notes from vivace

It was off to Pershing Square to catch Kind Hearts and Coronets . A band that includes a variety of instruments: the standard bass, guitar...

It was off to Harvard and Stone to catch The Mo odds .  The band has added a new guitarist and saxophonist. Amusing moment:  the lead sing...

Beasts of the Southern Wild. This movie focuses in on Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father, Wink (Dwight Henry). They live on an ...

It was off to Bootleg to catch JMSN, Frank + Derol and DWNTWN. Now I usually don't show up for the first band, but for some reason this ...

It was to The Satellite to catch Lost Lander and Terraplane Sun . Lost Lander started the night off for me.  They're a band from Por...

In Time. . Midway through the movie, I was like, I know the waitress. She’s Emma Fitzpatrick from The Mots Nouveaux. I saw this while on...

The Three Musketeers  (2011).  Note: I caught this movie on a small airplane screen. The Musketeers find that they’ve been stabbed in the ba...

Prometheus. Archeologists find ancient alien cave paintings that point to a planet (moon). Why exactly did they leave cave paintings vers...

Moonrise Kingdom. A fun tale of pre-teen romance between an outcast boy scout and a slightly disturbed young woman. The movie starts out ...

It was Bootleg bound to catch Family of the Year and Tashaki Miyaki . Tashaki Miyaki was the first band of the evening.  I actually went t...

It was off to Lincoln Heights and a place called HM157 to catch VUM and Raw Geronimo.  This was my first time heading over to HM157.  It is ...

It was off to Silverlake Lounge on a Monday night to catch a couple bands I hadn't seen before:  Peg and Maybe Vultures.  Both bands hav...

A friend mentioned catching Delta Rae at One Colorado in Pasadena.  He mentioned that it was free.  I went online and saw that they are fro...