Sheryl Crow annoyed us before she annoyed you! - The Columbia, MO All-Stars

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BYE ASSHOLES

Town meeting regarding two new ideas proposed by mayor...

A) Trees on Broadway:
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NOW

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PROPOSED

B) Roundabout at 4th and Broadway - WTF?!?!?!?!
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BTW, this is where i work:
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Hey iiijjj, you coming to Columbia this week?

no I think it actually turns out I'm going with my wife down to her dad's place that day to do the BBQ and fireworks thing on his 40 acres down in the Ouachitas, but she was telling me about a Sonic Youth show at an Urban Outfitters in Lawrence she wanted to go to this summer, so we'll probably go to that and then Columbia the day before or after. I'll bump this thread and let you know before I do!

kkkkkkkkkkkk

I'm booking shows for a mini-tour a friend of mine is taking to celebrate his 21st. Where in town would you suggest I try to book for a young man with an acoustic guitar who enjoys very mild but not insignificant local fame in the St. Louis area?

In Columbia, I mean.

Hmm...Depends on his style of music (is it straightforward folky singer-songwriter stuff or more experimental?)

Best hipster options:
Mojo's
Eastside Tavern

Nice quirky venues:
No Coast
Ragtag Cinema
Cafe Berlin

If you want a really odd venue (e.g. record store, basement), let me know...I have friends at most of the linked places, so if you're having trouble, let me know.

There's also The Blue Fugue, but they're shitty at marketing, so I won't link.

He's very Tweedy-like, I guess, and big on entertaining as well as just playing the music (for example, he managed to plan and successfully execute a full-on Friars'-style roast of a friend of ours).

He's always happy just to play at open mic nights and stuff, but I'm trying to push him slightly more hipster-y, especially since he's starting to play with Fruity Loops and producing some pretty interesting stuff.

Most importantly, though, I think we're looking for a place we can book on relatively short notice, since the tour will start on July 26th or so. The No Coast looks promising.

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NEED COUNTING CROWS TICKETS

BACK TO HELL
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From the Tribune:
Stud3nts signed their names and g4ve advice on a w3lcome poster for incoming s0phomores last Thursday at R0ck Bridge H1gh School 0rientation.

I WALKED INTO HELL LAST WEEK. EVERYONE WAS SMILING.

advice: grow a goatee is pretty fantastic.

Especially for girls!

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Man I wish I'd been there that night.

Damnit, we could have had the State Fair had it not been for that!

Y'know who lives in Columbia? Frank $tack aka F00lbert Sturgeon, illustrator of 4dventures of Jesus/0ur Cancer Year fame

His son was on the Maneater comics page at the same time I was.

OMG. The bassist for Cursive lives here. OMG.

I still haven't visited Columbia despite living in STL for four years. I should check it out someday.

Tape Store, have you gone to Booche's yet for burgers and if not why not

I saw some good saddle creek shows @ the farm /emo Does that place still exist?

(speaking of mo. shows, mountain goats are playing @ slu on 11/10 I think.)

I've lived in Columbia for ten years but I've missed this thread.
The Ranch does not have shows at all anymore. Tape Store, we should get some Booches burgers together.

and a Stag! (but maybe not for Tape Store)

Did they ever rebuild the Heidelburg?

Yes, the Heidelberg is bigger and has an upstairs (and a patio, too, I think, but I never eat there) but it looks basically the same and they are putting a patio/deck thing above a place called Quinton's that is on ninth st right across from the presb. church at Ninth and Locust.

Mountain Goats are playing at Mojo's, too.

Mojo's, which used to be called DEEP BLUES.

I saw polvo and thinking fellers at mojo's back in the day

moi aussi. i think that was the only good show i saw there.

Shows are few and far between now, it seems. These MU Tigers just aren't interested in rocking out. Lawrence KS does much better in that department.

may have been the only show I saw there, can't think of any others

what was that place below street level where brainiac played for kcou birthday party

I have a tape of that show somewhere

wonder if salt of the earth is still open ....

xpost - really? bummer.

yep--i thought of that after i posted it, only show i ever saw there back in the day.

i went back a few years ago and saw bald eagl3 and w@rhammer play there though.

what was that place below street level where brainiac played for kcou birthday party

The Basement? lol. I think I saw Tsun@mi play there.

Salt of the Earth is closed, right? There's only Whizz and Slackers left?

Salt is CLOSED but Eddie can be seen around.
The below the street place you are thinking of was The Down Under Bar, affectionately nicknamed The Brown Underwear by a few of its regulars.
That location is now home to the Sapphire Lounge martini bar.

yeah I kinda thought it closed

I went to whizz once after it moved but that was yeaaaaars ago

haven't been to columbia in a long time

ahaha yeah down under, that was it

Oh and Whizz is a pale shadow of its former self. The guy who built it sold it and moved years ago. The next owner did a fairly good job of going absolutely nowhere with it. He sold it to some guys this year that have renamed it "Happy Times Media" and have absolutely no business owning a record store. Slackers has got some new guys (fellow KOPN DJ's) ordering vinyl and they are doing a good job. JT's in Jefferson City is my mid-MO record store of choice. Great bargains!

Whizz =============> Happy Times Media

o_0

happy times, wtf

sounds like a pizza shop w/ animatronic bears

The guy who built it sold it and moved years ago.

I think he opened a new whizz in NC. he had a booth at the WFMU record fair a couple years ago, I bought some stuff off him

That was him, I'm sure.

He's in Asheville. I don't know if there's still a store, but he's got plenty of stuff up on eBay.

I hope doing radio is like riding a bike cuz I'm taping a show for WFMU tonight, first radio I have done since kcou (like 10 years, yikes)

It may take a little warming up. The Mix you put on the Noise board in the summer is great, though.

^^^^awesome dmr! xpost

also the ex-whizz guy is really into sock monkeys now

thanx dudes

yeah I figured I might be a little rusty so I took the option to tape in advance rather than do it live

I'm sure there's no unlimited do-overs but if I fuck up massive they'll take it out ( I hope)

lol @ sock monkeys, I bet his wife makes those? they were selling homemade t-shirts and shoulder bags / purses at the record fair

Is this Liz Phair really worth $50? Get out of here.

From what I remember, the guys at Whizz had a thing for Ms. Phair.
Maybe that price reflects their...feelings for her.

Yeah, it wasn't too surprising to see Pavement, Phair, and Mercyland on the first page.

But look at me: I was looking for that double-vinyl Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone/March 16-20 that I picked up and put back in the rack 13 years ago. I can't talk.

so much construction and b.s. downtown u_u. driving to campus in the morning is like playing frogger w/ your car.

btw are you guys talking about a record store? there are no good indie record stores here.

woah i have that liz phair.

