Apparently, the washington post is now using their telekinetic powers to read my mind: Three, Two, One . . . Happier New Year!

doing a little ego surfing today, came up with this flyer from a show my band (the Union Deposit Road) played back in 1996. [thanx: slackworks]


thickshake was a threepiece noise band from baltimore. ugly guys. i think greg described them best as ‘cocaine skinny’. i used the nasty little bathroom at the nyabinghi after their dirty longhaired bassist and discovered that he’d left a giant turd on the toilet seat for me. i couldn’t even listen to them when they played, i was too pissed.

happy new year everyone!!


i’m really excited cuz i just realized that as of tomorrow i’ll be able to say things like “i remember back in “ought-one”…”


went home for lunch to find a delivery truck had crashed thru the entrance and took out a couple of cars in the parking lot about 50 feet from my apartment… wacky shit…


it’s mid-afternoon on the last day of the year and i still have no idea what the hell i’m doing tonite. sad state of affairs…

ok, i swear to GOD that i never saw this site before the redesign… really.

finally got all my geocaching pix organized and uploaded. lotsa fun memories in there.


finished ‘instrument’ today too… excellent movie. i really liked all the ticket line kid interviews. cohen really focused on the kids who only had negative things to say about fugazi. it’s weird, but somehow all the verbalized misconceptions told you more about the band than the raving fans. more honest or sumpin’. i still have to hit all the extra cohen features on the disc, i’m looking forward to it.


we’re off to dave & busters tonite for some video game ACTION! have a good nite.

wow, and i claim this town as the home of ‘my college days’… i guess it really is as bizarre as i like to think it is.


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my friday five


1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year? #1) getting married #2) joining a band and getting to play live again.


2. What was your biggest disappointment? spending less and less time on the bike


3. Will you be making any New Year’s resolutions? nope. don’t really believe in them.


4. Where do you wish you were celebrating? big warehouse party hosted by the Afghan Whigs, Black Love-era


5. What do you plan to do for New Year’s Eve? hang out with friends, sacrifice some goats… sameol, sameol…

haven’t felt 100% healthy since the lyme disease incident. mild headaches, tired, achy, very whiny… i went in to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and she determined that i had a sinus infection. gave me some antibiotics and send me packing. i felt much better after the meds, but still not 100%. yesterday, i started getting the same symptoms back again, sinus pain, stuffy, sore throat, etc. found a really good resource on chronic sinusitis: SinusPharmacy. after reading up on it, i’m going back to the doctor a little more informed. and i think i’m going back on echinacea too. it may be completely ineffective, but it can’t hurt, right? i think the lyme disease just knocked my immune system for a loop, combine that with 6-7 hours of sleep every night and my defenses are down…


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My Pirate Name is: Dirty Harry Bonney

You’re the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean — not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate’s life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

there was a pirate question on WW2BAM last nite. Not that i was watching that, mind you…


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rodeoRob sent me some rumors and rumblings about the Old 97s. I used to belong to an old97s listserv last year, but i was forced to unsubscribe ‘cuz i couldn’t keep up with the innane chatter. Maybe this article distills some of that noise down to a few confusing paragraphs? Maybe not.