TUESDAY OCTOBER 21ST 2008
a very special public Q&A session with
IAN MACKAYE
(of DISCHORD RECORDS, MINOR THREAT, FUGAZI, THE EVENS
and a whole lot more)
@ HUMANITIES HALL 178 | 7:30 PM | $5
I’ll be there for sure. With bells on. Jingle bells. Wait, no. More like Spooky bells, cuz it’s closer to Halloween than Xmas.
…has it’s own official website now. Now go on and check it out: songsofnationalfreedom.blogspot.com. The show officially starts up and hits the airwaves tomorrow. I’m excited about it. It’s gonna be cool to be a college radio dj. Anyways, don’t forget to listen in, and say hi or make a request of somethin, ok? Robbdog is probably gonna be in the studio too. Hot stuff. See ya.
And if this is all news to you, the magical gods of the timeslots at KUCI radio in Irvine opened up an hour of time for me to play some music from 11am til noon (PST), on Tuesdays. I’ve got some big plans, like having a handful of bands come in to play live, some cool call-in interviews, giveaways… all that stuff. It’s gonna be good. So, if you have the time, listen in! You can listen on a real deal radio at 88.9fm if you’re around southern California, OR you can head over to kuci.org, and follow the link to stream the show via iTunes. it’s all happening.
Man, things have been crazy up and down today. I feel like I just got beat up all bad and I’ve got holes in my pants and a blood stain on my shirt, but then someone is giving me a hug and a bowl of mint chip ice cream at the same time.
Long story. But the basics: I went surfing at Doheny today and it was one of my best days there in a while. It was a low tide, so my normal spot at boneyard (where all the rocks are) was shot, so I went down to the second spot where I see two dudes sitting out there. I should back this up by saying that on a normal day, it’s easy to be surrounded by 15-20 people out in the water, tryin to catch the same wave. So two dudes = a good day. The water was warm. That made me feel like I wasn’t actually going back to school to start the fall semester tomorrow. Nice. I’m not the best surfer, but my performance today made me feel like I was actually pretty good.
Then I got home, and started browsing the internet for possible jobs, and it got me majorly depressed. I’ll stop there. No need to elaborate.
THEN, I got a call from KUCI to ask if I could do a radio show from 11am-Noon on tuesdays! I know it doesn’t exactly sound like the most glamourous spot, but believe me, it’s pretty incredible. When you’re a new DJ over at KUCI, you’re destiny lies in a graveyard slot. 4-6am. 6-8am. Something like that. If I was 22, and living on campus in Irvine, I would be all over a slot like that, but I’m not. Somehow, the magical gods of radio had the sliver of time starting at 11am, lasting one hour, until noon, opened up and was bestowed upon me. And I couldn’t be HAPPIER. SO HEY. I start up next tuesday, September the 30th at 11am. If you’re in a radius of about 25 miles from Irvine, you can catch the show at 88.9fm, BUT IF NOT, you can hit up the KUCI WEBSITE and find a link to stream the show on iTunes. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE listen in. I’m gonna attempt to have as many bands as possible come in and play live, and I’ll probably have some call-in guests, as well as ticket giveaways and other random stuff. it’s gonna rule. In the next few days, I’ll have a website set up for the show which will include playlists, mp3s of live band sets (after they happen, of course), and photos/video. all that. the request line at the station in 949-824-5824 (aka 949-UCI-KUCI) and I will GLADLY try to play any requests ya got (a quick sidenote: at KUCI, we can’t play anything that’s played on commercial radio, we support the indies.. and I won’t be able to play any Limbeck stuff, cuz it’s a roundabout form of PAYOLA!!!). I will also have an instant messenger name set up soon, so you can IM requests, or say hey, or whatevs.
THE SHOW IS CALLED “SONGS OF NATIONAL FREEDOM”.
yep, it’s taken from a song by Richard Swift. which I will probably be playin on Tuesday. killer dudes. I’m excited. Today ain’t half bad as it turns out.
Be good to yer friends.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLYN!
apollo sunshine
chad van gaalen
conor oberst
calexico
david vandervelde - he’s playin the casbah in october. in san diego. anybody gonna go?
