Filibuster Free
In honor of the man who eventually may become the 60th member of the Democratic Senate Caucus in the 111th Congress, this week Atlanta’s A-List is going to take a page from the SNL playbook and give you our Deep Thoughts this week. There are 12 of them, but they’re not steps even if they feel that way (besides they’re ordered in reverse).
Twelve Steps to…upstairs at Smith’s?
12. If they keep making comic books into movies, can I start carrying graphic novels around at work and act like I am doing serious reading on my lunch break?
11. Gavin DeGraw is much cooler now that we know he will be playing 500 Song for Kids Tuesday night at 7:30. Get your advance tickets for tomorrow night at Ticket Alternative – it’s also the only place you can get an advance ticket to Saturday night’s Final 50 songs.
10. It seems that can’t stop listening to Carrie Rodriguez, Live at Louisville. Is it because she may be the best thing since Lucinda Williams? Is it because she blew the doors of the Variety when she opened for Alejandro Escovedo last summer? Or is it because she signed the CD with my name followed by “love, Carrie”? Hmmm, that must be it.
9. Speaking of obsessive behavior, 500 SONGS FOR KIDS is going on all week this week. You can still take a shot at free tickets courtesy of Atlanta’s A-List with a little help from Decatur CD (who should be having new release Tuesday again tomorrow). We will keep tweeting from the shows when we’re there, and updating you on the bands that will go on each night. Get in line early for Saturday night’s grand finale.
8. It strikes me as odd, in many ways, that the reason that guy from Minnesota may become the 60th member of the Democratic Caucus is because some guy from my Pennsyltuckey home who is 79 years old wants to keep working until he’s almost 87.
7. This weekend I saw where somebody scrawled “Eddie Van Halen” in the grime on the back of a tractor trailer. Either that rig hasn’t been washed (but has been garaged) for 20 years or there’s somebody out there with a wonderfully ironic sense of humor (which is possible). I cringe to consider any other possibility.
6. Is it really cool to spend hours each week on a blog that doesn’t even have a single picture? I mean, even the New Yorker has cartoons.
5. Wednesday night Death Cab for Cutie will be at the Fabulous Fox Theater, but it has been sold out for sometime. If you followed Atlanta’s A-List on Twitter, you would have had a second chance at the ticket release that happened last Thursday night. If you’ve got your tickets get there early to catch Ra Ra Riot.
4. Are two guys with a guitar and a Macbook really a band? Can they really tell girls they meet, “Yeah, I’m with the band”? Do they really get a full size tour bus like Motley Crue?
3. Is the Rolling Stones’ original Sticky Fingers (with the zipper), the best album cover of all time? Yes, Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove runs a close second.
2. If you can still make it out after a week upstairs at Smith’s, then try The Asylum Street Spankers on Sunday night at Eddie’s Attic. Mom will love “God’s Favorite Band” as they run through instant classics like “Beer” and “Boogers” (yes, they are two different songs).
1. And finally, here at Atlanta’s A-List we’re wondering will the blog get extra traffic this week after we type Swine Flu, NBA Playoffs, Chrysler Bankruptcy, and MILF all in one sentence? (Anybody care to guess which one will get us the most traffic?)
That’s the A-List and some folks inherit star spangled eyes.
