"Rufus, Martha & Thomas" written by Vincent on estrip.org

06/20/10 10:34 - 74.ºF - ID#51973

Rufus, Martha & Thomas

Here is Rufus singing with his Sister Martha performing a song that their Mom wrote. Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) from The National on Piano.

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Category: concerts

06/19/10 01:57 - 74.ºF - ID#51961

The National Rockin' at the Knox

I was pleasantly surprised by the event last night. The crowd was well behaved with the exception of the typical cloud of smoke that seems to hover around every WNY outdoor concert. It seemed that they were there just to be seen and to support the Knox, which is fine and good in my book.

Just to be perfectly honest the only reason why I went was to see The National and Matt did not leave me disappointed at all. Here is the final song "Terrible Love." Plus I have to say the way it ended left me left me ecstatically shocked! It was good to see that he kept the momentum up from the Radio City show 2 nights earlier.

Totally reminds me of the Pearl Jam Even Flow video back in the day.

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Category: music

06/15/10 12:27 - 63.ºF - ID#51889

Ace of Gaga?

I actually thought of this song when I first heard Alejandro. Why "borrow" music nowadays when it is so easily referenced?

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Category: concerts

06/14/10 12:35 - 65.ºF - ID#51882

In your room

I have just been into Depeche Mode lately. I went out on Friday night and heard 3 of their songs! So here is one of their songs

It's funny but with Depeche Mode I didn't really like Songs of Faith and Devotion back in the day. To be honest I just thought it was them being "Grunge" as it was out at the same time as Nirvana and Pearl Jam's 10. But it really has become one of my favorite albums. I think what screwed it up for me as my first girlfriend was really into it at the time and there was thing insane tension and drama after we broke up. It's crazy how someone can just ruin a song or band for you, at least in this case I came back to it but only after I saw this performance live.

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06/08/10 11:46 - 59ºF - ID#51832

Smashing Pumpkins

After thinking about it I actually could hit all three of these shows since I'm off of work the first week of July...

TUE 7/6 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
THU 7/8 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
FRI 7/9 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall

Hmmm this may be a possibility...

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06/08/10 08:59 - 54ºF - ID#51822

Concerts

I'm just a bit surprised to see the Smashing Pumpkins are playing somewhere close by July 9th. I'm debating if I should grab a ticket or not, the trouble is that Metric is playing the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on the same day. Tough choice I know.

Also a Kiss pre-sale is staring me right in the face as well @ the MCA

Sometimes you wish that you could go to everything...

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Category: apple

06/08/10 12:04 - 56ºF - ID#51821

Verizon!!!

I didn't realize Steve Jobs did his demo out in Youngstown?

Too Funny. I'm just happy that someone like jobs had a total F Up while doing a presentation. Right now I am just sick of doing one every class and it got really old last class. I'm just sick of them at this point. Yea I know that this is just the standard way of the business world, but no matter how much you prep, you may always run into a down network such as this.

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05/29/10 11:47 - 73ºF - ID#51755

Beach Ratings

To be honest I'm not buying this guys rational, then again I guess I like to actually SWIM from the Beach that I would be on and not freeze. Oh, and being allowed to kick back with a Corona (in a can) would be nice as well. Plus not having a $40 cover charge is also a bonus...

Siesta Beach is #1 in my book if you just enjoy any of the above.

Then again I don't know how much longer it will be in the current state that it is in given the mess BP is brewing :-/

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05/26/10 11:38 - 67ºF - ID#51734

Brilliant WNY Summer Concert Series Idea

To be honest when the schedules for the "free" shows around the area are released, I'm always praying "Please don't let it be someone I MUST see!" To be honest I can't stand most of the people in the area that go to these shows be it at Artpark, Lockport or the Square. I hate the crowds, the ignorant fucks that bump into you, the people that smoke in your face, especially the ones that have no courtesy or concept of personal space, the ones that plant lawn chairs in the middle of a main pathway. I probably missed a few more, OH Wait Tiffany LOL! (or some other suburban female name) giving you a dirty look as your are cheering a great song that you only partially heard as she was SQUEAKING in that Paris/Lindsay voice, yea you know the ones.

Well the Hard Rock in Niagara Falls unveiled their own line-up

the best part, You can pay $50 to get away from the masses that are there just because it's free and enjoy the music in their VIP section. There have been so many times over the years where I wish I could have PAID money to enjoy a show at the square to be with people that wanted to experience and hear the show instead of trying to look Hawt at the world's largest outdoor happy hour.

I tell you now if you're a Tragically Hip fan, that $50 will be a small price to pay in comparison the the aggravation you will have to deal with if you want to enjoy the experience. Remember they played a week solid of sold out shows at Artpark last summer, It's going to be F'ing insane! That's not unless you enjoy getting bumped into unsupervised kids in the Fallz as their white trash parents sit on lawn chairs drinking BUSCH totally unaware of what is going on around them. I know I've been to a few outdoor concerts 2 blocks up Falls St at the Casino.

metalpeter writes at 06:26:44 05/27/10 - Comment #56448: --Music Is Art is a great Charity and glad to hear that money goes to them

--For me the Falls is a long way to go for a show (kinda a tough trek, haven't done it at night in a long time)

--I don't know the Local scene enough or the music enough to know who those bands are. What I mean is I know the Names of the bands but couldn't match it to their music.

--I do think it is a great idea

--I do get that entire there for the scene not for the music, I get why it is annoying but it is also kinda part of the fun as well, well some of it.

