X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tyWt_9Bfs

Hey baby, was just playing that.

Going to see X tonite! And Blondie (who are headlining), but still--X!

Just saw that bill a week or so ago. X was very good, but Blondie only gave 'em 50 minutes so John Doe announced that they had little time and would do little chit-chat between songs and just play. Which they did. I could nitpick song choices but they sounded great. Exene did say how excited she was to be opening for Blondie, and Billy Zoom just did his creepy smile thing while effortlessly sounding great on guitar.

They were awesome! Despite time limitations, they delivered a nice balance of 'hits' and album stuff (we got "Year 1" and they closed with "Devil Doll"). All the comments upthread about Billy Zoom live are otm. So great that they are still around doing their thing.

Yes!

Exene is having an estate sale.

http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/CA/Santa-Ana/92701/560715

Uh oh. I know her health's been an issue, I wonder if this is to cover medical costs or worse?

Oh, I hope not.

betty crocker punk rockers! keep on, exene.

i went today. it was like being at a yard sale with a bunch of record fair people. i bought the vintage print at the upper right here...

http://pictures.estatesales.net/560715/11822300/1.jpg

...along with one of exene's dresses and some jewelry as gifts. she has some pretty great stuff. there were two particular original exene artworks i really wanted but those were long gone by the time i got there. apparently someone from ucla came super early and bought an X setlist, posters and other memorabilia for ucla's music school, which was really nice to hear.

the auctioneer posted this note about exene:

"She is downsizing and plans on relocating soon. This is a multi family sale but the vast majority of the items are from Exene's life long antique and vintage collection. Exene is alive and well and excited about recycling her treasures."

Awww man, Exene has become a libertarian knucklehead and is moving to Texas

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/xs-exene-cervenka-cleans-out-her-closet-20140213

Explaining her potential move to Texas, Cervenka says, "I have tons of close friends in Austin, I love the music, I always have a magical time there." She continues, "The other reason I'm moving, if the creek don't rise, is that when I moved to California in 1976, Jerry Brown was governor. It was barefoot hippie girls, Hell's Angels on the Sunset Strip, East L.A. lowriders, the ocean and nature. It was this fabulous incredible place about freedom. Now when I think about California, I think of a liberal oppressive police state and regulations and taxes and fees. I'd rather go someplace and have my own little place out on the edge of town. I'm a country girl at heart. It makes me happy when I see people in Texas open-carrying. It makes me feel safe. I'm not even a gun owner, but I'd like to see a gun rack in every pickup truck, like my boyfriend had when I was fifteen years old in Florida. An armed society is a polite society."

Where is she seeing genuine open carry in Texas? Because it probably isn't Austin.

She seems to have drunk the kool-aid that allows her to see such things.

"Now Jerry Brown's governor again. He's done some great things, like balancing the budget and libraries are open on Sundays. But things are getting to the point in this country where people are going to have to fight to survive and fight for their rights. I think not so much about where I want to live, but where I want to die."

"when I moved to California in 1976, Jerry Brown was governor."

guess what HE IS GOVERNOR NOW

oh didn't read the whole thing obv

jerry brown being governor has nothing to do with libraries being open on sundays, I don't think? are libraries open on sundays? I don't think ours are.

Only central branch libraries are open on Sunday in Texas.

ahe's been readin' the rong adult books

x-p I don't understand.

She goes from specific good things (balanced budget, libraries open) to vague right-wing scare talk. Fight *who* to *survive* what? Which rights? Did California have open carry rights in 1976? (Answer: No.)

And the last part of the quote above sounds like she wants to die in a gunfight on main street.

Is there a specific age at which you become afraid of everything? 'Cause I'm in my 40s already, so if it's creeping up on me I'd like to know.

it was better before, before they voted for what's-his-name.

She had to leave...Los Angeles!

when I was fifteen years old in Florida

mmhmm

Aging X fans outraged at a x-punk expressing love for freedoms of various sorts.

