From: Peter Date: Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:49:03 AM US/Central To: lcc_news@thelcc.net Subject: botox for your brain! dear electorate, one opportunity has already passed but don't let that send you into a suicidal tizzy, you still have two chances to attend at one of my notoriously life affirming concerts. that's right, you have two upcoming chances to secure your position in the afterlife, but today let us concentrate on the most rapidly approaching of the two which will take place this SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER12th at the BARLEY HOUSE in Dallas, TX. current calculations put my stage time for sunday night at approximately 11pm BUT if you only arrive at 11pm that means you will miss what will surely be a storming set by my good friend SALIM NOURALLAH. truthfully, it's pretty much a crap shoot as to how well my portion of the show will turn out but here's what the Dallas Observer thought of last week's show: http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2004-09-09/setlist.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- though i'm no fan of artists and record companies continually reissuing the same classic albums over and over again in slightly differing formats (i'm talking to you costello!) i am pretty excited by impending reissue of London Calling. i also hate the current list culture that seems to have caught on in such a big way (i don't think i've picked up a magazine in two years that didn't have "the" definitive list of all time top rock albums) so i won't say that it is the #1 album of all time but London Calling is possibly my favorite album of all time or at least my most played. anyways the rerelease is gonna come with an additional CD of recently discovered demos of the songs the made the album (and a few that didn't) and a DVD with film from the studio during the making of the album. sah-weet! and though the first Libertines album ended up growing on me a little bit there is no way they come close to being the Clash surrogates that they are sometimes purported to be. does any under 30 give a shit about this? i mean, even rancid have to be over 30 by now, right? i'm not getting paid for this, i'm just hoping that someone will come talk to me about the Clash at the Barley House this Sunday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lots of you made it out to the show last week (thanks very much by the way) but there were a few of you from the mailing list who did not make it out and if there were a way to abuse my power and publicly shame those that did not make it i would certainly do so. there is a technique, used to great success in some communities, to discourage local construction workers from spending half of their weekly pay on toothless hookers by displaying the alleged "johns" pictures on a community website they can humiliate them into spending their cash at fully taxed titty bars instead. if i could stop my audience from spending their cash on toothless hookers i could easily double the crowd at my shows. (i really shouldn't write this shit at 2 in the morning) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- currently enjoying "Pilot Season" on TRIO. ahhh, Sara Silverman. and with that he fell deeply asleep, peter