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temples of grey's Interests
General
a bunch of local indie music. -Supporting the fine arts of local music. And W H A T - A - P L A C E - T O - L I V E - to do JUST THAT!
As of 2/07, I've begun sharing some show photos at http://public.fotki.com/templesofgrey , so please check them out!
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My newest surprise is an occasional group from Chapel Hill & Durham called MALT SWAGGER. Here, below, is one of two videos I've posted from 6/7/08. They've set up shop at http://www.myspace.com/maltswagger , so clink over and take a listen to all the postings they've recently uploaded.
MALT SWAGGER:
Music
2007 UPDATE NOTE: agh, this is pathetically out of date! [wink] I'd take it down, but i'm a pack-rat. ..
4/06 -Okay, (ONLY as of 4/06 -->) here are a FEW of the newer ones: ......
Mason Brothers, Sweater Weather, Tain Collins, North Elementary, Push to Talk, ilya, Teenage Prayers, Dear Kerosene (<-- fkn io, and bka Dear Static), Riley Miller, CITIES, Ryan Lee Dunlap, The Alter, Tin Cup Prophette, (the new) Equinox, Honored Guests, Pleasant, AOK, Grant Harding, Roman Candle, SNMNMNM, Strunken White (yeh,i know: i'm a few years too late), En Garde, Criteria, Hugh Swaso, Bolo, Hotel Lights, Ben Davis, Montage, Track Botanicals, Count (K, Kellam), Pat McGee Band, Stephen Kellog, Barefoot Manner, Mute Math, DragonForce, ImogenHeap, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sigur Ros... ..
(3/06: Hahaha ---> this stuff is really OLD now! I'll update one day. ) NEWer ADDITIONS, circa 11/05: ...... Bain Mattox, Django Haskins, The Old Ceremony, Endless Mic, King Elementary, Thousands of One, Mood Cultivation Project, Divine MAGgees, Grant Withington, Classic Case, The Dears, O.A.R., fin fang foom, Campbell, Watching a Trainwreck in Slow Motion, DIRAC, TheFilms. ..
LONG-TIME FAVS: ........ Jump, The Never, Lost in the Trees, Anousheh Khalili, Woodwork Roadshow, Ari Picker, TrekkyRecords groups, Menage, Lumisnescent Orchestrii, Oranjesta, Raisinhill, The Keep, The Never's ANTARCTICA, Vibrant Green, Washington Lane, Noah Smith (but he's ephemeral as a solo act), Equinox, Arrogance, Big Pretty and the Red Rockets, Boxbomb, Partners in Crime, HeartbreakATLANTIS, 100Yorktown, Buckethead, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello. ....Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Cream, Derek&theDominos, Elton John, Johnny Rivers, Roy Orbison, early Billy Joel, Beatles, Queen, Alan Parsons Project, James Gang, Yes, Moody Blues, Mountain, ELO, E-I-E-I-O (kiddin. wondring if yur still readin). .....Ryan Cavanaugh, Big Fat Gap, Bluegrass Experience, Tony Williamson, Willie Nelson. .....Coldplay, Radiohead, JUMP, Nickel Creek, Oculus, U2, Weezer, Sarah Brightman, Sting, Norah Jones, Alicia Keyes, ....Dave Brubeck, Arturo Sandoval, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dexter Gordan, Stanley Turrentine, Jean-Luc Ponty, Earl Klugh, Billy Childs, Doc Severinsen, Ryan Cavanaugh again, Spyro Gyra, Santana, Pat Methany, Nightnoise, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Bill Evans (as in BillEvansTrio -the pianist. Although Bill Evans the saxaphonist has my number as well), Bond. ......Honorable mention goes to Artie who just finished doing time in the pen for killing a rabid racoon last year. ..... Jazz, R&B, classical, 60's/70's/80's. ... Bunches of others!..
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I love shows when you feel, hanging on to the dregs of the night, that you're among the closest friends who get to hang out with musicians who are comfortable enough to drop the show facade and be themselves. -Like getting to hang out during a rehearsal. This was the last Last LAST encore we could cajole out of John Dixon's TEN PENNY this night (3/10/08). -Worth the price of admission for this alone.
