Concert: Neko CaseOpen Act: Jason LytleConcert Date: July 29th, 2009Venue: Kimmel Center – Verizon Hall I got turned on to Neko Case through her side project The New Pornographers. Truth be told, I never took the time to single her out and find out if she did any solo work until her most recent album […]
Read More Concert Review: Neko Case @ The Kimmel CenterHype and disappointment share different sides on a very fickle coin. In the flash of a milli-second you can go from bummed out to pumped up. That has been theme going into the TDP 2009. Many of the long term tourers couldn’t make it this year (which got us all down), and we saw the […]
Read More Reflections on Tour De Philly 2009Performance Date: Saturday, May 16thOpening Act: Delta Spirit My wife scored tickets for the Shins after her sister informed her they were coming to town. The show was sold out so we had to get tickets via StubHub, but thankfully we didn’t pay much more than street value, which was refreshing. [Delta Spirit] I don’t […]
Read More Concert Review: The Shins @ The Electric FactoryHold on tight true be-loggers, this is going to be a very specific Philly post. As mentioned in previous posts, I have been commuting from New Jersey to Philadelphia via the NJ Patco line. I enjoy taking the train in the morning, most people are polite and quiet (except for one large African America woman […]
Read More Commuting Blog: The 16th Street Patco ExitIf you mark time in increments of bar crawls, we might all just live forever. Sadly we can’t, but we can make up for it by getting incredibly inebriated. This years bar crawl expanded, stretched, and blew apart the very fabric of the Tour De Philly (maybe I am exaggerating a little bit…). Like last […]
Read More Reflections on the Bar Crawl 2008