-- In terms of being bumped into Ladies I don't mind.

--The thing is anyplace where it is packed you will get bumped into that is something that can't be helped (No Reason to fight just like in a bar you are tipsy just if I hit your drink I should be willing to maybe get you one or not be a dick about it)

There are other places to go see shows where they cost money though. I used to love the showplace wish that was still open. I haven't been to Diablo or Town Ballroom in so long and it is sad. What I wish is that all the Big Bands went someplace other then Darien Lake:
1. I get it is the summer so you want the outside thing
2. During the summer they do the Amusement Park thing
3. I don't drive so forget getting there or getting home
4. I went to one show (Metallica, Jerry Cantrel and days of the new) It was a great time but I think getting out of the lot took about an hour, no thank you. Not getting home just getting out of the lot. I'm not cutting my concert short fuck that......

I miss the old days of the LaSalle Park shows. Granted they didn't have tons of them but They where Fun, Warped Tour and Edgefest where all ways fun. Then for free I saw Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, at the time they where Huge (spanish band on the west, oh man) and I forget who else. But with the Condo's so close that kinda killed that.

(e:vincent) sorry to kinda take over your post:

Does anyone remember when Artfest would have Their street festivals and they would all ways have a Major National Act there, man those where the good times.

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Category: transport

05/25/10 01:03 - 70ºF - ID#51726

Oil Spill & Railfaning

As I look at the oil spill and get more and more pissed off by the day

I just remind myself that people in charge do things that is right for their rich friends and not for the common good. Might makes right and there is nothing that ever seems to get done for the higher purpose, like saving the environment. It makes me wonder how much environmental damage might have been prevented if we never tore up the the streetcars that we had even 60 years ago? This if just F'd up because one could still have lived in East Aurora, Lancaster, Olcott Beach or Youngstown and commuted to work in Buffalo every day.

Then the best part is the spend millions of shitload dollars to put in a joke of a light rail train that went over the same right of way 35 years ago!

Remember the CSX ad stating that they can move 1 ton 423 miles using 1 gallon of diesel? Just imagine these streetcars using electricity from the Hydro Electric station in Lewiston which would be pretty much all green?

vincent writes at 09:27:59 05/26/10 - Comment #56435: Agreed x2

This catastrophe is making me despondent, I'm glad that I was able to enjoy the Gulf 4x this winter and share it with all of you. :-(

libertad writes at 09:18:29 05/26/10 - Comment #56433: Agreed.

heidi writes at 08:48:32 05/26/10 - Comment #56432: (e:libertad) - I think and hope you're right that our way of life will be changed. It has to change - we have to move away from a fossil-fuel-based economy, and away from a consumerist economy. Constant, limitless growth is unrealistic - there are physical and environmental limits to our ability to expand. I'm afraid that income inequality is going to just increase - both between and within countries - as they jockey for control over dwindling fossil fuel supplies. Oh, and water, too. <sigh>

libertad writes at 06:55:49 05/26/10 - Comment #56431: After watching the live feed of the oil well disaster I have realized the latest top kill is never, ever going to work and I think it is now much worse. The oil is coming out with so much more force and pressure than it was before. This is not going to stop for another two months until they finish the relief well. Our way of life will be changed.

libertad writes at 06:11:01 05/26/10 - Comment #56430: I can barely even describe how sad this oil spill has made me. Maybe someday I will try and write about it myself. It is just so overwhelming. This has the potential to be the worst environmental disaster to date on this planet. I hope this next stunt by BP will stop it but I am fearful it might even make it worse.

metalpeter writes at 06:16:14 05/25/10 - Comment #56414: I have seen old pictures where you have cars and street cars on the same street and yes Buffalo was one of the places I don't get why you would get rid of them it makes no sense.

In Terms of BP or anyone who Drills this is even more true when working out in the ocean. Every piece of equipement should have multiple plans filed about what to do if it breaks or missfunctions and even right down to multiple ways of fixing the problem for both continuing to work and to stop oil flow all together. This way anything that goes wrong the files are in a secure off site location as well as on site. Something goes wrong you just look it up and fix the problem. There is no reason For BP trying to do all this stuff and none of it works. There should have been (Maybe there is but that is my next point) a plan where you can stop the leak or stop the oil from comming where it is comming from. Have you noticed everything they are doing is containment and not stopping it.

I don't agree with everything Bill Maher Says. But he wonders if BP doesn't want to do what would stop the oil from leaking out. At First that sounds crazy and makes no sense. But if you think about it does make sense. BP doesn't care how much oil they lose, they want to just do what is cheapest. See when they lose oil, then everyone who wants their oil since their is less of it pays more for it. Oh and guess what that does, yes tarnish the name, but it makes their profits higher. ARGh.........

scott writes at 11:21:17 05/25/10 - Comment #56403: Wanna hear something that'll fan the flames?

When the NFTA's subway was being designed/built in the 70's, they had the option to build using the same trains used in NYC subways.

However, palms got greased and the cars/track were purchased new from Japan. Unfortunately, Japanese trains run on a slightly narrower gauge of track and thus are completely incompatible with standard US light rail.

The result is a rail line with non-standard track and rare foreign train cars that are expensive to maintain and replace. So, we can't expand the current one-line subway without severe expense.

Had we just built to the standard used in other cities, we could buy refurbished/recycled cars from NYC and expand with relatively low cost. So, it's really a double-fucking: The environment in fuel (and trains that end up in the scrapheap) and, of course, our pocketbooks.