(i also have that Uncle Tupelo, LOL CoMo record nerd)

lol some UK emo dood paid good money on ebay when I sold a couple pr0zac mem0ry 7"s

btw are you guys talking about a record store?

whizz recs used to be good when it was farther up on 9th

Whizz used to be a good record store in town. It was at 23 N Tenth st downtown, the current home of Ragtag Cinemacafe (which is itself preparing a move to the old Kelly Press building on Hitt St.) Apop Records was a great indie shop that was on Locust St but they moved to St Louis. It was all indie/psych/noise. They had some great instore performances. There was once a plan for Apop to move to Ragtag's 23 n tenth st address once they moved, but now that they are in St Louis, I can't really imagine that happening. But they say that they are still planning on opening a shop there.

hahaha i still have my pr0zac 7 inches

basically all we have now is slackers (evil chain masquerading as an indie, tried to buy no age like a month back and they told me they didn't ahve but could order it, which is funny because i also own a comptuer), streetside (nice dudes, awesome rap/mixtape section but way too $$$), this place across from the blue note called kevin's world that has cheap vinyl but for CDs it's still way too expensive. i usually resort to copping cds at best buy cause they sell everything for $9.99.

unless of course i don't know of something awesome. maybe tape store can help me out.

no, you're right, that's all there is. If you have a record player(and a car), you should check out JT's in Jeff City. Super cheap used vinyl. You have to dig, though.
I get a discount on the new vinyl at Slackers. $$$ It pays to have friends.
But you are better off getting something like No Age on you're own, its true. Kevin of Kevin's World used to manage Streetside.

I used to give demonstrations of the iMachine or whatever it was called at Streetside Records. You'd scan the UPC over the laser and you could listen to :30 samples of the songs! And see album art!

I also still have my prozac 7"s

There's a Walgreens now at Broadway and Providence, where Streetside used to be. Streetside is next to Southside Liquors, across from the Chamber of Commerce (kinda) by the Taco Bell at Providence and Green Meadowns.
Just thought you should know in case you do ever come back for a visit and find yourself disoriented.

Hell, I was disoriented when I lived there. What else would be new?

Does Columbia still brag about the fact that the only escalator in town is at Dillard's in the mall?

Does Stadium still dead-end at Highway 63?

the Taco Bell at Providence
^^^^^^^^^^

stadium connects to highway 63 now.

tape store, u work at maude?

Yes, there are TWO Taco Bell's on Providence.
The removal of the awnings, as mentioned upthread, is the biggest visual change, I'd say. You can't smoke indoors anymore. That really pissed of the crowd at Booches. There's a few more giant parking structures on campus than there used to be. Some new dorms, too, and a walkway over College Ave just south of Rollins that didn't used to be there. And the Mizzou (what was once briefly the Paige Sports) Arena (still never been there) and some other new BS on campus (new business school, a Monsanto built Agri-school or some shit, oh and TIGER SPOT (I don't care what that article says, the thing is a huge source of embarrasment. I see the thing everyday since I work at the library, it's kept covered with a tarp, ferchrissakes)

the new tarp looks half-decent i think. they should just get rid of the damn thing and replace it w/ bricks.

that tiger spot ruined my favorite place on campus

Oh yeah, there's no place on campus that sells cigarettes, either. The non-MU affiliated bookstore closed a year or two after I got here. MU changed from Coke to Pepsi, too, but Coke got to keep their vending machines on campus. All the Campus Dining Services establishments proudly serve Pepsi now.

I miss that waffle maker inside Eva J's like I miss some of my childhood pets.

I should have gone to Ron's Country Boy more often

Anyone going to see the Mountain Goats tonight?

WHOOOAOAAA. Lots of posts that I missed. And no, I didn't go. I missed three amazing concerts this week. :(

Tape Store, we should get some Booches burgers together.

-- Trip Maker, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:15 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah! Are you going to be here next week?

I get a discount on the new vinyl at Slackers. $$$ It pays to have friends.

See Kevin's World. And yeah, there's not much else.

tape store, u work at maude?

I forget. Did I answer this on another thread. Either way, no. I work at the True/False office, but I haven't really done much in the past couple months because of school. I'll be there more often starting next week, though.

My latest discovery: B&B Bagels. $2.50 Naked! WHOA.

The Mountain Goats concert was really excellent. I had a great time. Attempted to introduce myself to J0hn, failed miserably. There's no way to actually squash the fanboy feelings.

This #1 ranking in College football thing is pretty unbelievable to me.

;_;

RIP CAT JAMS

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is channing moving or something?

Yeah, San Fran.

Also, most of T/F films listed on the website...has a good chance of being the best lineup yet

c'mon, tourists! come to columbia!

fact: Mr. Que will be working t/f. Look out Colombia, MO!

I MISS LASER TAG. NEW RAGTAG OPENING TONIGHT. I'LL POST PICTURES

T/F TO SEE LIST:
The Mother
Secret Screening Blue
Closing night film (= one of the greatest docs of the past couple years, according to a friend)
The Mosquito Problem
Joy Division (watched twenty minutes; it's great)
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Sons of a Gun
American Teen (i got to write the blurb!)

I'm watching a couple tonight. I'll report back.

que where are you working

my friend's gotta write about a bunch of films for a class and i will be accompanying him to some. will also report back.

so excited. can't wait to see pictures of the new place. i'm working the b.o.

Damn, I miss Columbia. Nowadays I can only afford to leave town (Ithaca, NY for now) about twice a year, and then I usually have to stay in St. Louis for the majority of the time to see the parents.

I worked at Slackers for a few years. Even with the addition of the KOPN crew (Jacob et al), the problem with ordering cool stuff was always that you had to OK it with the manager, who when I worked there would always hate on virtually everything that he didn't like himself, or that didn't have a British singer in his early 30s singing. Neu, Nico, Can, whatever - it was all relentlessly made fun of. Now that guy's gone, so I'm sure the workers have a little more freedom to suggest cool stuff. Still, the problem with a store like that is that they'll get the best used vinyl and cds, because anyone who had it would take it to another, better store.

that they'll never get the best used blablabla, I meant.

que if you hear anyone screaming MR. QUE MR. QUE MR. QUE at any point it's probably going to be me

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hey, they finally announced it. MAN ON WIRE = closing night film

AMERICAN TEEN/STRANDED doubling up as openers

Damnit! I stupidly took photos with my new camera (the usb cord is at school, so i can't upload them)

BUT it looks amazing, totally different from how i expected. Big opening space with a bar, looks kinda like a cross between a coffeehouse and museum lobby.

I talked to Beth, Mr. Que. I think we figured out yr identity (she's excited that you're coming; you make her laugh or smile or something?)

Films i took home: Lucio, Sons of a Gun, Very Young Girls

I talked to Beth, Mr. Que. I think we figured out yr identity (she's excited that you're coming; you make her laugh or smile or something?)

I'm not there, I have no idea who is involved, and so on, but

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I talked to Beth, Mr. Que. I think we figured out yr identity (she's excited that you're coming; you make her laugh or smile or something?)

OH SHIT. COVER IS BLOWN. ABORT MID-MO MISSION

it's alright. i'll keep it secret. just don't reply to the 'mr. que' calls, and you'll be cool.

seriously, don't fall for that shit

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SHOULD I TRY TO FILM THE MALLLLLLLL?

G0 PAUL!!!

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i kinda like this song!!!!!!!!!

favorite local band

sat, right? or was it tomorrow? it was sat, right?

saturday

fantastic! I can see wall-e tomorrow. :)

Man, didn't see this thread til now. Haven't been in Columbia for a looooong time (got my J degree in '82!), but I definitely remember Whizz (back in its true glory days I'm guessing), Shakespeare's, the Blue Note. So does KCOU still exist? What about the maneater (first place I wrote record reviews)? Or was that long before everybody here's time?

Whoa! You went to Mizzou?! All those things still exist. KCOU ran (/still runs?) on the tapes of this cool/nice guy named jason cafer, who graduated forever ago and likes/d indie rock and other hipster favorites. Maneater is also around; J0rdan writes for it, actually! Did you ever work at the Missourian? It's going through some financial struggles. The centennial celeb. is this fall.

Yeah, wrote for the Missourian for two years too; even won a feature-writing award there at one point. Putting together a best-of book now with at least one Missourian piece (possibly the first hip-hop piece ever published in the paper, about a local rapper named DJ Romancer, with the amazingly Onion-like headline Rhymed Funk Hits Area), and also with a maneater piece I wrote about literally being pulled off the air in 1981 for playing music by Grandmaster Flash and Prince (which were considered "too disco" at the time.) I need to get some recent issues and check them out...Also need to head back there sometime. It's been forever.

Biggest (or at least most ubiquitous) local bands when I was there, btw, were probably Fool's Face, the Banastre Tarelton Band (no idea if I got that spelling right), and maybe Morrels (think that was pre-Skeletons era; could never keep that chronology right.) Shakin' Street were maybe, uh, Kansas City? Head East did a song called "Jefftown Creek" in the late '70s (as in Jefferson City); it rocked.

I just got a comp from the Banastre Tarelton Band in my mailbox and was kinda stunned with the professional packaging. Most insane bio ever (goes on and on about being played as backing music for some NBC affiliate in Pick-a-name, Texas. Had no idea they were actually big here. Was East Ash around? See: http://cdbaby.com/cd/40ibfcmusa

I work in Jefferson City one day a week. Not really relevant to convo, i realize.

Ha, MySpace still lists Banastre Tarleton as being from Columbia, too:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=191917617

Fuck, awesome "influences" list, too! I need the publicity contact for that compilation, I guess!

The Kinks, Black Sabbath, Atomic Rooster, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Mott The Hoople, Ian Hunter, Rolling Stones, Blue Oyster Cult, KISS, Procol Harum, REM, The Romantics, Pete Droge, Bang, Dave Clark 5, Crack The Sky, Deep Purple, The Babys, Uriah Heep, Beatles, Steppenwolf, Yardbirds, Animals, Johnny Cash, etc.

(Just got the contact from their website, actually, and emailed them. I need to hear that thing now. Don't even think I liked them much back then; weird!)

Don't think I ever heard of East Ash, though. And most (if not all) of the bands on that CDbaby anthology were way after my time there...

Actually (also by the way), I've long been under the impression that Sheryl Crow and I graduated the same year (1982), but I have no idea at this point where I might have got that impression. Maybe it's true (assuming she graduated) or maybe I just dreamed it. (Oh...Wikipedia says she got a "BA degree in Music Composition, Performance and Education," but also says she was born in '62, which would likely put her a couple years behind me unless she skipped grades. Likely we were both there at the same time, though. Not sure if I ever saw her band Cashmere or not; they sound kinda familiar, but who the hell knows.)

Yeah, just started listening to the comp...It's called Huzzah! and has the longest bio i've ever seen for a local band.

Mine stops after track 10 ;_;

60+ pages, probably 50 have writing

"On February 21 BTB opened up for Bachman-Turner Overdrive in Quincy, Illinois at the Casino. In June they did a series of "dance cruises" at the Lake of the Ozarks on the Tom Sawyer party boat and literally took over Missouri's vacation paradise. The word spread after that and there were long lines waiting to get into to see the color ful quintet at clubs like Kitty Hawk, Goodtime Charlie's, Foxy's and the Lake Club Cafe. As their popularity skyrocketed, so did egos and there were numerous clashes over the kind of petty stuff that can destroy a band's chemistry."

whoaaa, they had the support of Joey Welz

Best Local Album Ever

Y107 should stop playing bad rock music.

TOWN MEETING

oh shit. suitemate just posted a long note about being a proud warrior for Christ's kingdom

9 days omg what do i do?

Are you living in Paquin Towers or something?

lol

also, i'm moving in tomorrow (today, technically). omg x 10000

also, upcoming concerts: 1) NIN at Mizzou Arena, 2) Common at Jesse

Again, I don't care, but I'm excited about the possibility of interviewing Reznor AND Malkmus.

I want The Juan Maclean. I want Kelley Polar. I want Lil Mama. I want Jazmine Sullivan. I want Justin Timberlake. I want Ryan Leslie. I want TV On the Radio. I want Clipse. I want the Cure. I want Alphabeat. I want Echo and the Bunnymen. I want the Human League. I want Mission of Burma. I want Sonic Youth. I want Joanna Newsom. I want My Bloody Valentine. I want Dolly Parton. I want Los Campesinos! I want Mahjongg! I want Erykah Badu! I want the Avalanches! I want Portishead! I want Spiritualized!

i bet you dolly parton has been there

cut copy are playing kc and vampire weekend are playing stl, neither in columbia

i'm seeing both anyway, but it just shows you what kinda zeitgeisty booking the blue note is doing nowadays

the student govt group that books acts for mizzou is so fucking awful

absolutely no imagination!

here are the rap acts that have been brought to jesse since i've been there: the roots, common

meanwhile univ of florida has lil wayne, cornell has t-pain, duke has t.i. etc etc

i was told that they tried to get lupe (roots, common and lupe-- the dream of every white college student who likes "everything") but that he was too much money, but still, i wanna see fucking lil boosie or something

Hey, old people should come in here and reminisce about the days of a reunited Big Star.

I remember the days in CoMo when old people would reminisce about the days of a reunited Big Star...

what a great concert! alex chilton picked me up over his head and i cried and then they played ballad of el goodo.

I had a terrible experience at Eastside Tavern last night.

???

i kinda hate that place, btw.

Oh you aren't the only one.
It's not much of a story. Something I thought was going to be good turned out to be completely half-assed and this 19 year old girl who was with no less than four dudes wearing identical polo shirts asked me what night was a good night at Eastside. She was unsatisfied with the bar scene in this town, she wondered where was a better place to go. I just shook my head and said that I don't go out much, which is the sad truth.
Just really underscored the lack of a decent bar/club in this town, with the added "omg I'm old" vibe. No way that girl was 21, niether were her "Chad" compatriots. I guess that's why they didn't stick around for a drink. Or it could have been the conceptual poetry jam happening on stage. I guess it is a little bit of a story.

Hey, old people should come in here and reminisce about the days of a reunited Big Star.

-- Tape Store, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:43 AM (Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:43 AM) Bookmark Link

I bought a veggie sandwich for Jody Stephens from the Subway inside Pershing. You really don't want to hear about the rest.

...please do tell.

I haven't been in Eastside in years. A friend of mine who worked in Eastside for a while recently told me that Barry will throw up if he smells vinegar. Just throwing that out there.

Wow. Thanks for the info.

:D?

I don't think I've been to Columbia in 10 years

last time I was in St. Louis a friend who still lives in CoMo was complaining that KCOU sucks now and is constantly playing canned tapes of old shows :<

I want Mahjongg!

you know a bunch of those guys went to Mizzou right

probably not too tough to get Mahjonng to play

Yeah, that's true. I offered them some new mixes, so they could at least be playing canned tapes of new music. KOPN has become a lot more vital.
Downtown is weird. A lot of empty storefronts, a lot of shitty college bars, and then there's Ragtag, the cultural center of town. They've got a great bar now and the local bakery is in the same building. Ninth St Video is in there, too. It's all in the old Kelly Press building on Hitt St, next to the church where the Chez was (the church is under construction and has been for the better part of a year). Ragtag is like a beacon in this town. You can't go there every night, though. I was considering getting a job there on weekends, just for the perks
(discounts on bakery food and at the bar, free rentals from ninth st). But the idea of spending my weekends selling tickets and cleaning the bathrooms and the theatres turns me off.
xpost they were here in like april or may, I think.

Oh and the lack of there being an even halfway decent venue means that there are practically no shows.

KCOU ran (/still runs?) on the tapes of this cool/nice guy named jason cafer, who graduated forever ago

just saw this up above, how did that happen, that they just started playing tapes? were people just not interested in DJing on there? we used to get like 80 applications a semester.

they have lots of sports talk shows now

that's cool about Ragtag, at the tail end of when I was around they were starting a film series but just rotated from venue to venue

the rest of all this is a fuckin bummer tho!

xpost - oh yeah my friend mentioned that too. she's not into sports that much

at least one Missourian piece (possibly the first hip-hop piece ever published in the paper, about a local rapper named DJ Romancer, with the amazingly Onion-like headline Rhymed Funk Hits Area)

that is hilarious

i would just like to say that i fully comprehend the excellence of this thread title. thx.

idk about the relative merits of the sports shows, though i did let my ex-roommate "interview" me for his show, i just know ppl have been bitching about it

new ragtag is cool, though i've only been there once

i don't ever go out to bars here, though i think it's a mixture of the bars there sucking/me not enjoying going to bars really

i thought it was generally accepted that nightlife in columbia was awful, but ppl seem to really like the awful dance clubs!

the missourian is the absolute worst worst worst worst worst worst esp vox ugh

back to radio, radio in columbia in general just sucks. both pop stations are remarkably unimaginable and stagnant even when adhering to the top 20 of the top 40 + bad rock songs

also this is one of my favorite posts:

TOWN MEETING

-- Tape Store, Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:41 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

followed by nothing for 2 weeks.

Student interest in college radio has dropped off, at least around here. They are building a new Brady Commons and there is going to be an all new KCOU studio in there. Jason Cafer and I had back to back shows for years. I'm not sure if his benevolence was a positive or negative for KCOU. Once he brought his stacks of cd's into the station, dj's stopped showing up for their shifts.

Man, anytime I get nostalgic about Columbia, I just come and read this thread.

Anyone back this week?

Saw this via facebook.
http://savekcou.org/
It is potentially on the chopping block again.
If I wasn't already stressed out and worried about other things I'd probably try to get more involved. I've already got the KOPN pledge drive to worry about this week. I can only save one station at a time.

Hoo boy. That is sad. I really loved that place, but it's probably nothing like it was when I was doing my 2-6 am shifts.

When I was there, the celebrated birthday was Halloween, 1973. Somewhere along the lines, it gained ten years.

Well, they are really putting up a fight. All over campus today, it's all people are talking about. When no one cares anymore, that's when MSA will take our funding away. Back in your day, KCOU was owned by the Residence Hall Association. Now that they are owned by the Missouri Students Association, the budget is bigger, but there are more opportunities for whoever the MSA president is to decide that students aren't getting their money's worth by keeping KCOU open. It makes me happy to see that so many people are stepping up for kcou right now

Sheryl Crow Launches Clothing Line at Dillards.

On a related note, the only escalator in Columbia, Mo., circa. 1993, could be found at the Dillards at the Columbia Mall.

obama!!!

Guys, Ryan Phillippe and I made eye contact at Generic last week. SO HOTTTTTTTT

BTW, http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/11/06/not-girl/

and <3 barry forever!

My sister lived on campus near the two smokestacks and it always looked nicely eerie walking back from Mojo's.
^^^ right outside my window, those smokestacks...staring at them now.

