Feb
12
2010

Tramps & Thieves / Strange Young Things @ Hollywood Alley

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(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
Sometime paying a cover is worth it, even when you're watching money. Tonight was one of those nights with Tramps & Thieves and Strange Young Things at Hollywood Alley.

The opening band, Quarter Inch Crown were pretty enjoyable. Although the set started out somewhat dissident and reminencent of the Meat Puppets (the comparison maybe somewhat influenced by Back Waters coming on before they played), the second half of their set was more poppy and melodic. Certainly there were a couple songs I wouldn't mind checking out on myspace.

Photobox ImageTramps were up next, and played a quite varied set including stuff fromm Mill Avenue Cowboys, Spittin' Into The Wind, Perinnals and also a new one, which was cool. Glodie was up on stage a few times, lending backup vocals, namely on Why Have You Been Gone So Long. Loved when Emmett announced that he'd be back on stage in 25 minutes and will be rolling around on the floor - funny, 'cause it's true! [smile]

Photobox ImageAnd as promised, Strange Young Things were up last. Not being at Yucca, the question of the night (for me anyway) was whether the different venue was going to mean less SYT ridiculous. Pretty soon, the resounding answer was 'no'. [smile] It didn't take long before Corey was off the stage, wandering around the tables, sitting down and helping himself to people's fries, pouring beer over himself, barely avoiding unplugging himself and generally all around being - well - Corey Gloden. [smile] We were actually sitting at the table front and center, and given that you can never tell at any minute what is going to happen at a SYT show we were right in the line of fire. Though, we didn't have Corey jump up on our table, which frankly seemed inevitable.

Great set by the guys, played all the new stuff, and some of the old ones. It was quite cool when Emmett jumped up for Left Breast Pocket. Dan wasn't present, and David from the Sugar Thieves filled in doing a good job of things (which is saying something, given how much of Dan's intense playing I am). Richard Pollman was there and got up to beat the skins on Get Your Fire For Free which was really cool to witness.

Since we were sitting up front, it was a rare opportunity to get some good shots (and some video) of the band. Generally that's just impossible due to the amount of rocking out that happens, making photo taking unfessable.

Anytime you see SYT, you're left with wishing they played every damn night! The upside is that we're seeing Corey at Teakwoods tomorrow night with Mark Zubia.
Now Playing: Gas Giants - Letter
Feb
12
2010

From The Cool Shows File

Robin Wilson Opening For Muddy Violets

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, February 12, 2010 - 08:41:40 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
We already had next week's Muddy Violets show in the calendar. It's been quite a while since we've seen the whole band.

Tonight Sara just posted the flier for the show which makes it even cooler.

Muddy Violets @ Teakwoods, Phoenix, AZ - February 20, 2010

Robin Wilson is opening. Sweet! This will be my first time seeing Robin Wilson solo and acoustic. Good times.

What do I always say about Teakwoods being so cool?
Now Playing: Eric Douglas - Mile High And Risin'
Feb
12
2010

Vi And No End Of Line

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, February 12, 2010 - 01:51:34 pm
(Posted Under: Development)
This is a constant problem. Editing files in vim that don't have an end of line character at the end of the file results in an end of line character being added when saving.

It's probably fine to terminate every file with an end of line, though it annoys me when I do a cvs diff on code and get more line changes that are actually warranted with a given bug fix or code update. It generally happens from creating a file in a Windows editor (namely Textpad) without a final end of line and then doing some work in vim and saving. Typically I'll open the file back up in Textpad, remove the end of line and resave before comitting the code, but that can be a pain when I specifically want to keep working in vim, or if I don't have a Windows editor handy (or feel like navigating through a whole bunch of folders to open the file in Windows).

I have pretty much found the solution to the problem.

Under Windows/cygwin it's relatively easy - remove the end of line, "set binary noeol" in vim and save the file. That does the trick.

Under Linux, it's a can bit more of a pain.

  • "set binary noeol" works fine on Unix (\n only) files
  • On Windows (\r\n) files, the binary option removes all \r's, which will cause far more havock on a cvs diff [smile] However, it seems that doing a unix2dos on the saved files will return the file to \r\n) line endings, without causing the final end of line to be re-added.
With that said, I should just add eol's to files to avoid any hassles, but since I'm more likely to only do that on a separate development/cleanup branch, the above trick is handy for day to day workings with files.

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