The Panty Caper Part Deux: The Panties Revealed

The panty seller has finally continued correspondence with me.   If you have not read The Great Panty Caper, basically, the Daily Weirdo plays the part of an overly friendly weirdo who would like to purchase second hand underwear for his girlfriend.  He begins an email conversation with a "young, pretty girl" advertising her "used panties" on craigslist in an attempt to cash in on local perverts, instead of getting a job like the rest of us.

Guess who's not seeing "the Dark Knight Rises"?

This isn't typically what the Daily Weirdo would blog about, but I would like to vent, so deal with it.  As you may have heard by now, some maniac in Aurora, CO showed up at a screening of the Dark Knight Rises and opened fire on the crowd.  Twelve people were killed and fifty injured.  What kind of world are we living in?  I am sickened. Here's what needs to happen...

Gaslight Anthem - "Handwritten"/ Brian Fallon hypocrite?

 The Gaslight Anthem has a new album called "Handwritten" that you can now stream 90 seconds of each song on itunes.  From what I can hear, the album sounds pretty mainstream rock, which doesn't mean bad, especially since it was produced by Brendan O'brien (Pearl Jam, Springsteen)  Upon first listen, I can hear a lot of grunge era influence (the song "Too Much Blood" sounds like it could've been on The Temple of The Dog record.  Apparently now that grunge has cycled back around to being "cool", suddenly Brian Fallon, has changed his tune on it?

the Jeff the Brotherhood show was...Free?

Before you start wondering, I put up this picture on the left to show two things:  1. How shitty my phone is, and 2. How shitty my view was. 

When I was first heard about Jeff the Brotherhood, it really made sense that I would like the band.  My thought process was, well my name is Jeff, so the name gives me a nice feeling of comradery, they are from Nashville,  I would like to live in Nashville, and they're a two-piece, the White Stripes were a two-piece.  I bought the album "We are the Champions" and thought, while it wasn't the most memorable, it was still pretty cool,  a bit of the Ramones, a bit of Weezer, some grungy guitar tones...
But still, let's not kid ourselves, "Queen" are the champions, not these guys...

Deer Tick's John McCauley peforms in front of toilets

At Sasquatch fest this past May, the mastermind behind the band Deer Tick, John McCauley plays the song "Main Street" in front of a bunch of porta potties for npr.  This would be a strange location for any other band, but if you are familiar with Deer Tick and their gritty rock n roll sound and stage antics, you will know that it's quite fitting...

Counting Crows play in Brooklyn today...

The Counting Crows are playing in Williamsburg Park tonight in Brooklyn along with "Field Report", a great new band newly signed to Partisan Records.  I do not have a ticket unfortunately, so unless I find one on the ground somewhere, I will not be in attendance.  The picture to the left still blows my mind, even though it's been around for sometime.  The question still remains, is Adam Duritz the poster boy for the straight-edge lifestyle?? Is he, or was he ever straight-edge? Okay, well the two are probably unrelated, but is this guy still straight-edge? Or did he finally turn to drugs after the reality finally set in that this tattoo will be on his back for the rest of his life...
Either way, Adam Duritz REALLY does look like a pineapple.  And I'll tell ya, I'd have no problem looking like a pineapple too if I got the kind of chicks this guy does. Lets just have a recap of that...

Miley Cyrus and Bob Dylan?

Here we have a picture of Miley Cyrus walking around in...I dunno, USA, wearing her hipster cut Bob Dylan shirt along with sunglasses that probably cost more than a high rise in Manhattan.  As we come to find out, Miley Cyrus claims to be inspired by some really great music (Bob Dylan, Nirvana) but yet creates really awful music...

Justin Townes Earle was interviewed

Justin Townes Earle was just interviewed for the magazine "Acoustic Guitar", which I've never read but I'm guessing has something to do with the electric harp.  He is going to be on the cover as well, which is good, because he rules.  Lately all I've been listening to is "Harlem River Blues", although his newest album "Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now" is great as well.  Not only is this dude like seven feet tall, he is also skinny as fuck, and since I am skinny as fuck myself,  I feel the connection that I never had with John Popper...

So I saw the Black Lips Saturday

This past Saturday (July 14th) the Village Voice hosted their 4Knots music festival.  It was a free festival on South Street with way too many people in attendance.  A bunch of bands played outdoors on the piers including Archers of Loaf, the Drums, Nick Waterhouse, I don't even remember who else cuz I didn't go...

The Great Panty Caper

So today marks another day with no work, in which I contemplate joining a gym, but then remember I am both lazy and broke.  Following that thought process and a brief bout of depression,  I open up my laptop and search for ways to make money.  
In my tireless search (usually on craigslist), I came upon the following ad under the "gigs" section....which I found baffling, because I did not consider it a "gig", more like an afternoon activity.

Hey, you made it! Welcome.

Welcome to the Daily Weirdo, my new blog site that will be followed by a weekly podcast entitled, "The Weekly Weirdo" alongside my good buddy Dwayne (star of the new, kind of hit show "Take Me Out" on Fox prime time).  If you don't know what you are getting into by following this blog....well neither do I by writing it.  All I can tell you is that I am currently out of work, at the moment, for the time being, spending a lot of the day on my couch, and things tend to get weird.

What's the plan for this blog you ask?  Well,  the rough idea is to combine my two loves: all things funny, and all things rock n roll, through the eyes of a self proclaimed weirdo. 

I have a lot of ideas that hopefully will pull together and provide for a good read.  Soooo, I ask that in the meantime you sit back, open a tab on your browser next to your facebook tab, gmail tab, youtube tab, (or whatever tab you need to click off when the boss rolls around), and wait for this thing to take off. 

-D.W.