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Other new local licks this month include Adam Lambert’s Glam Nation Live CD/DVD, shot in Indianapolis last August and featuring twelve tracks plus a bonus cut, as well as Best Days from spiritual songsmith Steven Ybarra, an Eazy-E tribute EP from South Psycho Cide (R.I.P. Eazy), and Republic of Letters with Stories, on Nick Venti’s new Mass and Measure label.
— April 18, 2011 9:05 p.m.
Cattle Herds, Tinnitus
RE hearing problems from loud music: The Reader's own local-centric feature "Rock Concerts Are Destroying Your Hearing" includes interviews with local musicians, sound engineers, doctors, and more --
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…
— April 15, 2011 9:59 a.m.
Punk the Fussies
Heh heh heh, "...while San Diego surteños Northern Tigers take down Til-Two like some weak-ass gazelle...." You don't find LOL-quotes like THAT in this column's "What To Do" counterparts/copycats at CityBeat, SoundDiego, etc ---
— April 13, 2011 1:28 p.m.
Charlie Imes, Starring Johnny Depp
Outtakes: COMIC BOOK JONES? “Superman is the baddest ass of them all. He can fly. Has super strength. Bullets don’t hurt him. Being able to disarm and overpower anyone who threatens or tries to harm others. That would be cool.” ANY FEARS OR PHOBIAS? “Oversized bugs. I don’t like cockroaches, going back to my childhood days, and oversized bugs really give me the creeps. Like the ones the size of your hand or bigger. Yeesh.” TELL US SOMETHING WE DON’T KNOW “I married a Canadian woman once and, when it didn’t work out, I got it annulled by making her write me a Dear John letter that said she only married me for the green card. Wasn’t really true, but I got the annulment. Guess that means it never really happened. Never mind.”
— April 13, 2011 12:26 p.m.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
I got sucked into the "Twin Peaks" TV show during the first few months, but lost interest before it all wrapped up. I remember reading about the finale and being glad I abandoned ship. My goddaughter recently told me that this later movie "Fire Walk With Me" reveals a different solution to "Who killed Laura Palmer?" but I'm too baffled by David Lynch to lookinto further -- Really, the expanded "Dune" is the only Lynch film I've watched and liked. "Eraserhead" was fine 'n' fun whilst stoned in the 80s and giggling in the seats at a midnight screening. But you couldn't make me watch it again now with a gun to my head --
— April 12, 2011 4:31 p.m.
Land-Use Rezone to Come for the Escondido Swap Meet?
On April 15, 2009, the Escondido Drive-In screen was torn down by AMG Demolition, after swap meet operators decided it was too expensive to repair and city officials declined to designate it "historic" enough to merit saving. "Fifty years is our rule of thumb on historical significance," the city's planning chief Jon Brindle told the North County Times (4-15-09). "It was also not a particularly unique kind of movie screen." "It's a neat piece of the town, but it's nothing incredibly special," said Bob McQuead of Escondido's Historic Preservation Commission. "There might be something someday I will fight to preserve, but not this."
— April 9, 2011 5:50 a.m.
Land-Use Rezone to Come for the Escondido Swap Meet?
A bit of history behind this contentious bit of land (which was actually the Escondido Drive-In's second locale, having originally opened down the road at 427 Grant -- later 755 West Mission -- in 1950). The Escondido Drive-In at 755 West Grant (later 635 West Mission Avenue) opened in the 1966 with a single 8,400 square foor screen and room for around 300 cars. Eventual owner Joe Colin Crowder hung a "Closed for the Winter" sign in 1982, after a screening of Blow Out. When summer 1983 rolled around, the theater did not reopen. "Most drive-ins closed because of home video," says Crowder, "but our problem was getting a good picture. There was a lot of what you'd call 'light pollution' from nearby businesses, and then theater projection technology was basically ignoring [drive-ins] and equipment wasn't being made anymore that allowed for a nice, bright picture on outdoor screens." The screen stayed up, however, along with around 60 speaker posts, and a successful swap meet was launched on the site. Crowder also ran swap meets at Oceanside’s Valley Drive-in and the Santee Drive-in. He says the swap-meet business has proved too lucrative for him to give up the property. "They call us Little Tijuana. The old drive-in lot is pretty much the main gathering place for Hispanics on the weekends up here." In 1998, the swap meet went to five days a week and remained open until 11 p.m. on Fridays. A stage was built for live performances, which the City Planning department gave permission to operate until 10 p.m. in the summer and 9:30 the rest of the year. At that time, non-reserved spots at the swap meet cost sellers $8 to $18, and reserved fees were $10 to $23, ‘pending the day of the week. Vendors could rent small, lockable storage spaces for $160 to $400 – it’s easy to see how the second-hand biz so thoroughly trumped movie exhibition. Beginning in late 2004, the locale underwent around $10 million worth of improvements, including a large children's playground and picnic areas near the "food court," which consists of around 15 vendors on any given weekend afternoon. The swap meet (incorporated October 1999) has been periodically raided by immigration officials rounding up suspected undocumented workers, but otherwise managed to avoid the kind of civic embattlement that swap meets at the Harbor and Valley drive-ins faced. Other than from residents of the Village Grove Apartments, across the street from the theater, who filed numerous complaints with the city. “We like where we live” apartment manager Carol Spaziano told the Union-Tribune (7-16-99), “but my tenants don't feel safe because of the people coming out of the swap meet on weekends.”
