8 posts tagged “dredg”
Sitting in my best friend's living room computer in front of me. Home under my finger tips. Sacramento's flat in geography and lifestyle. Lying a couple hours outside of San Francisco makes it better though.
Drove into SF yesterday around two PM. Cruised around Haight and hit up Golden Gate Park. Hippies, hipsters, bums, families, pets, music, marijuana. Multitues gathered to share the 420 experience and no authority in sight. Thousands sitting, singing, smoking, dreaming, frying, and flying. Me and Max wove through the webs of smoking circles, pictures of people dancing and singing to the friends around us. A beautiful witnessing of smiles and handshakes.
Dredg tore the roof off of San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. Their set was haunting. Selections from 2nd and 3rd albums with four from the new one, unreleased. The sounds amazing. The band brilliant. The crowd unattatched. Dredg's crowds are usually the best around, driving, screaming, bleeding with the band on stage. Last night the crowd preferred their mixed drinks to the love pouring from the performance.
My flight home leaves at four. I've a few hours to kill with Indian cuisine and protesters at the capitol. The battle against our governer's budget cuts is waged and the march is begun. I'm just arriving for the festivities :)
Things coming up:
1. Thursday night is my "What Makes A Family?" event. I'm showing about 45 minutes to an hour of "All Aboard!" Its a documentary made on the cruise that Rosie O'Donnell put together for LGBTQ families and people who love them. I also have a few LGBTQ families coming as a panel to discuss and answer questions about what it means/is like to raise a family that identifies as LGBTQ in a culture that is adverse to it.
2. Friday I leave for Sacramento to visit Max and then go see Dredg in San Francisco on Sunday. Fuck Yes.
3. House sitting the week after that. That's always nice.
I bought Radiohead tickets yesterday. Shitty fucking seats, but whatever. I got tickets to an essentially sold-out show and it's Radiohead, so I don't have to be on the floor to enjoy the show. Doesn't matter, I'm still pumped to hear what God is like in person.
What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?
I don't listen to songs individually very often unless my player is on random or I'm listening to a playlist... so my top ten favorite songs of the last ten minutes or so are these:
10. Faster Bullet- The Aggrolites
9. Since I've Been Loving You- Led Zeppelin
8. Skin and Bones- Foo Fighters
7. Woa Is Me- Dredg
6. Holding Someone's Hair Back- Circa Survive
5. Comeback Kid- Silversun Pickups
4. In the Fade- Queens of the Stone Age
3. Zero- Smashing Pumpkins
2. Rain When I Die- Alice in Chains
1. Vessel- Nine Inch Nails
What are the 10 most memorable music performances you've seen? (Remember, "memorable" may not be good.)
Submitted by Bill.
In no particular order:
Incubus at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, CA (2004)
Dredg at the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA (2006)
Dredg at The Catalyst Club in Santa Cruz, CA (2006)
Coheed and Cambria at The Avalon in Hollywood, CA (2005?)
Marilyn Manson at Coors Ampetheater in El Cajon, CA (2003)
Donavon Frankenreiter at The Grove in Anaheim, CA (2006)
Eric Clapton at The Pond in Anahem, CA (2007)
Incubus at Cox Arena in San Diego, CA (2001)
30 Seconds to Mars at Coors Ampetheater in El Cajon, CA (2003)
Green Day at the Verizon Ampetheater in Irvine, CA (2001)
Muse at Soma in San Diego, CA (2006)
These are my top 11 shows I've seen...
I couldn't narrow it down to 10... shit there's a few more I really wanted in there. Jimmy Eat World, Ozzy, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, The Mars Volta, Incubus at Lollapalooza, Ray Charles, Eek-A-Mouse, Kingsland (on my birthday in my backyard... fuck yeaaaah)... there's a lot I would have put up there but these are the shows I took to the most and look back on in moments of nostolgia. T
he best show out of my top 11 was definitely the Dredg show at The Catalyst Club in Sana Cruz. They built a world of passion and music for the rest of us to reside on for their entire performance. They were astonishing.
Some shows goming up I definitely am taking interest in:
1. Brother Ali- May 22 at The Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach
2. Rage Against The Machine- August 11 in LA
3. 3 and Porcupine Tree- May 13 at The Grove in Anaheim
4. Fred Jones Band- April 7 at The Epicentre in San Diego
I'm attempting an experiment. In light of all my lame happenings with people... I'm going to avoid them. I'm going to really be accessible only to those who I feel make me a happier, healthier* individual. I'm not going to stray too far off my path of friendships in search of the unknown... rather, I want to look at what I assume in the relationships I have now. I guess you could call it a refining process. There are a lot of people out there that I could care less about... why have I been trying to get to know them better? Instead I want to get to know my friends better. If I had to make a flat out list, It would consist of these people:
1. Max
2. Kuntal
3. Coleman
4. Erin
5. Jaeger
6. Ivy
Of course I won't be untouchable to people that are around them... but I don't feel like making an effort to reach out and befriend them too.
