Tips for kids like me, who don't have a lot of cash, or don't want to spend a lot of cash on gigs:

There is a beautiful business that I will not name because I might get sued, or some preposterous thing like that, considering that I am not an underage kid anymore. This business can be found through many different mediums: through the web, through the phone, or through certain physical music stores or other retailers that it has specified on its website. The business that I am discussing is one of those places where you can buy tickets. This one I am specifically ranting about is the monopoly of selling tickets. There isn't any gig it doesn't sell tickets for, except for independent venues like The Echo, Spaceland, etc.
In regards to this business, kids, beautiful kids, or young people, or peers, or whatever you want to be called, before you buy your tickets in one of these businesses, do your research. Go to the venue's website before thinking of buying your tickets online, somewhat ironic, but that’s how it swims. Look at the venue's website and check out if the venue sells tickets in its box office before the day of the gig. Do this, if and only if this type of procedure is nice to your wallet, in reference to both the ticket and gas expense or bus fares. If the venue does not sell tickets in its box office, maybe they sell tickets through the phone, where you can pick them up at will call—in this case, you buy your tickets on the phone from the venue and pick them up an hour or so before the doors are opened in the box office of the venue. If none of these options are possible, then you go to the business monopoly that sells the tickets online. You go through the application process, and when the time comes when it asks you how you want your tickets, whether printed out, sent through mail, or anything else, look if will call is one of those options, and opt for that one. As you will see in the application, if you want to print your tickets you get a fee, which adds up to the fee of the tickets, plus the convenience charge plus the tax plus some other charges you don’t want to pay for. The business wants your money; try not to give in to this at any sane cost, if it is accessible and easy for you to come around to. If you are capable of selecting will call, and you are paying with a credit card that is not yours, keep in mind that if the box office attendant is an arse, you will not get your tickets, and you will have spent money in vain, and perhaps paid for your tickets at thrice the price, if you really wanted to see the band live (this comes from me to you from an experience from an acquaintance of mine. My acquaintance had bought the ticket with her father’s credit card, and though she had the same last name as the last name on the credit card, the attendant gave her a hard time. She was lucky that after harassing the attendant some time, she allowed my acquaintance to obtain the ticket). If the credit card is not yours, get a signed permission from the owner of the credit card, and present it to the box office attendant. Be ready, and harass in the nicest way if there is such a problem.
This is the last option that I give you because it is the last one that I can muster to type and not sound like I do not know what I am writing about. This business wants to rip you off at any cost because it knows that the music fanatic will pay for gigs that he/she wants to attend, so, fight it and do your best not to conform.
This is the first tip that I have to scream to you in words. It's the one tip that I follow constantly as much as possible because I don't want to pay thirty something dollars for a ticket that would have cost me fifteen dollars if I would have bought it from the venue in which the show was held.

-C.S.H.

Salty Eyes

A while back we posted the video for The Matches' new single, Salty Eyes. Well here's the making of the video.



-Clio

Warped Tour

Warped Tour 2007...one word to describe it. okay maybe tons of words. So I'm just going to give a brief outline

late

traffic

more traffic

later

paramore

awesome

skinny girl

good voice

funeral for a friend

amazing

british

cool accents

thristy

hot

10000 degrees

eat

expenisive

new year's day

sucked

a lot

anberlin

amazing

stupid girls

smoking pot

the matches

the greatest

shawn harris

genius

best band

water

food

expensive

signing

autographs

picture

w/ matches

bad religion

legends

amazing

saw pit instructor

awkward

lost

can't find stage

spill canvas

super good

new bass player

lame

but still good

finish

wait

wait

water

bayside

awesome

bad teeth

in front

10 extra minutes

amazing

finish

meg & dia

blah

leave

hear playradioplay

pissed

thought they finished

still walk to car

drive

traffic

listen

sad

traffic

bad

driving

traffic

home

tired

no sunburn

happy

sleep



well, that's it. I have to get ready for work, that's why its so brief.

-Clio

Logo for our Blog

Fellow Readers, though many of you seem particularly uninterested in the words I type upon this web facade, I hope that this side of my art will attract you, even if it isn't as artsy fartsy as I am capable of--in a world devoid of work. I want all of you to participate and pick one out of the following four logo works that appeals the most to you, so that it will be part of our blog, our LOOK.

Pop! Music eins, seen below is black, white, yellow and red. If ye like it, just comment and leave behind: Eins.




Pop! Music zwei, also below consists of purple, black, some red, and the flash that incorporated white into it. Again, if you are particularly fond of this one, just comment and leave: Zwei.




Pop! Music drei, below, has been inspired by The White Stripes due to the colors red, white and black. Comment, and the keyword you will have to type down is: Drei.





Pop! Music vier is the last of the ones; created of blue, black and white. This came to be by accident, the final one, if it fancies your taste of logos, VIER is the word to type.





Thank you for your participation. As a result of your comments, if you leave behind your name and age, we will enter you in a raffle where prizes ranging from an interview to a ride to the moon will be given away almost instantaneously to the participants with the most awesomest of names. Again, I thank you, and I hope that my fellow comrade in treason to pop music will also vote. I will not vote, considering that I already have a favorite, even if all of them are simple and not very ridiculously good looking. Ha.


- C.S.H.