Goats, Gorillas, Flamingos, Fish, Cats, Doves, Deer, Eagles, Wolves, Octopus, Coyotes, Penguins

Festeevol Time!
The only reason to ever go to Tennessee and the only reason to go to a Manchester not in England or Vermont collide on the 16th of June and lasts for three days. It's the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, http://www.bonnaroo.com/. In the past Manchester, TN's music festival has been leaning toward the Jam-type bands. This year they've decided to do something else, something better. Phil Lesh formerly of the Grateful Dead, Rusted Root, Mike Gordan formerly of Phish, and Blues Traveler will be there, but so will Beck, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie, and Radiohead. Oh, and that Brazillian dude in "Steve Zizou's The Life Aquatic" that was playing David Bowie songs in Portuguese will be there. He has a name. It's Seu Jorge. Good for him. Everybody's favorite hasidic reggae star Matisyahu will be there. Oh, and Bonnie Raitt too. Huh? I forgot. It's in Tennessee, close to Nashville. I'd buy tickets, but then the concert would get cancelled. Plus, it is in Tennessee. Why can't they do something like this in the middle of Pennsylvania? It would be close enough to Philly, Pitt, Brawlimer, DC, Clever-land, and Zoo York that people wouldn't have to fly to get there. People don't think. Maybe I'll start a festival. Danny and Gary, don't your parents want to make some extra money and rent out their homes? Tickets on sale Saturday, the 11th at 10 AM EST, for Bonnaroo, not the imaginary PA show.
Bonnaroo artists:
Radiohead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Phil Lesh & Friends, Beck, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Bonnie Raitt, Death Cab for Cutie, moe., Bright Eyes, The Neville Brothers, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Buddy Guy, Damian Marley, Ben Folds, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Dr. John, Matisyahu, G. Love & Special Sauce, My Morning Jacket, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Steel Pulse, Mike Gordon & Ramble Dove, Cat Power, Medeski Martin & Wood, Nickel Creek, Gomez, Atmosphere, Steve Earle, Blues Traveler, Amadou & Mariam, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Dresden Dolls, Son Volt, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jerry Douglas, Soulive, Rusted Root, Devendra Banhart Band, Donavon Frankenreiter, Mike Doughty, Sasha, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, The Magic Numbers, Bill Frisell, Seu Jorge, Bettye LaVette, Dungen, Shooter Jennings, Rebirth Brass Band, Robinella, Andrew Bird, Steel Train, Jackie Greene, Devotchka, The Wood Brothers, dios (malos), Toubab Krewe, The Motet, Marah, I-Nine, Balkan Beat Box, & The Cat Empire
I count 21 bands that I've never even heard of, but what I don't know could fill a warehouse. Yay!

but, Coachella is better, and therefore farther away. http://www.coachella.com/
Saturday, April 29th
Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Common, Atmosphere, Carl Cox, My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, Ladytron, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tosca, Cat Power, Animal Collective, HARD-Fi, Derrick Carter, Devendra Banhart, She Wants Revenge, The Walkmen, The Juan Maclean, Imogen Heap, Audio Bullys, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, The Duke Spirit, Eagles of Death Metal, Lyrics Born, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, The Zutons, Platinum Pied Pipers, White Rose Movement, Chris Liberator, Colette, Joey Beltram, Hybrid, Living Things, Wolfmother, The Like, Nine Black Alps, Celebration, The Section Quartet, Shy FX & T Power, Infusion.
Sunday, April 30th
Tool, Massive Attack,Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Paul Oakenfold, Scissor Sisters, Matisyahu, James Blunt, Sleater-Kinney, Mogwai, Coheed and Cambria, Wolf Parade, Coldcut, Phoenix, Digable Planets, Gnarls Barkley, Amadou & Mariam, Little Louie Vega, Mylo (DJ Set), Seu Jorge, Ted Leo / Pharmacists , The Go! Team, Kaskade, Metric, Editors, Art Brut, Dungen, The Dears, Jamie Lidell, The Magic Numbers, Los Amigos Invisibles, Jazzanova, stellastarr*, Michael Mayer, Murs featuring 9th Wonder, Mates of State, Gilles Peterson, Infadels, Gabriel & Dresden, The Subways, Minus the Bear, OneRepublic, Be Your Own Pet, Youth Group, Giant Drag, Kristina Sky, The Octopus Project.

Where's the east coast bias that I hear so much about?

Farther yet: the Reading Festival, Leeds, Glastonbury, etc.

More Death Cab For Cutie:
http://www.starwars.com/community/news/rocks/f20060120/index.html
Death Star For Cutie! Get it? Get it!

Even more DCFC:
04-11-06 Constitution Hall
1776 D Street NW DC
Co-headling with Franz Ferdinand on sale through Ticketmasser sometime soon

Hot Goat-G!rl ac+ion!:
http://chivas.usa.mlsnet.com/MLS/cdc/chivagirls/
And who said Americans can't like soccer?

Ho+ Girlie music:
http://www.epitonic.com/artists/peaches.html
Peaches - Lovert!ts

Peaches are the crazies+ Canad!ans. Have you seen "Los+ !n +ransla+!on"? Well, +ha+ was Peaches play!ng !n the "gen+lemen's club." I need to get some of their music. I'm sure Jenn wouldn't let me listen to it though.

Kustomized Kicks:
http://www.converse.com/converseone/
http://www.rbkcustom.com/content.html
http://nikeid.nike.com/nikeid/index.jhtml?ref=global_home#home
Why can't adidas have a site like these?

A pumpkin by any other name is still a pumpkin (unless it is missing half of the original band.)
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001956802

You can have them both, the madonna and the gorillaz.
http://www.livedaily.com/news/Madonna_Gorillaz_team_for_Grammy_performance-9540.html?t=97
Grammys tonight. This may be the only reason to watch tonight, but is it really worth it? No. Did you forget LOST?

LOST:
There is a new LOST tonight. Sun gets attacked. Poor South Koreans always getting picked on by the Others to the North.

Operation Slap Shot
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?id=2322762
Former hockey player, current hockey asst. coach to Gretzky's Coyotes, and eternal hockey jerk Rick Tockett is in trouble for book-keeping and money laundering. New Jersey cops entitled the sting "Operation Slap Shot." Supposedly none of the bets were on hockey so that isn't really that big of a deal, but then again Pete Rose "never bet on baseball." Money laundering is always a big deal. Just ask the IRS. Oh, and Janet Jones, Wayne Gretzky's wife and lead actress in the movie "the Flamingo Kid," may be involved. What I remember most about Rick Tockett's playing days was going from the Philly Flyers where he played most of his career to the Pittsburgh Penguins and winning the Stanley Cup there. After the final game during an interview a reporter asked him what it was like to win the championship. Tockett said it was great playing for the best team in Pennsylvania. When the reporter reminded him that the Pens were the greatest team in the league since they had just won the Stanley Cup, Rick repeated himself. "Greatest team in Pennsylvania." Nice. Now the Steelers are the greatest team in Pennsylvania.

-pd
P.S.: Anybody wanta do some fantasy baseball? My team is called Most Valuable Rx

space for rent:
http://vgly.blogspot.com/