Crushed by Inertia Lite

Blogging will be light and infrequent for the next few days, I'm afraid. Once next week starts, though, I promise to have tons of exciting new content. Some contests, a new movie list...all kinds of good stuff. Plus, Velvet Revolver will be stopping by, and we'll have a visit from Joan Embree from the San Diego Zoo.

I'm working all day today, for starters, which definitely cuts into CBI time. Especially because my boss reads the blog, so he can tell if I've been secretly composing articles from the stock room at the store. (Not that I do that...)

Then, after work, I'll be attending the bachelor party of my friend and co-worker, Ray. This will be the second bachelor party I'm attending in 2005. It's kind of depressing, seeing all these peers of mine get married, considering that the longest relationship I've ever had is my long-time subscription to PREMIERE Magazine.

And then, as if that weren't enough excitement for one single 24 hour period, on Saturday I'll be attending KROQ's Inland Invasion concert, all the way in Devore! That's on the 15, near San Bernadino (or San Berdoo, for you locals)! Read: far.

And considering that Bloc Party, one of the bands playing that I desperately want to see, starts their set at the ungodly, primitive hour of 12:50 p.m., my roommate and I will be leaving Los Angeles earlier than we would typically go to sleep. Drag.

The line-up for the show, however, is awesome. In addition to Bloc Party, we'll be seeing Madness, Weezer, Beck, The Arcade Fire, Cake and some other bands I like considerably less. Here's the full set-list:

Main Stage

Travis Barker & DJ AM
1:10 pm
The Bravery
1:40 pm
Arcade Fire
2:25 pm
Live
3:10 pm
Garbage
4:00 pm
Jet
4:50 pm
Madness
5:35 pm
311
6:25 pm
Beck
7:25 pm
Weezer
8:25 pm
Oasis
9:30 pm
Cake
10:30 pm

Family Guy Stage Two

Kasabian
11:00 am
Fishbone
11:55 am
Bloc Party
12:50 pm

"Family Guy" Stage Two? That's what you get for attending a KROQ show, I suppose...blatant, in-your-face commercialism and rampant over-marketing. Yippie! Maybe I'll be able to buy some colorful wristbands signifying oversimplified, generic socio-political movements which I support!

Anyway, the line-up itself is kind of weird...I mean, Cake is closing the entire show? Oasis after Beck and Weezer? (Particularly odd considering that Weezer isn't playing any Los Angeles shows on their own...Only a set here and a set at Coachella. And they're FROM Los Angeles!) I figured Weezer and Mr. Hansen would close the show, but I was wrong...

Oddly, I've already seen a bunch of these bands, during my high-school days, at other shows. Live, in particular, played at the very first concert for which I lined up to buy tickets...It was PJ Harvey and Veruca Salt opening for Live at Irvine Meadows (Now delightfully renamed as the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater!) I'm coming out early in my vocal support for mid-90's nostalgia rock!