Me In a Tornado

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Also the first show of my new band is the 19th. Demos will abound.

There's been a lot of clamor for a new blog post. I tried to say no, that I'm working on a masterpiece, but the clamor clamored on. I try to dissuade the clamorors with calls for patience and decency. They proved un-shut-up-able, just wouldn't stop clamoring. Clamor clamor clamor clamor.

Everything I was excited about kicked the bucket. Except the band. Manipulation is recording July 12th. It should be cool. We're doing it with a guy who formerly hated my guts, so we'll see if he remembers me or not. My guess is he will, but will have to pretend he doesn't since we're paying him. Score one for Scott. The reason he hated me is fuzzy. The Breaks recorded there, and I think I did something notably incompetent during that session, and then did it several more times after he explained to me how to stop. Like, plugged my guitar into the wrong place or something. Either way the frustration grew until there was murder behind his eyes. Time for round two.

It's stayed pretty cool and damp here, like a cave. But that's fine with me, because I don't need it to get miserably hot. It's like working in an ok office that's boring instead of working outside.

Drop me a line sometime, everybody.

My Problems

Maybe I'm just an idiot with a special knack for pissing off computers, but I could swear I just spent an hour trying to download a new version of Avast and some how wound up uninstalling the whole thing instead.

Hiatus Status

It's been too nice outside for blogging. There was a brief moment a few weeks ago where it was comfortable to be outside in Chicago, and I've spent all my free time outside, waiting for that to happen again. Much disappointment.

Here are 10 songs for April, since the world is dying for another music blog. Some info:

1. Dead Boys - Third Generation Nation: Off their second LP, "We Have Come for Your Children". The singer of this band heckled Devo a lot when they were both starting out in Ohio, then got hit by a bus. He would've survived if he wasn't too drugged up to care.
2. Glass Teeth - As the World Turns You Down: A great Saint Louis band waiting for that great Saint Louis label that will never come. It's crazy to me that no one is jumping to put this out. Off the demo.
3. The Black Dahlia Murder - Everything Went Black: Sometimes I get in a death metal mood. This is one of the only current death metal bands I'm in to.
4. The Receiving End - People Disappear: Ben Smith and co. making some power-pop punk music that I listened to about 400 times. Off the demo.
5. Edith Nylon - Edith Nylon: Off the Edith Nylon LP. Simple, right? This is some late 70's proto-synth punk from France. So good! In love c'est moi!
6. Medical Tourists - YSIG: Another new STL band who's killing the rest of bands around. I think there is a record in the works for this band. Off the demo. This is a late 00's actual synth punk from right around the corner.
7. Oh Crap! Dragons! - Atom Bomb: Mark, don't hate me for putting this up. Pre-Suburban Smash one man ensemble. Pretty darn awesome, whether the ensemble was 14 at the time or not.
8. No Trend - Space Disco: Off "Tritonian Nash/Vegas Polyester Complex". Cliff Ontego, the leadman of No Trend, reminds me a lot of Doc Dart in his snotty, hateful attitude and general awesomeness. This is the 2nd LP. No Trend hated DC hardcore.
9. Poison Idea - God Not God: PI RULES. Pig Champion R.I.P.
10. Legal Weapon - User: One of the three million bands done by the crew that brought you The Adolescents, 45 Grave, etc... But what a phenomenal record! "Death of Innocence".

10 for March coming soon. More from me as well. I've given up on this city ever getting warm.

Neat Neat Neat

What a swell idea.

Why did the melons have a big wedding?
They can't elope.

(say it out loud.)

It's so great to be back in Saint Louis, so great to be going back to the rest of my year in Chicago. I've overbooked myself to the point where I'll probably hate it at some point later in the year, probably about the time I've taken up pharmaceutical speed a la Jessie Spano. But I've never regretted working my ass off. Except when I'm at work. Or school. I've never regretted working my ass off for something that is guaranteed not to pay off in any real way.

I've got at least one, probably two sketch shows coming up, a role as a speed-addict doctor in a play (I didn't have to audition!) and a band to keep up with. Plus the birds are going start migrating hard now that it's nice outside and they feel more like going out. Luckily I got rid of that pesky personal life.

So, goals for this year:

1. Finish off personal life.
2. Put up another sketch show.
3. Act in play.
4. Save birds.
5. Rock, punk style.
6. Be world's fattest man.
7. Ride world's smallest motorcyle.
8. Set record for fattest man on smallest motorcycle.
9. Think of 9th and 10th goals.
10. Accomplish them.

I can do it!

Take Me Back!

I jinxed myself and now I'm bored with the craigslist thing.

I would do the top 10 thing, but mediafire takes a long time to work in the library and it's a nice day out.

What do you call a funny piece of ice?
A farcical.

You've Been Replaced

This blog has largely been replaced with me placing farcical missed connections on craigslist relating to a secret agent named Jack Handsome and his endless tussels with supervillian Doctor Horrendous.

I did a lot of cool stuff recently. I saw my dad and hung out at the Reform Evangelical conference for preachers for a day and a half. I got some neat birthday stuff like a camera. I took pictures I mean to post. Things are going generally well for me and there's a lot of interesting stuff to report. But you have no idea how fun it is to post absurd missed connections as a henchman.

I have a top 10 songs for the month that I'll probably get around to, but for right now, my interest is in making the craigslist a sillier place.

Last week was about a bus some henchman tried to explode. This week I don't really know what it's about because I haven't finished yet, but I do know Jack Handsome is chasing some villians out of their layer beneath Lake Michigan and into an Einstein's Bagels. Maybe I'll post the stories on here too.