This is all a part of my Self-Improvement plan. I know what you're all saying, "but Adam, you are so perfect as you are, why change?" I'll tell you this... if you think this looks, sounds, tastes, and feels good now? Just wait a few more months... You'll have an even tastier Adam.
I'll still be accessible to certain ladies as well... but that's the good 'ol chivalrous me, making sure the girlies aren't cold at night :)
Another piece of my devious plan in self-improvement is forcing myself to stay home... in fallbrook, that is. As much as this stinky little town can get under my skin... it serves as a great escape from everything human. I've had my guitar in my hands all day, everyday, unless I'm at work or driving to a chill smoke spot.
It's encouraging say I've had my guitar since September and I feel so much more comfortable with her than ever before. I'm finding my way around the fret board and the strings with less attention paid. I even bought her a capo from GuitarCenter in San Marcos. It's fucking sweet.
So, yeah. Hopefully my Cathedral can be closer to completion by the end of this experiement.
"Stone by Stone"- Dredg
Stone by stone, I constructed a cathedral
Stone by stone, built it up and wrecked it down
Stone by stone, everyone's looking to wear the crown
Stone by stone, even though they got it all
It's getting onto you
Cannot bleed to get the strength enough
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready; please forget
I am running a marathon in glass shoes
I am hiding behind windows
Stone by stone, whether headed up or down
Stone by stone, always looking, never found
Stone by stone, even though they got it all
It's getting onto you
Cannot bleed to get the strength enough
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready; please forget
It's getting onto you
Cannot bleed to get the strength enough
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready; please forget
It's getting onto you
Cannot bleed to get the strength enough
You called me out to lead me on
I'm ready... I'm ready
I am running a marathon in glass shoes
I am hiding behind windows
Stone by stone, build it up and watch it fall
Cheers,
Adam
*Healthy is a relative term :)
Midterm today. Gee... fucking barrel full of masturbating monkeys. I don't think i did that well, but the general concensus (sp?) seemed to be that the teacher was extremely vague and the quotes she used for us to identify were uber obscure. Whatever... I'm gonna give her shit come thursday.
I love my major so much, it's sickening... but it's the midterms like these that make my head hurt.
In happier news...
I'm getting drunk tonight. I'm going out with Mr. Wes and we are gonna get faded at a bar and then stumble back to his house in Oceanside... it. will. be. beautiful.
AND incubus' pre-sale is kickin up soon for tickets at the Wiltern in LA and that as well... will. be. beautiful.
AND dredg's live album, Live at the Fillmore, from the show in San Francisco (which i so gladly graced with my presence along with monsieur Max) will be released on the 7th of Nov.
Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. C'est tres bien. Je suis tres exite.
Live long and prosper kids!
cheers
adam
What a motherfucking week... Goddamn... Fucking weird week to say the least. Shitty, but in strange ways. Now... the rant:
Sooooo... the week ultimately started with me finding out that my classes were dropped... that blew. Then I go to buy cigarettes at 711 and they wont sell them to me because Garret and I walked in the door at the same time... They assume that if someone were to try and buy cigarettes for a minor, they'd bring the minor in the store with them. A couple days go by and I say farewell to Stephanie... that was a sleight bummer but not traumatizing.. just added to the recipe of 'adam's lame-ass week'. That same weekend, I get a notice from the court that I forgot to show up to a court date, which I got no notice in the mail... so naturally, I forget, and there was a $150 dollar fine I had to pay. Then Max and I go out to Jullian for a parrty and get lost for an hour and a half... lame... found the house, got drunk, passed out, woke up and went to my grandpa's 70th birthday... which was nice.
This week arrives with me working, which doesn't help the lamness, but doesnt hurt it. Thursday arrives, and I have to call in sick because noone wanted to cover my shift. I go to school and am able to crash only 2 of the 6 classes I need... shitty... then I get a call from work and, apparently, the morning manager forgot to inform the evening manager that I wouldn't be coming in... sooooo... he asked me to come in much later instead for a 5 hour... once again, not terrible, but whatever. On my way to work the car right infront of me loses a tire, spins out of control, slams into the center divide, then somehow manages to pull across the entire freeway to the right shoulder. I get out to help. I make it to work and finish the entire evening by heading to Pacific Beach for some Sinbad's action. That I hoped would be the nice ending to a bad week, but instead I get, to bed at 4 am, wake up at 6 am, 100% congested, to my father asking for help burying our goat Ozzie. He died of a urinary tract infection. I go visit Ivy, which was nice because she's doing so well, but it's always a downer because of how tough her situation still is. I pick up a smoke, go to Jag's, then to Macaroni with the whole family, back to Jag's, then out to San Marcos. The party was absolutely, annoyingly crowded.
My phone rings and Erin sounds semi-hyterical and really drunk and asks for assisstance in kicking some people out of hwer house. I make my way over and am now assissting in making sure one of her friends isn't gonna die of Alcohol poisining.
I dub this day the fucking cheery on top of my Hell Cupcake. That being said... I need to make sure this girl is okay still.
Fucking cheers to this one fellas,
adam
now for my anchor of sanity:
Just to put this video out there... Dredg is the greatest band of this generation in music... let it be known... this is why:
