{"id":46,"date":"2007-12-08T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/08\/bands-at-the-bug-jar\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:24:40","slug":"bands-at-the-bug-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/12\/08\/bands-at-the-bug-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands at the Bug Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the movie, Ali and I went to The Bug Jar<\/a><\/strong> (219 Monroe Ave.<\/a>) and met up with our friend Stacie to see the bands playing that night.<\/p>\n

I got in to see a few songs from Tiger Cried Beef<\/a><\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a> and they always impress me. They're like gourmet vanilla: at first, you're like, \"oh, I've seen this before,\" but then you get into the subtleties and think, \"oh, yeah, but this can be really good.\" I also noticed that good ideas sprout from my spot leaning against the right-side speaker [with earplugs, by the way, which happen to serve two purposes: not blowing out my eardrums, and drowning out the distracting chatter.]<\/em> It's not with every band or every time, but I find that poetry makes me think of stuff — you know, new things to do or work on.<\/p>\n

Anyway, next up was The White Devils<\/strong>\"MySpace<\/a>. This is Frank De Blase<\/a><\/strong>'s band and for anybody who knows me, I have a mix of feelings about the guy. It usually comes out looking like disdain, but it's really more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

See he's one of the main music writers for The City Newspaper<\/a><\/strong> so there's a certain amount of empathetic envy (or envious empathy) since I kind of do the same thing sometimes — the dichotomy comes from the fact that he gets paid for it, but I can see myself getting annoyed that it's often a shit job. I mean, sure you get paid to write about bands, but you also have to write fluffy pieces about bands you don't really care about, and you get slammed for being a critic by — in his case — your fellow musicians.<\/p>\n

Now I've also met him a few times. A couple years ago, I remember having a nice chat about writing about music at California Rollin'<\/a> at Village Gate Square<\/strong> (274 N. Goodman St.<\/a>). He seemed like a nice guy, but either forgot who I was or didn't want to talk to me the next time I saw him. And again, I'm mixed on his response. On the one hand you can't be friends with everyone you meet, and not everybody can do that \"such a nice guy front\" (and I know I can't do it consistently). On the other, I think if you have a pleasant conversation with someone and you see them again, I kind of expect that there would be an inkling of recognition. But then I also know that it's hard to remember everyone. And then I hear from his friends that he's really a nice guy. And then I hear from his detractors that he's not a nice guy.<\/p>\n

Worst of all is that I bother expending all this effort trying to accurately express how I feel about him when I don't really want to be friends with him [no offense, Frank, if you're reading this]<\/em>. His band does a bluesy rock that I'm not a fan of. If I read him right, he's into pin-up culture and busty women; biker bars and greaser-chic. I'm just not into that stuff — none of it. It's just that we both happen to write about what's going on in town.<\/p>\n

I guess the thing is that he's writing for City. And I assume there are lots of readers and most of them agree with Frank's assessment and preferences [logically I know this is a flawed assumption but I can't seem to convince my heart]<\/em>. But I wish that this quantity of N readers (where N is really fucking large) would actually like the kind of stuff that I<\/em> connect with. But then I think, \"why? who cares?\" I get unlimited latitude in what I feel like writing about and what I feel like putting on the events list. I'm not out to win any popularity contest because I'm unwilling to make that devil's deal trading \"self\" for \"popular\". I just figure there's got to be a way …<\/p>\n

But anyway, his band is good, even if it's not the kind of music I'm into.<\/p>\n

Closing things out that night was The Sadies<\/a><\/strong> who always put on a great show. It's all about the music although they look good doing it. And I really like them even though they play the country-cousin of bluesy-rock: rockabilly. Well, rockabilly with generous helpings of surf-rock thrown in. I feel bad because I don't have a lot of things to say about bands I like — I guess I figure it doesn't do much to try and explain in words what you hear-that-becomes-feel. Just sound and motion and an emotional connection, I guess. Oh, and fun. Lots of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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