Oh, and for bookkeeping purposes, i wanted to note that Columbia held the Citizen Jane Film Fest a few weeks ago. It was a Stephens-thrown festival celebrating female directors. I really enjoyed it! Saw Frozen River, Trouble the Water, Order of Myths...The co-star of the FR was here and the directors of the last two came as well...Order of Myths was followed by a really nice and surprisingly enlightening discussion about race...Who would have guessed?! I also attended a panel about female filmmaking; this one woman came up to me at another screening and asked me what it was like to be the only man, if i was intimidated...I then pointed out that I couldn't think of three female filmmakers who had directed five fantastic films; she couldn't either. LOLLLLLLLLLLL

In other news:

Missouri River + Thai Food + Sunset

WAKE UP COLUMBIA

DORMS I HAVE SLEPT IN:

Mark Twain
Graham
Gardner-Hyde (RIP)
Jones
Eva J

^^^^

I have slept in:

Schurz (7th floor)
Hatch (5th)
Mark Twain (during dork camp in the summer before my Junior year of HS)

70333333333333333 Mark Twain!

I'm not in there very much.

i have slept in cramer only (2nd year)

i didnt have any friends in the dorms

Guys, Ryan Phillippe and I made eye contact at Generic last week. SO HOTTTTTTTT

― Tape Store, Monday, November 10, 2008 1:46 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

you were at generic?? i was supposed to be there signing ppl up and doing shit for the campaign but i didn't want to go do that whole thing. we made everyone who wanted to take a picture give us a name & number so we could call them and hound them about volunteering and we got like 23479 fake names/numbers >:[

xpost, lol, yeah, the crowd was obv. very right-leaning (not much applause when either of them mentioned Obama).

I want The Juan Maclean. I want Kelley Polar. I want Lil Mama. I want Jazmine Sullivan. I want Justin Timberlake. I want Ryan Leslie. I want TV On the Radio. I want Clipse. I want the Cure. I want Alphabeat. I want Echo and the Bunnymen. I want the Human League. I want Mission of Burma. I want Sonic Youth. I want Joanna Newsom. I want My Bloody Valentine. I want Dolly Parton. I want Los Campesinos! I want Mahjongg! I want Erykah Badu! I want the Avalanches! I want Portishead! I want Spiritualized!

― Tape Store, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:22 AM (3 months ago) Bookmarkd

I want The Juan Maclean. I want Kelley Polar. I want Lil Mama. I want Jazmine Sullivan. I want Justin Timberlake. I want Ryan Leslie. I want TV On the Radio. I want Clipse. I want the Cure. I want Alphabeat. I want Echo and the Bunnymen. I want the Human League. I want Mission of Burma. I want Sonic Youth. I want Joanna Newsom. I want My Bloody Valentine. I want Dolly Parton. I want Los Campesinos! I want Mahjongg! I want Erykah Badu! I want the Avalanches! I want Portishead! I want Spiritualized!

― Tape Store, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:22 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark
I want The Juan Maclean. I want Kelley Polar. I want Lil Mama. I want Jazmine Sullivan. I want Justin Timberlake. I want Ryan Leslie. I want TV On the Radio. I want Clipse. I want the Cure. I want Alphabeat. I want Echo and the Bunnymen. I want the Human League. I want Mission of Burma. I want Sonic Youth. I want Joanna Newsom. I want My Bloody Valentine. I want Dolly Parton. I want Los Campesinos! I want Mahjongg! I want Erykah Badu! I want the Avalanches! I want Portishead! I want Spiritualized!

― Tape Store, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:22 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark
I want The Juan Maclean. I want Kelley Polar. I want Lil Mama. I want Jazmine Sullivan. I want Justin Timberlake. I want Ryan Leslie. I want TV On the Radio. I want Clipse. I want the Cure. I want Alphabeat. I want Echo and the Bunnymen. I want the Human League. I want Mission of Burma. I want Sonic Youth. I want Joanna Newsom. I want My Bloody Valentine. I want Dolly Parton. I want Los Campesinos! I want Mahjongg! I want Erykah Badu! I want the Avalanches! I want Portishead! I want Spiritualized!

― Tape Store, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:22 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

I was considering getting a job there on weekends, just for the perks
(discounts on bakery food and at the bar,

^^^lollllllllll

what's it like to pay (almost) full price for a blt now, suckers? huh? huh?

Dug the Pit-Er-Pat show!

Dorms I have slept in:
Hudson
Gillett
Lathrop (girls only dorm, oh yeah!)
Oh, and I've slept in Pershing Commons a number of times, on "the couch" at KCOU. I know, bad idea.
"what's it like to pay (almost) full price for a blt now, suckers? huh? huh?"
What are you on about here, Tape Store? The Pit Er Pat show was fun, if very low energy. Considering it was the night after the election, that made sense. I was running back and forth between Ragtag and KOPN that night because my friend was subbing my shift and he'd never been on the air before. I didn't even get to see Jerusalem since I was wiped out by midnight. Tonight's show will be good, I think. kopn.org from ten to midnight central, you guys.

Oh, and I've slept in Pershing Commons a number of times, on "the couch" at KCOU. I know, bad idea.

Yeah, I think we share the same DNA now.

Upr1se changed the discount rule for Ragt4g/9th Str33t people; only like a $1 0ff salads and $2 0ff sandwiches

That's gonna be a bad welcome home for the Heater/Jerusalem camp.

friend of mine who made this in comm. class in 1996 dug it out and put it on youtube yesterday
I believe I am sitting on "the couch" in my interview

Dave, I'm just about convinced that our paths have crossed at least once.

And yeah, that's the couch all right.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8470/cinderblockvd4.jpg

yeah I'm sure they have, I think you were a couple years ahead of me. I was doing my training at the time of cinder-block-gate.

cinderblockgate?

lol, so two girls sitting on grass, is the one on the right named 'jen'?

When RHA shut down KCOU in '93, a DJ (who had just joined the staff) balanced a cinderblock on top of the door leading out of the hallway. When the RHA prez opened it on his way out, cinderblock fell off the door and came crashing onto the floor in front of him.

A pail of water might have been a safer way of conveying the message. But fuck the RHA.

no, the one on the left

cinder block thing, PP can probably tell it better but there was this strange "takeover" where outside people were brought in to make the station more "professional" and corporate ..... a bunch of the old regime quit in protest and someone rigged up a cinder block above a door that fell when one of the new people opened the door. to some people that incident was "joeks bruv" and to others it was "possible attempted murder"

haha xpost

RHA shut down KCOU for some financial bs.
Cinderblock happened. Entire staff fired.
KCOU stays dark for awhile.
RHA gets a new wild and crazy PD to overhaul KCOU.
KCOU becomes "The Zone" and starts playing "Born to be Wild"
Somewhere along the line, "The Zone" is deemed a failure.
KCOU returns to old format.

