FRIDAY:
>>> Ssssshhh. Listen. Can you year that lonely wind a-blowin’? It’s the hole in the space/time/party continuum where Things That Go In Weekend Picks used to be. It’s the cosmic fallout of Christmas and New Year’s falling close to weekends, wherein DJs blow their loads in the high hopes of an NYE full-January bailout and indie rock bands give up altogether finally give their poor, beleaguered girlfriends some face time. It’s a special time, but what no one could have counted on was this fact: The NYE-to-Monday, Jan. 5 canyon is a perfect window in which to admit we are all sick of each other and going out finally does not seem like such an awful idea. Because we have gotten to the end of television, there’s nothing left apparently, and whatever we didn’t drink on NYE was slowly, deliberately, quietly tended to yesterday. And this canyon we speak of is a perfect partytime vacuum in which nothing at all that requires your brain to function on a high level can or will happen. The point? Whosoever was intrepid enough to book and promote an event this weekend could seriously clean up, ‘cos ain’t shit happening. Let’s look at tonight’s contenders:
· South Philly: Start it out on First Friday at Sweet Jane with co-ed psychedelic jewelry First Friday, and then, P.O.P.E.? (Call me.)
· North-ish Philly: Start it out at our new favorite art/media/whatevs boutique Juanita and Juan’s for the opening of Radio​ Silen​ce:​ A Selec​ted Visua​l Histo​ry of Ameri​can Hardc​ore Music​ featu​ring photo​graph​y hung by the autho​rs as well as a speci​al perfo​rmanc​e by Ian Sveno​nius from Natio​n Of Ulyss​es/Soft Focus. 7pm.​
· DJ Deejay‘s Friday I’m In Love Party (Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, etc.) at The Raven.
· The YouTube Smackdown at Johnny Brenda’s, wherein “you can come out with your friends and flaunt your knowledge of the hidden corners of YouTube on our big 12′ projector screens upstairs at JB’s. There will be a contest section where you can show your best set of videos from the 1980’s (up to a maximum of 5 minutes of videos) and compete against others for the chance to be the ultimate YouTube geek (at least until the next Smackdown).” Translation: Do in a bar exactly the only things you have done on a computer in the last two weeks!
· I totally just de-Facebooked Jay Yoo because I’m trying to keep it real in there (Tommy Up, you are totally next — why can’t motherfuckers just make a subscription page like everybody else does?), but that should not take away from the fact that Claire Hux are really pretty awesome and guest at 4AM at Silk City.
· And of course, Sex Dwarf @ Fluid.

SATURDAY:
>>> After our (and everyone else’s) obit on the Orange Monster, well, you knew this was coming: The Farewell To Sparks Party. So which regular DJ night finally drew the short straw for it? Hurrah at Medusa, who made up for the lack of imagination on the night’s basic concept with what we must admit is a pretty classic flyer. Click to enlarge, and re-live the graphic aesthetics of what we shall now look back on fondly as The Sparks Era. DJ Shawn Ryan is your tripmaster through this age.
>>> Here’s the part where we tip our hats to the Beretta 76/Doughboys/Jukebox Zeroes show at JB’s for the rockists among us and that one bitter old prick from Jukebox Zeroes sends us an email about how much we suck and why don’t we write about these bands more and oh, The Olds. They’re still so salty. ‘Swonderful!

SUNDAY:

Our own Joey Sweeney gently re-enters civilization with a guest DJ set at Drew Mills‘ Sunday night regular at 700. Hendricks martini, cloudy as fuck with a smashed olive, please, and turn up that John Cale record, would you?

Regular posting will resume on Philebrity on Monday, January 5th. We hope you all had a righteous holiday season. We’ve got a lot of exciting things in store for you in the new year, and really, we just can’t wait to 2009 all over you. Happy New Year, everybody!

This entry was posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm.