Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Your to-do list: Lupe, Millan, Annuals, Octave Museum, Village People

Posted at 05:26 by Carly Carioli

Green Line nerd graffiti so real.

1. Nick Sylvester faints, again.

2. Spitz went to the Joanna Newsom show last night and says that for at least half-hour or so it was the best thing he's ever seen, then it got a little boring. She came out and did a couple Milk Eyed Mender tunes, some Scottish thingee, then brought the band out and did Y's, front to back, in order. This is us wishing we'd gone. If you haven't already, read Parker's interview, if only to try imagining her cursing in that voice.

3. Back when OTD was a lowly intern, we used to spend lots of time digging through the library stacks and reading old issues. There's some amazing shit back there. Nobody ever believed us when we told people that we had someone in Atlanta when the Sex Pistols played their first US show. So when it came time to do some crate-digging for the 40th anniversary, we headed straight for the 70s and dug it up. Read it here. (But keep it quiet, nobody's supposed to see it until Thursday.)

Today's shows:

• Dresden Dolls "Learning from Performers" lecture at Harvard, 12:15 pm Loeb Drama Center. Unrelated to their gig in Arlington on Friday, the Dolls break down their first theatrical endeavor, The Onion Cellar. For the cheapskates who complained that the tickets are too expensive: we got you covered. Two-for-one, peoples.
• Lupe Fiasco at the Middle East. Pushing and kick-starting the rebirth of skate-hop.
• Amy Millan at the Paradise. If you don't have tix, don't blame us.
• The Annuals at TT the Bear's Place. Get on our level.
• Octave Museum (CD release), Electric Bastards (CD release), Township, and Diamond Mines at Great Scott. If you haven't copped the OTD tracks from Octave Museum and Township, do so immmediately.
• Village People at the Kowloon in Saugus. Seth Putnam will probably be at this.
• Gloria Steinam at Barnes and Noble at BU. Seth Putnam will probably not be at this.