^^ Most of this happens within the span of like six months.

yeah I spent most of freshman year in limbo, I had already trained to DJ but I had to wait until "The Zone" crapped out

Korry Keeker is such a bro.

oldtalk

so that's not j3n r33ves?

nope

d4mn

I want The Juan Maclean. I want Kelley Polar. I want Lil Mama. I want Jazmine Sullivan. I want Justin Timberlake. I want Ryan Leslie. I want TV On the Radio. I want Clipse. I want the Cure. I want Alphabeat. I want Echo and the Bunnymen. I want the Human League. I want Mission of Burma. I want Sonic Youth. I want Joanna Newsom. I want My Bloody Valentine. I want Dolly Parton. I want Los Campesinos! I want Mahjongg! I want Erykah Badu! I want the Avalanches! I want Portishead! I want Spiritualized!

― Tape Store, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:22 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

you've got nine inch nails (over thxgiving break)! plain white ts! tapes n tapes! matisyahu! shwayze!

tv on the radio were cool when they were here but i missed most of their set cuz i was watching tokyo police club open for cold war kids though i'm pretty sure i just stared at the face of the tpc singer the whole time

Boris is opening for NIN. I hate shows lately.

lol, from my quarter-assed tribune capsule: Though the Ch1cago band is best known for its 1nescapable ballad “Hey There D3lilah,” its typical sound is quite a bit m0re energetic, with shimm3ry pop guitars that recall the d4ys of All-American Rejects.

shit that video is like. . . time travel.

who's the guy that first pops up at 16 seconds? i remember the face but not the name.

i have slept on that couch as well. i wonder what ever happened to Cinder Block?

who's the guy that first pops up at 16 seconds?

M4tt L33

he did an experimental/ambient/krautrock type show and had a pretty sick record collection iirc

I remember Matt, too. He's a swell guy.
Some of the execs during my tenure formed something called the "cinderblock society" that was meant to be a promo team or something. Mostly we just got drunk and made up stupid code names for each other. I can't even remember mine.

Korry Keeker is such a bro.

Him and Jeff Breeze are what ties us all together.

I hastily arranged a show for Jerusalem/Heater two nights ago. Unfortunately,

1) There wasn't much time to find a venue and advertise, maybe 2 days.
2) People in Ithaca are really fucking lame
3) I have very few friends here, so there was no posse to gather up
4) It was a snowy Monday night and most people in town are in the middle of late November college hell.

2 people showed up (thank you, stranger named Richard, seriously). I felt horrible for Jerusalem and Heater. Epic failure on my part.

KCOU Couch, circa. May 1993

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4701/kcou93fs1.jpg

That fridge with the id poster wasn't removed until at least 2000 and I think you left whatever was found inside there in may of 93.
Zach, I'm sure they were just happy to have a place to play and stay. It's great that you could get them that much.
Playing Furry Things on KOPN right now. Gang of Four next?

It wasn't the Zone -- it was THE EDGE!

Here are some more details about the bizarre shutdown of University of
Missouri campus station KCOU, from the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, 10-6-93:
Two weeks ago, a booby trap at MU student radio station clattered to the
floor, startling Residence Halls Association president Dave Cohen, who had
shut the station down pending a financial investigation.
Cohen was not hurt by the cinder block that fell from a perch above
the door, but last night the brick boomeranged when the student congress,
owners of the station, fired KCOU's entire staff.
The congress officially cited financial mismanagement, but distraught
station workers said today the booby trap was the underlying reason for the
mass firing.
"The cinder block caused it all to happen," said program director Jeff
Boock. "We would have been on the air right away if it wasn't for that."
A student worker for the station confessed last week to setting the
trap and was fired by KCOU. He says since denied involvement to university
police, who are still investigating the incident. . . .
The decision took KCOU staffers by surprise, Boock said.
"I was appalled, amazed," he said. "I couldn't believe they had such
gall. It was ridiculous."
The radio station and its owner have had "bad blood" for a long time,
said Mike Mulvihill, a KCOU disc jockey and former general manager.
"It's like dealing with a big, uncaring boss who just didn't" understand
how to run a radio station, he said. [Editorial comment: Welcome to
the real world, Mike!]
The station was shut down by Cohen Sept. 20 for financial problems
stemming from a loss of $2,000 to $3,000 at a spring music festival and a
pending FCC fine for improper recordkeeping.
[Another editorial note: the station was still off the air as recently
as October 24; the last time I was in Columbia.]

these kcou stories are cute.

is anyone coming to columbia soon? We should do another FAP!

I was pretty disappointed with Em3rgency Umbrell4 for transforming from a Columbia collective into a generic indie rock label, but I have to admit that this song by (St. Louis') Gentl3man Auction House, "H0me for the Holidays," is pretty awesome.

Haven't been there since 2000. I'm going to see if I can go a whole decade without stepping foot in the place.

Maybe we can fap in Moberly.

http://blog.spout.com/wp-content/uploads/true_false_thumbnail.jpg

Anyone plan on coming for T/F???

BOOCHES

Check out this band; they're playing the Saturday Night show at Mojo's with this band.

http://www.truefalse.org/program/

(note: definitely INCOMPLETE)

:)

(that is, pretty much complete, with maybe an exception or two)

FAP!!!!

C'mon, who is here this weekend?

me

oh, j0rdan, i quit the tr1b lol

hmm, whatre you gonna do now

your blurbs for the t/f site were great (as were all of them)

Awww, thanks. I'm kinda pissed about the ones on the website because a few sentences were mauled by bad copy editing (see: beginning of War Against the Weak, which makes absolutely no sense the way it is now). Anyway, printed program has less mistakes.

I have no idea what i'm doing, maybe creating a blog?

For those who haven't kept up, J0rdan wrote some fucking awesome shit for M0ve, which is way better this semester (thx to him).

thank u

I'm not buying this 'no one else will be here' bullshit

Mr. Que will be there!

You know I'll be here.

Tune into KOPN 89.5 tonight from 10 to 12 to hear my "count down to T/F" radio program. It won't even be tangentially related to the fest! Oh, I may play some Pelt (they are playing before a movie or two). And our pledge drive is currently underway, so, you know, become a member!

Guys, Adventureland is starting at Ragtag on Friday, and I think everyone should see it there, even if you've already seen it (like me). Also, tell yr friends. I promise it's fantastic.

guys, at both of the real college house parties i've been to, people were dancing to MGMT's "Kids"

The first time it was at a dirty, sweaty, crowded motel, though, so it was way more awesome

lulz i walked it out to "kids" this weekend

I saw a dude wearing a Merzbow tshirt in Ellis Library.