— April 9, 2011 5:49 a.m.
Miz Mandy Likes Rummikub
Outakes: FEARS OR PHOBIAS? 1. “Certain heights can freak me out, when it’s straight down.” 2. “June bugs. They’re the worst in the Midwest where I grew up; big, brown, and cream filled bugs. I will scream and run and hide. Kinda ridiculous.” 3. “I am deathly afraid of death.” SONG THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR LIFE? “The Entertainer, by Billy Joel.” “I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05” MOST VISITED WEBSITES? 1. “Wikipedia and Google for songwriting ideas.” 2. “Last.fm and Pitchfork to be introduced to new music.” 3. “I’m absolutely addicted to the
Groupon.com
coupon site.”
— April 6, 2011 12:26 p.m.
Low-Volume Intensity
C&H just uploaded their song "Mellow Down Easy" to the Reader site -- free spin on their page at
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/c-and-h/
— April 6, 2011 12:18 p.m.
Innocent Until Proven Guilty/fiction and poetry
Amazing, the diversity and quality of community blogs on the Reader site -- great stuff!
— April 2, 2011 6:48 p.m.
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Record-Release Roundup
Other new local licks this month include Adam Lambert’s Glam Nation Live CD/DVD, shot in Indianapolis last August and featuring twelve tracks plus a bonus cut, as well as Best Days from spiritual songsmith Steven Ybarra, an Eazy-E tribute EP from South Psycho Cide (R.I.P. Eazy), and Republic of Letters with Stories, on Nick Venti’s new Mass and Measure label.— April 18, 2011 9:05 p.m.
Cattle Herds, Tinnitus
RE hearing problems from loud music: The Reader's own local-centric feature "Rock Concerts Are Destroying Your Hearing" includes interviews with local musicians, sound engineers, doctors, and more -- http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…— April 15, 2011 9:59 a.m.
Punk the Fussies
Heh heh heh, "...while San Diego surteños Northern Tigers take down Til-Two like some weak-ass gazelle...." You don't find LOL-quotes like THAT in this column's "What To Do" counterparts/copycats at CityBeat, SoundDiego, etc ---— April 13, 2011 1:28 p.m.
Charlie Imes, Starring Johnny Depp
Outtakes: COMIC BOOK JONES? “Superman is the baddest ass of them all. He can fly. Has super strength. Bullets don’t hurt him. Being able to disarm and overpower anyone who threatens or tries to harm others. That would be cool.” ANY FEARS OR PHOBIAS? “Oversized bugs. I don’t like cockroaches, going back to my childhood days, and oversized bugs really give me the creeps. Like the ones the size of your hand or bigger. Yeesh.” TELL US SOMETHING WE DON’T KNOW “I married a Canadian woman once and, when it didn’t work out, I got it annulled by making her write me a Dear John letter that said she only married me for the green card. Wasn’t really true, but I got the annulment. Guess that means it never really happened. Never mind.”— April 13, 2011 12:26 p.m.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
I got sucked into the "Twin Peaks" TV show during the first few months, but lost interest before it all wrapped up. I remember reading about the finale and being glad I abandoned ship. My goddaughter recently told me that this later movie "Fire Walk With Me" reveals a different solution to "Who killed Laura Palmer?" but I'm too baffled by David Lynch to lookinto further -- Really, the expanded "Dune" is the only Lynch film I've watched and liked. "Eraserhead" was fine 'n' fun whilst stoned in the 80s and giggling in the seats at a midnight screening. But you couldn't make me watch it again now with a gun to my head --— April 12, 2011 4:31 p.m.
