quarby dropped the what what a couple weeks ago about the new el-p album. i finally gave it a listen and figured out that cat power was on the last track. i will spare the critique on the verbal content since we all know that his dense lyrics are packed with emotion and commentary–those thin on thought might throw out the word “emo.” whatever. it is a fun listen and robust. i had to take it back to ‘99 with the latyrx and el-p combo . for the distraught duo of chan marshall and el-p listen to .

not you!! the oakland chapter of the hells angels turn 50 and are having a 3 day starting tonight. so lock up your daughters, sisters and mother and raise your glasses.

the worst and possibly greatest festival is happening this july. it’s called . ugh. it features not some of the awful hair metal bands of the 80’s, but all of them. poison, ratt, winger, quiet riot, dokken, warrant, y & t, bang tango, bullet boys, l.a. guns, vince neil, tesla, faster pussycat and firehouse! yes, firehouse! this festival is scheduled for 3 grueling days in pryor, oklahoma. yeah, i’ve never heard of that city either. i have a feeling this festival is just an excuse by the u.s. government to corral thousands of complete losers with horrible hair into one small area and make them disappear, if you know what i mean. i also love how warrant are listed twice on the flyer . all this bad mouthing aside, gary tijuana and i are probably renting an rv and driving out there if anyone is interested.

if you feel like staying in and being creative this sunny weekend, try your luck making this crazy , print and fold style. or perhaps you might want to try something to start… tons of fun projects on this paperkraft blog.

you can find dirt cheap light-tents online these days buy why buy more crap when you can use stuff from around your house to make one yourself, cheaply or even free? , and the example photos look real sharp.

there aren’t too many pictures of the actual band, so i used my imagination.
are a super new band from montreal on the label, home of other great canadian artists like broken social scene and feist. their sound is a kaleidoscope of shoegaze, melody, and hook after wonderful hook.

listen: swing your heartache

my pal showed me a very interesting website yesterday. scribd.com doesn’t appear to be brand new, but it’s new to me. it is described like so: “ is a free online library where anyone can upload. use our embeddable pdf player to publish and view documents right in your web browser.” so, you post your essay, story, article, or whatever there and it can be embedded in a blog, downloaded as a pdf or word doc, and even listened to as an .mp3. i like.
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the excellent nyc band is playing tomorrow night at the in san francisco. calla makes great subtle rock music. they’re a good live band too, so the show is a definite checker-outer. here’s a track from their new record, strength in numbers.

calla “bronson”

*by the way, this is the 2000th post on sneakmove!

we let the beatles in america, so why won’t the uk let

and the great singing – don’t talk to strangers.