And I saw Tape Store at Ragtag last night and tried to say "hi" but you ignored me ;_;

damnit, sorry :( i was a part of this enter-exit performance art piece.

i think i'm living in the j-$lums next year.

I've never been inside the j-slums. Weird. Are you going to live with other J-school students? Will you have house parties?

I'd forgotten all about those. Once went up there with a girl and she had every Firefall album on cassette.

Nice!

Was that before or after the big carbon monoxide scandal?

Does REMI still own those, Chris?

Yeah, are they good?

lol which building chris

Ha, must have been after the scandal. What a huge surprise.

BEFORE the scandal.

I rented from REMI for three years, my whole undergrad career after moving out of the dorms. They aren't exactly great. They don't really give a shit about anything. So, that is a positive from some perspectives and a negative from others. I think I got fifty dollars more than I put down on my security deposit when I moved out, so that was kind of cool.

last weekend my friend who lives in the slums had a window break during a party and remi got right on that shit - i think they've gotten better lately, like they put dishwashers into all the apts in the slums a year or two ago

Sounds good. It's been like eight years since I rented from them, I believe that they have gotten better. I think that those J-Slums apartments are probably high on their priorities, considering the history (the above mentioned carbon monoxide scandal, a student living there died)

last weekend my friend who lives in the slums had a window break during a party and remi got right on that shit

A window broke in my bedroom window during a party about 2 months into a lease I had with REMI. It remained broken for months and months after that!

idk! i'm not very on top of things, but my roommate is. she scheduled a tour for wednesday.

Our landlord was Gary Pfau, who was a bit intense about not giving back security deposits. A bit intense all over the place. Just did a GIS for him and he looks completely unaged, playing baseball in Jeff City.

The only reason I mention him is for the in-joke my roommates and I had of any time something would break or a gust of wind would blow through the closed windows, going "Wicked, wicked PFAU."

WTF

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/may/22/komu-end-pepper-friends-run/

!!!!

I'll wear my Hawaiian shirt this weekend in support.

omfg this is terrible

(not the clip, the fact that the show is cancelled, i mean)

(i hope maggie can make it on before they end, she has learned some dope tricks)

i've changed my status in honor

guys, i'd recommend that you join the facebook group (like i did to 200 of my friends), but then you just get annoying messages from the group starter about actual ways to save PEPPER AND FRIENDS and who cares, amirite?

Hahaha.

guys, i don't know what to do tonight:

Gonn playing their like only date before a Europe tour @ blue fugue, wtf
vs.
Trapped in a Closet marathon @ sparky's
vs.
some dance thing on the top of the missouri theatre???

I think I will flit between Sparkys and the Blue Fugue. Reunion acts can be pretty depressing, especially at the most depressing hole in Columbia (Blue Fugue used to be the Music Cafe, all that's changed is the name). I have only seen the first thirty minutes of Trapped in the Closet and I'm genuinely curious (lol) about the rest of the video. I have a feeling the only Gonn song I'm gonna want to hear is "Blackout of Gretely" but I may be presently surprised by that.

Have you ever been to any other "Videology" events, Chris? Guessing that this rooftop dance party will be exactly the same as all of those.

(Blue Fugue used to be the Music Cafe, all that's changed is the name)
Wait, that's not right. Another difference is that instead of shelves full of the worst used cd's ever for sale, there are shelves of the worst used BOOKS ever for sale. Nice job, guys.

guys, i'd recommend that you join the facebook group (like i did to 200 of my friends), but then you just get annoying messages from the group starter about actual ways to save PEPPER AND FRIENDS and who cares, amirite?
lol totally left the group after the second message I got.

but I may be presently surprised by that.
Um...pleasantly surprised. Maybe I should take the rest of the day off?

And now there is this very interesting sounding event to complicate the matter even further(via Jon Sheffield on Myspace):

This Friday, May 29th at Cafe Berlin will be an amazing jam out extraveganza. Hailing all the way from the middle of fucking nowhere Kansas is
RUBBISH!!!
Amazing artist who uses junk and, well, rubbish to make a cacaphony of mind splitting sounds.

ALSO: I'm planning to show some old home videos I found of this family from the 60s that's pretty damn cool.

The local instigators that will be offering up a nice variety of sounds for the rest of the show are:

Lonesome Pine

Jon Sheffield and the Majestic Candle

Please Men Plea Semen

Sigulda

SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Please bring some donatin' money, to get Rubbish back to Kansas after the show otherwise he'll stick around and make our lives miserable! He'll also have merch for sale including some mysterious objects he described as "anti records." Don't know what these are? Come and find out. Show @ 9pm SHARP!

ohhhhh fuck

i think i'll start off at berlin, see what's happening at fugue and then bounce and back between sparky's/fugue

we have r kelly's chocolate cherry butterfinger ice cream tonight, btw

^^^this whole night was a DISASTER

everyone was bad, it was like a citywide badfest

fuck, fuck, fuck, i'm ready to get out of this place

if you fuck up, you end up on the front page of the tribune's website and 56 stupid dicks talk about it

sometimes this place is just too smalltown

wha happened?

nothing here, really. i just got back from a week in LA and i thought i'd try and catch up on columbia happenings, not worth it.

zach are you gonna be here?

everyone was bad, it was like a citywide badfest
I'm sorry to hear this. I decided to go home and go to bed, missed everything. Sometimes I can just feel it in the air. C00per wants to move back here, it's kind of funny. I'm going back to school at MU this fall, I need the MLS if I ever want to get out of here and get a decent job in another city.

C00per wants to move back here, it's kind of funny.

really? And the rest of Cave as well, or are they going long distance relationship?

zach are you gonna be here?

I was actually in MO for a brief spell a few weeks ago, but I wasn't able to get to CoMo this year. Instead I was on a big crazy rafting trip, when the rivers were all flooded and most of the campgrounds were closed. It was wacky.

really? And the rest of Cave as well, or are they going long distance relationship?
I don't know. I wouldn't be that surprised to see some of the Missourians who moved to Chicago in the last few years come back this way. A lot have gone back and forth a fair amount already. I think that Cave has got a pretty solid grip on its identity, but things change.

Wow, I was doing a google search to check up on the d-bag politician father of someone I knew in high school (in Farmington, MO), and came across a bunch of stuff that Kevin Engl3r said recently. Engl3r is the Senate Floor Majority leader in Missouri, a Republican. He's also the former mayor of Farmington, and I used to go over to his house occasionally to drink vodka and play Grand Theft Auto III with his son, who was also kind of d-bag.

