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The last Guilty Pleasures was one of the funnest shows we went to last year, and we're not just saying that because we were a sponsor. For reals, it was awesome, and we weren't even feeling that guilty about some of the songs played. Ace of Spades? Not guilty! Or, we're guilty of not feeling any guilt over enjoying the hell out of it when someone on stage rocks Ace of Spades. In that case, guilty as charged. Allentown? It's guilty, it's a pleasure. Since You've Been Gone? Way guilty, total pleasure. Like last year, some of the bands on the bill are new to us and others are local standbys. This year there's the Young Sportsmen, Transmissionary 6, Stuporhero, Kristy Cameron, Pris, Life in a Blender and bunch of other fine bands. Last year a highlight for us was this accordion guy from Portland Mike Danner. He's fantastic and he's there again tonight. Check him out:

READINGS: Jonathan Raban continues his all-out assault on the bookstores of Seattle with a reading tonight at the University Bookstore in support of Surveillance. How many times can we say it: Go.

The best part about Friday's "Guilty Pleasures" show at the High Dive in Fremont was arguing whether the songs that were played were in fact guilty pleasures. Ok, the actual best part was hearing the songs. A close second was second-guessing the decision to play them. The way it worked was a local band got up on stage, played three songs they considered to be guilty pleasures, and then made way for the next guys. The DJ spun related material while the next band plugged in their guitars and whatnot which allowed Seattlest plenty of time to turn to random people in the crowd and insist that "The Ace of Spades" is not a guilty pleasure - That's just a badass song. "Allentown" is a guilty pleasure. "Benny and the Jets" is a guilty pleasure. That "Since you've been gone" American Idol song may or may not be a guilty pleasure, but two bands played it so the consensus would seem to be that it is. "Jenny (I got your number)" is way beyond a guilty pleasure, and we were questioning it's inclusion until, you know, they played it and it was a lot of fun. "They" played it and we couldn't tell you who they are because most of the bands just skipped right over introducing themselves - No one's guiltier over these pleasures than the bands that took the time to learn them. It was for a cause, though - Money was raised for Mercy Corp. and an otherwise sedate Fremont Friday (finals week) rocked at the High Dive.

About seventy percent of my iPod contains music that could be construed as a guilty pleasure, and most of that is right out there in the open. I'm just not really feeling a whole lot of guilt over it. However, there's also a playlist so innocuously named that it couldn't possibly attract any attention ever and that playlist contains the lowest of the low; the truly embarrassing shit, the shit that is sure to come on the moment I let random play deejay a party.

Tuesday, December 5

Here they are--our plans for the weekend. Can you do better than this? Oh...you're..you're doing what? Inside the dryer? Ok, you win. Still, check these out.

Okay, okay, you have empathy fatigue or some bullshit like that and you don't want to even hear it anymore. You gave! We know! Don't even mention the word "benefit" in your presence or you're likely to go off on some compassionate conservative rant right here. So, we won't. We won't say that Guilty Pleasures at the Sunset tonight is a benefit.

If you're feeling guilty about missing out on the Bonni Suval benefit Seattlest told you about a little while ago, no worries. You can alleviate your guilt by going to another Bonni Suval benefit, this one with a bunch of local bands playing their favorite guilty-pleasure cover songs.