Hey anyone want to go see stomp?

I’m guessing this pretty much the only musical and or theatre production I’m gonna be able to make it through. Trash playing hippies making beat box equivalent percussion. I’m down.

Check out the details here. The tickets start at 20 bucks and it is showing for six days starting yesterday.

First Friday! Happening…..now.

So everyone should be starting to get a ancy about first Friday. It is one of the biggest to date.

Check out info here.

Check out locales and map here

And here.

For anyone interested, I think I’ll be creeping around many of the joints, stopping by the Saucer, Bogart’s, Revolver, and the new mid century modern furniture store just south of Kelly Odom flowers on Glenwood in addition to the galleries.

New first friday info. And the death of the trolley :(

 

Cute little finger puppets huh?

 

 

This is a brief excerpt from the downtown raleigh newsletter I get. I would paraphrase, but why?

 

 

 

FIRST FRIDAY 2009

This year, First Friday features 23 galleries/exhibit spaces; 17 restaurants; and 7 retailers, services and museums. First Friday welcomes its newest participants, including:

Beehive Studios
107 W Hargett St (3rd Floor of Father & Son Antiques)
919.832.3030
First Friday Hours: 5pm-10 pm 
Art gallery with seven artists
First Friday Special: Live music

Blue Martini 
116 N West St, Ste 100 
919.899.6464
First Friday Hours: 4pm-2am
www.bluemartiniraleigh.com 
First Friday Special: Buy one appetizer get one appetizer free

First Friday is one of Raleigh’s most popular evening escapes. Join us on the First Friday of every month for a fun-filled introduction to Raleigh’s exciting art, music and dining scene. 

NEW FIRST FRIDAY EVENTS CALENDAR: Be sure to check out the First Friday events calendar to find out more about the featured First Friday exhibits and events. To access the calendar, clickhere.

FEBRUARY FIRST FRIDAY TROLLEY SERVICE: On Friday, February 6, the First Friday Trolley will follow the same route as the new Downtown Circulator Service (that will kick-off on Friday, February 13). After February’s First Friday, the trolley service will be discontinued and attendees are encouraged to use the Downtown Circulator that will operate seven days a week to include First Fridays. The Downtown Circulator route is included in the First Friday map/guide and the First Friday website. To access the route and stops, click here. 

For more information about First Friday, click here.

 

 

Sucks to see the trolley go. If you read the post below you’ll know why.

Trolley, old and busted. Circulator, new hotness.

So everyone be out there this coming first friday to get one last ride on it. It smells like sweet mahogany. Mmmm, mahoganyey.

Yay! Designers everywhere!

Alright! The market is open! Not the feeble stock market. That’s for pussies with too much….err, make that no money. This is the real market. An open air outdoor three pack bonanza of art, crafts, and goods and supplies. Picture artsplosure for the poorer man. And yes, we are all poorer people. This means you can get one off art peices, new clothes, and brushes to try to rip off others art all in one place. Hooray!

More details here.

Pretty much all you need to know is be standing in the parking lot of purple armchair (just east of 510 glenwood on west street) on saturday November 29th. This weekend. Get your shit together and be there. If you can’t find it, lick your finger and put it in the air like a golfer. Then it will inherently point towards the awesomeness wafting over from the coolness. Adjectives!

Welcome to the Black Parade!

Ok, so that might be a little dramatic. But I do like the song. Really, for the most part, I don’t know why everyone knocks My Chemical Romance. I realize that they were trying to do a psuedo Beatles’ Sergeant Peppers Hearts Club Band rock opera thing with their last album. And I’ll give you that it’s kind of a duchebag move. But the music wasn’t bad at all. The title track especially. Even the guy has a Look At Me! You Know This Guy Is In a Punk Rock Band! style, but who doesn’t? Even the blonde cat from fight club is in a band and he plays the dreamiest heroin addict the silver screen has ever seen. Minus the girl from Sopranos. She was pretty good too. Actually I think she was a coke head. Ok, Travolta’s second then. Send your votes to 11447 Craig St. OP, KS 66210 to vote on your favorite heroin addict. Each week we will kick someone off the island. With no powder for the road! Mean huh? No dibseys on the British guys. You know who I’m talking about. Anyone who shits the bed and can actually sink into the floor (yeah, it was real not just a metaphor) don’t count.

CARRY ON, We’ll CARRY OOOOONNNNN, and though you’re cynical, believe me, your memory will CARRY OOOOOOOOONNNNN. and though your broken and defeated your memory will CARRY OOOOOOOONNNNNN.

