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Some more Sweet Apple shows:

January 11th, 2011 – Seattle, WA – The Tractor
January 12th, 2011 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
January 14th, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord
January 15th, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA – The Satellite (formally Spaceland)
January 16th, 2011 – San Diego – The Casbah

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Re. Big Rock Candy Mountain, have you heard Baby Gramps’ version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSz_m15v0A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSz_m15 … re=related

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Re. Big Rock Candy Mountain, have you heard Baby Gramps’ version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSz_m15v0A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSz_m15 … re=related

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I don’t know of any local shows or concerts, but if I were in/near New York right now I’d check out Proteus Gowanus gallery/reading room in Brooklyn.

http://proteusgowanus.com/main/”>http://proteusgowanus.com/main/

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Faun Fables’ album Light of a Vaster Dark is coming out this month on Drag City.

They’re currently touring the US, still a few shows in the south then back to Oakland and the Northwest in mid-November.

If you like to have your mind blown by stunning original folk music/theater and Sandy Denny, Eva Demarczyk, Brigitte Fontaine, and Black Sabbath covers float your boat, go hear them play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkQUO1ItyPw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkQUO1It … re=related

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"Today’s Food Party is all about bourgeie food. We’re gonna make everyone think that you have a food budget that rivals Scarface’s coke budget."

Thu Tran, Food Party, episode 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7a0MkcCm4 Fz7a0MkcCm4

If you haven’t already seen it, Food Party on IFC is too much—friends and lovers of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, puppets, low budget animation, and home cooking rejoice. Witness!

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Patti Smith and her band played an electrifying set in the park yesterday. Patti’s amazing, a luminous beacon of righteous poetic soulful rocknroll upliftment, and her band is so tight. Lenny Kaye–fckin A!! They had 10,000+ people in the palms of their fender-wielding hands; the sound was great, esp. for an open field. Took one of my kids, 13, who was duly blown away. Great, friendly crowd, fog, sun, and eucalyptus. Also fun were Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes and Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women. Thanks for the party, Warren; now invite Dinosaur Jr to play next year.

youtube clips of Patti’s set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ngsFdN64Q X-ngsFdN64Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTLmzK5-kfU uTLmzK5-kfU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98iBTdFm54 c98iBTdFm54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_06flDRNi4Q _06flDRNi4Q

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Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs are playing this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Also on the bill: Emmylou Harris, Patti Smith, Richard Thompson, Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Bonnie Prince Billy and the Cairo Gang, Jonathan Richman, Steve Earle, Hot Tuna, The Ebony Hillbillies, Hazel Dickens, Mondo Cane, Del McCoury, and around 50 other bands, all free in Golden Gate park. Good times!

http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/”>http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/

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Yeah, man, bitter hasbeens are the best interviewers!

I can’t decide which is more rocknroll and adorable, the way Ian gently, absentmindedly fingers his nostrils and then immediately touches the interviewee (‘very filthy, very strong’–Burroughs), the insinuating murmurings with averted eyes, the way he calls Sonic Youth a feminist band and then proceeds to ignore Kim Gordon for the entire interview, the desperate namedropping and referencing of mutual acquaintances, the accusatory croakings about reformed bands as nostalgia acts….it’s just hard to choose which verbal tic is most compelling.

Bring on Nardwuar.

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"Annastefka" wrote:

J Mascis and Marshall Mcluhan in the same interview…I couldn’t believe it!
I must agree however…the interviewer is so strange, he brings up Mcluhan and says something about TV being interactive.
Interactive? WTF…you bring up Marshall Mcluhan you should at least finish the idea.

He doesn’t finish the idea because he doesn’t understand the idea; he’s just namedropping.

The interviewer (Ian?) is pretty negative and uninteresting. J responds to him in such a polite way you almost don’t notice how hostile the interviewer is (ragging on J’s childhood musical tastes, talking about J’s house burning down, etc).

I like his "interview" with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon better because they verbally dismantle him and finally render him unable to ask any more lamer questions. Then he hugs them.

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/soft-focus-at-atp-uk/kim-gordon-and-thurston-moore”>http://www.vbs.tv/watch/soft-focus-at-a … ston-moore

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The Ruiz quote is from a youtube clip of Raul Ruiz talking/messing with an interviewer. They discuss his film, "Techo de la Ballena" (On Top of the Whale), where several different languages are spoken by non-native speakers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YhnRgSHJ18&NR=1 7YhnRgSHJ18&NR=1

Ruiz says that this film is a way of photographing sounds, that it privileges the difficulty of speaking a language that is not one’s own, to show the difficulty of finding words in another language.

"Flotante" means floating, but also implies adrift, loose, flying sideways.

Ruiz’s an incredible, amazing director– check out On Top of the Whale, Three Lives and Only One Death, Klimt, A Closed Book, Time Regained, etc. if you can find them.

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Some more Sweet Apple dates recently announced:

09.03.10 Flywheel Easthampton, MA (!!)

09.05.10 Middle East Cambridge, MA

09.06.10 Knitting Factory NYC Brooklyn, NY

10.21.10 9:30 Club Washington, DC,
Info: w/ Guided By Voices

10.23.10 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC

10.23.10 The Buckhead Theatre Atlanta, GA

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"foona2" wrote:

Not problema..but I am not from Colombia. I am from Chile and If you are a man, "tú suegra" is a problematic person in the popular culture in my country.

"Yo hablo un idioma flotante"

—Raul Ruiz

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Formed around 1983, the band was always called "Dinosaurs," not "The Dinosaurs" so you can see why there was some confusion between them and Dinosaur. I think Dinosaurs got complaints from hippies on the east coast who went to a show thinking they were going to hear some 60s psychedelia and instead had their faces melted by 3 kids with a similar band name.

Re. Cipollina biting J’s sartorial style, ha! Yeah.

As for lettering/graphics, Stanley "Mouse" Miller and I think Rick Griffin did Dinosaurs’ artwork and lettering on albums, posters, t-shirts, etc. using mostly gothic psychedelic lettering as well as the art nouveau font style Dinosaur Jr later used.

It’d be a shame for people to avoid John Cipollina’s music over the Dinosaur/Dinosaurs lawsuit. Cipollina was an amazing guitar player, a monster of tone and tremolo, and though he played a different style of lead guitar than J. Mascis, they share some musical ground in terms of intensity, shreddingness, and unabashed emotionality in their playing.

Check out Cipollina in his various bands (the crowd dancing in Quicksilver’s "Mona" video reminds me of the dancers in Dinosaur Jr’s "Out There"):

Dinosaurs "Love Machine"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnc1A70-c-c Gnc1A70-c-c

Dinosaurs "Motel Party Baby"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlywJMfJHDI YlywJMfJHDI

Terry and the Pirates "Inlaws and Outlaws"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDydcguxpY VzDydcguxpY

Terry and the Pirates "Silverado Trail"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEoxqw0d_HA DEoxqw0d_HA

QMS "Mona"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D79ujliNh4Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D79ujliN … re=related

QMS "Who Do You Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2fiSfw4pZ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2fiSfw4 … re=related

Copperhead "They’re Making a Monster"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex6GrdFKN3Q ex6GrdFKN3Q

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