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Dabin as in dab in not dah-bin
Last time I was here for rock med was the Grateful Dead 5/6/89
342 Jennifer verage
So wasian so kawaiiiiiii
Some folks rockin tradition qipao & robes. Where the f was this when I was growing up? Avante garde man. It’s a curse to be before your time.
2nd guy is a singer who sux - harshing my buzz
Keenan  le or something like that. Like a pop singer. Bumming me out. Who programs this in the middle of an edm show.
Cosplayers from valorant video game
Hello Kitty meets studio ghibli rave
Nurko and we’re back to edm . We stage right beneath the speakers 
Fun bouncy bass drops
First call - my team rocked it. Good save
2nd call immediately after - ver age’s 1st show - beginners luck.
Bumped into TC it Matt, fresh back from Coachella but got call 2 and had to run
Juelz v chyl - pyro is lot
3rd call - Verage has noob fever 
Table service - a chance to sit my ass down 
Gal to pick up
Dabin ok
Jason mraz 
Another guest
2 more calls
I’ve lost count. Busy night
Now waiting for a ride to pick up another drunk gal in lingerie - Thar kind of night

I'm like 4 eps deep on this and it's befuddling. It's a post-apocalyptic Japan deep in a nuclear winter as the nation has divided into three kingdoms vying for power. There are a lot of characters and it's complex, lots of political turmoil parses by katana decapitations. Based on a manga from 2021, at first I thought its homosexual overtones were a bit much, but it has a unique style, anime on steroids, darting back and forth between military tactics, goofy humor, man butts, and sanguineous katana action. I keep thinking I'll quit but then some scene will give me pause and make me wonder where this is all going. So I'm still watching it. The anime is being released in weekly installments.

When you see this on the Jimmy Fallon, it is just further proof that we are just living in DM's world.

This was a last minute thing. I was down in Monterey. We went to see a friend play an afternoon gig at a Carmel Valley tasting room. I saw that the Wallflowers were going to play their 3rd album: "Bringing Down the Horse" (the one with all the hits), but what caught my eye was they were going to follow that with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "Long After Dark" which is one of my favorite TP&H albums. We were already down there, so we decided to see if there were any decent/cheap seats for the Wallflowers - there were. We got some tickets and then went out for a light dinner. Came back and sat in the balcony.

I've sat balcony middle there before. I don't recall the seats being below budget airlines class before, but for these seats, my knees were jammed into the back of the next row seats when my back was fully against the back of my seat. It was moderately acceptable until someone sat in those seats and made the fit even more tight...

The opener was pretty talented. Aaron Lee Tasjan...Country-ish. Had a great range and did a great job accompanying himself with complex rhythms.



The Wallflowers came on next and busted right out with One Headlight, 6th Avenue Heartache, Bleeders and Three Marlenas. That is the complete catalog of songs I know by the Wallflowers and after that, the rest sounded similar. The band was tight and Jakob Dylan has a good, distinctive voice. He often would stop playing and gesture while singing, and he was interacting with the folks right up at the stage, but stagecraft-wise, he didn't talk to the audience much (although he did address us as Montgomery, before correcting himself and saying Monterey).

I thought they'd take a break and them come back to do the Tom Petty stuff, but no, they just plowed right into it. It was great! Great material and Jakob was perfect for that material. Again, the band was awesome and nailed every song. They came back for an encore and did 3 more songs, one I didn't recognize, and two more Tom Petty songs. 

Really fun, except for the uncomfortable seats. 

--tg

This is a new version of a venerated martial arts anime based on a venerated martial arts manga.



I watched a few back in the day because it was so influential on the martial genre but never got into it because the heroes were so steroidal and the fight scenes seemed absurd to me then. Little did I know that this was pivotal in how anime fights would be choreographed. This new series has updated animation and starts fresh. 

It's post-apocalyptic world with a Road Warrior vibe. The manga began in '83, hot on the heels of Road Warrior ('81). The original anime was 84-88 with 152 episodes. Like the live action One Piece, I'll go for this fresh one because who has time for all that vintage stuff?

It's sanguineous. You can get that from the trailer. I do like Ken. He's not at all like our Ken. He's like the polar opposite. Perhaps that's what I like about him. 

I will watch more. There's only a few eps up now and it's one of those weekly update shows, which I'm down for.

Spider-Man: Noir. May 27. Screw it. I'm giving the show its own site. Final trailer.

Dust Bunny.

A young girl needs a monster hunter to kill the monster under her bed that keeps eating her parents and foster parents. When she spots Mads Milken doing battle with some thugs on the street, she decides he is the man for the job. But Mads is an assassin and can't have little girls watching him work. His boss, Sigourney Weaver, definitely thinks the little girl is a liability and must do something about the little girl.

For most of the question on the table is whether their is actually a monster or whether the little girl is imaging the monster. The best moment for Mads is he get to live out his Bruce Lee fantasy down to the yellow track suit with a giant footprint on it.

I had forgotten this was a Bryan Fuller story right up until his name rolled in the credits. Fuller channels his inner Wes Anderson with a very shoot, heavy on the production design.

In the end the end, the story was kind of weak. Some of the shootouts and battles were kind of amusing, but nothing extraordinary.

He was a wonderfully animated conductor and always made his concerts feel special. I only saw him a few times and I cannot remember when now, before we went to SF symphony as a family, so late 90s, maybe early 00s.

Clayface. Aug 26. I'm sure I have no idea who this character is in the DCU.

Never saw him live. In retrospect, I wish I had.