Thursdays are my favorite day of the week. The new Boston Phoenix comes out on Thursday, and The Globe's less-exciting (though still worth stealing from the lobby) Weekend Guide is inserted in the daily paper. If I read the Phoenix with my morning coffee, I can avoid missing the good shows during the weekend and kicking myself over it for days.
For example, without this morning's Phoenix I would never have known that L.L. Cool J is playing tonight at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel.
It looks like my weekly ritual of penciling in the calendar is going to take some time today. And Phoenix Thursday is one of the rare occasions I allow myself to openly squeal like a grade school cheerleader.
- OMIGOD! Like, Evan Dando is TOTALLY playing at T.T. the Bear’s on September 6th! I have fully written love poems for Evan Dando. He is playing with Blake Hazard, a great now-local girl who I have seen team up with Jack Drag, another great local act, on a few splendid occasions. Perhaps they will be partners in crime once again at T.T.'s
- Bright Eyes is playing the Roxy on September 12, which I'm both excited and wary about. The Somerville Theatre show was fantastic, but I'm not sure how I feel about the Roxy. Last time I was there -- well, the last two times I was -- no, it was three. During my last three shows at the Roxy I had a fucked up experience.
The first was Peter Murphy, when I turned and saw the bartender crouching behind the bar giving head to one of the cocktail waitresses while she leaned back with her tray of drinks. Then I had a panic attack at Eliott Smith and had to flee from the Hipper Than Thous who were intimidating me to the point of hysteria, missing half the show. And the last time I was there to see Sebadoh, some chick ripped off her shirt and attacked the painfully shy Lou Barlow on stage, smothering him in her ample breasts. I don't think the poor boy ever recovered. However, I may brave this psycho sexual Bermuda Triangle and go see Conor Obherst do his thing. I mean, how sexy can one get at a Bright Eyes show?
- And of course I won't sleep for a week now that my gut instincts have been confirmed and there will be a fall tour of my favorite band on the planet, Jump, Little Children. They have booked Met Café in Providence November 6, and Village Underground November 8, which means the Paradise Boston show will eventually be listed, wedged between the two customarily. There will be parades and dancing in the streets and I will gush at all of you for weeks before and afterward.
- The Daniel Barrett Group is playing with a full band, including the soon-departing violinist and hustler K., at the Lizard Lounge August 22. I will come clean and let you all know that I did not learn about this show in the Phoenix today; I have friends in high places. But my sources tell me it will be a fantastic show, and I will list it here among all the other shows I am squealing about now and will be writing about later.
- The Damn Personals always put up a good fight, sideburns and all. Perhaps August 24th at T.T. the Bear's Place will be no different.
On a semi-related but overwhelmingly strange note, there was a 12-piece band playing in the Someday Cafe the other night. It was really crazy. I'm not sure if this is something they are planning on doing regularly or what, but it is a note of interest. Especially if you are expecting to sit down for coffee. Cause you can't.
Okay I have to go sell a kidney now to fund this fall's Shameless Orgy of Music. And if I recover quickly, I can make it to the L.L. Cool J show tonight.
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