jlegler.com is the blog of Jason Legler, the pasty white geeky guy from Casper Wyoming, not the enterprising badass bull rider from Colorado. Jason likes playing and recording music and breaking computers. He lives in Portland Oregon where he likes to chill with his hot wife and their animals.
I have updated my page to a new brighter color scheme. I chose something orange in honor of my beloved Denver Broncos despite the fact that they will likely suck this year. I truly hope they prove me wrong. The accidentally awesome “cool pictures and video that Jason Legler shot of Radiohead in Auburn WA” post is completely done so feel free to check it out. The pics and video really did turn out dramatically better than I had anticipated. I owe it all to the Canon G9 and its kick ass “auto” mode. I know dick about photography but the camera didn’t care.
Anyway, I am going to keep this short because I am tired and need to go to bed. If you have an xbox 360 and xbox live and you don’t own Braid, you are an idiot. It is the best game I have played in the last 10 years. It is a reason to buy the xbox 360. It is the first video game I have ever played that I would consider art. Read the reviews, other people have said it better than I will be able to right now.
Also, my buddy Jeremy directed me to a site that everyone should check out. It is called indexed and it is awesome. This girl boils down what most blogs blather about for pages in simple drawings on index cards. Sometimes it is funny, other times it is very clever and poignant. Sometimes it is all of those things. Check it out. That is all I have for now so on that note I am off to bed.
Ok, everything I got is online now. I got video for a total of 9 of the 25 songs they played; however, the end of All I Need is chopped because my memory card filled. I really wish I would have got Thom’s screwup and attempt at Faust Arp/Tell Me Why but I wasn’t recording at the time.
Basically, Thom screwed up the lyrics and bailed on the song, half-assedly covered “Tell Me Why” by Neil Young to the laughter of the audience (he didn’t know the words) at which point Phil came out and threw some money down as if Thom were a street performer. Thom and Johnny tried again and screwed up again, Thom yelled “Fuck” and stopped playing again, only to start again from where he screwed up and finish the song. It was really funny. The band was in good spirits for sure. In Limbo was also badass because Nigel came out and played tambourine. It was a fantastic show.
I am posing the set list below with song names in yellow I have video for. They are all on youtube and embeded here. Make sure and check out the videos in high quality mode on youtube so you can hear everything in stereo and see everything more clearly. The actual video I shot is at a pretty decent resolution and youtube doesn’t do it justice; however, I don’t have the bandwidth to post 9 500MB files. Anyway, the show kicked ass. It was the best show I have ever been to. I hope you enjoy the pictures and video.
Here is a slideshow of the pictures I took. If you want to see bigger versions of them go here.
Anyone that knows me knows that I am not a particularly animated person. When I feel like I am making an exaggerated movement or making a fool of myself, I often later find out that I looked foolish because I was moving so little in comparison to everyone else. My life is in monotone; my humor depends on it and my social awkwardness is amplified by it. Today is a special day though. It may look like any other day because I lack the ability to emote effectively; however, I assure you that this day is different. Jason Legler got himself 4 pre-sale tickets to Radiohead in Seattle and more importantly, he was one of the first people to get them so he thinks that they’ll actually be good tickets. I am jumping out of my skin with excitement which from the outside likely looks like I might have some kind of subtle stomach issue.
Historically I always get hosed on this kind of stuff. I usually don’t hear about the tickets going on sale until they are already sold out. This time though, I watched the band site like a hawk and found out what day the tickets went on pre-sale. I then wrote a little tool in Python that checked the pre-sale ticket site every minute. If the program detected that anything had changed at the site it played metal as loud as my computer could be turned up. This allowed me to sleep and monitor the site at the same time. At around 6am today my computer began blasting metal and I was able to procure some tickets. I’m stoked as hell that I got tickets and completely dorking out on the fact that I wrote software to allow it to happen. That being said I have recently discovered that programs exist for doing this task already and are much cooler and MUCH more flexible than what I wrote. I don’t care though, it was cool as hell.
I’ve gotten to see Radiohead twice in my life and both times were outdoor venues. In both instances I was far enough back that the sound was washed out and I couldn’t see much. I really hope that my determination in getting good tickets pays off and the tickets I bought will let me get close enough for this to be a really good show. Anyway, that is it. I got Radiohead tickets. I’ll let everyone know where the seats are when they actually get assigned. Here is Thom rocking a little Bangers + Mash Phil Collins style.
Well, I missed my opportunity to post on the first of the year. Heather and I made it back from Mexico. I hate US Airways; however, I imagine everyone hates the airline they flew on this Christmas. No one has the right to wonder why airlines and American car companies keep filing bankruptcy though. As a company, you can’t make dramatic cuts to budgets to appease the fickle whims of shareholders for a quarter and not ultimately cripple your company. Anyway, I need to go to bed but expect some posts and pictures about Mexico in the coming days and then with whatever little bit of creative energy I have left I’ll fill you in on some fantastic drama in the extended family here. Fun times for all! In the meantime, please enjoy this performance from one of my favorite bands on the planet:
