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***Recommended Show of the Week***
Wolf Parade @ El Rey
Now that the Rose Parade is over it is time to focus on the Wolf Parade. The Montreal quartet opened the 2004 Queen Mary All Tomorrow’s Parties. To express regret for their late-night drunken debauchery on the boat (which included fire extinguishers and a seance) they named their 2005 album Apologies to the Queen Mary. Hopefully their next album won’t be called something like Sorry For Burning Down the El Rey and Everyone In It.

MONDAY
Nada

TUESDAY
Wolf Parade @ El Rey

WEDNESDAY
xbxrx @ Smell

THURSDAY
Nouvelle Vague @ Tangier

FRIDAY
Strokes @ Troubadour
Nouvelle Vague @ Tangier
Odetta @ McCabe’s
Barrington Levy @ House of Blues
David Garza @ Largo

SATURDAY
Peanut Butter Wolf @ Little Pedro’s
Richard Buckner @ Spaceland

SUNDAY
Nuttin’ Honey

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Sitting here, warm, dry, watching the sopping Rose Parade (It’s magical!) on KTLA HD. Watching Lance Burton, Master Magician, deftly performing yet unable to keep himself dry with sleight-of-hand. I begin to reflect as I do each year. Thoughts cascade the waterfall of my mind. Hickory Farms’ Christmas Celebration coffee has some type of flavored shit in it. Remember this. It is time, finally, to make my new week’s resolutions. If you’re like me, a year is far too broad for goals to be of any use. Simply ineffective. Am I really going to remember my resolutions in August? In April? Next week? Forget that. I make resolutions one week at a time.

This week:

• Watch this game
• Figure out when the hell that Sparklett’s guy is appearing next and pre-emptively cancel delivery, post-haste
• Brainstorm fundraisers to get Dave Hart‘s puppets industrially scoured. Be honest, if hand puppets received a public health rating his would be hard-pressed to come up with a “C”…(Did these people use sani-gloves?)
• Consider posting some bullshit story about Chinatown in order to be able to use newly-rediscovered two-year-old photos
• Determine if there’s enough material in my New Year’s toast with Canter’s Lightshow and FlameDrink Man to merit a full post
• Look for a job
• Watch the entire Sopranos: Year One series before it disappears into the On Demand void eternally
• Define and write up the rules for Central Library: Hide-And-Go-Scare
• Do something about that pile of crap on the corner of the desk
• Do the dishes
• Cough up 3lbs expectorate from lungs
• Send out plagiarized CDs

Update, 1/3/06! I completed five of my New Week Resolutions yesterday. Not a bad ratio for one day. Newest New Week Resolution: Buy flashlight and battery-operated boombox immediately, I’ve been without power for the last 24 fucking hours