i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

for the record, matthew perry = matt, bradley whitford = danny. and the show in question is studio sixty on the sunset strip, but i didn't have to tell you that.

I ASK THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT NEW TV SHOWS, YOU KNOW?

[Poll #729913]
whoever decided to put grey's anatomy up against csi and supernatural (assuming schedules, of course) and studio sixty on thursday nights is ... either a genius or a moron, i haven't decided yet. but either way, abc upfronts are out. pilot pick-up season is my favorite.

i have to go install five new computers in the music library. talk amongst yourselves while i'm gone.

TRIANGLEITES: this is your one month warning, mason jennings @ the cradle, june 16, 9:30. buy your tickets now!

mason jennings. default singer songwriter of my soul. new album boneclouds in stores today. and in honor: a history and a spam.

mason jennings is no relation to either waylon or shooter. he's from pittsburgh originally, and moved to minneapolis in 1994. he got his start playing a standard thursday gig at a small bar in minneapolis, and by 1996 was playing to nearly full crowds at the pub on the campus of carleton college in northfield, mn, which is where i went to college and where i first heard mason. (by the time i got to carleton, 1000 people were packing into a pub firecoded for 450 to see him play. we adored him.)

he's been compared to a lot of people, because it's hard to describe mason's style. he's a little young dylan, a little young springsteen, a lot of tim (not jeff) buckley. mostly he plays the guitar, but he does a little on the piano and serialkarma compared his piano-based sound to rufus wainwright. (she also said, "he plays the piano like a guitar player", which is totally true.) he gets compared to jack johnson an awful lot, which pisses me off, because mason's sound is far more layered and deep than johnson's is.

if you like any of those guys - even johnson, i suppose, though i'm not wild about him myself - you might like mason.

( the music )

i am wretchedly, retardedly poor right now, and i haven't actually bought the new album yet; i went and fondled it at schoolkids records on my way home from work (and sweet-talked the manager out of one of the gorgeous black and white lithographs they're giving away with the album, because i am just that cute), and now we wait for payday. the boy got me an itunes gift certificate. the boy is the best EVER, and i love him to distraction.

and that, my kittens, is mason jennings. if you like him and want to see him on this tour, dates are here. mason's playing red rocks. i might have fallen over when i saw that. oh, my boy is going to get famous. \o/