How do you know you’re big? Is it the platinum sales record frame? The screaming groupies? The VIP treatment? Nope. You’re not big till you’ve got pre-pubescent kids remaking your video.

exhibit a.

exhibit b.

Check out the FR*A interview with Erfan here.

Went to the Whiskey Green Tea mixer yesterday, had tons of fun… maybe too much fun. It was awesome to see people wearing FR*A apparel around, everyone seemed to be wearing one thing or another. I know you guys can’t get a hold of most of these yet, but good things come to those who wait!

Evil Monito x Kangol: Grand Opening of the Evil Monito Agency.

FRIDAY: OCTOBER 12, 2007 @ 7:30
1830 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Music by: Gomez Warren IV, Styles & THEEATOMICWERECAT!
Performance by: CJ (Capitol Records)

Mixed reviews have not quenched my excitement for The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson’s newest film. Unfortunately, it’s not yet showing in San Diego, but otherwise opened around the country last Friday.

Starring Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody as estranged brothers traveling through India to build trust in each other, it’s got to have Anderson’s trademark visual aesthetics, vibrant colours, quirky characters, awkward silences, and impeccable soundtrack, regardless of what the critics say. It’s also preceded by a short starring Natalie Portman, Hotel Chevalier.

The Darjeeling Limited

courtesy of rawbee9000

Hello folks, I’m dpd, I’m one of the guys who works on this thing all day and all night. It’s been a wild ride so far and I’m truly thankful for the response we’ve gotten so far (not to mention the great posts we’ve been receiving). You’ll notice that this month we’re trying a different format. While in September we released all the articles at once, this time around we’re releasing one feature article every Monday. We figure this might be more engaging to the audience, so you can see consistent and frequent content.

The FR*A aims to be an online community consisting of lovers of the arts across America. Now that we’re online anyone can partake by registering. We’ve noticed that this isn’t as convenient as it could be. We’re currently working on a new system where anyone can instantly blog (much like our “comments” function). For those of you who are already registered bloggers - we’re working on having the admin tweaked out so you can personalize a profile page and have a more efficient base of blogging operations.

Thanks again for the support and stay tuned.
p.s. feel free to give us your 2 cents!

Went to the Wiltern to see one of my new favorite bands The National; and they did not disappoint. the boys from New York by way of Cincinnati put on a phenomenal show.
check out their latest album boxer.

Watched Division Day for their record release party and Mae Shi.

Here is how OC Weekly viewed them, “Division Day. Were. Awesome. So awesome, in fact, that they could be considered awesome awesome, deserving of far better praise than this meager college rock fan… could ever dish… I dug Division Day the most for unabashedly mixing my favorite things—a preference for Dismemberment Plan-style awk-rawk over the too-obvious Moving Units post-punk-white-boy funk, soft vocals from a dude who can actually sing, (and) a drummer who looks like Dennis Wilson (pre-alcoholic downfall) and plays like him too (if Dennis Wilson were a robot with precision timing)…”

I thought they sucked but i have been promised the album is much better and i have to say some of it is ok. Listen to it on their myspace page here.

Mea Shi is from los angeles and you kind of get the sense that things are not loud enough for them. it was a loud and live (like real people jumping on the stage) show. good job. check out the single ‘run to your grave’ on their myspace page here.

on to Datarock tonight.