Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Never play shows in Olympia on Monday nights during cold and flu season. It sucks. I'm pretty sure 5 people showed up last night and everyone else that was there was in one of the other bands. If I was in the Murder City Devils I might think of it in terms of that song they wrote where it goes, "the show was bad, but the drinks are free" ... Except the drinks weren't free. There weren't even drinks. We showed up late. Loaded in when we were supposed to play. Stumbled through our set only semi-correctly and then left.

Owen Hart is a really great band. Really great. I don't know what kind of music they classify themselves as. Doom Metal. Black Metal. I don't know. They sort of reminded me of a Neurosis/Isis/whatever other slow/sludgy/sometimes fast band you want to list. I'm not up on my metal enough these days to really make a decent comparison. Timm Trust is a good dude to have singing for your band though. He has a beard. He has long black hair. His ears are spaced so much that you could probably fit a tennis ball in the holes. That equals cool in my book kids! I'm way too much of a wuss to get that done. It would freak my boss out though. That would be rad.

Rain sucks. Last night I classified the type of rain coming down as "Angry and Vengeful God" type rain. It really was. I contemplated skipping the show last night so I could stay home and construct my arc. Instead I drove to Olympia and listened to At the Gates a lot.

I should be getting stickers back for my band pretty soon. If you're interested, they look like this:

I just stole these pictures of Bill Gates posing for Teen Beat in 1986 from some other blog. The internet is all about stealing. I worked at Microsoft for 5 years and I never so much as SAW billg in real life.

Sexy Bitch!

In other news. Now that we have successfully thrust ourselves safely into the twenty-first centuty, not only is plastic surgery publicly acceptible, it's also recommended. Check it out. That's right ladies. Completely unnecessary surgery for explicity superficial reasons is hip!

The US is going to invade Iran? Umm ... I doubt there is ANYONE in the White House or the Pentagon stupid enough to actually consider doing that. Still though, apparently we're conducting covert ops there already. That sort of seems like throwing rocks at a wasps nest while you're already being stung by a swarm of bees. Right? Dumb.

I did the mix cd exchange at the Go It Alone show a couple days ago. I got some good stuff even though the turnout was sort of crappy. Thanks to the 9 people who boned out ... and Jamund for making all 6(!) of his cds. wha? I'll put mine up here whenever I get around to ripping mp3's that actually work.

Oh yeah, I saw George Bush on TV with Barbra Walters the other day. I can't believe that guy is the President. He seems weird. It wasn't even like I was disagreeing with what he was saying or anything. You know, because Barbra aint exactly the queen of hardball journalism. ("I heard the Bush family has a new member. A dog. What's the new dog's name?") It just seemed like Bush couldn't follow what was going on with the conversation. Whenever he answered something with anything even relatively coherent, I couldn't believe it. That must be his whole thing. He tricks everyone into getting overconfident when they're dealing with him, because he looks like he might be retarded, and then he suprises them with a functioning level of competance. That was no gentlemans C ... He earned it!

Then again, I guess if I was on TV that's probably how I would come off. The camera cuts to me and I sit there dumbfounded as I run through the bullshitting library in my head; "Oh .... shit ... what's the right answer to this? Dammit, I know this ... How can I stall this old bat? ... Hmm ... Oh, I know, I'll say something homespun and folksy. That gits em every time. Yee Haw!" Life really is just a process of learning how to bullshit someone in every possible situation. "No, officer. I didn't notice I was weaving in and out of traffic at 90 miles per hour. I just thought everyone was rubbernecking to see that lady getting raped on the side of the road back there ... Oh, you didn't see that? ... YOU SHOULD GET GOING! America needs you, good officer of the law."

Toothepastemonkeyfighter.