in response to: http://blogs.citybeat.com/spill_it/2007/08/nothings-shocki.html
anyone that has seen short vine's decline since its late-80's early-90's hayday will know exactly what you're talking about.
i remember the moment in the mid-90's when the bad sound and obnoxious bouncers at bogart's finally got to be too much and we started going to newport in columbus instead (from dayton).
there was a sense of community then. troublemakers were ostracized, thrown out of the pit. when someone fell we picked them up and kept dancing.
there were no hipsters then. it was all punk & alternative and alternative was everything from the smiths to front 242.
in 1992, the year that punk "broke," punk was also broken, seemingly beyond repair. commerce was finally able to co-opt the DIY spirit, at least superficially.
as far as short-vine goes, for a city that is as hung up on its past as cincinnati, we do nothing to preserve what's good about the present. we seem to prefer nostalgia to now. i hope that changes, otherwise northside will be the next to fall and become north camp washington.
is it true that there are now only 2 live music venues near UC? mad frog and bogarts? oh, and downstairs at the holy grail if that counts. that's just sad.
fianlly, that jane's show at hara where the rollins band opened WAS amazing.
August 17, 2007 at 11:56 AM
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in response to:
Wow - how excited am I that Kristen Bell (aka Veronica Mars) has signed on for at least half a season of Heroes? The answer is: very.
At 12:12 PM, G-RANT said...
she should just play veronica mars on heroes! maybe neptune, ca exists within the heroes universe and veronica could find out that she has powers! maybe being super-sassy IS a power.
geek-out!
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in respose to: http://plattitude.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/my-children-will-play-with-clothespins-and-rocks/
August 9th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
sure, there’s a place past post-modernism;we’re just not ready for it yet.
if society could just move past whatever moment it is mired in, it would have done so a lot faster in the past.
it seems that cultural revolutions are preceded by the diffusion of some technology that makes them possible.
so we’ll just have to wait until then…
and maybe then people will understand what the hell we’re talking about.
but probably not.
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in response to: http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/popculture/2007/08/no-more-cincinnati.asp#comments
not upset at all,well maybe a little that we'll probably have to wait another 20 years for a show with "cincinnati" in the title to be on TV.
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in response to : http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/popography/2007/08/alchemizedecibel-loungealchemize-closes.asp
as much as you might not want to admit it, anon-chi makes a valid point about the average cincyite not exactly having his ear to the pop culture ground,
people who read this blog excepted!
there have been many shows where a buzz or sub-buzz band played some local club and i was suprised by how few people showed up. case in point, robbers on high street played both southgate and alchemize this year and the turn-out was pathetic both times. it was a tuesday and it was raining, admittedly, but still.
i think radio airplay has a lot to do with it. chicago just has better radio stations, while here WOXY has to go internet-only and WVXU switched from 'college rock' to boring old BBC at night.
it takes some work to discover under-the-radar bands on tour, work that most cincyites seem unwilling to do. so it's not too suprising when arcade fire and modest mouse play columbus and louisville but not cincinnati.
local music venues: use them or lose them, cincinnati!
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in response to: at August 4, 2007 5:09 PM Lauren Bishop said...
So how was the show? BRMC was excellent and there was a good-sized, appreciative crowd, although I would have enjoyed the show more if I hadn't been standing so close to Air Guitar Guy, Leaping Devil Horns Dude and Flailing Drunk Guy.
at August 7, 2007 3:33 PM G-RANT said...
there was a huge line because the doors opened 2 hours late due to (i heard) some sound check fiasco.
I would have enjoyed the interpol show more if I hadn't been standing so close to stand stock still guy, irked by the slightest movement dude, and i'm too cool to dance guy.
the madison is not a very good venue.
the band sounded great, though.
