Jam Bands to Invade McCarren, Battle Between Hipsters and Hippies Imminent

While scanning the 'net today, I came across this little gem. Look's like Bisco, as Disco Biscuits are known to fans, and Umphrey's McGee are going to be playing McCarren Pool this summer.

Now for those of you not down with the jam band scene, Bisco and Umphrey's are two of the bands jockeying to fill the vacuum created after the disbandment of Phish and save the scene from complete obscurity. After seeing both bands several times, which I am a bit ashamed to admit, I have to say not only do they both kind of suck, but also have incredibly annoying fans. The only saving grace of hippies is their drug induced haze enables them to dance at shows rather than stand there like statues, desperately trying to look cool (NY hipsters, cough). However, I usually found that most fans of these bands tended to be more into the drug aspect of the concert than the actual music, so I guess it's a trade off. In the end, the irritating fans and monotony of the music caused me to abandon jam bands for greener pastures.

SO, be sure to avoid McCarren Park and Bedford Ave on 8/15 if troves of Long Island hippy stoners and twenty-minute suck-fest songs scare you as much as they scare me.

If a movie made from a book drops in the summer and I don't go see it, does it make me sound?

Here's a list of some books being made into movies which come out this summer. Included in the list is yet another movie based on a Philip K. Dick novel. The Chricton-ization of the Dick library is almost complete, but all forecasts for the end of the trend are positive since Jessica Biel is in Next and Jurassic Park IV comes out next year.

If Nick Cage could see the future in real life do you think he would have warned everyone about Jurassic Parks II through III? I wish I could say that he would have, but I can't because I have no way to get in touch with him. With any luck that will be the twist ending in Next. Nick Cage using the powers of his mind (I wonder if he'll be method acting) to redirect an atomic bomb at the studio producing JP4.


The release of Next will beg the question: Are you cooler for reading a Philip K. Dick book or not seeing the movie?

There's no way to answer the question if you haven't seen the movie, but there will be opinions.

Viva la 'pinion!