured the slow buses down to the festival grounds, we had missed the first few songs by Gogol Bordello, the band she wanted to see. Their music wasn&amp;#39;t really my thing, but their gypsy punk was at least entertaining to watch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We started to watch Mates Of State, but live they&amp;#39;re very difficult to endure - the already ear-damaging vocals do more damage when they&amp;#39;re out of key - so we went to wait for Jess by the merchandise stand, hearing little snippets of what I think was Grizzly Bear, judging by the schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With Jess now a part of the gang, we went on down to see Bloc Party. Last year, we bought tickets to see them but didn&amp;#39;t think we knew them well enough to justify going. They&amp;#39;re really great live, so naturally I regret that decision. They didn&amp;#39;t play their best song, &amp;#39;Little Thoughts&amp;#39;, but they busted out &amp;#39;Helicopter&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;Like Eating Glass&amp;#39;, so I was happy.&lt;/p&gt;
    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        





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After hemming and hawing about whether to stay in place for Radiohead (who were over an hour away), we decided instead to go get food. This had the added bonus of putting us in line with the stage CSS were playing on. I feel bad that I didn&amp;#39;t give them my full intention, they sounded tight live, and were obviously far more entertaining than the annoying-sounding Stephen Malkmus &amp;amp; The Jicks they were competing against.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        





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We witnessed the huge flood of people towards the stage for Radiohead (wisely, the organisers didn&amp;#39;t pit anyone against them, as playing to no one would be depressing). From our distance, it was initially a little hard to get into the band, but it meant we could hear them perfectly, and we still saw their interesting new light show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    
    
    

    
    
    
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Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I also know their entire setlist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- 15 Step&lt;br /&gt;- Airbag&lt;br /&gt;- There There&lt;br /&gt;- All I Need&lt;br /&gt;- Nude&lt;br /&gt;- Weird Fishes/Arpeggi&lt;br /&gt;- The Gloaming&lt;br /&gt;- The National Anthem&lt;br /&gt;- Faust Arp&lt;br /&gt;- No Surprises&lt;br /&gt;- Jigsaw Falling Into Place&lt;br /&gt;- Reckoner&lt;br /&gt;- Lucky&lt;br /&gt;- The Bends&lt;br /&gt;- Everything In Its Right Place &lt;br /&gt;- Fake Plastic Trees&lt;br /&gt;- Bodysnatchers&lt;br /&gt;- Videotape&lt;br /&gt;- Paranoid Android&lt;br /&gt;- Dollar And Cents&lt;br /&gt;- House of Cards&lt;br /&gt;- Optimistic&lt;br /&gt;- 2+2=5&lt;br /&gt;- Idioteque&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Highs:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &amp;#39;Weird Fishes/Arpeggi&amp;#39;!&lt;br /&gt;- The awesome radio sampling on &amp;#39;The National Anthem&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;- &amp;#39;Idioteque&amp;#39; (even though we heard it from outside of the venue as we didn&amp;#39;t want to be crushed by the rumoured 75,000 people as they left)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lows:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &amp;#39;The Bends&amp;#39; was played way too slow. There are awesome guitar lines on the verse with the line &amp;quot;The planet is a gunboat on a sea of fear&amp;quot;, but the build-up to them didn&amp;#39;t work.&lt;br /&gt;- We were too far to see Thom&amp;#39;s crazy dancing, boo.&lt;br /&gt;- NOTHING from Pablo Honey? Boo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think &amp;#39;Weird Fishes/Arpeggi&amp;#39; is a strong contender for my favourite song of all time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        





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            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:52:58 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Cá está a continuação daquilo que eu achei do primeiro dia do &amp;quot;festival&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Após ter perdido uma infinidade de tempo à espera que me servissem um hotdog, com uma confusão de duas filas (as pessoas é que estavam nas filas erradas!)... Lá fomos dançar ao som de &lt;a href=&quot;http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;amp;videoid=12932423&quot;&gt;Gogol Bordello&lt;/a&gt;!!&amp;#160; Insane! Exhilarating! Maravilha... Doidinho da várzea ao rubro! Se bem que ia tendo uma má-disposição de tanto saltar depois de ter engolido a comida...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depois de Gogol vieram os The Hives. ARE YOU READY?!??! HIVES! HIT IT!!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;aaaaaaa! shuddup!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;São cá uns convencidos; pronto, só o frontman, talvez... Fez um show de todo o tamanho com conversa da treta... incluíndo uma pergunta indiscreta a alguém da audiência, talvez até fosse um pedido estranho!... Suecos duma figa! &lt;br /&gt;O som de H-I-V-E-S (what does it spell???? hahah) é assim uma coisa energizante mas aquele rock que já não me diz nada. [eu e os adjectivos não nos damos bem, na crítica musical ... :P) Por isso, rodei os calcanhares e fomos acompanhar quem ainda não tinha jantado (que por sinal, foram bem mais espertos, pois foram atendidos em &lt;em&gt;no-time&lt;/em&gt;!)... Seguiu-se Hercules &amp;amp; Love Affair.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ora desse grupo disco em formato de banda há coisas boas a dizer. Surpreendeu-me pois as passagens entre músicas foram excelentes, a banda trouxe em palco o album com qualidade, na minha opinião. Obviamente que fico com pena de não poder ter visto o Antony a cantar as músicas &amp;quot;dele&amp;quot; neste album, mas pelo que percebi depois, nada se perde pois consta que ele não é assim muito exuberante nas performances. A Nomi levou um vestido azul com franjinhas. Se eu não mencionasse isto a comunidade masculina estaria triste. (Mais tarde nessa noite ouvi o comentário que &amp;quot;vocês [mulheres] não percebem a essência...&amp;quot;) Right....&lt;br /&gt;Foram bastante bons! Os senhores dos sopros surpreenderam!... Saí de lá contente e pedir por mais.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seguiram-se tempos de indecisões: RATM ou Tiga? Venha o diabo e escolha. &lt;br /&gt;Mas eu respeito RATM: os músicos são bons, acho que dizer isto até deve ser pouco... Acho que por ser um género musical que não me agrada nada aos ouvidos. Ok, excepto a &lt;em&gt;killing in the name of&lt;/em&gt;, que veio no encore, altura em que eu já estava a ir embora. Lembrei-me automaticamente dos meus tempos na adolescência em que uma amiga minha adorava os RATM e fartava-se de escrever as lyrics em qualquer parte. Reaccionário, no mínimo. Soltou-me um sorriso, devido à memória. Mas admito que o género musical de facto cansa-me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Não comento Tiga, já não consigo ouvir aquele género desde há muito tempo. Será que alguma vez consegui? &lt;br /&gt;Abanamo-nos um bocado e tentamos ignorar as repetições em décibeis excessivos... e depois fartamo-nos.&lt;br /&gt;Além de que já tinha dor de cabeça...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;E assim foi o primeiro dia do &amp;quot;festival&amp;quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>I&#39;m Aliiiive! </title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(andiedg)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:12:29 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(ler o título in modo &amp;quot;frankenstainiano&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O primeiro dia já foi, hoje há mais. Nada melhor do que vir a casa, tomar banhinho no conforto da nossa casa-de-banho, dormir na caminha, e depois voltar para a rambóia musical no meio do povo e do pó. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bom começando com os concertos... aviso desde já que não sou crítica de alguma coisa muito menos de música. Os comentários são estritamente baseados na minha singela opinião que pode muito bem ser considerada reles e pouco fundamentada, e por isso descreditada, mas se quiserem também podem concordar comigo! :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feito o &lt;em&gt;disclaimer&lt;/em&gt;, lá vou eu...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uma nota para a entrada no espectáculo: no meio é que se anda mais rápido. Como tenho passe dos 3 dias, tive de me deslocar a uma ponta para me porem a pulseira cor-de-laranja fluorescente no bracito. Pouca informação, já eu estava para entrar quando me disseram &amp;quot;ah ah é por ali!&amp;quot; Chatos!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dirigi-me ao palco Metro para ver Vampire Weekend, MGMT e mais tarde Hercules &amp;amp; Love Affair e Tiga.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Palco Metro era uma tenda. Uma estufa, para ser mais correcta. Digo-vos que em VW e MGMT morri de calor, e só conseguia respirar quando saltava que nem uma doidinha. Curiosamente em MGMT estava mais desafogado, mas já lá iremos.&lt;br /&gt;VW foi muito bom, os meninos sabem-la toda! Muita animação, nada pretensiosos, descomplexados, e claro que as músicas em si são o convite para abanarmo-nos todos com alegria. As escolhas do alinhamento foram acertadas e o público penso que estava mesmo com muita vontade de ouvir VW e vibrar ao máximo. O que só por si cria um bom ambiente para concerto. Claro que quando se foram embora, o pessoal queria encore, mas não é esse o espírito do esquema proporcionado pelo festival. Sempre a andar.&lt;br /&gt;Na minha opinião mesmo com um público tão aberto para o que eles tocavam, via-se que os singles são sempre aquele &lt;em&gt;fire starter&lt;/em&gt;. Eu estava assim lá para a frente, quase enlatada. O rubro foi tanto que houve direito a moche (e eu ia sendo levada!). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Em MGMT tudo acalmou bastante. Para já tinham fortes concorrentes no palco principal (The National). Depois, não sei se por causa do cancelamento das CSS, os MGMT demoraram mais de 20 minutos a preparar tudo... Além deste tempo todo, ainda conseguiram dar um concerto com péssimo som (ok, péssimo também não, mas que havia lá uma ranhosice de som, havia...). MGMT por si é uma banda que é bem diferente. As músicas do seu debut album são bem diferentes umas das outras. Abriram com uma das minhas músicas preferidas (Of Moons, Birds &amp;amp; Monsters) que tem um trabalho de baixo bem bom. Seguiram-se músicas mais calmas. Na minha opinião acho que a grande maioria do público não sabia para o que vinha (e saíram todos como acto de retaliação!!). Depois de uma energia contagiante de VW, MGMT veio arrefecer muito com todos aqueles compassos de espera e depois as músicas mais calminhas. Eu gostei, oiço o album ha meses e apreciei os momentos de ligação entre músicas, extensões musicais e alguns momentos de banda vibrar!! &lt;br /&gt;A crítica anda por aí a dizer &amp;quot;fraquinhos&amp;quot;. Eu acho que estavam todos a espera de algo grandioso e arrebatador. Nesse sentido, ok, foram calmos demais. Mas acho que de um modo geral as pessoas n conheciam o álbum: lá à frente estava tudo um bocado paradito demais... E ninguém conseguia antecipar que música é que se seguia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mas eu gostei imenso!... They got me at &amp;quot;of moons, birds and monsters&amp;quot;.... :) &amp;lt;3 &amp;lt;3 &amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;{em analogia ao momento de repasto durante o festival, vou agora almoçar, interromper por isso este post, e volto mais tarde para falar do resto}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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