Lizabeth's Journal

07/23/2007 23:51 #40228

...more beseeching
Category: music

The New Pornographers
OCT 20 - The Riviera Theatre - North Tonawanda, NY

Tix here:

I saw them in March at Langerado, and they were great. My husband hadn't really heard much of their stuff before that show, and he walked away raving.

Their new album, Challengers, is coming out on August 21st (same day as the new Rilo Kiley album! I'm excited!). The closest they'll come to South Florida on this tour is Atlanta, which is 10 hours away. :( So, once again, I am begging y'all - go to this show. As a personal favor to me. Please. Do it. Assuming the new album is good (and I have no reason to suspect otherwise), it'll be a blast. (e:jbeatty) (aka my brother-in-law, who finally stopped lurking here and posted some journals) will be going, even if I have to buy his ticket myself. :D

And don't forget! Old 97's, July 26th, Thursday at the Square! That's just a couple days away!

joshua - 07/24/07 10:19
I dunno - you like the Sens and so I'm unsure about your tastes.

Just kidding =)

07/13/2007 12:14 #40094

I beseech you yet again
Category: music

Guess who else is playing in Buffalo soon?

The Old 97's!!!

They're playing on July 26th at Thursday at the Square:

I'm trying to send at least one of my friends from Syracuse. But you all live in Buffalo - you have absolutely zero excuse not to go to this show. The Old 97's are so, so good, and so much fun to see live. I missed them once when they played Buffalo (back in like, 2003 or 4 or something), and now I am going to miss them there again. You must go in my stead, then post about it here and make me all jealous.

Actually, looking down the schedule for that Thursday at the Square thing, I'm like, "Why, exactly, is it that I don't live in Buffalo?" :/

lizabeth - 07/13/07 13:53
Oh, please do! I just know you'll like it. The Old 97's are more rockin' and more twangy than Rhett's solo stuff - but his awesome lyrics and song craft are still there. Actually, if you've ever seen a Rhett solo show, he wails and flails just like it's an Old 97's show, even if it's just him and an acoustic guitar on stage. Good times. :)

chico - 07/13/07 12:19
Though friends recommend it highly, I don't know the Old 97's music very well. But I like frontman Rhett Miller's solo project "The Instigator" (chica put me onto that a few years ago). On the strength of that alone I'd consider it, but now that the reco's are piling up I'll be sure to check out the Old 97s at the Square.

07/10/2007 14:41 #40038

people of Buffalo, I beseech you
Category: music

On September 24th, Andrew Bird will be playing at some place called "Asbury Hall at The Church" (I have never heard of this place, but then again, I don't actually live in Buffalo).

You must go to this show. If I were still living in Syracuse, I would be there, 100%. I waited for ages for Andrew Bird to play somewhere in New York besides NYC, and now that I am not living there anymore, he is finally going to do it. Because I cannot go to this show, you people must go in my stead. Do it. Don't let me down.

Pre-sale tix allegedly can be found here:

If you're not familiar with the musical wonder that is Andrew Bird, run-do-not-walk:

lizabeth - 07/13/07 11:56
Awesome, I knew *someone* on this site had to be into Andrew Bird (besides me). :)

jenks - 07/10/07 17:43
sweet!
thanks for the tip.
I am a fan of Mr. Bird.

05/15/2007 18:41 #39291

sorry, Sabres...
Category: hockey

...I don't think this is your year to win the Stanley Cup. That said...

Go, Sens!!!

(That's a pic from my recent trip to Ottawa - and yes, that is a blow-up doll from the window of a gay sex shop cheering on the Sens. I tell ya, everybody in that town is excited about their hockey team.)

05/15/2007 17:51 #39289

if you're the stalking type...
Category: travel

Just FYI... I'm going to be in the central NY area the last weekend in June if any of you (*ahem* (e:carolinian) *cough* (e:bugmuncher) *ahem*) wanted to maybe meet up in Ithaca for a day or something.

I'm going up there with my mom and we're renting a big vehicle to ferry all the stuff I've still got in storage up in Syracuse down here to FL. After I clear that storage area out, I'll have no more physical ties to NY (tho' of course I'll still have lots of people up there I'll want to visit).

Oh, and since I named the category for this post "travel" - my husband & I just got back from a trip to Ottawa. You B'lo folks aren't as close to Ottawa as people in Syracuse, but you're still not that far away - and if you've never been there, you should go! Ottawa's a pretty cool town. I know Ottawa is not exactly a happy place for Sabres fans right now, but maybe in the fall or something, when all the cup hoopla has cooled a bit, it could be a nice destination for a cross-border road trip. Keep it in mind, anyway.

Speaking of Ottawa, I have a picture to share with you from my trip, but I'll have to crop it first... gimme a min...

carolinian - 05/16/07 01:08
I want to go to the Nines as well.

And walk around Collegetown and eat a big, heaping plate of pad thai while walking around there.

And go to the much nicer sit-down thai place on the main road whose name I forget.

And go to Manos. If they still exist.

And leave a note for the Roy H. Park dean telling him/her that I've actually done okay for myself despite getting kicked out of there and leaving was probably one of the better things that's happened to me.

And see all the professors who talked me through lots of difficult stuff when I was there and tell them "thank you".

lizabeth - 05/16/07 00:44
Dude, Club Molesters has been closed for ages - I think it closed down shortly after I graduated, which is like, 7 years ago now. Well, first it changed names, then it closed.

The place I want to go is the Nines (assuming that's even still there). I haven't been there since that time we went.

Anyway, a wine tour may be in the plans... I'll keep you posted! :)

carolinian - 05/15/07 18:49
I've only mentioned half my depraved idea. The full version of it would be an (e:strip) wine tour, where a bunch of (e:peeps) would would chip in to charter a school bus (like (e:bugmuncher) did on the day of his wedding) and descend upon winery after winery in the Finger Lakes region consuming massive amounts of alcohol. And at some point, the trip would get temporarily diverted to Ithaca where I could nostalgically reminisce on college days that were never actually as good as I remember them and I could see whether the 30-year old me sucks any more or less at picking up girls at Club Semesters than the 20 year-old me. On the way back, we could drink even more on the bus and watch $1.99 kung fu movies on a portable DVD player.

Most of this is probably not feasible or desirable (which is why it's known as a "stupid idea"). But it would be kind of cool for us to all meet up back at Ithaca again.