When I was in college in the Northeast of the US, I used to get so frustrated with the cold weather that by mid-March I would start to dress as if temperatures were actually shooting up. Instead of wearing a thick winter coat appropriate to protect me from the cold spring weather, I'd just throw on a sweater and freeze to death as I walked around campus. I call it wishful thinking, but there's probably some clinical diagnosis for that type of behavior. Anyhoo, it seems to be working better this year than it did in those days; I painted my nails orange to celebrate the arrival of the fall season, and consequently we've had some kind of front -- not quite a cold front, the Sun-Sentinel tells us -- come through to suck the stifling heat out of the air. So, you're welcome, suckers.
It's nice to hear that The Pretty Faces are actually going to play a Broward show this weekend -- I thought the band forsaken us for Miami venues, which these good-looking kids have been playing like madmen for the last month or so.
The Pretty Faces
The show will be at the Poor House on Saturday night. It's the first time that The Pretty Faces has played that venue. The band will be joined by the ever-delightful, R-rated Carver Estates band The Freakin' Hott. How can you find out more about this show? I don't know. That's pretty much all that you need to know -- you just show up at like 10:30 and then you grab a beer and look at the stage. It's pretty simple. But, if you want to read another of Maggie's brilliant blog posts -- in this one, she eviscerates a dating article from Yahoo -- in which she tags her upcoming shows at the end, check out The Freakin' Hott's most recent blog post. Her running commentary on the article is kind of like a ruthlessly cynical print version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- she terrifies me!
The Freakin Hott
It's not every day that City Link editor Jake Cline pens a feature story for the weekly newspaper, but then again it's not every day that two local musicians write a rock opera about another long-time South Florida musician and producer. Jake Cline interviews Rob Elba from The Holy Terrors and solo musician Brian Franklin about their rock opera tribute to Rat Bastard called Hearing Damage, previews musical selections from the show that will be performed this Saturday at Churchills in Miami at 10:30 p.m. and relays stories about the dramatic reactions people have had to Rat Bastard's noise making over the years. The piece is called "It Will Get Loud", and it's a fun one.
I gotta go and do other stuff with my day now. It's hard to figure out where to begin when you come out of one of those bad colds. Hope y'all enjoy the weather.
