Ricotta Park

Astronautilus - "Trouble Hunters"

Excellent video for Astronautalis' "Trouble Hunters" from the forthcoming album Pomegranate. Mark Hubbard directed the clip, which features some dudes we've written about on a few other occasions. 

Minutemen - "Cut"

Let your maté steep and dig this great live capture of one of the more menacing of the Watt-driven Minutemen tunes.

Cut - Minutemen

I was(n't alone in) hoping Roargan (RIP) would head in this direction but, you know, practicing to be Jacksonville's own Ché is important too.

Massive Jam: Spoked Edition

Come celebrate Bike*****fester (I'm a conscientious objector) at BG tonight. Gonna be a wicket yooge pahty, kid!

From the man hisself:

So I have decided to throw (or if you are from new jares) trow my own birthday jam. Its BIKEVEMBERFEST! Come by bike and there is no cover. Come by car and say you came by bike and there is no cover! We will be passing the hat because nobody around here gets paid anyway and our insurance renewal is up at the BBB. So support your local bike co-op, recycle and waxy fabric bag shop, and record store. And enjoy $2 orange parks and $2 millerburgs and some other hourly shot speshes. THATS RIGHT SON!

Oh yeah. Starts at happy hourish. But then the entertainment starts when people start carrying heavy things toward the stage and asking people to move. FUN!

One last thing. If you have a blog, please feel free to cut and paste all this on there, because its just some kids trying to pay for their insurance. And an adult trying to dj. Old records. Like you read about.

I'm not gonna gush, but this is going to be a swell time that benefits swell things put on by super swell folks. SRSLY.

Man Man - Jackrabbits 10/27 - The Warmup

Man Man play at Jack Rabbits on Monday 10/27. Sure to be famous times. In the video below, the band walks around Paris clowning on Modest Mouse and Metallica, then sings a Marx Brothers song ("Everyone Says I Love You") while a band member gets his head shaved. From the excellent La Blogotheque.

RP Xmas Redux

Looks like the Park's sponsoring Eclipse's annual Xmas jam for the second year in a row! Last year was a blast w/ Wudun and Indiana Drones doing the stage thing, while McKinnon, Rocktalk and I played our laptops.

We'll have more details over the next few weeks, but it's shaping up to be even better this year. Check out Tom's pics from last year. Smiles for miles, kid.

America's Finest Goodtimes Xmas Band - Merry Christmas

Cowpea!

The fine folks at ArtSparks! bring you Cowpea! this Saturday night (10/11) at Freebird Live. It's a benefit for the Beaches Organic Community Garden. Expect great tunes, tight visuals and many more exclamation points! There will be food, too, which we hear goes great with drink.

Buy tix in advance for $10 here and $15 on the day of show.

Bailout

Tomorrow night at Mark's, I'm playing tunes (DJ Cries Thunder) with Biggie Tea, Urban Joey and some other cats for the last night of T's Tuesday night residency. Pay yr tab with a Wachovia VISA and you probably won't have to pay that sh*t back. Famous times!

Tardy Recap: Tom Waits - TU Center - Jacksonville, FL

Hey folks, I've been down in Barbados for work and have had pretty inconsistent internet access. Needless to say, I was stoked to get this review of last week's Tom Waits show from Jonah Whalebelly and even more stoked to share it with you. Here. Now. Sure, it's a week or so past, but we never said we were timely around here...just radical. - Longlunch

(photo by xvm)

Well. Now that its over, let's all just exhale and take a few moments to collect ourselves.

Now, pinch yourself three times, click the red heels nobody knows you are wearing and say it with me....Tom Waits played a f*cking show in Jacksonville.

Let that soak for a while.

There isn't much point to stating that the show was a spectacular success, or that Waits is the single greatest performer to ever grace our little town. It was, and he is. The people who went will gush and gush over it for the rest of our lives, and the people who said $102 was too expensive for a ticket will be as wrong tomorrow as they were yesterday.

So here is the review: Fucking incredible. 9 stars. A+. Better'n a peek up a pretty girl's skirt. Once in a lifetime experience, no matter how many time it happens.

Now let's talk about it.

One Year Later: The Vagina Search Logs

About a year ago, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues was performed at the Atlantic Theaters in the Ricotta Park headquarters of sunny Atlantic Beach, FL. The show was advertised on the marquee for a day or two before a woman - who had driven by the theater with her 12-year old niece - called and complained about the word "vagina" being displayed publicly..

After some arguing, threats, etc, the manager changed the marquee to read "The Hoohaa Monologues." I saw the sign the afternoon that the change was made, thought it seemed an odd change, called the theater, got the story from the manager and wrote about it. The Hoohaa story was also covered by the local alt-weekly, a local television station, as well as major national and international news outlets. People around the world were outraged with both the woman's ignorant repression and the theater's weak-kneed appeasement of her.

A few days later, the folks at bOING bOING linked to my post and my daily traffic went through the roof.  More outrage, more comments, tons of inbound links from other sites and blogs. And while the story is long-since dead, the Hoohaa post - a year old and still getting dozens of direct hits a day - remains the most popular one on this site.

But the post's popularity hasn't endured because people are still incensed about a hoohaa in the lower fringes of the Bible Belt, but rather because people are searching for LOTS of other vagina-related content on the internet. Big surprise, I know.

Below the fold is a list of the most popular Google-based keyword searches from the last six months or so that have led people to my original post. The list ranges from celebratory (fantastic female vaginas) to supernatural (girl could put out fire with vagina) to creepy (12 year old girls vaginas) to international (how to say vagina in spain) to hell yeah bro (the coolest things that girls do with there vaginas) to complete shock (you can see her vagina!) to Canadian indie rock sirens (+""emily haines"" pic +vagina).

I've left the punctuation as-is. Feel free to discuss your favorites. 

Tangerine Fest '08

This is the second or third year in a row that Philip's put on this festival. It's a great day to bring your dogs, babies, bikes and/or bellies to the park. Music, food, a bike race and other fun stuff. Jan. 26th, 11 am - 9pm, Memorial Park, Jacksonville, FL.