28 Days Later...

...I finally decide to write a blog.


I will admit it. I suck at updating this blog. I'm straight up awful at it. In my defense it has been kind of crazy around here lately as we gear up for Jonesy being gone for the summer with the Sex Pistols. They play the big show, the only one in the states, at the Hard Rock in Vegas on June 7th and then leave to play festivals in faraway lands for 3 months. If you feel like traveling this summer and going on adventures to see the Pistols here are all the dates.

Some things that have been going on in the past couple weeks while I was busy not updating this blog:



-- We had Perry Farrell on at the beginning of the month. He was a really fun guest. It was a show full of those moments that can only happen on Jonesy's Jukebox and INDIE 1031...ya know, a moment like Steve Jones and Perry Farrell jamming out a fantastic cover of Twist & Shout.





-- Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing fame, came in on an early May Saturday night to pre-record a show with us to run in the summer. He performed a bunch of songs and hung out for two hours of radio magic with Jonesy. One of my roommates Paul, is the biggest Doughty fan of all time. Unfortunately, he was out of town when Mike came in. Paul was bummed about this to say the least, but being the awesome caring roommate I am I made him a copy of the show. The rest of you will hear it sometime in July!




-- May 18th marked exactly one year to the day that I moved out here to L.A. Last weekend I traveled back east to Boston for the first time in a year. I actually just got back Tuesday night. I went home for my sisters high school graduation. Congrats Carolyn! It was fun to go home and see all my friends and family. I got to hang out with some great cats I had not seen in a while. I also went to the radio station I used to work at, WFNX. Getting to see The Sandbox dudes and all my friends at FNX was a great time. As good as it was to visit home and Boston for a while, I have to say I was pretty happy to return to L.A.





-- In case you didn't know I am a GIGANTIC basketball fan, which also makes me a die hard Boston Celtics fan. The Celtics went up 3 games to 2 on the Detroit Pistons last night in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals in what has been one of the best post seasons for the NBA in a long time. If they win tomorrow night they will go on to the NBA finals for the first time since 1986. This is already very exciting. Now throw in the fact that tonight the Lakers could finish off the Spurs as they are up 3 games to 1, making it a Celtics vs. Lakers NBA finals just like the old days with Magic and Bird. It will be a clash of my two worlds, Los Angeles where I live now and Boston my hometown! I have enjoyed watching the Lakers and Kobe all season and have been routing for them in the playoffs so this Boston vs. L.A. scenario would come true; and now we are only 2 wins away from it actually happening. Obviously I will be routing for the Celtics without question. It will absolutely be a historic NBA finals. If you think I am not trying to find a way into the Staples center for one of those games you are out of your blog reading mind! GO CELTICS!!!!








--Tonight is the 3 hour season four finale of the best show on television...LOST! This has been my reason to live until May 29th. I almost can't even function today because of what is about to go down between the hours of 8pm-11pm tonight. If I survive the LOST finale tonight there will be more blogging to come tomorrow...errr or 28 days from now. I've decided I like to keep all of you readers (and by all of you readers I mean my mom and my roommates) on your toes so you never know if or when you are getting a new blog. It will be like a nice little surprise to your day when there is a new post. Thats my story and I'm stickin' to it!


Thanks for reading!

Begley

"Oh, how it's been so long, I'm so sorry I've been gone, I was busy writing blogs for.....YOU!"

" We've waited so long, but we'd wait forever
Our blood is blue and we would leave you never
And when we make it, it'll be together...
Oh oh oh

Chelsea, Chelsea
Chelsea, Chelsea
We're gonna make this a blue day
Chelsea, Chelsea
Chelsea, Chelsea
We're gonna make this a blue day"

A huge congrats to Chelsea on their big win over Liverpool yesterday.

Yesterday's show was INSANE. We watched the Chelsea/Liverpool semi-final during the show. Go HERE and listen to the podcast if you missed it. It was great. Chelsea now moves on to play the hated Manchester United in the FINAL on May 21st!



Today was a pretty laid back show. This week absolutely flew by, I can't believe today is already Thursday. I think it's because last weekend was Coachella so everyone was on a high this week from that. When I said this to Max the program director here at INDIE he responded "It's because everyone worked so hard for Coache...well some of us worked...and some of us just ate giant steaks and played in the desert" Haha...what can I say I had a fun Coachella weekend. More on this later.

Coachella was an awesome time. I got to go out there for Saturday and Sunday. I had never been before so it was fun to go this year. I'll be honest I spent more time hanging in and around the Indio/La Quinta, CA area than actually in the festival grounds. I did see Death Cab, Dwight Yoakam, heard a little bit of Cold War Kids, and of course Prince on Saturday night. I was kind of bummed that I missed MGMT, I had my brand new MGMT shoelaces and everything! So what did I do with my time if I only saw a handful of bands you ask?

1) Hung out at the amazing INDIE 1031 house: It was honestly a mini mansion with a huge backyard stocked with open bars, a fishing pond, a pool, games, waterslides, and my favorite part of the backyard bombing around on Segway Scooters!

2) Helped drink 100 cases of free beer and saw some good friends from the east coast: Before I moved out here and started working at INDIE a year ago I used to worked for an alternative station in Boston called WFNX for three years. They came out this year to broadcast from a $2 million house right outside of the Coachella festival grounds with the FNX morning show, The Sandbox. You should all check out The Sandbox, besides being great dudes and good friends of mine, they have one of the best radio shows in the country right now. I listen to the podcast on my way home from work everyday





Since I had not seen all of them in almost a year I hung with the FNX/Sandbox crew for most of the weekend. We had giant steaks at Ruth's Chris (yes they have fancy steakhouse in the desert). Because I'm friends with U2 superfans, we went to the Joshua Tree National Park and attempted to recreated a photo from U2's Joshua Tree Album while fighting off liazrds, snakes, and scorpions:



On Sunday we gambled at a local casino called the Augustine where I won $200 on Black Jack! DOUBLE DOWN, YEEEAH! All in all it was a fantastic weekend. Can't wait till next year!



Tomorrow is Friday! On Jonesy's Jukebox Jury we will hopefully be playing and talking music for once...and whatever else Jonesy decides to talk about. I honestly never know. We will have all music writers from Rolling Stone, FILTER, Mojo, and The L.A. Times. Should be fun. Tune in at 12 bells!

Thanks for reading!

Begley