Below is an outstanding video from Annuals I'd seen a month or so ago. When they posted it 5/08 on their page, it reminded me to follow suit.
"Sore" ..
Movies
Some out-of-the-mainstream favorites ("movie LITE") are:
... ...Silverado (great cast!)
... ...Year of the Comet
... ... Last of the Dogmen
... ... Joe VS The Volcano (fab music score by Georges DeLerue). Also... ...Snow Falling on Cedars (espec. for images & music score!)
... ... Holes
... ... ... uh... (will add more when I think of them)
Television
...Oh, that big, black, electronic box in the corner of our comfy room. Well, sometimes The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Colbert Report, ...and traditional Sunday morning news shows (the unfunny ones) like This Week With George S., Face the Nation, etc.. ........FROM THE PAST: Twin Peaks, Key West, Northern Exposure (early years), Picket Fences, Salvage One, Max Headroom, Dangermouse.
Heroes
OOOkay... My heroes are the low-wage working class, who do, for the lowest pay and the worst conditions, jobs no one could pay me ENOUGH to do. -The service industry people who often are treated like second-class citizens. ("What? You want to be PAID to be out sick?! Why, you make less than $10/hr: you don't GET benefits.") Maybe it's the "Mon-Fri, air-conditioned, take-the-afternoon-off-cause-it's-so-nice, 4-day-weekend-for-a-holiday" office job that should get $10/hr. And the person who leaves a manual-labor job at 5pm, exhausted, hustling to get to their second job as a janitor til 10pm, when they get to go home to see their families: maybe that should bring in the $70-$120k a year. -Skilled trades people, who are the backbones of our infrastuctures both publicly and in our homes, who have bucked the elitist push that says you're a failure if you don't go to college & grad school, that you might be looked at as inferior. ("Shazamm, give her a soapbox; she's on a ROLL!")
About me: PHOTOS… PHOTOS… PHOTOS… PHOTOS… PHOTOS…! I’ve begun posting photos from shows at http://www.FOTKI.COM/TEMPLESOFGREY. Often now, I’m posting a lot of photos I’d normally have edited a bit -cropped, lightened, darkened, sharpened, etc.- and photos I’d have culled, selecting the best of that type photo. But since that takes so much time, I’m putting up a LOT from a show. I LIKE seeing tons of photos! And rather than set the viewing to private and have it just for myself or the band, I’m keeping access open. ..
VIDEOS... VIDEOS... VIDEOS... VIDEOS... VIDEOS...! I often video some of the music I see and hear with my oh-so amateur digital cameras. They're posted, some here on myspace, and others on YouTube at http://www.YouTube.com/betsybetsybetsy . Check my blog for a catalog of hundreds and hundreds I've shot and posted. Anyone who wants a bad video taken down (&, hey, there are lots to choose from!) can send me a few $50's, and I'll see if I can make them disappear. For the rest of you, I hope you enjoy them for what they are: really amateur, hand-held shots from some of the shows I get to. I hope you'll enjoy seeing musicians singing/playing, how they move, nuances, crowds and energy in the venue, etc. etc. They're all wonderful people with loads of talent!!! Look in my blog for the most recent alphabetized list of what’s posted...
IN GENERAL... -Getting back into local indie music. -Love to laugh ("ahHAHAHAHA!!!" See, I told you so!) Quick-witted. -Also like cultivating my dry, slightly-acerbic wit. Love the sarcastic humor of Dorothy Parker. But, hey, Jon Stewart: yeah, he's good! I love to be around creative people! Positive is good too! Love to brainstorm and problem solve. Good at marketing. I'd rather work positively for change than damn the system. I'm a nurturer. ...And a perfectionist (hey, I'm a Virgo: what can I say!) Oh: an ENTP or ENFP. ... Hummm... I'll think on this and add more later, okay?
Who I'd like to meet: ..Okay, so I'm not wanting to meet Jason Adamo in the shower. This section was just a good place to put text for an awesome video that he shot. He's at .. http://www.myspace.com/jasonadamo ...
Oh, here's the text with his vid:
"..Jason records his vocal part (on a whim) in producer Derek Olds shower stall while John Briggs records his Rhodes Piano part down the hall in the living room!.."
