Fatal Flaw @Insubordination Fest, June 22, 2012 Friday night

getting to the Ottobar just in time 

to see our buds, the Fatal Flaw 

Aaron, also of Sinnet 

adjusted lineup was fooled with, hence our off-scheduling

creeping on Tony of Celebrated Summer Records; about to give me the evil eye

yummy, yummy Joe Squared

that pizza was reserved...  for my tummy 

get some!

Ah, Insubordination Fest.  For the past few years Baltimore has hosted this poppiest of punk fests at Sonar, but thankfully the location moved to the Ottobar this year, a more suitable venue for the attendance (it didn't feel as much a spread-out sea of lollygaggers; more of a nice family of nerdlinger punkers).  

We came exclusively to see our Boston friends, The Fatal Flaw, play a short set (all the sets were amended due to cramming so many bands in for one evening).  I may or may not have taken a nap before said show and was probably a lil' foggy/groggy driving us down to Bmore just to get there a few minutes late (boo!), during the FF's set.  Yummy pizza was devoured at a crowded Joe Squared later that night and delicious crepes were tasted the following morning in Aberdeen before parting ways.

Get some!

Mean Jeans @Golden West, Friday June 8th 2012

Real Fast Real Fresh Real RoFo

Mean Jeans

David here reminds me of a cameo Ben Stiller has in a Tenacious D video where he does a 'turn around'

ipunk rock

Golden West, Hampden, Baltimore
June 8th, Friday night 2012
Mean Jeans
Hollywood
Murder
The Shirks

On a Friday, on a Friday night Josh, David and I rocked to the meanest of jeans at the Golden West. It was nice to see some old friends and familiar faces and have some good old fashioned punk rock fun.

Shows that start late end late.  I got pulled over on I95 trying to fly like a rocket home.  Don't speed.  Especially at 2:30 in the morning. =p  

Little Dragon: Sweet Swedish electronic pop

I've been listening to a lot of Little Dragon lately, mostly via YouTube videos.  I discovered them on a friend's fb page.  I am pretty slow to catch on to most things in pop culture, so I was happy to find this band.  

This first video is the song that introduced me to Little Dragon, Feather.  It's so dreamy and sexy - I love it!

This black and white fan-made video is a more upbeat dance song called Please Turn.  I haven't seen the movie the clips are taken from (Vivre sa vie : film en douze tableaux, or My Life to Live), but if you watch the trailer it contains a spoiler!  Haha, those crazy french filmmakers.  

This video has sweet images from the classic Endless Summer.  Here is the video creator's channel, if you want to peep all their work:  http://www.youtube.com/user/tahneeu

I will end on this video for Twice, which is a trailer for a short shadow puppet film called Dreams from the Woods, directed by Johannes Nyholm.  The audio isn't as good quality as other videos, but the visuals!  Again, so dreamy.

Props to the video makers who so ably juxtapose image to sound!
Little Dragon Band site:  http://little-dragon.net/