I did absolutely nothing this weekend… and loved it! hmmm lessee, friday nite — stayed in, thought about watching Brazil, got absorbed in setting up Greymatter, and before i knew it… it was 2 am and i was tuckered.

saturday nite: had plans to bowl my ass of with Luscious Lex, but decided to stay in, pay bills, put my new chainrings on the bike and start rebuilding an old fork that I’m gonna sell. (anybody in the market for a ‘99 RS Judy XC?… anyone?……. anyone? is this thing on?)

sissy|space|sex had practice on saturday, auditioned another guitarist. this one’s got potential, if he’s into us I think he’s in. it’s about damn time.

things of note so far:
eddie’s got cancer
the three-oh May 1st Reboot is tomorrow (duh)

late posts today.. hey, it’s friday, whatta ya want?!

threw off my whole slacking schedule when i picked up the marriage license today. woo hoo! the district of columbia officially allows us to get married! it’s actually pretty cool just looking at it and realizing that this whole thing is so official and real. no backing out now!

had an awesome DCurban ride with a bunch of folks, here’s an awesome pic that ricky took of nathan and myself running up some stairs (that’s me in front)

here’s some more shots

Guess who comes up first in an aol search for “Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ass”? that’s right, baby.. you know who!

in total agreement with monosyllabic. here’s sending a gigantic eat shit and die yuppie scum! to one peter carlson. — Punk in Print: Easy on the Ears

listening: lungfish – talking songs for walking

i’m surprisingly awake and even got up early this morn. that’s quite a feat for an old man like myself who was out late at a rock show last nite. maybe i’ve got some life left in me yet!

fugazi – 9:30 club – 4-25-01

first off, i never thought i would see the day that i would buy tickets to fugazi thru ticketmaster. talk about colliding ideologies! i was lucky and got my tix thru the CD Cellar, but some friends shelled out over $5 in service fees to the bastards. Ticketmaster was basically doubling the cost.

the opener, Dead Meadow, rocked me for the first 10 minutes, but i didn’t like the second song that much(!). seriously, these guys were playing 10 minute, classic-rock, cream/sabbath/soundgardeny distortion drenched super low-end epic jams. i felt my nostrils vibrate, these guys were tuning to B or C i think…LOW! get it? anyway, i can only deal with the indierock kids playing classic rock novelty for so long, and their 45 minute set felt like MUCH longer.

this was a Positive Force benefit show (something to do with recycling needles) so i was expecting the usual lenghty diatribe from Marc Anderson, but he kept his preaching to a refreshing 5 minute talk, and we got along with our lives.

fugazi came on and immediately launched into 3 or 4 new songs. don’t think i’ve ever heard a band do that many new songs right off the bat. (of course, what are they all about if not breaking the mold?) none of the new stuff really struck me live. there were a couple of guy songs that sounded like they may have studio potential, but on the whole everything seemed a little lackluster. c’mon, fugazi’s been at this game for over 10 years now, its unavoidable and completely understandable that they should slow down and pull in the reins a bit. A lot of the new songs are really dub heavy and written with the 2nd drummer in mind. very nice beats and ambiance. just not the visceral, urgent band of repeater and IOTKT.

pulling from the back catalog, some of the highlights were: blueprint (don’t think i’ve heard that live before.. VERY good!), merchandise, walken’s syndrome, public witness program, exit only, reclamation and ended the show with promises (with an extra long dubby jam on the last piece).

it’s been interesting seeing them play so many times over the last 8 years. from being packed into a tiny club, drenched with sweat, hearing a band with a sound like the air itself is on fire.. to bopping my head to an super mellow extended dub jam. 2 different worlds? not saying that one is better than the other. in fact, these old bones and eardrums are very happy with a finely aged fugazi.

trivia note: fugazi has played pretty much the exact same equipment since 1986… same amps, same guitars. same incredible sound.

well goddamn! you said it wouldn’t happen, you said it couldn’t happen, but here it is bay-bee:

www.egoinc.org

won’t be active until i get my act together for the complete redesign and relaunch, but I’m shooting for mid-May. I also gotta figure out whether I’m going with greymatter or sticking with the ever-faithful Blogger. I’m sooo psyched! I’m gonna go set up my email!

oh yeah, fugazi tonite… full show report tomorrow!

awww crap, now I’ve done it… I make all these dumbass comments and I never think that anyone would ever act on one of them! So anyways, I’ve been following Jay’s stories about girl pursuit for a while now. All the signs are there, she’s quoting him, missing him and all the rest.. sounds to me like a sure thing.
So i tell him to go jump up on that thing… ask her out, dammit!!!

the weird part: he agrees.

we’ll see if he actually follows through. We all know that’s the hard part.

you see, i can consider myself an incredible judge of determining the whole “does she like me” thing for others because in my own life i
suck at it. In my wise old age, I can sit back and say “hmmm… yeah, i guess that girl was crawling all over me 10 years ago because she liked me. maybe i should have pursued that…” all i can say is that it’s a good thing that kristy climbed the vine when she did, who knows if i would have ever gotten around to it?

this is a disclaimer for all opinions, statements and sentences (correct or run-on) put forth by myself on this site or anywhere in the world as we know it. I am a certified idiot and cannot take responsibility for anyone listening to my crack-induced raving. boo-yah.

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ack! Allergies! every year they get worse and worse, I didn’t have any until i was 18 or so… moving down here to the dc suburbs was probably not the best plan. Check out the
Local Pollen Report. 750! I think the average is around 100. all the cars in the lot are covered with a green film of pollen, I’m covered with a green film of snot (at least it feels that way!).

I even went out and tried to hit all the fun bike spots in my ‘hood last nite. I could only manage about 15 minutes or so, damn allergies were throwing off my balance and making things dangerous. I’ve been forced down to a “bubble-boy” existence.. it’s beautiful out, but i’ve got the windows cranked up and the ac kickin in the car and the apartment..

this week:

• fugazi @ the 9:30 club

• pickin’ up the marriage license
• large scale DCurban ride on thursday

First sign of the coming Apocalypse: Peter Buck charged with air rage.

Back from the wilderness of WV. It was so nice yesterday we decided to take the backroads instead of the highway. Felt like we were in a car commercial, swooping, smiling, singing along…

Dropped by the palace of gold [big Hare Krshna temple that I grew up around] for a quick visit and to show kristy’s mom. Picked up some superior quality incense and some new tulsi beads. Ran into TJ, an old friend that I was in my first band with 10 years ago, EraserFace. hey, WE thought we were cool… he’s still a devotee but getting his teaching certificate. wow, if you told little punk rock tj 10 years ago that he’d be a teacher, you’d have to DUCK.