rivulets live on WFHB. 9:30-10p.

Live on-air special for the release of rivulets’ new album, “you are my home”
Listen in Bloomington at 91.3 FM or online at wfhb.org

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Bloomington Linux Users Group @ Monroe County Public Library Room 1B

Join BLUG once again.  Mark Krenz will give a presentation on utomating X windows.  Including controlling the window manager and mouse pointer from a script and the command line.  You can use these echniques for things like a demonstration machine that needs to run nattended or as recently done, automate the process of taking creenshots of mapquest/googlemaps and putting them together into a arge montaged image.

Mayor Daley, Brett Gand is Dead, Bitter Homes and Gardens @ The Well Well Well. 8p. $donation

Sunday. January 7, 8pm at the Well Well Well, 909 W. Ninth Street

Mayor Daley (Chicago)
for fans of Deerhoof, DNA, and dresses made out of Aldi bags

Brett Gand is Dead (Chicago)
plays are the new band

Bitter Homes and Gardens (Bloomington)
ex-Piedmonster and punkin pie
fucked up punk, circling the drain
plus more TBA

please bring donations for the touring bands

PEACE BABY

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Boxcar Books 5th Year Anniversary Benefit Dinner @ The Unitarian Church

Here’s the menu:

Hors D’oeuvres

  • Fresh baked bread by Colin
  • Olives with Fennel and Orange
  • Falafel
  • Dolmas
  • Spinach Phyllo Cups
  • Roasted Garlic Crostini with Smoked Paprika
  • Charmoula Drizzled Vegetable Kabobs

Salads

  • Greek Salad
  • Moroccan Cous Cous Salad

Entree

  • Eggplant Roulade served w/ Polenta and topped w/ Vegetable
  • Saffron Bouillabaise

Desserts

  • Baklava by Tess
  • Creamy Mediterranean Rice Pudding

Everything is vegan friendly.

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Horizons Art Opening @ Boxcar Books. 7-9p.

Boxcar Books, 310-A South Washington St. in Bloomington, is happy to announce an upcoming art exhibit at their location.  On Friday, January 5th, 2007, from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Boxcar books will host a reception to kick off a month-long exhibit of featured paintings from artists of the Horizons Art Therapy Program at Center for Behavioral Health.  Refreshments will be provided at the free event.
The exhibit originally debuted at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre on December 2nd to an appreciative crowd as part of the “Art of Mental Health,” and Boxcar Books is happy to provide space for patrons to enjoy it at length during the month of January.   Artists of these works use their art as a tool in treatment for coping, creativity, leisure, and building friendships.

For more information, contact Steven Slothard (steven [at] boxcarbooks [dot] org) or Boxcar Books at 812-339-8710.

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Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan Public Meeting @ Boxcar Books. 4p.

Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan will hold a public meeting beginning at 4pm. Formed in the Fall of 2005, HCHP’s goal is to develop and promote a bill in the Indiana State Legislature that will be introduced in January of 2007 that will promote Universal Healthcare. For more information, please visit www.hchp.info

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transportation issues on wfhb’s interchange

One of the things that’s nice about living in a town as small as Bloomington is that the connection between different dynamics and forces is much more clear.  Two development plans that will really affect Bloomington in coming years are Finelight’s proposal for a new headquarters downtown.  Finelight is requesting that the city help provide parking for it’s employees, claiming that parking downtown is scarce.  A local group conducted a study questioning perceptions of parking scarcity downtown and this study has become central in the debate around Finelight’s plans.  I’ve also been paying attention to bike issues and the proposal for the B-Line bike path on the old railroad grade that runs north/south through Bloomington.  Tonight on WFHB’s interchange, they had guests from Bloomington Transportation Options for People, the group that conducted the parking study as well as a transportation planner from Portland, Oregon.

Two new strategies or tools regarding shared use of roads that I had never heard of: “bicycle boulevards” and “sharrows”.

Link to WFHB’s programming archive where this episode of interchange should be available for download soon.

Lemuria/Kind of Like Spitting – Your Living Room’s All Over Me

So I started reviewing CDs for the local community radio station, WFHB, after realizing that, being on tour so much, I couldn’t easily have a show.  It’s a small thing, but hopefully it’s helpful.  I’m going to start posting some of the reviews of things that I find to be pretty enjoyable.

Label: Art of the Underground
artist:    Lemuria/Kind of Like Spitting
title:    Your Living Room’s All Over Me
file under:    Power Pop, Pop-Punk, Indie Rock
grade:    B
Review:
Lemuria is a newer band that plays power-pop or pop-punk in a way that sounds like a less aggressive version of Discount, with catchy hooks, male/female vocals, and personal lyrics that, at times, border on the melodramatic.  Kind of Like Spitting features members of Death Cab for Cutie and The Thermals.  The songs are less polished than the former but more musically ambling than the latter.  Their sound reminds me a bit of The Dismemberment Plan if they had made more lo-fi recordings with less dynamic songs but with more present lead guitar parts.

comments / tracks  of interest:
Tracks 1-7 are by Lemuria, 8-12 by Kind of Like Spitting

3 – “Bugbear” – a driving, bitter track about severed relationships
7 – “Sophmore” – a poppy reproach that will remind the listener of their college days
10 – “You I Seek” – Faster and more straightforward than the other KOLS tracks, it sounds as good as anything ever released by The Thermals.

FCC: 1, 5, 6, 11

Link to sample track Hours by Lemuria
Link to sample track You I Seek by KOLS

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