I've been a little under the weather, and also I'm extremely old, but I'm tempted to go see Artifacts tonight. The only other time I saw them was for a very memorable show at Rocksteady Park in the Summer of 1994, when the group had first broken out with its first (and biggest) cuts "C'mon wit da Get Down" and "Wrong Side of the Tracks." Here are a couple lesser-known favorites from Tame One and El Da Sensei:
Glasser at the Crocodile awhile back.
Four well-accessorized ladies (Emily, Theresa, Ashley, Samantha) at Oddfellows
Emily and Laura C. watching the A Frames at the Andy Kotowicz Family Foundation Benefit Show a couple weeks back.
A Frames
Emily at Linda's
Charles Leo Gebhardt IV at the Comet
End of a night
The multi-talented Holly Miranda, last night at High Dive in Seattle...
...rocking a Betty Davis t-shirt, no less. 
Here's my favorite cut:
Taken By Trees at the Triple Door last Friday. 
I'm pretty sure those were projections on the stage, not cold medicine-fueled hallucinations. Either way, it was a great show.
Brought to you by Hollow Earth Radio , Magma 2010 features, among many others, The Thrown-Ups, (described by festival organizers as "the band that Mark Arm and Steve Turner were in before Mudhoney... Leighton [Beezer] started it in the '80s with the premise that he form a band that never practiced and never had any songs"); Bruce Pavitt on the 1+2's; the legendary Tom Price and friends; and Butts, who play "songs about alcohol, marijunana* and not wanting to take the bus. I fucking love this band."
Yesterday Emily and I took a full day off, something neither of us has done done since that trip to Port Townsend in early January. It was so nice in Seattle. We went to Alki and took a walk, went to Ray's for a late lunch, and ended up at Captain Blacks with some favorite cohorts, where we got to watch Bode win the combined, along with the ceaseless wonder that is ice dancing. It was magical and surreal (the day off – the ice dancing not so much).
Shabazz Palaces at Neumo's. 
One should never disagree with a bear.
There's a band called Ocelot Omelet.
Cold Lake at the Comet. They play the Crocodile this Thursday night – highly recommended.
I remember someone coming back to New York and saying that one of the things they missed was all the walls of ads pasted up around the city. At the time I thought that was ridiculous.
Seattle does have some nice paste-up artwork around though. I admired this skull on the way to work for a few days until the rain washed it off.
Stang and a couch. What else is there.
I don't know, seemed photo-worthy. Nice colors.
I'm looking for a new office. One with a big window.
There's a venue in Seattle called the Pet Seminary. ("Where dogs go to become priests.")
Classy.
"Go to hell." "You first." (Is that a line from The Quick and the Dead? I think it is. Surprisingly underrated movie despite the presence of that little girl DiCaprio. He's kind of a kid in that movie anyway so it's okay...Arnie Grape with a six-shooter.)
Past Lives at Black Lodge on Saturday. Go buy their new record and see 'em live (Brooklyn: April 20th). They have never sounded better. Same goes for Triumph of Lethargy, who opened. They have a new album on the way which I'm very much looking forward to.
After the show we walked out to our Jeep to find that it was all muddy and the front fender was crushed. We became quite agitated. And then we realized that our Jeep – the exact same model, year and color, with the exact same rack on the roof and everything – was parked two cars in front of this one, and was 100% unscathed. It was a little embarrassing. 
If anything like that ever happened to this dude he would just finish his Raindog, find a crooked little stick in the gutter and wave it in the air, and an unusually sturdy and majestic shetland pony would appear to whisk him away...or maybe a dune buggy. He seems like he knows some secret that I don't know, and I wish I knew it.
On the eve of GO! MACHINE – two days of local hip-hop shows at the Crocodile – a Seattle hip-hop post for your pleasure.
A design by Stacy Rozich, one of six designs by local artists featured on T-shirts available at Cairo during Eclectic Magic, a low-key but delightful pop-up shopping experience for the holidays. Cairo is open 12-6pm everyday now through January 3rd and they're having an opening this Friday night featuring music from Alaska's, Wild Orchid Children, and Stephanie. I don't know the other two but I had the great pleasure of seeing Alaska's at the Anne Bonny for Expo 87 the other weekend and would jump at the chance to repeat the experience.
Alaska's at the Anne Bonny for Expo 87 the other weekend
Tonight as part of the Seattle International Film Festival, Los Angeles band No Age is performing an original live score to L'Ours (The Bear), a 1989 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Take that, Grizzly Bear.When a rockslide kills a mother bear, her cub Douce becomes an orphan in the threatening Canadian Rockies. Luckily, she encounters Bart, a full-grown male bear on the run from hunters after mauling their pack animals. Though the ill-tempered Bart initially rejects Douce’s companionship, the cub wins his affection by licking Bart’s gunshot wounds. Psychedelic mushroom trips and a rendezvous with Doc (the effeminate male bear who plays Bart’s love interest) are woodland fun at its finest, but the invasive fear of being hunted drives The Bear forward. Staged with trained bears and filmed in the Italian Dolomites, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film seems like realism in drag as documentary. Yet it’s this feeling that makes The Bear a magical discovery and a welcome departure from the ordinary wildlife exposé.I like bears, I like the Canadian Rockies, I like mushrooms, I like art. I like punk, I tell you what. I like that stuff. I'm not sure about the chaos, it's complicated.
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As Douce and Bart sift through the maladies and joys of their precarious existence, so too does No Age’s music filter raw sensation through art-punk chaos.
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