CRAFTED at The Port of Los Angeles...

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS WEEKEND OF SUN-SHINING, LABOR DAY FUN!

EVENTS
See what happening this week at CRAFTED!

August 31st [Friday hours (12p-8pm)]
5pm Sip & Shop w/Joel Jerome

September 1st [Saturday hours (10am-7pm)]
11am Metal Clay Demo
12pm Make and Take
2pm Labor day BBQ /Fox Pizza Bus & Slow Learner

September 2nd [Sunday hours (10am-7pm)]
12p Make and Take
2pm Labor Day BBQ w/Fox Pizza Bus & Cliff Wagner & the Old #7

CRAFTED at  The Port of Los Angeles is located at:
110 & 112 East 22nd ST
San Pedro, CA 90731

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Alabama.Shakes.(L!VE) @House.of.Blues

Alabama.Shakes.2012

@the.House.of.Blues.(San Diego, CA)

Thursday.August.19th

Okay...what an amazing voice.   Just blown away and to actually hear her perform these songs was priceless. Brittany Howard (Lead Singer/Guitarist) is the girl to look out for.  She is NOT your typical skinny rock girl.  I was pulled in and invested from the first song she sang.   I wished the person behind us was invested himself, but decided to cause a little riot.  Really?  San Diego...you are acting like Angelenos.  

When I was driving towards Downtown San Diego on the freeway, people where such DICKS!  Cutting you off sharply and trying to rush you by getting close to your car.  What is going on with S.D.?  Sad.   At least people in OceanSide are still nice. 

Before I met up with my close friend Dianna, I walked around OceanSide to take some pictures.  The more I come here, the more I LOVE IT!  If you ever have a chance, stop by OceanSide, it's a cool little town.

Back to Alabama.Shakes..........AWESUM!  critic's have compared Brittany to Tina Turner (don't see it), but Dianna thought (which was a good one), Etta James.  Maybe.  

Besides the a$$hole causing a up roar behind us (he got kicked out by the way) and he accidentally hit Dianna on the head (which I did not know because I was so invested in the show).  I was angry of course, but what can you do.  He almost ruined a perfect night, but he didn't.   

\m/ - ahhhhh yea!!!!

Franz.Ferdinand.(L!VE) @the.Glass.House

Franz.Fernand.2012

@the.Glass.House.(Pomona, CA)

Tuesday.August.14th

I arrived early to Pomona to avoid traffic and it took me almost and hour and a half to get here.  It should take only forty minutes, but what can you do, right.  There was a huge line to get in and of course, I had to step out because my ticket was in will call.  FCVK!!!

I still got a good spot even though I had to get back in line. 

The first band went on and yea...The only thing interesting was the bass player and the drummer.  Did she just flash use a cameltoe?

There is a girl in the very front and she has headphones on.  Who brings headphones?  Of course, she does.  I thought she was gonna take them off once the show started, but...NO!  She still had then on.  It could be to cover her ears?  Who knows.

Second opening act....Really.  FCVK!  It's always nice to see security doing his job, checking his phone.  Funny.  He could of been updating his status.  Did the lead singer just flashed us a moose knuckle?  What is going on here?

Franz.Fernand came out and they K!LLED !T.  What another GREAT show.  They played all the hits and I loved how they mashed up Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" with "Can't Stop Feeling".  THAT WAS THE $H!T!!!

Here is the negative, I was a little disappointed that they didn't play, "Lucid Dreams".  Someone shouted it out and Alex Kapranos (Lead Singer) told him, "we forgot how you play that song".  Funny.  DAM! 

They played some new songs and sound very promising.  Can't wait for the new album.  Nickolas McCarthy (Guitarist), why did you kick the crowd surfer?

\m/ - AWESUM!!!

Totally.Enormous.Extinct.Dinosaurs.2012

@the.exhoplex.(Los Angeles, CA)

Thursday.Aug.9th

From the parking lot,  it didn't look that busy, but once inside, it was.  And very entertaining too.  There was a girl with a light up tu tu, a  40 something man with a mohawk wearing a  small tight vest that he might of taken out from his storage  and two kids dressed in dinosaur outfits.  Are they not, hot?!?!  Jesus.  

The first two DJ's where good.  I saw my friend Zowie up in the front.  I went up to her and hung out.  We always happen to pick the same spots to watch the shows.  

T.E.E.D. (what the kids call him now) has improved his dinosaur outfit.   The last time I saw him was at  HARD at the Nokia Theatre.  He opened up for Simian Mobile Disco.  Of course, I was standing at the sidelines of the theatre.  I only caught the last ten minutes of his show because of the fabulous security system they have their.  It looked like T.E.E.D. was wearing dinosaur pajamas from where I was standing.  It was cute.  It had a little tail and those fins on the back.  This time around, his dino suit was very nicely tailored and looks expensive too.  It had a nice tone color (greenish/blue) and I really dig his necklace that he had on.  Very nice. You go Orlando!  

Orlando Higginbotton (T.E.E.D.) didn't need any special lights or visual images to keep me interested or the crowd tonight (which was well behaved).  I was pulled in from the moment he hit the stage and played the first song.  He had a great voice and Orlando mixed the music very nicely.  He played the latest tunes from his debut album, "Trouble" (album cover is...AWESUM!).  If you haven't picked his latest album, you must.  It's my summer album.  It has "Garden" (song was on my top 2010 list), such a beautiful song and he did a great job with it tonight.  Watch out for him because this dinosaur is NOT going to be extinct anytime soon. 

\m/ - AWESUM!

The.xx.(L!VE).2012

The.xx.2012

@Music.Box.(Los Angeles, CA)

Monday.July.23rd

WOW, Its been how long since my last concert?  What a perfect show to kick off August's concerts.  As we all know, July is a slow month because everyone is in Europe for the festivals.  I almost forgot all about this concert.  My friend Zowie texted me and I came very close to buying a ticket to see Batman (which you gotta see to checkout Anne Hathaway as Cat Women, AWESUM!!!).  Thank God, she texted right in time or I would of missed (I wouldn't, if you know me) this show.  WHAT A SHOW IT WAS!

I arrived at the Music Box around 7:45pm and there was a huge line to get in and it was not moving fast enough.  Thank God for Zowie, she texted me and told me that she was in front with the tickets already.  N!CE.  We go in and we headed to the shirt stand.  From faraway, all I saw was the same shirts, until we got close and they had this really cool NEW shirt with the X embroider.  Inside the shirt had a screen printed X on it.  They are making there own shirts now...cool.  I got one and so did Zowie.

HAIM was the opening band (which I did not know) and I was so excited to see them.  I missed their free show at the California Plaza on Friday and the one on Thursday at Santa Monica pier.  Anyhow, they kicked...A$$!  They where good and they got me so excited that I wanted more.  For sure, another band to see in the future again.  The best part of there performance, was the mother dancing or was she pretending to play the drums?  Either way, she was cute.

The.xx hit the stage around 10:30pm and they opened up with their new single, "Angles".   From there, they played a couple of songs from the first album.  They kept it mellow until the middle of the show, where they preformed the new dance tracks that sounded so....FCVKn AWESOME!!!  The new album is going to be KICK A$$!.  

The crowd was perfect.  No drunks, no pushers or any kind on nonsense, it was just right.  Then there was that strange smell of shit.   Someone dragged that thing all the way into the venue.  I guess they didn't notice the smell when they stepped on it.  The shit was strong.  At first, I thought someone took a load in there pants.  Just imagine if they did...DAM.  

Back to The.xx, they killed it and they sounded so fresh.  They had a new X in the background that was 3 dimensional and was made out of plexiglass.  After they went off stage to do the encore, they filled up the X with white smoke.  Groovy.  After the encore, people stuck around and wanted more.  They thought they where gonna come back, but that was it.  What a GREAT show and what a GREAT band.  

\m/ - AWESUM!