Been a long week here at the NXT desk. We kicked things off with all the Halo shenanigans (not to mention a late nighter at GameStop), shot the bull with Videoport Jones, and launched the podcast.
That makes for one tuckered out writer/bloggist/bacon aficionado.
Sorry, no Commenter of the Week this week, not enough comments, or coordination on my part. I pledge to do better in the future. I also pledge to have a High Life, some strips of thick cut bacon and a doughnut from Tony's Donut Shop this weekend. Maybe all at the same time...as "This is our country" plays in the background.
Uh, let's get on with the weekend rundown...
FRIDAY
Have I mentioned the big Sontiago show tonight? (Podcast plug incoming) If only there was some sort of inteview, like a audio interview, like radio or something, to tell people about Sontiago and her new album, "Steel Yourself." Oh wait, there is, and it's conveniently located directly to your right. Tonight, Sontiago, dilly dilly, Gabe FM and Niles Girls at SPACE, doors open at 9 p.m., show kicks off at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $6, head to Bull Moose or SPACE to pick them up, 18 +
Tough, tough call for local hip-hop heads tonight. Jedi Mind Tricks had to reschedule a show from earlier this summer at the Station and are back in town tonight. They're playing with wunder-group LabSeven, with doors at (7 p.m.?). Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door.
If the hip-hop music is not your thing, you can get a healthy daily allowance of straight-out rock (as recommended by the Surgeon General, naturally) at the Big Easy. Twisted Roots and Loverless are playing together for your enjoyment. Show's up at 9 p.m., it's a $5 entry - cheap!
SATURDAY
Tonight is the WePushButtons.com crew's monthly set at the White Heart, featuring j.hjort, Mike Clouds, Moshe, Rocket One and Dereloid. Things get started around 9 p.m.
Manwitch, Ogre, Taming the Shrew and Hatchetface are playing at Geno's tonight at 9 p.m., in another show in the series of benefits for Melynda Amann.
If you'd rather see some flicks this weekend and "Resident Evil: Extinction," the Manhattan Short Film Festival is taking place at SPACE. Doors open at 7:30 p.m, tickets are $6 in advance, $8 at the door. This is the 10th year for the film festival, which screens a dozen short independent films, which are then voted on by the audience. You can also check out a screening at the Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville.
Finally, the last bit of business, a little online video love, thanks to the good people over at Super Deluxe. It's a strange journey we've been on this summer as the sports and pop culture universes have collided. No stranger than when OJ jumped back into the national spotlight last week much to everyone's groans of "not again."
But it seems Orenthal saw an opportunity in Vegas, and needed just the right team for the job - Clooney style.
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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