GO GET THE NEW APOLLO SUNSHINE RECORD. it’s called Shall Noise Upon, which is the letters from their name mixed up. FANCY. plus it’s ACTUALLY GOOD. yep. no jokes.
this afternoon, I officially finished my general education at uci. that’s cool, right? I’m generally educated! to celebrate, I hopped on my new bike I got from target and rode my way to the balboa fun zone. I’ve always wondered what the trail around the newport back bay was like (long and flat, with lotsa birds and mud) and then decided that all that flat was too boring, so I should keep going. I made a good call. I took the boardwalk beach path out to the end of the peninsula, and got somethin to eat at the fun zone while watching some people tear it up on the Deal or No Deal video game. then for a buck and a quarter, I sailed on the balboa ferry over to balboa island. then rode back to irvine. nice. it pays to have an education.
school wise, that means I don’t have to take any bullshit gen ed classes. that sounds harsh, but I feel that it’s justified because I just finished taking quite possibly the most pointless class I’ve ever taken in my life. linguistics: it’s a form of math having to do with language. yeah, emphasis on the word pointless.
so my mission. tomorrow I’m gonna take to the road again on my trusty target bike, and attempt to ride from san clemente down to oceanside, then catch a train all the way back up to fullerton. I think it’s gonna work out good. part of the path goes on old highway 101 (so cool), and part of it goes through camp pendleton (i don’t think that’s as cool), but it should be an adventure. I’m gonna try and bring my little Lomo camera and take some pictures along the way. then I’ll be a freak about it and immediately take the film to costco when I get home.
two more things:
1)this weekend i’m flying to denver with my pal robb so that half of LIMBECK can play for Suburban Home Records 13th anniversary party. should be cool. if you’re in denver, or close by.. COME OVER. google it. I don’t have the information at hand, but man. the internet is SOOOOE Z to use. it’s ridiculous. I could find out the address of a pizza place in africa if I had to. just sayin.
2) LISKFEST. I need to email this dude Brian back, but liskfest might actually be cool. yeah, it’s in irvine, BUT GORILLA BISCUITS IS PLAYING. listen to this: I seriously have:
-a gorilla biscuits hoodie
-2 gorilla biscuits t-shirts
-a gorilla biscuits belt
-gorilla biscuits stickers and buttons.
- ps. does anyone know where I could score a Gorilla biscuits wallet that paul frank made that’s not 400,0000$??? that’s how much they go for on ebay, and it’s ridic. a wallet is supposed to hold your money, not take it all. let’s make a petition against expensive wallets. and jumbo shrimp.
2.5) I need to get a bike helmet from my parents house cuz I just read somewhere that they won’t let you in to camp pendleton (it’s a marine base [i know ]) without a helmet. I’m gettin it from my parents house cuz I don’t wanna spend $30 forty dollars on a helmet that I’m gonna wear at a marine base so I don’t get kicked out.
2.75) new 90210… hot or not? I didn’t wanna like it. but I do. what does that say about my character?
for some reason Ive been having these major flashbacks to this a few days on our last Limbeck tour that we spent (somewhat stranded) in des moines, iowa. the main point is, those days were the perfect example of something amazing happening by accident. it must have been the middle of february, and in the midwest, that meant ridiculously cold. I was wearing two pairs of socks just to keep my feet from completely falling off from my legs. We just played a show in ames iowa, at one of our homes away from home, the M-Shop. we woke up late the next day, and decided to hit the road toward rock island, the home of Daytrotter. it was a slow day on the roads because the ice had made the majority of highway undriveable. so we sat, and we sat, until the sun started to go down and the floor of our van turned into a miniature ice rink, then we pulled into a truck stop and wisely pricelined a hotel back in des moines. yes, des moines was an hour and change (not including snow caused traffic) in the wrong direction, but it seemed like the hottest spot that was somewhat in range. coincidentally, the truck stop was the sign of our luck on the rise. we scored our favorite instant milk shakes (the same kind we go crazy for over at quik trip), and they had one of my faves up at the counter: homemade banana bread. nice one.
with the help of priceline dot com, we ended up with a double tree, or some other similarly ritzy hotel chain outside of downtown des moinse. pool? check. two flat screen tvs in our room? check. enough beds for us all? check. sauna? what? check. it was a big win. so we made that hotel our home for the night, minus a quick trip to bakers square restaurant, which was surprisingly awesome. we watched a few movies, hit the pool. then watched more movies, and fell asleep with the microwavable popcorn butter dripping on the carpet.
the next day we planned on making our way all over town. trying to hit up a record store to drop off copies of our cd, a big lunch stop, and then whatever else. we found a little record store, which was kind of a bumout, then we looked for the local hang food spot, but with no luck, settled on fazolis (ouch), then I had a sudden vision that it was very necessary for us to get a furby for the van. if you search limbeck + furby on youtube, you can see how this thought turned out, but at the time, it led us on a chase from toys r us, to wal-mart, to target.. no luck. we were planning on gettin on the road to get some of the drive to somewhere (I think minneapolis) outta the way, but instead, we pricelined another hotel (magically, they gave us the hotel next door to the one from the previous night). and settled in for another night of the same.
I know that story sounds lame, but looking back on it, its beautiful. just how things turn out. you never know. and I like that.