I’m actually listening to the song while I write! Yeah, I know, multitalking and tasking, and setting the mood. I’m like the lights inside the limo on your first prom. What would you do without me? Pull that cheap little cough and throw the arm move? Come on Cassanova, get with it, put on some of that lazy rap on and get to tappin’. Then go to the cluuuub. But tip the driver, otherwise my little bulbs that got you a handy on the way to the school burn out and never get changed. Then nobody wins. Maybe the girl wins……..Yep, she wins.

By the by, the Raleigh Cristmas Parade is marching in all it’s batton twirling glory down Fayetteville street Saturday the 22nd!!!!!

Quick! Everyone find some little child to sit on your shoulders. They have to be able to scream and rub caramel from their candied apple deep into your scalp. (Really, that doesn’t happen to other people?) I don’t care where you find them, you just need one. Kindergarten, playground, Sylvan’s Learning Center (they are the best…..and you know you are laughing), sweat shop, crib, although they can’t actually be your own cause that’s cheating. Also, now that I think about it, skip the sweatshop; I am getting new shoes soon and don’t want them to run out of the cheap ones. Steal em. The shoes and they tykes. Actually borrow is probably the right word since you don’t really want to keep them. They’ll probably throw up on your head. Maybe ransom is the right word. Or 25 to life.

And that just about wraps up my first ever Sienfeld Episode Post! Get it? Started with a parade, got back to it in the final moments as the episode is wrapping up, then ended up in jail.

Where they force you to give out handy’s….OH SNAP. Did it again on these chumps.

More graffiti and breakdancing

First Friday is almost here! Hooray. As everyone knows, or should know -pull your head out of your collective ass – first fridays are awesome. To further the awesomeness, visual art exchange is having a graffiti exhibit complete with found art peices, stenciled and free form stuff, you name it. If it can be huffed, it’ll be there. To be huffed. It is a couple of the same guys from Sparkcon with some others I believe but either way it is all new work. Schizo Octopus will be there and I’m hoping the guy from alibi will make a guest appearance. If not I’m leaving. Nothing to see without him. Everyone should come down and support these guys and girls.

So I think that more titles of events or collections of people should have better discriptive titles. Schizophrenic Octopus is a good example. When you think of an octopus all cracked out and waving his arms around like some batty old lady witha rolling pin I immedietely think of dancing and motion. Plus it’s just a good visual. So naming a group known for quick bursts of intense wriggling energy with something that evokes that. End of rant.

I named my blog the shiny orange rock. The hell was I thinking.

Everyone Vote…..for Music

I got this from Marit via Anna I think, but it is the official website of Downtown Live. Really there isn’t much of note on the site except that you can take this little survey and vote for who you want to see next year. On their behalf, they have gotten a better lineup from two years ago, and we showed them that they would get a turnout if they brought someone worth showing up for. Even the aging glam rockers pulled a good crowd. So get on there and vote for your favorite artist. Then go vote for your favorite politician. If you have one. Which you shouldn’t. We all know it is the lesser of two evils. Maybe four.

Okay one more

This is pretty awesome, and I haven’t driven down Boylan Street in while, but kudos to whoever put this up.

Check it.

Plus for those in the know, you might recognize the quote.

Fayetteville Roaming Minstrels

The prog theatre group Burning Coal is going to be putting on what seems to bea travelling show down fayetteville performing adaptations of some notable Raleigh myths. If they can get some wenches and giant turkey legs it’ll be a lot like a fun renassiance festival. Much more fun. Burning Coal is known for a thickly laden multimedia presentation, so if anything it is visually worth seeing. Plus you might learn a little more about the street than you knew yesterday. And remember kids – KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

The promenade performance will begin at Raleigh City Museum (220 Fayetteville St, Raleigh), and travel along Fayetteville Street. Performances are Saturday, November 15th at 6:30pm and Sunday, November 16th at 2:00pm. Tickets for the event are $15 for adults, $10 for students, and may be obtained by calling 919.834.4001 or visiting www.burningcoal.org

Standed up

So Richard Lewis is coming to goodnights. I missed out on Daniel Tosh, plus I didn’t want to get made fun of, dick. So wondering if anyone is going. I think the guy is funny, plus it takes some swinging brass to get up and do standup as a living.

Tickets and showtimes. He’s doing six nights in a row, so no excuses for not catching one.