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Indy 500
Indianapolis, IN
May 2009


Black Flag holds up so amazingly well. One of the very first punk bands I ever heard/listened to and one of the few from, uh, 20 years ago(!) that I still put on regularly. I've been listening to Everything Went Black all morning. It's especially refreshing when so much "punk" stuff coming out right now sounds more like rehashed Indie/College Rock or "folk punk" (shudder).

Gimme Gimme Gimme.

On tap:

Old timey country music
Gin & tonics
Red beans & rice
Developing negatives

Thought about trying to find something going on tonight, but...eh. I'm broke. I don't need to go out. I got plenty of good music (and booze) here.



Notting Hill Station
London, UK
October 2004

Amazingly, when doing a Google Image search for Don't Look Back I turned up way more pictures of naked dudes and their wangs than when I searched for Cocksucker Blues. WTF?

Hilarious being at work and having that shit on my computer screen.

Hunches
The Hemlock, San Francisco, CA
26 June 2009

Yesterday was a rushed, manic day. Today is (thankfully) the opposite. Relaxing, as much as I am able to relax anyway. I am drinking a Mojito right now. That's fucking relaxing. Right? However, I also vacuumed the house, cleaned up. To men, that is a way to relax. Get things in order. Helps clear my head.

Next on the agenda is getting all my prints squared away for the SSCA "Benign Neglect" show. Gotta see what I already have prints of, what I need to get printed for the show. I want to get that all wrapped up before the 4th.

Last night I went to Gilman to see the Zeros. I spent most of the evening hanging out with Missy at Pyramid. Yeah, I'm one of those people. I've watched enough bands I don't like/care about in my life. I've put in my time maaaaaaaan. The Zeros were good, but from the description of the previous night's show, it sounds like the audience was way more into it on Friday. The show I saw, hardly anyone moved at first, then a handful of kids started moshing. This is gonna make me sound OLD but fuck it...you know, the Zeros aren't really a moshing band. Pogo, defintely. Moshing though??? Stagediving to "Wimp???" It was cool though to see Penelope Houston right in the mix, up front, dancing and singing along. All in all a good show...I saw Sam & Helene, whom I first met 10 years ago in Tucson while on tour with Discount. They just moved out here. We talked about how crazy it is that Alison is in a band with Jack White. Seriously. That is NUTS. Alison (former roommate and at one point one of my better friends) was on the fucking Tonight Show.

Missy & I went to the Ghost Town right after the Zeros finished, to see the Box Elders. I'm not super into them, but it was good seeing Chris & Lily and Oscar and other people that were at that show.

The Hunches
Sacramento, CA
25 June 2009

VII photographer Christopher Morris shot Iggy Pop.

New Inhuman Eating Machine is up!

This time Andy tackles Banh Mi.

FREE WHITE CASTLE

I realized this morning that I've been writing record reviews for like 20 years. No wonder it's getting harder and harder to feel like I'm not just writing the same shit overandover.

Dark + Stormy = Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Venice, Italy
October 2004

Having the company's board meeting here is always great. We get their leftovers from breakfast and lunch. Good coffee, pastries. It's nice to come to work to that.

After getting a little sideswiped yesterday, I'm back on the saddle. Went to MRR after work yesterday to do my reviews and Top Ten. Didn't really get anything good to review, but I was excited to see they gave me a hardcore record. I like the idea of tossing records to reviewers that fall outside their general area of interest. I like some hardcore, but I'm picky about what I like. In general I'd say I stick to the more popular HC stuff around today: Government Warning, Sex/Vid, Silla Electrica (not really popular...trendy maybe, but still fucking killer!), some of the stuff on No Way records, the Scandinavian more melodic hardcore I love. So I'm not oblivious. But it was a good way to shake up my reviews.

Otherwise I got some Italian band that sounded like a total paint-by-numbers punk band, a Norton Benny Joy 45 and the Colors LP on Rave Up. I had been looking forward to hearing that Colors record, but jesuschrist it sucked. Their "Rave Up" single is one of my favorite power pop records. This album was 17 songs of them chasing a radio pop song circa 1981. Bleeech.

My top ten was a little harder than usual. Hal, Adam and Ron were doing a radio show, so they'd pulled some of the new records. Some girl was doing reviews and had some of the stuff I'd wanted to listen to (I noticed as I was leaving she wasn't even reviewing the records I'd wanted to hear; she was just listening to them, argh!) and there just weren't as many (good) records this time around. I came up with 10 decent records though.

Cissie asked if Sarah & I wanted to do a slot on the MRR radio show when she gets back. I'm up for it. It'd be pretty cool to do. Maybe I can rope Mitch & Missy to get down with it and we can do a whole show together sometime. Throw in Brace for comic relief.

It's Thursday, which means it's almost Friday, which means the weekend is just about here. There's a going away party this weekend, a backyard party I'm actually more interested in going to, Golden Gate Fields has weiner dog races...a full weekend. And my brother gets back from Europe on Monday. The KDVS record swap is next weekend (so glad it's not this weekend; I'm broke) and looking ahead, the Hunches are playing the Hemlock in about two weeks. Lotsa good shit.

The new issue of Hamburger Eyes is ready, but needs a little shove to get outta port.

HELP

Smoker's Alley
San Francisco, CA
May 2009

From June 8 – 22 you can join the National Marrow Donor Program’s donor registry for FREE (typically it costs $50-100, which is lame, but true). The “Be the Match Marrowthon” is an effort to get as diverse as possible of a pool of potential donors into the donor registry, giving patients the best chances at life saving transplant treatments.

I dunno. It just seems like a no brainer.

http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Events/Marrowthon2009/index.html?src=enews-june

Hey! I'm selling one of my film scanners. Anybody need one? I'll give a 10% LJ discount if someone uses the BIN.

Coolscan IV w/all accessories.

I am a fucking idiot (again).

My brother is in Sweden and going to the Netherlands and I didn't give him a list of records to look for! I corrected that mistake just now, sending him an email that basically said if he finds himself in a record store and sees ANY punk-looking records from before '82 or so, to email and let me know what they are. I also gave him a small list of stuff to get if he sees it.

Longshot he'd turn up any of it, especially for reasonable prices, but you never know.

Following Sarah's lead, I've started listening to Music to Spazz By by on WFMU.

It's always fun listening to the radio and hearing stuff you've never heard, or haven't heard in a long, long time.

Venice, Italy
October 2004

The Jim Beam website that I was part of, Here's to the Stuff Inside, is shutting down tonight.

It was fun while it lasted.