Anyways, I guess he introduced a bill to give the death penalty to people who litter, then withdrew the bill, saying he was joking. Which is kind of stupid, but whatever. Then he said

"These dumb rednecks I got in my district throw it in the back of the truck and expect it not to blow out," Engler said.

Oops! He also called litterers in Farmington "white trash". Oops!
Then he defended himself by saying that people of all races can be white trash, and that he wanted people to wonder if they were being white trash before they littered.

Way to go Farmington and Missouri!

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2009/02/mo-sen-engler-defends-his-comments/
http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=257267

I kind of like that part of Missouri. Farmington, I mean. Have you ever been to the Offsets, Zach? Place is wicked.
Dude really put his foot in it this time, huh?

out of town this weekend for a wedding, but times new viking/heater show at orr street practice space, sad i'm missing it. money goes towards fighting the fucking ridiculous taser incident.

i bet the br33ders will be there, btw

my film professor doesn't "really do art film," it's "not really" her "sort of thing"

(no one asked her this, she just told us during the first class)

So while we were watching 12 MONKEYS, I kept thinking about Brad Pitt spending 3+ years of his life in Columbia, which is weird. Also, he is beautiful and has a nice ass.

The smart, innovative, artsy, eclectic, clever, savvy, vibrant, too-dynamic-to-fit-into-a-short-tagline city.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbia-MO/Columbia-MO/202588509174?ref=pymk&v=wall

ok i am happy to report that brad pitt did not name his daughter after SHILOH'S, phew, ffs

Pretty sure it's just SHILOH. Still never stepped inside the place. Harpo's either.
Was there really a "blizzard" like some have said? I'm in St Louis.

just got back tonight, the street is covered, snow is blowing hard, it's not like the storm of the century or anything

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4361706598_2005aa390a_o.gif

aw man... that's like literally a one minute drive from my house

Tripmaker just told me what band Mr. Que was in...fucking awesome!

also tonight I was working at the ice cream shop and we were playing a c0momusic anthology, the last one, and all of a sudden, while helping a customer, i just started cracking up and my coworker augustine was like 'what?!' and I was like, 'the f0undry field recording$, they put so much energy into this song, like, they pulled out the fucking horns for THIS'

if you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockmanif you're into jam bands, stay afterwards for Bockman

Walking to ragtag, hope to seeya there!

That was some pretty sweet timing at the stop light on college, huh?

ok i'll be honest zach--yes, i did see this thread and yes i did sneak out of my parents' house to say 'hi'
for some reason that seemed embarrassing to say irl!

in any case, lovely seeing you and CONGRATULATIONS!

Sorry it took forever to respond, I've been camping/driving across the country for the last few days. Awesome to run into you Sean - we did end up making it to Ragtag in the end, where I ran into el Tape Store (cool surprise!).

What happened at ragtag was really fucking weird. We were sitting outside, and then some dude busts out an acoustic guitar and starts singing. At first I thought he was being all "guy in the corner of a party with acoustic guitar", but then he started singing really loudly (Jason Mraz/John Mayer style, sorta), and then an ACCORDION comes in. And all of this is super-fake impromptu, like "Oh, do you have an accordion? well join on in!", only the accordion player magically knows the song already and everything is arranged. 10 minutes later, a dude with a giant stand-up bass walks in and pulls the same move ("Oh, mind if I set up, lemme see I think I know how this song would go, and-a-one and-a-BOOoooosh"). It was absolutely terrible, like a small-scale version of getting flash-mobbed by three douchebags. We moved inside, but the last time I glanced out there on the patio there was a big spotlight on Jason Mraz. Weird.

So great being back in Columbia, though!

^That's ridiculous and just irritating. My on-air tribute to Tuli Kupferberg was fun. I should have invited you by the station! Have you ever stopped by KOPN? Its a pretty heavenly place for a music nerd. Hope your trip went well. Just wrapped up my real summer fun with a trip to Chicago for the C00per Cr41n curated Bitchpork festival (w special surprise guest Lightning Bolt!). I also got to see Cave play at one pm at the Pitchfork festival, reconfirm my distaste for large outdoor music festivals, then promptly hit the road back to MO. It was a gorgeous day for a drive.

Oh but I am extremely proud of the guys and their set was fantastic.

ugh sometimes i fucking hate this place
"five days you can catch me at the field house" indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_diCHdLAg

Check out out! We're on TV!

http://www.modot.org/tim/index.htm

snowmageddon

SPRING BREAK

i like the believers a lot, good energy

Thanks for this thread! I might have move to Columbia for work next year and was feeling pretty apprehensive about it, but maybe it'll be kind of cool (or at least okay?)

just woke up in the middle of the night for some reason, in a sweat. i was wondering why, and got some water and then decided to check ilx because ??, but now i realize that i'm awake because i'm supposed to go here and say

YES

god is doing a new thang!

Oh man, a google maps street view tour is not inspiring confidence, housing-wise. AFAICT shotgun shacks in the inner "bad" parts give way directly to treeless suburban-style dystopia in the "good" parts. Is there any part of town that isn't like this? Where's the best place to live (for a 3-person fam)?

wtf was i talking about the other day?

Sounds like you were sleep preachin'! :)

columbia is pretty cool, i have fond memories

not like i have an idea in hell of where a three person family is supposed to live

i always thought the burbs seemed nice

iirc, there's a nice, quiet neighborhood in the blocks west of Providence, between Broadway and Business Loop 70. Still really close to the downtown stuff, not so suburby.

Also lots of good places in East Campus, if you don't mind hearing the occasional drunken "woooos" at night.

man, i miss columbia.

yeah, a friend of mine used to babysit for a couple w/ a small child and i'm pretty sure they lived east... maybe a bit east of east campus but before the highway

anyway you can def find nice places in east campus if you don't mind mild stuff like that

Thankin u

Who here remembers Mixed Company on Walnut?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o32Mr9xOpjk

So one guess where this happened:

http://i.minus.com/i74P01UdDwr4Y.gif

Sunglasses flying all over the place.

I haven't been up there since 2000. Weird to think how little time of my life I actually spent there. Gotta say though, I did cram a lot of doing things into that short window.

Sometimes I get a little second-homesick and do what I did tonight, cruise up and down Ninth Street with Google Street View. They've got my old street near Paquin Towers on there now, so I saw that house for the first time in awhile.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I see that alley and that house and that house, and oh jesus that house and... and after awhile, I don't feel like driving seven hours up there for a weekend anymore.

That feeling won't last forever though. Just for now.

The most Columbia thing to happen this weekend was when I saw in front of the columns the Marching Mizzou band pay tribute to the solar eclipse by performing "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow.