The Automatik

House of Blues
March 9, 2002

Do you ever see someone play and kick yourself that you never listened to them before? I’m kicking myself twice today.
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El Matador
February 9, 2002

If you notice, I did not include the name of the opening band. That is because I never caught it. They said it several times, it was even printed on a flyer, but it was long and it was some sort of bizarre Spanglish and I just didn’t feel like writing it down. After BJM, nothing else seemed to matter anyway.
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Kenny’s Key West
February 10, 2002

“The more you drink, the better we sound!”
-Vanilla Ice, Lundi Gras 2002
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The Shim Sham Club
February 2, 2002

Yet another one of my “I’m not that big of a fan but I know I can’t miss this” shows. Seems like those are all the shows I go to lately. But they all turn out to be pretty interesting and mostly enjoyable, at least.
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The Shim Sham Club
January 18, 2002

Jim Carroll is a legend, but my friends, I was a Jim Carroll virgin. Sure, I’ve seen The Basketball Diaries and even heard some of his “hits,” but never read any of his poetry or heard any of his more recent music, spoken word or otherwise.
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The Shim Sham Club
November 29, 2001

I’ve seen El Vez and his Memphis Mariachi and El Vettes so many times, I can’t even remember how many. He always puts on a good show and I am always entertained, delighted, and frequently thrilled.
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The Shim Sham Club
November 24, 2001

One of the great things about club shows is that they’re relatively inexpensive ($8 to $15) so if the band sucks, you don’t feel like you got ripped off. Ironically, this was one of the better shows I’ve seen by a band I’d never heard before and I didn’t even have to pay! My friend Laura, who was working with the promoters, put me on her “plus one” list. Yay!
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The Howlin’ Wolf
November 16, 2001

I will admit that I have never owned a Stereolab album. I’ve heard plenty enough played by friends, and that is part of the reason I went to the show. The other part is that there is a paucity of shows with interesting, non-local bands on the weekends and I didn’t want to miss out on a potential great time.
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The Howlin’ Wolf
November 10, 2001

I was so excited about this show that I bought a wig and wore it there. That’s gotta count for something. The Woggles always put on a good show, but I hadn’t seen them in years because they always play on a school night. I’d never seen Mr. Quintron, because he not only plays on school nights, he plays in terribly crack �n’ crime infested neighborhoods. But now I have seen the light.
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The Howlin’ Wolf
November 9, 2001

Is nothing sacred? Not for David Cross, and thank God. The September 11 terrorist attacks, retarded people, President Bush, Christians, Scientologists, and even urine drinkers are all targets of his blisteringly liberal yet refreshingly politically incorrect rants.
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