Pie ‘n’ ears! O, pie ‘n’ ears! Read on to get the pun:
- The Daily Progress writes that Albemarle County schools will not increase teacher salaries next year. At the end of the article, however, the paper notes that the county Board of Supervisors passed a noise ordinance to ban audible noise within 100′ of a person’s property. While I used the news to make a Weezer joke, this development has serious consequences for the local music scene. The ban does not extend to voices; I predict a surge in Albemarle a capella bands.
- My first smoke-free music experience in town was a Tuesday night trip to the Blue Moon Diner to see the excellent Don’t Tell Darlings. (They’ll release a new album, Fix Your Wagon, at the diner on December 18. Remember, fixing your wagon is different from painting your wagon…) On CvilleNews.com, Waldo Jaquith extended the ban to uranium and knife fights. Hilarious. Heard a few restaurant employees express their gratitude for the ban; how about a word from musicians that play the same rooms?
- Pie ‘n’ ears! O, pioneers! The VQR blog takes on the use of Walt Whitman in those recent "Go Forth" Levi’s ads. (Me? I’m upset they used the title of my favorite Les Savy Fav album.) Seen these ads? I think VQR was pretty generous, truthfully. And I expect more of Emile Hirsch* (correction below):
- And, last: It seems as if two local arts blogs stopped posting around the same time. The Art Klatch and Shaun Harvey’s The Velvet Rut last posted in mid-September. Where my bloggers at?
*CORRECTION: Feedback mistakenly identified one of the figures in the Levi’s ad as actor Emile Hirsch, of Milk, Into the Wild and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys—a personal favorite of Feedback. A commenter pointed out the mistake, which Feedback sincerely regrets. Here is the trailer for The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys which, as previously mentioned, Feedback loves: