so yeah, as I was going through the album thread it struck me that I saw several of the bands involved live and that this would be a good time to bLoG about it, but in an attempt to not look exclusively self-involved I'm opening it up to the public

some of the best ones I've been to:

1. Cannibal Ox in a super tight venue in Manhattan, was right at the front row and they rocked, also a lot of good opening acts (Akir, Poison Pen, Immortal Technique, etc.)

2. Bruce Springsteen at Rock the Vote in 2004 in the Izod Center (aka old home of the Nets)- I was too young to appreciate just how much energy he had and started falling asleep after like 3 hours but technically speaking it was an amazing concert

3. All Points West 2009 Day 2- My Bloody Valentine, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Arctic Monkeys, Gogol Bordello, Neko Case, Kool Keith etc., was pretty awesome especially MBV as they're one of my fav bands of all time

4. Free comedy (w/ some music) show at Williamsburg Waterfront- Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, Todd Barry, Kristen Schaal, Jonathan Coulton, and They Might Be Giants. rained like hell but still awesome

5. If I snuck that on there I'll also sneak on going to tapings of the Daily Show and to Letterman

6. I saw a gr8 live performance of The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky this one time lol

The rest are all from Celebrate Brooklyn:

1. David Byrne, he basically played every amazing Talking Heads song as well as some of his stuff with Brian Eno, was awesome

2. Bon Iver, despite being an acoustic musician at an outdoor concert he was just awesome, so powerful

3. Animal Collective, they did some pretty sweet audiovisual things

4. Sigur Ros, also did some pretty sweet audiovisual things

5. Raekwon the Chef, Smif 'n Wessun, Skyzoo, Joell Ortiz, Large Professor- just a gr8 stacked rap show

6. The Heavy- was very surprised by how much I liked them but they were amazing live

7. Wild Flag/Mission of Burma/Ted Leo- just a great show

8. Belle and Sebastian- I'm not the HUGEST fan of them but was a very good show

9. Robert Glasper Experiment with Talib Kweli- wasn't super familiar with his work beforehand, walked out of it convinced he was awesome

10. Another Eugene Mirman show, with Jim Gaffigan, Kumail Nanjiani, John Hodgman, Janeane Garafolo and Michael Showalter, I think Blitzen Trapper randomly did some music there too???

11. A bunch of awesome world music that I am too white and yuppie to remember by name

12. Neutral Milk Hotel just last summer, they were fucking incredible and Jeff Mangum has gone full hobo

13. Ghostface Killah (was weird that it was a totally different concert from Raekwon tho lol) with Rah Digga, Kid Capri, Camp Lo

14. Andrew Bird

15. was supposed to see The Roots w/ Talib Kweli but I couldn't go because my upstairs neighbor stabbed her husband and the drama was cray

16. Blonde Redhead

*I swear I wasn't paid by Celebrate Brooklyn to make this post hu3*

this is trippy, I went to high school with a short haired asian girl named jasmine who was obsessed with the decemberists

it wasnt u but xXxjustsaiyanxXx

I swear I listen to ~cool stuff~ but when I get to my all-time favs my list gets generic as fvck

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been my fav album since high school, got me through a pretty big death in the family in like 11th grade and I wrote my college essay on it

also did people really downvote burzum? must be a lot of jews on here

you're right, that's why everyone was bitching about NIP when they were 87-0, constantly making fun of get right's appearance, calling f0rest a cheater, putting every possibility of poor sportsmanship under a microscope, etc.

nope, fnatic is a different level of hate

it's pretty unreal how vitriolic people are towards the fnatic players

what do they have to fuckin do to earn peoples' respect???

and because they're two of the top 3 players in the world

if anything flusha looks more like zebbosai lol

LDLCZ clearly cannot match up to the might of FNATEC

yo remind me to come back here and give you a list of all the dope nuke games in csgo tourneys!

I am also a fan of the strat of betting for the team you like less

that way you never get too devastated

that was fucking unreal

you know, even if nip ends up winning this grand final I think olof clearly deserves tournament mvp, easily the tourney of his life so far

werd

and on an individual level, spirit is playing like maaaaybe the best jungler in the world right now

im assuming people here dont really care but

the league of legends tournament at katowice just got really crazy

arguably the best team in the world just lost to the 12th best chinese team who were playin with 2 subs

you must be new then, some of the best matches in csgo history (not to mention cs history in general) have been on nuke