I attended the sold out Honda Civic Tour this weekend in Seattle at the gorgeous Paramount Theatre. I was lucky enough to see the tour while I was in Chicago recently, as well. I’ve been chummy with the Panic boys and Hush Sounders for some time now so it was great to see all of them. Also, as you maybe know, I love Phantom Planet. And boy can they put on a show. I even got to talk with Alex about Donnie Darko 2 and how Self-Titled is their Pinkerton. He was quite nice. And seemingly very talented at Wii.
The Hushers rocked it as always. Bob, you still owe me a serenade session. I want “Out Through The Curtain”. I’ve always loved the “place all your bets and watch me lose” line.
When I saw the tour in Chicago, I ended up missing Panic play “Behind The Sea”, which is one of my favorite songs off Pretty. Odd. Spencer was nice enough to dedicate Saturday’s rendition to me. Love that guy. I concluded my night on Panic’s bus, playing sing-a-long with Brendon and Greta. Brendon can play any song you can name. Including “Cumbersome”. Then we played the last level of Portal just to get to hear the credits song. Anyone else obsessed with it?
last night (after 2:30am!) someone smashed the passenger side window of my car and stole my ipod. keep in mind this was in the driveway at my parent’s house, which is tucked deep in a corner of a residential area in the normally-crime-free city of bellevue, wa. and the worst part is that i usually always bring it inside with me. the one night i don’t, the iThief makes his move.
fueled by ramen, our record label, announced their newest signing today. phantom planet. PHANTOM FUCKING PLANET PEOPLE! how amazing is that?? this is one of my favorite bands, and i couldn’t be more excited about being on the same label as them. i was reading through a bunch of the responses to this news over at absolutepunk.net and i was quite disappointed to see how many people were bad-mouthing their self-titled release. phantom planet s/t is an amazing, progressive, dirty, aggressive, pop masterpiece. yes, the guest is amazing. but bands grow. they breathe and flex and expand. and that’s what the s/t album is. if you didn’t give this record a second chance because of its drastic departure from their previous sound, i urge you to go back and listen again. and again and again and again.
