Fort Hood

The massacre at Fort Hood happened on November 5, 2009. Major Nidal Malik Hasan was coming out of a process center whenever he started shooting his gun at anybody for no reason. Within seven minutes, Hasan had killed 13 people, and wounded 38 others. Heroic Sgt. Kim Munley has risked her life to stop the shooter by charging at him.
The Army took immediate action; every military camp near Fort Hood was put on urgent lockdown. Scared soldiers didn’t know what to think, for some of the soldiers their wounds were worse just knowing that they were from a fellow soldier.
According to People magazine, Hasan was an Army doctor trained as a psychiatrist. He tried to convert fellow soldiers, who were coming home from Afghanistan or Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder, to Islam. Fellow colleagues said, “Right from the get-go we knew this guy was bad news. Opinion was divided: Either he was incompetent oaf who somehow got pushed through the system, or he was a lunatic.” Hasan was obsessed with suicide bombers and showed much interest and even praised their glorious actions.

Notable Upcoming Concerts

This years selection of indie music visiting Missouri has been lacking compared to previous years that featured acts like Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, Dan Deacon, and at least a few visits by Of Montreal. Even Sufjan Stevens owes a visit to this rural neck of the woods styled state he loves to write about. Still, these upcoming shows and a few visits by the energetic Ratatat to the Blue Note in Columbia and Off Broadways low key visit by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone make 2009's live music in Missouri scene not to lacking. Oh, and if you missed Brooklyners Matt and Kim and Austrailian giants Cut Copy in March, it was your loss. At least there's that Bacardi add to tide you over for their next visit...

Upcoming Shows in St. Louis, MO

November 13

Peter Bjorn and John + El Perro del Mar @ the Gargoyle

November 20

Japandroids + Surfer Blood @ the Billiken Club

or

Elvis Perkins in Dearland + A. A. Bondy @ the Gargoyle

December 4

The Swell Season + Rachael Yamagata @ the Pageant

Note: The Blue Note in Columbia, which did feature a good run of Ratatat, Andrew Bird, Grizzly Bear, and St. Vincent seems to have skimped out on anything good for the rest of the year...quite a dissapointment.

MC201 Exercise

Mathew Brady is the chief source of the images we have of the American Civil War, and according to a local historian, he is the chief source of the way in which we look at ourselves.
The citizens of Ticonderoga County will have a marvelous chance to take a look into that mirror beginning today with a major exhibit of Brady photographs. The reason we remember Brady, Sloan said, is because of the studio photos of nearly every famous person of the day.