(No I'm not a libertarian but the erosion of liberties and rights I care about in the U.S. in general has me more than a little angry.)

Number of Deaths Due to Injury by Firearms per 100,000 Population:

California 7.7
Texas 11.0

welp, at least they die politely

I'm 56 and still not afraid, but I understand the desire to left alone by the gov't and strangers in general.

x fans alarmed by exene's positions on certain matters had best avoid reading about billy zoom's positions on certain matters.

Best avoid Exene's YouTube channel of conspiracy videos too: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5jzBhmqPI2n62s2-dyf1bw

Is there a specific age at which you become afraid of everything? 'Cause I'm in my 40s already, so if it's creeping up on me I'd like to know.

Going by my nearest and dearest, it's 57. (sorry nickn)

Is there a specific age at which you become afraid of everything? 'Cause I'm in my 40s already, so if it's creeping up on me I'd like to know.

i'll let you know for sure after february 19, but i'm guessing 46.

it was better before, before they voted for what's-his-name.

A+ lol, fcc!

Nah not 46 afaict.

then i've got at least another year before i go from "afraid of 94% of everything" to "afraid of 100% of everything."

this is a relief.

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Aging X fans outraged at a x-punk expressing love for freedoms of various sorts.

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, February 14, 2014 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(No I'm not a libertarian but the erosion of liberties and rights I care about in the U.S. in general has me more than a little angry.)

― _Rudipherous_, Fri

Exene only cares for freedom in a Rand Paul kind of way. Gun rights have not exactly been restricted much in the US. Exene doesn't seem to care about women's rights in Texas

Hey! FCC! This must be the first time you have encountered someone saying that l.a. isn't as good as it used to be, right?

i heard johnny hit and run paulene earlier today. it's lost none of it's power, or power to shock.

great band. i've never bought the follow up to los angeles, which i think is wild gift. worth it?

Everything from Los Angeles through More Fun in the New World is worth your time. The third album, Under the Big Black Sun, is particularly underrated IMO. More Fun is where diminishing returns start to set in—the energy level dips a lot (though the cover of Jerry Lee Lewis's "Breathless" is fantastic) and there are too many weird/arty songs. Then they try to go radio-friendly hard rock on Ain't Love Grand (which was also recorded while John and Exene were splitting, so it's a love/hate album) and get rootsy & dull on See How We Are.

x-p

Wild Gift is very good too, and I like Under the Big Black Sun. It was the ones after that I was less and less thrilled with.

^last two posts are so otm

Yeah, See How We Are was the first one I was actually disapponted with, made worse by the fact that it was the first CD I ever bought.

I was a total wide eyed fanboy and man the 1-2 punch of the Wild Thing 12" followed by Ain't Love Grand just broke my heart, fortunately the Knitters record happened a few years later.

I just saw them back in December, they were very good and Billy Zoom was loud as fuck.

The Knitters record actually happened during the ALG-era.

haha that's what I get for guessing at my age

I only remember it from later on, cuz it was all we had to listen to that wasn't classic X until See How We Are came out

I picked up the Knitters album last year, great fun!

I concur with the comments about the first 4. The "Beyond And Back" anthology is also worth having for alt/live versions and the best bits from the weak albums.

Under the Big Black Sun is the one I reach for the most. But the first three (ish) are all pretty ace.

the first three, and three-quarters of the fourth, are all fab. the first knitters album is fab (there was a followup like 20 years later, which i don't think i've heard). i heard "burning house of love" on the radio today and it was kinda meh. speaking of meh, i also heard "i'll be you" on the radio today, same station obvi. kind of a meh day for '80s amerindie on the radio.

Hey! FCC! This must be the first time you have encountered someone saying that l.a. isn't as good as it used to be, right?

yes! though maybe now that the nbc universal building in studio city is becoming the comcast building, more such complaints will follow.