Yucca tap room 3/20/15

  4 bands played the famous yucca tap room in Tempe az.     I visited for the first time since being back out here and was largely impressed with the recently renovated bar.   I sat unassumingly as skeptical hipsters with Abraham Lincoln beards suspiciously eyed me down.   I drank my pabst  in  guarded seclusion as the first band. Took the stage.      
   
       The pleasures from Florida opened up.   If it was up to me they would have headlined.   A 5 piece      
 Multi instrumental bandwith guitars and synth pounded out ambient driven hypnotic sounds fluctuating between driving rock and spacy jams.  The highlight was slinky cat like female singer with half shaved jet black pixie hair.   She sang in an angelic like voice very similar to sinead  o Connor and  bjork.    I boldly proclaim.that she's better.   As a matter of fact I believe she is the best female front woman in music today.     It is my belief and hope that the pleasures reach a wider audience.

   The next band the redemptions played a guitar driven Shoe gazer  sound very much in the style of the meat puppets and dinosaur Jr.  
 
     While there were 2 other bands I sadly had to leave,  but granted I surely will return

Another "Country" fiasco

 The 2014 CMA Awards aired last evening.   Being fully aware and repulsed by the deevolution and decline of "Country" music  I myself did not watch.   However my West Coast correspondent Ben Charman sent me a series of vm accounts of this dire fiasco.    After listening to his scathing voice mails  I was compelled to look up some of these "performances" on Youtube.

     
        Having looked up segments of the program I was as predicted quite disturbed.   Without going into detail I will simply say the  "Country" industry is a bombastic spectacle.   One thing of note is the cross marketing that has become so prevalent.   Pop stars like Ariana Grande and that Bass bimbo Meghan "tramp" Trainor singing with Little Big Town and Miranda Lambert.   All I can do is sigh and say "what  Nonsense!".       And they all clutch their Bibles and say Thank You Jesus.   I hate to break it to you vulturing hypocrites,  "Jesus ain't pleased!"    Jesus is with Johnny Cash and George Jones looking down upon y'all with major disapproval!!!      

Mr. Cab Driver Please......

   One of the major disadvantages and obstacles of being a Lehizzle resident is undoubtedly transportation.    We live in a community where the movers and shakers promote a false delusion and fanatsy promoting this area as some burgeoning cosmopolitan spot on par with NYC and Philadelphia.   Most of us rightfully dismiss such nonsense, but one thing that would definitely bring us some credible respectability is a better transit system.


        Fist I will start with Lanta.   While the main routes during the day are good, particularly to the main downtown areas, the community is underserved and inconvenienced by lack of service at night.   There is no doubt that late night routes up until 3 in the morning would be much welcome.  Furthermore, why not run 24 hrs?.


          The next big issue is something that many people have complained about for years, Taxis.     For some reason in small cities laws are on the books by the P.U.C. that apparantley prevent citizens from flagging down cabs.    As a result poor Petey has to call and wait for service.   When they are busy and there are not enough drivers that poor schmuck has to wait perhaps an hour or more.   When something like this occurs  people are flung into moments of anguish and despair.   Such was the case last weekend when my friends and I were told after Halloween carousing that a cab could potentially take 1 hr or more.   Numerous others were in the same situation and we just stood like drunken lemmings on the South Bethlehem sidewalk.    Myself being used to such nonsense was able to take in stride, while my dear friend was quite perturbed  and did not react well to this debacle.   After calming her down the 3 of us attempted to locate a friend staying at the nearby Comfort Suites.    We sadly learned he did not make it back and we sat there in the lobby like lost souls calling numerous cab companies only to get the usual run a round.   In my case I sprawled myself out across on the hotel floor.   Finally we lucked out and a cab came to our rescue.  


       This type of situation should not occur in the LV or frankly anywhere else.   If you want your community to thrive then fix the transit system.    Allow people to flag down cabs.  Also stop these nonsensical rules where a company in a nearby town can't pick up somewhere else.   Allow them to pick up anywhere they want.  Lets create competition.


          Another thing we need of course is a Train system, but that's a whole other can of worms.

    I have had it with music festivals, pouring buckets of water on oneself to fight cancer, the use of the word um, and flip flops.   

  Welcome to the blog of DJC the Radical Moderate, also known as the crispy curmudgeon.    I will try to update this as much as possible.    It will not necessarily be everyday, but the plan is a few times a week. This blog will feature commentary on various local and National subjects from politics, sports, music, and entertainment in general.     In my opinion a key driving selling point that will stand apart from other blogs will be the quality of communication in the written form that is lacking just about everywhere else.   I will never use the cliched redundant phrases such as "end of the day", "it is what it is", "just sayin'"  'um", "ok" and many other  nonsensical buzzwords that have permeated throughout our society.   This will be held to a high standard.    I will provide you some very interesting and challenging viewpoints.   I do not expect everyone to agree with my views, and in a lot of cases I anticipate a great deal of displeasure and dissent in reaction to my bold opinions.     A new era of blogging is set to begin.   I look forward to joining the ranks of others who have paved the way like Bernie O'Hare and michael Molovinsky.    Like them I will not sugarcoat anything and as Jesse Ventura used to say during his wrestling career, "tell it like it is".


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