Blue Meanies + Cub and Nigel

Take lots of drugs and head over to the Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar for their Tuesday music movie night: tonight, they'll be featuring the creepiest Beatles movie (AND worst song) ever: Yellow Submarine. Yes, Magical Mystery Tour was also pretty weird... but don't worry, they're showing that one on August 26th.

After the movie, head over to The Peacock Room where my boys Cub and Nigel will be bringing the funk. Not even an achilles tendon injury could stop them!!!! Check out their movie to promote the night:

Commies + AK1200

What better way to kick off your week than by watching awesomely bad 80's movies about communism while drinking beer? Redlight Redlight is hosting a Cold War movie night to help us reminisce the days before color-coded homeland security charts and terror threats.



Beginning at 5pm, they'll start off light with Spies Like Us; pick it up a little with some early computer hacking and potential global thermo-nuclear war with War Games; and, as a grand finale, all the communists in the world invade with Red Dawn. Karl Marx would be proud.



Drum n bass junkies should join the Torque crew over at Crooked Bayou tonight for the Autopsy CD release party featuring Orlando's own AK1200.

Happy Monday!

This Weekend: Mental Patients, Cheesy Wrestlers and Tennis Skirts

It's been awhile, eh? There has been some behind the scenes drama in my life that I'll condense into the Reader's Digest version. My company offered me a job in NYC and I accepted. I got really excited, told everyone I was moving and the job fell through. Luckily, I was offered the equivalent of my dream job down here, so it all worked out in the end. But I feel like I've been on a roller coaster the past few weeks, which explains the lack of posts. I even had one all ready to go last weekend, with this photo and everything:



Yep, Screech was doing stand-up comedy in town last weekend and I didn't get the chance to post about it. Shame on me!!! Anyways, I'm back with your weekend happenings and I'll do my best to keep everything updated from now on.

Get Mental is going down at Sky60 this evening, as it does every Friday. MOT and Spear have been killing it lately and are turning the crowd into crazy cabana-climbers: a nice change from the hoity toity atmosphere that sometimes accompanies the place.

Password for free admission tonight is: I hear voices in my head.



Over at The Peacock Room, the Mexican wrestlers are holding their monthly party Club Queso. Along with residents Q-Burns Abstract Message and Atnarko, the mayhem tonight will also be provided by special guest DJ, Three. The first 50 earlybirds will receive a free mix cd.



Saturday night, suit up in your best tennis outfit (sweatbands and all), grab your racquet and head to The Peacock Room. 4Play is -- you guessed it -- a tennis-themed party where tennis attire is encouraged. How many times can I write tennis in one paragraph? Tennis, tennis, tennis. Sleazy McQueen, MOT and Spear will be serving up (get it???) the music. The score is fifteen-love. I have no idea what that means. Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead. Tennis.



Finally, I would like to wish a wonderful super happy awesome birthday to my best friend Ami(Lou)!!!!!! Love you, sweetness!!!



Have an awesome weekend, kids!!!

The Feinberg-less Firestone

I feel the need to post about something that's driving me insane lately: something I like to call the "Feinberg-less Firestone." Let's take a look at the talent Mike Feinberg has helped bestow upon Orlando's club scene in the past few years:

Justice
DJ Mehdi
MSTRKRFT
Chromeo
Girl Talk
Tommie Sunshine
Diplo
Digitalism
Bonde do Role
Tittsworth
Surkin
Para One
Curses (aka Drop the Lime)
Peaches
CSS
Steve Aoki
Them Jeans
Toxic Avenger
Flosstradamus
Kid Sister
Princess Superstar
Guns 'N Bombs
Kissy Sell Out
The Rub
Orgasmic
Villains



And now that Feinberg is gone, here is the upcoming lineup:

DJ Mea
BT
DnF
Uberzone vs. Bassbin Twins
Friction and Spice
DJ Icey

Seriously?!?!? I feel like I should grab a pair of glowsticks, throw on some Jncos and set my Delorean for the year 1998. Haven't Orlando breaks died a horrible death by now??? Things are not looking good.

Be prepared for all flyers to start looking like this:

Get Mental + His & Hers + Hellboy Art + Free Slurpees!!!

