DRAMA! LOMAX DISSES ON CHRON!

SUFFERING SUCCOTASH! After a few years of pretty fair criticism of the live music content happening at our annual International Festival (this weekend, btw), perennial not-down-with-the-scene Houston Press music editor John Lomax changes his target in this year’s discussion of the event, stirring up a bit of raven poo and flinging it right at the wicked poorly marketed chron.com.

And, oh yeah, there's an irony here we would feel remiss, or at least ungratified, in not pointing out. The local music stage's official name is the “Chron.com Houston Stage Presented by Flamingo Gardens.” Hmmm. Given my role in picking the talent, this handle makes this stage look like a Coors Lite-sponsored soiree at which only Guinness Stout is dispensed, but if those johnny-come-latelies at the Chron can sleep soundly after slapping their name on something that was in no small part my work, they can go right ahead. Nighty-night, liars.

GUFFAW @ “Nighty-night, liars.” Lomax’s ‘role in picking the talent’ (all that work) is outlined earlier in the article, where he states “late last year, [Festival Music Curator Rick] Mitchell asked me to send over a list of bands for his and the other organizers' consideration, which I did, and more than a few of them made the cut.” Damn. Stone cold. You sent a list? Who would think the Chron could just chip in some money and end up with a stage of the same acts that they cover anyway. We totally feel the pain.

THAT’S WHY, as of this writing, we have decided to not be all drop-the-ball-like-Alvarez and get waaaay ahead of the curve. We have just completed sending our own list (look to your right – we just cut and paste) along with a check for $35 (thanks advertisers) as a down payment for what we hope will be the 2008 International Festival’s “Donnie’s Port-o-Let Presents The Skyline Network Damn Hipsters Stage.” Yusss. It’s gonna totally rule and totally not going to happen.