Tuesday, February 5, 2008

What are these setlists?

What are all these setlists I'm posting?  These are either concerts that I have been to in the past and like to see what songs were played, or they are songs I played live on the air at KALX 90.7FM.  Think of it as a way of making a cool playlist if you're bored.

Foo Fighters @ Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA 2/02/08

Let It Die
Pretender
Times Like These
Breakout
Learn To Fly
Cheer Up, Boys
This Is A Call
Stacked Actors

Acoustic:
Skin & Bones
Marigold
My Hero
Cold Day In The Sun
But, Honestly

Everlong
Monkeywrench
All My Life

Encore:
Big Me
Long Road To Ruin
Best Of You

KALX 90.7FM Setlist #2 - 2/05/2008 3:30-6:00am

Beck - Inside Out (The Information Deluxe Edition)
Battle Royale - Notebooks (Wake Up, Thunderbabe)
Bloc Party - Flux (Instrumental)
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (45:33)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Turn It Again (Stadium Arcadium)
Cat Power - New York (Jukebox)
Muse - Knights of Cydonia (Black Holes And Revelations)
Yellowcard - Paper Walls (Paper Walls)
John Frusciante - Ascension (Curtains)
Crescent - Hey, September (Little Waves)
Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants (Transatlanticism)
Albarta Cross - The Devil's All You Ever Had (The Thief And The Heartbreaker)
Tyrone Ashley's Funky Music Machine - For Your Love (Let Me Be Your Man)
Public Enemy - Give It Up (The Best Of Public Enemy)
Talib Kweli - Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us) (Eardrum)
Ghostface Killah - Toney Sigel AKA The Barrel Brothers (The Big Doe Rehab)
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (1969)
Manu Chao - Rainin in Paradise (La Radiolina)
Manu Chao - Besoin De La Lune (La Radiolina)
Deep Purple - Highway Star (Machine Head)
Bruce Springsteen - Gypsy Biker (Magic)
R.E.M. - Orange Crush (Live)
Foo FIghters - Skin and Bones (Skin and Bones)
Daft Punk - One More Time (Alive)
Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You (Juno Soundtrack)
Helio Sequence - Hallelujah (Keep Your Eyes Ahead)
The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (Funeral)
The Kinks - A Well Respected Man (Juno Soundtrack)
The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament (Castaways and Cutouts)
Flight Of The Conchords - Business Time (The Distant Future)

KALX 90.7FM Setlist #1 - 1/27/2008 6:00-7:30am

The Mars Volta - Day Of The Baphomets (Amputechture)
The Shins - Sealegs (Wincing The Night Away)
Ghostface Killah - We Celebrate (The Big Doe Rehab)
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Who's Next?)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (Juno Soundtrack)
John Frusciante - 23 go into the end (Shadows Collide With People)
Bloc Party - Flux (Flux Single)
Blue Man Group - Rods And Cones (Audio)
The Decemberists - The Infanta (Picaresque)
David Bowie - Space Oddity (Space Oddity)
Beck - Satan Gave Me A Taco (Steropathetic Soul Manure)
The Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues) (Neon Bible)
Kimya Dawson - Tireswing (Juno Soundtrack)

Monday, January 14, 2008

Pie and Auditions

I'll try to do something not Youtube related in the future.

First video is made from a couple us from jericho! Improv and Birdstrike Theatre.  There really wasn't a premise for the sketch.  Mike Lane and I bought a pie because we were going to do a spin off of 2 Girls 1 Cup and call it 2 Guys 1 Pie but it was going to be really wholesome... but apparently John Mayer beat us to the bunch.  Therefore, we had to think of a new way to use the pie.  This is what we came up with:






The second video is my audition for the "My Grammy Moment" competition on Youtube.  Basically, you have to film your own rendition of the Foo Fighter's The Pretender.  Judges will select the top 40 performers and then viewers will vote for the top twenty-five.  The top twenty-five get to actually play with the Foo Fighters at the Grammy's and the highest rated performer gets a solo.  I don't know what my odds are of winning but it's only open to people who play orchestral instruments so I thought why not.  Anyway, here it is (if you have a youtube account then rate it and leave a comment to make me feel good):

UPDATE:  I ended up not winning the quarter finals.  Bummer.  Anyway, I took my audition video down, so consider yourself lucky if you saw it!

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The More You Know

Some of my favorite fake "The More You Know":











Theory 1: TV on DVD is the new cocaine

"If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North."
- Abraham Lincoln

So during the school year, I really don't have time to watch television except for Scrubs and random reruns of sitcoms.  I really like to watch these new shows coming out but I usually miss a few episodes and I don't like watching new ones without knowing the previous context so I just stop watching.

Anyway, over the past few months I have procured a massive amount of television on DVD.  I have all three seasons of Arrested Development, three seasons of the Office, and Heroes Season 1.  In addition, I got some episodes of Entourage backlogged and Extras On Demand.

It comes to my attention that TV on DVD is a harmful drug.  Probably more addictive than cocaine, although that is just a hypothesis that needs testing.  I've already plowed my way through the first two seasons of the Office.  At first it starts off as a casual thing, maybe one episode a day.  But things quickly turned for the worst.

Now I go on episode splurges, maybe four at a time.  Once I go through all three seasons I'm going to crash and probably go into withdrawals.  I mean, here I am living the luxury of overdosing on a finite amount of new episodes but as soon as Season 3 is done I'll have to watch them once a week like everyone else.

My plan?  Switch to a new television series to ease the pain.  Probably Arrested Development.  And thus I spin on this downward spiral of television induced destructiveness.  Hopefully, I'll finish it all before school starts and my grades are affected.

Hopefully.

Probably not.

"Dammit Michael!"