Day: March 24, 2007

Name That Cock for the Klaxons

Post author By Ryan
Post date March 24, 2007

Choices:

Cock In The Sky at Superior Poultry (Chinatown)
Cock In The Sky at 3rd and La Cienega
Cock In The Sky at the Silverlake/Virgil/Temple/Beverly Mindfuck
Real Cock In The Sky at the Ghetto Zoo in New Braunfels, TX (SXSW!)
Another Real Cock In The Sky at the Ghetto Zoo in New Braunfels, TX

Task: Tell me which is which in the comment section. One of the correct entries (assuming there are any) will be randomly drawn to win the new Klaxons CD courtesy Geffen Records (album drops 3/27). This contest closes Monday at midnight.

Music

Becho vs. Spaceland, 3/22: One Night, Two Gigs

Post author By Alex
Post date March 24, 2007

Caught in the flurry of the excitement of last minute announcements, the necessity of hasty ticket purchases, and the prospect of leaving work early, I rashly decided to blow off Apples In Stereo, Page France, Headlights and Casper and the Cookies to check out Beck’s last minute announced show at the Echo. Thank God I didn’t sell the tickets. I left the Echo 40 minutes into Beck’s set, was at Spaceland 5 minutes later and never felt a pang of regret. Here’s why:

Becho Last Minute Show (“BLM”): CON – Guy on stage whose sole purpose was to do poor impersonations of rejects from the Wade Robson Project. Only one man can do that and get away with it. His names is Gabe. He plays cowbell.

Spaceland Scheduled (“SS”): PRO – Casper and the Cookies’ guitarist who, in the throes of a final breakdown, jumped into the then 10 person crowd and made an audience member play his guitar while his sexier than Kim Deal bassist played the final notes of the set on her back.

Food LA Culture Slide of the Week

Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: The Picnic, Southern California, 1960

Post author By Charles Phoenix
Post date March 24, 2007

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The Picnic, Southern California, 1960

Daddy holds up a can of Schlitz beer like the statue of liberty holds the flame. Cheers! Perhaps he’s already had a couple. The lady on the right cheers a little less enthusiastically with a pretty pink paper cup. Her nails and lips are painted red like the redhead on the right smoking a cigarette with one hand and holding a lovely little girl with the other. Little Blondie is looking at grandma who’s looking at the buzz cut little boy held by grandpa who’s the only one staring into outer space and not wearing white. The little boy is picking his nose. Grandma’s initials are embroidered on her breast pocket. The handkerchief in that pocket matches her turquoise earrings. She tweezes her brows. The redhead does not.