The Useless Critic 2.0

Virgin Mobile Free Fest 2011 free Friday @ 10 am gets you: - Cut Copy - The Black Keys - Deadmau5 - TV on the Radio - Grace Potter and the  Nocturnals - James Murphy (solo) - Patti Smith - Big Sean - Bombay Bicycle Club - !!! - Calvin Harris - Okkervil River - Empire of the Sun - Ghostland Observatory - Cee Lo Green - Two Door Cinema Club - Alberta Cross - Teddybears - Porter Robinson - Eclectic Method SEPTEMBER 10 2011 MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION

....that's Robert Smith. I KID I KID. no seriously, every depressed kid I knew that was into books and/or poetry went through a Poe phase. and who was right there besides them? me, and the ghost of Poe. quoth the raven. (that poem was actually written in Pennsylvania. there's some inn or something in central Pennsylvania that uses that as their "claim to fame," despite the fact that Baltimore is all like POE IS OUR SON LET'S NAME THE FOOTBALL TEAM FOR A POEM and why aren't more football teams named for poems! thanks Wenli for that bit of knowledge). nevermore, nevermore. I prefer to think of Poe as the father of the modern detective novel. Think the Murders in the Rue Morgue. Though I didn't particularly care for that, or say the Telltale Heart or the Pit and the Pendulum (although the Vincent Price movie based on it? very nice very nice!) or okay I AM NOT A POE FAN. but he turned 202 yesterday (Poe, I'm sorry you weren't alive to celebrate this ...

JULY 26TH U2 AND INTERPOL IN PITTSBURGH TELL ME TO NOT GET A TICKET BECAUSE I JUST MIGHT p.s. Florence + the Machine is getting pretty popular here in the States. supposedly, Flo will be opening for some of these U2 shows (including one in Baltimore), too! she is coming to Balty-more....hopefully I'm not here at that point in time, but if I am......