RTP-area local music and culture

["David Bartholomew" <dbartholomew AT gmail.com>]

Those people were smart people though.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2585837

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=17987

VOTE OBAMA!

On 5/5/08, James Hepler <hepstyle AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You and me, Ross, peas in a pod.  I gave the line monitor at the dean dome
> guff for making me fill out my rally ticket in the rain after I took off
> work to drive to durham in order to fill out my name and GET the ticket.
> And then again to get my arcade fire ticket.  It is what it is though.
> Obama himself called me twice today, and one of his minions called me from
> atlanta to tell me to vote at rogers here middle school on cornwall road
> in
> Door-Haam.  Love it when people who can't pronounce my city tell me where
> to
> vote.
>
> But it is what it is, and I'm glad there are people who care enough to get
> out there and put in the work.  Somewhere, someone decided that this is
> how
> you win elections, and so everyone does it.
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
> > All Arcade Fire songs sound the same, just like all Superchunk songs,
> > but Superchunk songs are shorter, thus they were more fun.
> >
> > Is that capsule enough for you? ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, though, if you leave out the creepy Obamafascists running the
> > gates, who required every attendee to fill out full contact info,
> > including phone number, before being allowed entry, it was a wonderful
> > time.
> >
> > Superchunk put in possibly the strongest post-extended-hiatus set I've
> > seen them do, and there was the added bonus of all the Band Children
> > (tm) wearing those giant kid-earmuff things, all onstage dancing next to
> > Laura. I half-intended to jot down a setlist, but of course I didn't &
> > my memory sucks too bad to recreate one here. Ask Rawls, he'll tell you.
> >
> > Here's a video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wlj_aawjlIY
> >
> > I'd actually never seen the Arcade Fire before. I regret missing them at
> > the Cave & the 506, but don't regret missing them at any larger venues,
> > because just as with any other increasingly-popular band, they draw a
> > ton of people who really love them but who don't have the foggiest
> > notion about rockshow etiquette (i.e. that 9" of space in front of me is
> > buffer so the person in front of me doesn't back into me, not an
> > invitation for your 6-foot-tall ass to occupy it).
> >
> > I did find it somewhat alarming when everybody started clapping in
> > unison, like Soviet spectators at a '70s-era Olympic event.
> >
> > I got sunburned.
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > DJ Golf wrote:
> > > Anybody got a capsule review of the aforementioned Town Commons event?
> > >
> > > On May 3, 1:20=A0pm, local... AT gmail.com wrote:
> > >>>> The Pressure Boys were a hugely popular Chapel Hill ska band...
> > >> I think relegating them to just 'ska' is doing them a disservice -
> > >> although they were heavily influenced by the genre (witnessed by them
> > >> doing three songs that appear on The Specials debut last night.)
> > >> Their later stuff definitely owes as much a debt to XTC.
> =A0Regardless,
> > >> the show last night was amazing! =A0I highly recommend going tonight
> if
> > >> you missed it!
> > >>
> > >> glenn
> > >>
> > >> ps: what a day - both the Cradle and 506 were sold-out plus the Town
> > >> Commons event!
> > >
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