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!

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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

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

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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'

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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
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Check out out! We're on TV!

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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?

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So one guess where this happened:

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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.