manic mess

rough week...

but there's a lot going on so feast your eyeses.

go catch diamonds tonight at rothko if you haven't seen them before. you won't be sorry. they're playing with winter pageant, speedway, and serious weapon. it's 5 bucks and free reingold from 8:30 to 9:30. also tonight is the first night of a new weekly at lit. tim sweeney is spinning and he's an AWESOME dj. we got him to spin a fancy schmancy work party once and it was a tragedy how little people even noticed the music. so go tonight to make up for the obnoxious rich people who don't know anything about anything. here's the info:
OPENING NIGHT OF '976' @ LIT
WEDNESDAY JUNE 30TH :
DJ's:
+ TIM SWEENEY
+ MIKE SIMONETTI
+ DAVID ELLIOTT
+ GIBBY MILLER
OPEN BAR 11 - 1am
@ LIT: 93 2nd ave., in the bassment.

elsewhere...jason productshop's band the morning after is playing at trash (formerly luxx). here's the flyer:

oh yeah, and check out nerve.com's sexy john ashcroft video contest. it's vastly entertaining.

it's almost the fourth of july.

and if i wasn't in mourning, i'd be celebrating. but i am, so on to the week at hand.

i learned two important facts from this yahoo news article on david lee roth. the first is that he's training to be an emt (yawn). the second is that he just moved to the lower east side!!! almost makes up for the fact that moby lives there too.

productshop announces that little steven's underground garage festival is indeed on, and it will feature a SICK lineup including the strokes, the stooges, the new york dolls, and a bunch of others. productshop also links to a cute beastie boys game, in case you're a downtrodden officeworker in search of mindless games to help you procrastinate, like myself.

e! online reports that fahrenheit 911 is officially the highest-grossing documentary of all time! score one for team sanity.

what else? not too much going on this week. but here's two interesting things happening tomorrow night:

as for this past weekend, there were sooo many things to do and i only ended up managing to get to a couple of them. most noteworthy was the les savy fav show at volume on friday. it was SO DOPE. they rocked. and i'm happy to report that there were like a thousand people there. i had no idea they were so popular. my pictures kind of suck because i didn't feel like moshing it up to get to the front, but here you go....

we got there just as the first band was finishing up. after that q and not u came on.

and then les savy fav! i don't know what's up with leis these days, but les savy fav were all wearing them too.

man these pictures really suck.

at one point the singer threw his lei out to the audience and this nice girl i was hanging out with caught it. here she is all excited-like.

happy monday, everybody.

misshapes open bar this saturday.

oops! i meant to post this awhile ago. good DJs and FREE BOOZE....yay.

ultragrrrl party at rothko with the killers, and the last night ever at orchard bar.

last night was the making out with ultragrrl party at rothko, which featured hipsters in chopped-up prom dresses, sparkly balloons, and a live performance by the killers. everyone was hyper and excited and it was an awesome party.

here's the hostess pumping up the crowd.

and a picture of the pizzaaaacked house behind me right before the killers came on.

all the cute boys in the band were wearing leis and i suspect they were drunk, but they played an excellent set regardless. i don't care what anyone says, i dig em. the last time i saw them play was at coachella, and brandon's voice was kind of out of tune, which made me sad. but not this time! they sounded fantastic. and they played a song (i think it's called under the gun?) that i'd never heard before. the crowd went absolutely wild for them. since i was front row and basically up brandon flowers' nose the entire time it was hard to get good pictures, but here's a few. . .

as soon as they were done playing we hightailed it out of there. too crowded. once we were outside i tried to take the awesomest picture ever of jesse, jo divestar, bryan "loveinwar" carlin, bryan from ikeepadiary.com(who i've still never met), and the guitarist from the killers, who was standing behind jesse. it totally didn't work. and i pissed off my friends by saying "this is gonna be the best picture! there's good people behind you!" ...dumbass.

luckily, they agreed to accompany me to orchard bar, which unbeknownst to us was celebrating its last night in existence. we got all nostalgic-like when we found out it was shutting down.

someone came up to me and asked me if this gross hippie necklace belonged to me. i was totally offended.

and finally, here's what happens when you try to take a drunk picture of yourself in a mirror. with flash.

and that was that. and now it's FINALLY the end of this interminable week. tonight is the les savy fav record release party at volume, and then on to black and white to hear ili, jo, and jr spin. you should go to both. saturday is bbq madness (seriously people! spread this shit out. we gots a whole summer to bbq it up!) and the rest is history. cheers!

this just in.

apparently san francisco favorites the evening are going to be playing a surprise free show at the delancey tonight at 1:30am. so, if anyone's still standing at that point (post-french kicks and post-killers), head over and have a listen!

see you out.

achtung! know anyone who's looking for a sublet?

i'm looking for someone to sublet the second room in my two-bedroom apartment for the month of august. i live on rivington street between clinton and suffolk, and the rent is around $850. the room is small and will be unfurnished--it fits a queen bed, a dresser, and not much else. the kitchen/living room is also small, but not too cramped, and there's a nice, decent-sized bathroom as well as storage space for the subletter to use.

about me? i smoke and drink a lot and whoever lives there has to be ok with that. the apartment is clean but not obsessively so. i work all day and go out most nights so i'm not home very often, but i do sleep there every night. and i try to be as quiet as i can. :)

i can be reached at [email protected]. hook it up people!

parties, parties, parties.

tonight is the blender/french kicks party at bloomies and then the spin party featuring the killers at rothko. but i stayed out too late at the secret machines afterparty (which was packed by the way--doesn't anyone ever stay HOME anymore??) and i am a very tired girl today. we shall see how long i make it. does anyone know what time the killers are going on tonight, by the way? because i don't.

i just got invites for two art openings happening this week:

and here's some funny stuff:
apparently perry farrell has NOT given up on lollapalooza just yet. interesting.

and here's a link to an interview the new york times did with the girl who posed naked for the verrrry controversial cover of new york mag this week. do me a favor? if the cover offends you, DON'T call? because it's me you'll be getting on the other end of the phone and i am so not in the mood.

the daily news reports that carnie wilson self-medicated with bong hits in the nineties.

finally, did everyone catch last night's episode of the simple life? paris and nicole worked as maids at a nudist resort. it was totally awesome.

polyphonic spree contest.

Hollywood Records/Good Records recording artists The Polyphonic Spree are offering their fans the chance to create the debut video from the band's upcoming album "Together We're Heavy" (release date: July 13). Participants in the creative competition are being asked to submit their videos for "Hold Me Now," the first single from the highly anticipated album.

Submissions will be judged by The Polyphonic Spree and Hollywood Records and must be postmarked by July 14, 2004 and received by July 21, 2004. The winner, who will receive a grand prize of $5,000, will be announced on July 30. The winning video will be featured on the band's official site and will be submitted for airplay on MTV2 and FUSE. Contestants can download "Hold Me Now" (and get more info) at the official contest site.

the week's half over and it's time to go out.

tonight is the ellegirl hotlist party starring ambulance ltd (snore) and the hong kong, who i've never heard. it's at some space on west 31st street, but they're being super-anal about the guest list. also tonight is the not-sold-out secret machines show at bowery ballroom. they're great (psychedelic and droney) and i'd definitely go see them if i hadn't already like five times. here's the info for the afterparty:

Directly following the Bowery Ballroom show.....
Aftershow party for Secret Machines at the Delancey, 168 Delancey St.
Boozy Jo DJing from midnight to 4am....
Free Bud from midnight to 1am!!
No guest list

also, the secret machines will be on letterman tomorrow night (thurs, 6/24), so tune in.

nme reports that jane's addiction is splitting up, citing a letter posted on "dave navarro's website", which, incidentally, i haven't been able to find. it's a shame, but it's probably time they did. dave navarro has gotten insufferably lame since he went sober. yeah, i said it.

and can someone please tell me what's up with the pixies adding a bunch of new shows to their fall tour and NOT adding ones in new york? what the hell? i'm waiting...

party people going places on the d train...

but not tomorrow! because the beastie boys cancelled their free show in prospect park. note to self: cancel plans to play hookie from work and get in touch with inner teenager. sigh.

on a sidenote, i actually just heard one of my cow-orkers SCREAMING into his phone, "Listen i'm SORRY that i don't want to come to your party all right?? but it's not my problem that you can't get people to come! i guess it's just gonna be a STUPID PARTY, all right?"

so obnoxious. so, so obnoxious.