And the Blogs play on... - By N.L. Belardes
There I was, hangin’ ten, cowabunga surfing Danielle Belton’s entertainment blog when “Whooa Nelly!” She’s gone and linked to recent pics I took of Downtown Records' Jake Chavez, and she linked to my recent descent into the rock and roll cavern. One thing that I like is her pics. She’s got them going full steam ahead now, either surfing the Net for them, or having Roger Hornbeck take some nightlife photos. Kudos to the Californian for getting a little more intimate through pics. The blogs are good, but the photos pull folks inside the writer’s world; an often scary place that non-writers appreciate a glimpse of. Just ask Wotts, er, some of those funky writers for the Californian. But, really, Danielle is leading the way over there... Why? She has a hipster creative writer attitude and offers a different ‘outsiders’ view of the Bakersfield night life. She’s from St. Loo, Mizzoo, and likes to party up with the boys from Gigantic Vingtage and can be seen frequenting Azul’s nightclub and PJs. Moreso, she recently did a club review where she quotes the Pizza-a-go-go as a “legendary home of underground rock,” but also a place where you might get rickets…
You have Stubble the Lords Hunter chasing down Jagels, or as Enrique Fuentes puts it, J. Edgar Bagels, by his very toes. Then there’s Jennifer Baldwin writing here and there> I don't see a recent blog from her, but hopefully she is finally understanding just what a Sith is these days. There are more representatives from the Bakersfield media blog tidal wave. Just go to here to read more and hang ten.
Now for some happenings on the Bakersfield underground blogs. You all know that my blog has gone through art page changes by including two podcasts and a different look and feel. I will be hitting hard and heavy with the Lords of Bakersfield entries as I wind down to the ‘Day of the Lord’, better known as my book release finally winding into action.
Now, there’s Heath Dobbler. This guy from 3 Cent Nickle—no, I never heard a song but I do know Heath. I came too late into the Bakersfield music foray. He’s got a blog going on called Dobbler’s Drunk Corner. He talks about punk rock, about his opinion of the state of Bakersfield music in a very rough way. Yeah, he doesn’t hold back. He’s very kind by plugging my own blog and I recently read that this cat is working on a novel called, The Best Band You Never Heard. He even called me a local scene hero. How cool is that. Although I think Belton gave up on calling me a novelist since I keep delaying the release of Lords: Part One. We’re getting closer and I’ll be a novelist yet. You know, I once gave columnist Herb Benham a copy of The Citrus Girl. I think he uses it for a coffee cup stain holder on his nightstand. Either that or he’s tossed it into the landfill by now. I saw him walking down Eye Street the other day and said 'hello' to him (we've never officially met). He looked at me like he knew me from somewhere. I was too ashamed to say, “I’m the guy with the book that you never read.”
There are other blogs worth mentioning. I had promised Jenny Angel to talk a bit about her Dusk Devil's show with guitar legend, Link Wray. He’s this power chord guru and she writes about sharing the stage with at Fishlips in her Dusk Devil’s blog. I wish she would figure out how to work the links section on it though… another funny story she tells is of a recent show with Cattie Ness who for some forsaken reason wanted Jenny et. al to wear torquoise. Strange. Of course this was an out of town show and the drummer was late… Read all about it on her rockabilly blog…
Illpressed wrote a fashionable Pizza-a-go-go piece worth checking out. He gives his two cents about why bands play at Jerry’s, while calling all the ruckus regarding the boycott and intimidation a ‘fuss’. Oh man, JR… It was more than a fuss if the promoter is gone, if Gigantic once moved because of it, if the promoter ended up in jail, and if old N.L. wrote so many articles on such a topic. People told me not to write the truth, that bad things would happen to me. But then, not even the Lords of Buck City have quieted the N.L. Blog and podast. But then, JR is not so dark and dismal like me in his telling of Jerry's Pizza and uplifts some of his favorite bands… go read...
Fellow blogger in crime, Matildakay has been writing in her blog. She's got a poem and a funny little piece about Mr. Incredible... I don't know if she's been working on her novel. It really pisses me off when she doesn't. But then, that's just novelists for you. Everybody gets all worked up and not enough writing gets accomplished...
You have Stubble the Lords Hunter chasing down Jagels, or as Enrique Fuentes puts it, J. Edgar Bagels, by his very toes. Then there’s Jennifer Baldwin writing here and there> I don't see a recent blog from her, but hopefully she is finally understanding just what a Sith is these days. There are more representatives from the Bakersfield media blog tidal wave. Just go to here to read more and hang ten.
Now for some happenings on the Bakersfield underground blogs. You all know that my blog has gone through art page changes by including two podcasts and a different look and feel. I will be hitting hard and heavy with the Lords of Bakersfield entries as I wind down to the ‘Day of the Lord’, better known as my book release finally winding into action.
Now, there’s Heath Dobbler. This guy from 3 Cent Nickle—no, I never heard a song but I do know Heath. I came too late into the Bakersfield music foray. He’s got a blog going on called Dobbler’s Drunk Corner. He talks about punk rock, about his opinion of the state of Bakersfield music in a very rough way. Yeah, he doesn’t hold back. He’s very kind by plugging my own blog and I recently read that this cat is working on a novel called, The Best Band You Never Heard. He even called me a local scene hero. How cool is that. Although I think Belton gave up on calling me a novelist since I keep delaying the release of Lords: Part One. We’re getting closer and I’ll be a novelist yet. You know, I once gave columnist Herb Benham a copy of The Citrus Girl. I think he uses it for a coffee cup stain holder on his nightstand. Either that or he’s tossed it into the landfill by now. I saw him walking down Eye Street the other day and said 'hello' to him (we've never officially met). He looked at me like he knew me from somewhere. I was too ashamed to say, “I’m the guy with the book that you never read.”
There are other blogs worth mentioning. I had promised Jenny Angel to talk a bit about her Dusk Devil's show with guitar legend, Link Wray. He’s this power chord guru and she writes about sharing the stage with at Fishlips in her Dusk Devil’s blog. I wish she would figure out how to work the links section on it though… another funny story she tells is of a recent show with Cattie Ness who for some forsaken reason wanted Jenny et. al to wear torquoise. Strange. Of course this was an out of town show and the drummer was late… Read all about it on her rockabilly blog…
Illpressed wrote a fashionable Pizza-a-go-go piece worth checking out. He gives his two cents about why bands play at Jerry’s, while calling all the ruckus regarding the boycott and intimidation a ‘fuss’. Oh man, JR… It was more than a fuss if the promoter is gone, if Gigantic once moved because of it, if the promoter ended up in jail, and if old N.L. wrote so many articles on such a topic. People told me not to write the truth, that bad things would happen to me. But then, not even the Lords of Buck City have quieted the N.L. Blog and podast. But then, JR is not so dark and dismal like me in his telling of Jerry's Pizza and uplifts some of his favorite bands… go read...
Fellow blogger in crime, Matildakay has been writing in her blog. She's got a poem and a funny little piece about Mr. Incredible... I don't know if she's been working on her novel. It really pisses me off when she doesn't. But then, that's just novelists for you. Everybody gets all worked up and not enough writing gets accomplished...
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