Holy Shit!

My old professors from the history department at UGA are in a big fight. This shit is crazy. They've opened a big-ass can of worms and makes me worry about the sanctity of my e-mails. Do the law school kids have anything to add? I suppose our state is pretty slack on the whole privacy thing if you work for the state.

Gutterpunks are hypocritical and lame Pt. 1

Alright, we started off the tour in Asheville, NC, where we played at a local "community resource center." The show was set up by a friend of ours who lives there now. After hanging out at his house for a while and being amazed by his old-school oven with terms such as "infinite heat" by the knobs and buttons, he took us to the center and then to grab a bite. The restaurant was vegetarian and was infinitely better than that tasteless place everyone loves that goes by the name of The Grit. Also, the wait-staff was nice and the food came out in a matter of minutes. Anyway, it was great and I was fulfilled.

When we showed up at the center, it was decided that we would play last and that the two local bands would play before us. We didn't really want to do that, because the best spot for an out of town act is in the middle, but what are you gonna do? It probably wouldn't have mattered anyway. The first band plays and is surprisingly engaging. They had a drummer, guitar player, a dude playing trumpet and a guy on laptop. Pretty cool. The second band was really crazy and loud. Cool, but not really my bag. The girl "singer" was quite hilarious, however. She was singing through a processor that made her voice sound really deep and fucked up. Did I forget to mention that she was wearing some kind of Mexican wrestling style get-up? Well, she was, mask and all. Strobe lights and a red police light were also involved in the show.

Anyway, the second band played to a full house of all their friends rocking out and what-not. We started to play just a little while later to about 5-6 people. Everybody else was outside. I will admit that it was pretty fucking hot in there, but come on. It's a "suggested donation" show and you kids claim to be all inclusive when you're really not. Anyway, the people that stuck around really liked us and talked to us after the show for a while. Josiah always seemed to bust his finger on the drums at just about every show, by the way. After every show, we noticed more and more blood smeared on his drum heads... After we had packed up our shit, drank a little and what-not, we hit the road for NYC, which will go down as one of the worst drives in history.

More on the way...

At work daymare

I just had a daymare, or rather an image of my ex-boss stabbing me in the stomach with a large knife as I turned a corner. That woman has scarred me for life. I think I might need some therapy or something. Actually, not having her around has been nice. I may have the occasional flashback, but I think it'll pass.

A flurry of activity!

Man, Japanese condom wrappers are awesomely weird. Check it. There are many choice images if you check it out...

I got this link from The day jobs, by the way.

Also, I totally forgot to tell you guys about some crazy shit that has been happening at the house that I'm moving out of. There has always been a pretty large hole in the bathroom right behind the faucet in the tub. However, we recently discovered that a possum family has been using said bathroom as a "chill out" space. So, that's pretty awesome. I've been wondering why the side of the tub was dirty a lot lately. I just assumed that my roommate was really dirty.

I'm very fortunate not to have met the possum's acquaintance as of yet, and I don't think I will. Almost done movin' out! yes!

Shit, it's hot out there, ya'll.

We live in a nation of 5 year olds

For some reason, I'm still amazed at the ridiculousness of our society. Some newspapers pulled a Doonesbury comic because it used the term "turd blossom" in reference to Karl Rove. Some of you may be aware that this is one of the nicknames that our wonderful president has bestowed upon poor Karl. Poor, poor Karl...if he does get fired, which I seriously doubt, I wonder what he would do instead of helping undermine all that's good about our country. Maybe he'd be some kid-porn ringleader. I wouldn't doubt it.

All she wanted was some attention

Some dude's mom decided it'd be a good idea to throw huge parties and have sex with her son's friends on a weekly basis...

Now she's being charged with sexual assault among other things. Discuss...

I'll eventually post something about our little rock tour, but today is not that day. I'm moving to a new place this week and I'm a bit scattered. I will say that going on tour made me realize how much having a real job sucks. If I didn't have to worry about things like rent and all that other shit we're forced to deal with, I'd do it all the time.

Stinky

Man, life on the road is a crazy thing. Showers don't come around so often, so that's pretty awesome. We actually took a show in a truck stop on the way into Cincinatti the other day. That was probably one of the greatest experiences of my life. For real. The place was clean and the ladies that worked there called us "hun." I'm digging hearing in person all of the various accents that people have in our country. It's really interesting.

Anyway, our little tour has been pretty great overall. We have been well recepted and people have bought cds, which is good for extra gas money. I'm sure I'll wrap everything up in a later entry about the whole trip. Right now, we're in St. Louis and just did a radio show that's gonna be played on Saturday. I wish I could actually just do this stuff all the time.

Hope all is well back home...

Soapbox time

If you're at all interested in politics and how "journalists" from Fox News manipulate and misrepresent facts, then you should watch this clip from Al Franken's show. He catches Bill O'Reilly cutting up an interview with Biden and then taking credit for the Biden's ideas in the parts of the interview that were cut out. Anyway, Al Franken is awesome, so just watch the damn thing.

Damn Martians

I totally expected to see Martian tripods rising over the landscape when I walked out of the movie theater tonight. Everybody should go see that movie. You know, the one about aliens attacking us and what-not. I'm still pretty tensed up.

The lack of any real musical "score" to speak of was a really nice touch, I think. It seemed to make the film more realistic. Spieldberg is pretty good at making movies. However, there is one problem I have with the film that I will not share if people haven't already seen it. I guess Steven has to have at least one crappy cop-out hollywood-type cliche in everything he does...

It didn't ruin it for me, though. Go see it. For real.

I think I'm gonna vomit

I don't even think I can say anything about this...