Land-Use Rezone to Come for the Escondido Swap Meet?
On April 15, 2009, the Escondido Drive-In screen was torn down by AMG Demolition, after swap meet operators decided it was too expensive to repair and city officials declined to designate it "historic" enough to merit saving. "Fifty years is our rule of thumb on historical significance," the city's planning chief Jon Brindle told the North County Times (4-15-09). "It was also not a particularly unique kind of movie screen." "It's a neat piece of the town, but it's nothing incredibly special," said Bob McQuead of Escondido's Historic Preservation Commission. "There might be something someday I will fight to preserve, but not this."— April 9, 2011 5:50 a.m.
Land-Use Rezone to Come for the Escondido Swap Meet?
A bit of history behind this contentious bit of land (which was actually the Escondido Drive-In's second locale, having originally opened down the road at 427 Grant -- later 755 West Mission -- in 1950). The Escondido Drive-In at 755 West Grant (later 635 West Mission Avenue) opened in the 1966 with a single 8,400 square foor screen and room for around 300 cars. Eventual owner Joe Colin Crowder hung a "Closed for the Winter" sign in 1982, after a screening of Blow Out. When summer 1983 rolled around, the theater did not reopen. "Most drive-ins closed because of home video," says Crowder, "but our problem was getting a good picture. There was a lot of what you'd call 'light pollution' from nearby businesses, and then theater projection technology was basically ignoring [drive-ins] and equipment wasn't being made anymore that allowed for a nice, bright picture on outdoor screens." The screen stayed up, however, along with around 60 speaker posts, and a successful swap meet was launched on the site. Crowder also ran swap meets at Oceanside’s Valley Drive-in and the Santee Drive-in. He says the swap-meet business has proved too lucrative for him to give up the property. "They call us Little Tijuana. The old drive-in lot is pretty much the main gathering place for Hispanics on the weekends up here." In 1998, the swap meet went to five days a week and remained open until 11 p.m. on Fridays. A stage was built for live performances, which the City Planning department gave permission to operate until 10 p.m. in the summer and 9:30 the rest of the year. At that time, non-reserved spots at the swap meet cost sellers $8 to $18, and reserved fees were $10 to $23, ‘pending the day of the week. Vendors could rent small, lockable storage spaces for $160 to $400 – it’s easy to see how the second-hand biz so thoroughly trumped movie exhibition. Beginning in late 2004, the locale underwent around $10 million worth of improvements, including a large children's playground and picnic areas near the "food court," which consists of around 15 vendors on any given weekend afternoon. The swap meet (incorporated October 1999) has been periodically raided by immigration officials rounding up suspected undocumented workers, but otherwise managed to avoid the kind of civic embattlement that swap meets at the Harbor and Valley drive-ins faced. Other than from residents of the Village Grove Apartments, across the street from the theater, who filed numerous complaints with the city. “We like where we live” apartment manager Carol Spaziano told the Union-Tribune (7-16-99), “but my tenants don't feel safe because of the people coming out of the swap meet on weekends.”— April 9, 2011 5:49 a.m.
Miz Mandy Likes Rummikub
Outakes: FEARS OR PHOBIAS? 1. “Certain heights can freak me out, when it’s straight down.” 2. “June bugs. They’re the worst in the Midwest where I grew up; big, brown, and cream filled bugs. I will scream and run and hide. Kinda ridiculous.” 3. “I am deathly afraid of death.” SONG THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR LIFE? “The Entertainer, by Billy Joel.” “I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05” MOST VISITED WEBSITES? 1. “Wikipedia and Google for songwriting ideas.” 2. “Last.fm and Pitchfork to be introduced to new music.” 3. “I’m absolutely addicted to the Groupon.com coupon site.”— April 6, 2011 12:26 p.m.
Low-Volume Intensity
C&H just uploaded their song "Mellow Down Easy" to the Reader site -- free spin on their page at http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/c-and-h/— April 6, 2011 12:18 p.m.
Innocent Until Proven Guilty/fiction and poetry
Amazing, the diversity and quality of community blogs on the Reader site -- great stuff!— April 2, 2011 6:48 p.m.