Another weekend is upon us here in O-town and I will start the same way I do every Friday -- with the Get Mental weekly password. If you haven't been to this night at Sky60 yet, you don't know the insanity you're missing. Tonight's password for free admission is: My doctor says this will be good for me. Take two shots of Jaeger and call me in the morning.

What do you get when you cross Ted Danson with The Lord of Darkness from Legend?



Hellboy, of course!



Saturday night, Überbot is celebrating the anticipated sequel, Hellboy II: Electric Boogaloo, with a comic-inspired art show. Click the flyer for more info.



There's another art show taking place at Bay Two at Mills Park on Saturday, but I couldn't find any information on it. At all. Except that it has a $7 cover, which is completely ridiculous.



The real meat and potatoes tomorrow is, of course, MY party at Crooked Bayou (I am so modest). Cub and I are joining forces to create His & Hers, and we are going to kick your ass with awesome music. Best of all, it's FREE, so you can spend more on booze and fried pickles. Oh word.



Have a great weekend -- hope to see you out!

PS... Since today is July 11th, 7-11 is giving out free slurpees!!!

Shameless Self Promotion

Weekend events coming soon. Until then...

Come to this tomorrow night! Woooo!



*muah*

We All Need New Frontiers!!!

Hello, again! I apologize for my extended absence, but now the birthday and vacation craziness is behind me and I should be able to get my blizzog back in shizzape. And who better to celebrate my return than the much-anticipated Journey cover band, Frontiers??? They are gracing the stage at The Social tonight and I am so stoked, people, I can't even tell you!!!



Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell said it best: "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Baby" but with Steve Perry out of the picture, this is the best we get. OR, you can opt to see the Asian guy heading up the real Journey (along with Heart and Cheap Trick) at the Ford Amphitheatre later this month.

Cuatro de Julio aka 4th of July

If you're reading this – hello! No doubt you're here for the 4th of July festivities taking place this weekend. Thanks to the magic of Google Blogging scheduling technologies, by the time you read this, I will be here:



Ahhhhh, yes. A well-deserved vacation to the Bahamas, courtesy of the "Bank of Mom."

The recent posts here have been much like Miller Lite – taste great but less filling – and my only defense is that I'm just one (unpaid) person, with a 40+ hour day job, freelance gigs and an active social life on the side. But don't give up hope!!! In true campaign-style, I promise a new and improved DontSleepOrlando in the next few weeks!!! Once all this birthday vacation holiday craziness has slowed down, I will be back in full effect.

Until then, I will leave you with the best things I know that are happening this fine weekend:

Thursday:



Ummm... Crue Fest?!? Fuck yeah!!! But it's sold out. If you don't have tickets, maybe you should just rest up for Friday. Don't go to Red Hot and Boom – trust me.

Friday:



Tons of BBQs and all that. I still haven't heard anything about the annual drunken bike ride, so I have no clue if that's in effect. The fireworks at Lake Eola should be amazing, as always, and they can be viewed beautifully at Sky60, the rooftop bar overlooking downtown. Stick around for Get Mental, the new Friday party featuring MOT and Andrew Spear. Password for free admission is: "I'm here to do the Indepen-dance."

Saturday:



KG and The Band is playing at The Social and I've heard they're good. It's almost 5 am now, so this is the best I can do.

Have a safe and happy weekend, kids! Wish I could be here to enjoy it with you (we'll both get over it, I'm sure!!!).

NYC invades Carnival tonight!

Yes, the above photo is of Microbes. I have done the hard work finding his Myspace for you. Just try searching for his name in the Google. See if you get back a insane amount of science-y websites that have nothing to do with music. Maybe, just for fun, add the word "electro" and see what you get! Even more scientific jargon, I'll bet.

Apparently he is from a collective in NYC calling themselves The Ruff Club. From what I can gather, the six of them are prone to the color hot pink and had pretty decent taste in music as of September 2007.

Another member of the club is Denny Le Nimh. He didn't have a cool animated Gif, but he likes big yellow smiley faces and had the dopest Robin costume ever in 1979:



Catch them both at Carnival tonight as they show us how it's done in NYC (and vice versa).

Tonight: DRM and Kidgusto

My apologies for the brief-ness... I am mega-bogged down. No witty commentary today -- all I can muster is a flyer and some links. Sorry!!!



Check out Phat-N-Jazzy for DJ DRM and Kidgusto.

I promise more in-depth posts in the future. Until then... :)