Here is the only way I could think of tallying up this week’s CMJ events, followed by pictures.
Total amount of bands seen: 19
Total amount of venues visited: 7
Free shows attended: All but one (note: we didn’t have CMJ badges)
Total amount of Free Sparks drank: 2.2
Amount of times I saw the band the Scanners: 2
Amount of times I wanted or enjoyed seeing the band the Scanners: 0
Ratio of times we successfully snuck into a show by showing the wrong hand stamp, to the times we unsucessfully tried: 1 : 3
Times we successfully snuck into a show by going through the side door: 1
Episodes of the Daily Show unwatched on my DVR at the end of CMJ: 4
Best Venue to bribe the doorman with 20 bucks: Knitting Factory
Dim Mak Steve Aoki sightings: 4
Secret shows, I personally missed by leaving to get food: The Hold Steady @ the Annex and Kristoph R @ the White Rabbit
Amount of catfish related Mexican food ate at San Loco: 4 items
Blog represented by the kid who says to me “yo do you know what this brooklynvegan kid looks like?”: www.freeindie.com
Worst business card slogan ever seen: ‘make your ipod happy’: www.freeindie.com
Ratio of people with cameras to those without, in the front of the free ASCAP Cold War Kids Show: 12 : 1 (Me being one of those 12 of course)
“Frodo Baggins” Elijah Wood Sightings: 0
Best Sponspored Events: Brooklynvegan’s Free Shows
Best Show: Forward Russia! @ Mercury Lounge
Best venue to sneak in the side door: the Annex
SHOWS RATED: (pictures to followed)
Tapes n’ Tapes (Other Music instore): B+
Nicolai Dunger (@ Pianos) : B
CSS (@ Pianos): B -
The Figurines (@ Mercury Lounge): C+
Girl Talk (@ Mercury Lounge): A
Snowden (@ White Rabbit): B +
Apples in Stereo (@ White Rabbit): C+
The Panthers (@ Sin E): A -
Black Lips (@ Sin E): B
Scanners (@ Lit Lounge): C +
Forward Russia! (@ Mercury Lounge): A
Scanners (@ the Annex): C
Dirty on Purpose (@ the Annex): C+
Cold War Kids (@ the Annex): B+
White Whale (@ the Annex): B -
the Annuals (@ the Annex): B
Elvis Perkins (@ the Annex): A
the Big Sleep (@ the Annex): A -
Silversun Pickups (@ the Annex): C+
PICTURES (all taken by me unless otherwise noted):
(pictured aboved: Tapes n’ Tapes)
(pictured aboved: Girl Talk)
(pictured aboved: Snowden)
(pictured aboved: Apples in Stereo, by Dan Bellury)
(pictured aboved: Panthers)
(pictured aboved: the Black Lips)
(me taken by me)
(pictured aboved: Forward Russia!)
(How important could this call be?)
(pictured aboved: the Big Sleep)
(pictured aboved: The Cold War Kids)
Thanks to my CMJ Posse: Dan B, Yancy, Elena, Melissa, Nate, Handsome Dan R, Lauren, Jill, Ami, Ross and Reba.
