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Friday, April
09, 2004 at 13:01:31 (EDT) |
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Boy you're gonna carry that weight
a long time
Ugh, my job is sapping all my energy! I know I shouldn't complain
but I'm so good at it, I can't stop.
Let's look to the future: who's going to the Oneida/Dirty
Faces show tonight at Maxwell's? It's gonna kick ass.
Plus in New Jersey they don't have stupid laws about smoking
in bars. This should be very exotic.
Speaking of Oneida,
last night MRK lugged the extremely heavy amp component from
our Rhodes electric piano over
to their practice space in the hopes of swapping it for the
one Bobby has. See, the one we have is sort of broken, and
he has no use for the one he has, so we thought we could just
trade and we'd have a fully functioning suitcase
piano. Alas, the amps are slightly different models and
not only does Bobby's component not fit into the cabinet the
same way, it uses a different type of proprietary plug, which
is part of the whole problem in the first place.
So now my question is, if all of this was obvious when he
went over there, why did MRK drag home the other amp? That
is the greatest mystery of them all. I think if I was in his
position, I'd just dump both amps in Oneida's practice space
and go get drunk somewhere.
And now, what you've all been waiting for: more cat pictures.
Thanks to DBC
for these embarrassing cat outfit shots.
My favorite is the frog cuz it looks like it's eating the
cats' head. If only Brill
had known how cat pictures can distract form a lack of content!
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Wednesday,
April 07, 2004 at 13:24:48 (EDT) |
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As the jury started walking out
So much for justice.
Believe me, I was excited about serving my civic duty on
a jury of my peers or whatever, really I was. It seemed like
it would be annoying but certainly more interesting than my
dayjob, cats notwithstanding. It started off much as I had
been warned. I had a book, a magazine, and a NY Times
to keep me busy. I am proud to say that while waiting I very
nearly almost came close to finishing a NY Times
crossword, something I never really tried to do before. I
guess I should do that more often, crosswords. They say it
staves off senility.
Anyway, they called a bunch of people to be prospective jurors
and I guess there were so many (they said they had new, broader
methods of selection) they didn't need anybody else. So just
past noon they called my name and handed me a receipt saying
I had been there, with instructions to keep the document safe
for the next 4 years. It was a little reminiscent of the Certificate
of Completion I received at Safetytown
as a lad. I went to Macy's to look for a chair slipcover and
then I went home.
And
so, like much of my gilded life, I once again got off easy.
How much longer can my luck last?
And even though Mr Bones is highly prized here, apparently
the most famous internet cat ever was Frank,
the previously-injured cat. This reminds me to go check
out how Bob is doing on Save
Bob.
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Wednesday,
April 07, 2004 at 07:40:29 (EDT) |
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Take any place and call it a court
house
Posting may be even more intermittent and surlier than usual,
because today I start showing up for jury duty. I didn't even
stand a chance, the automated telephone person just said "All
prospective jurors should report to the courthouse." So
I'm heading in, with thoughts of how I will still have do all
the work from my job when I get home, since there's no one else
to do it. How do people get up this early every day?
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Tuesday, April
06, 2004 at 13:22:58 (EDT) |
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Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall
NOTE:
Again, because I dont have any pictures from the show yet, here
are pictures of us smoking a hookah with the cats:
If
you missed Motico
at our show last Friday, and have been beating yourself up
about it since our next scheduled show
wasn't for over a month, you're in luck! We just schedule
two more shows for the month of April, on the 16th (Friday)
and 18th (Sunday).
Friday,
April 16: The first show will be at some place I
never heard of called The Balanza
Bar in Williamsburg, where we will be playing with several
bands I've never heard of. We're supposed to go on around
9:30 and the cover is $5. If I find out more about the other
bands, I'll post it here.
Sunday, April 18th: The show on the 18th
hasn't been confirmed yet, but it sounds really interesting.
It's a benefit to help some activists out with their legal
fees related to their arrest during a recent protest. They
need all the help they can get as they are planning some major
protest action during the RNC Convention at the end of August.
The show will be in the afternoon from 2-5 PM and will be
held at The Knitting
Factory (not sure which stage yet).
If
we're lucky we'll have some new songs soon. The other guys
are fighting me on this, but I think Motico could do an excellent
cover of "Hey
Mickey" by Toni Basil. I don't really know why, but
I think it is a song that embodies everything we've been trying
to accomplish as a band thus far. Or maybe we'll just cover
"Lowrider."
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Monday, April
05, 2004 at 01:15:50 (EDT) |
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When I'm bending you over the sink
I
haven't gotten any pictures from our show yet, so here are some
photos of Ted Nugent. It's pretty much the same thing.
So the show at The
Pourhouse went extremely well considering it was our first
public performance. Josh from Angry
Dragon started off the night with his noisy rock which
was equally informed by Shellac and Bjork (yes it is possible!).
Unfortunately, his sequenced tracks, running through Zack's
bass amp, ended up frying the horn in his speaker cabinet.
There was much speculation about the source of the burning
stench, which was mistakenly blamed on the stage lights. Luckily
Zack
was able to disconnect it and basically use his amp as normal
for our set.
Near
as I can figure, everything came off as planned. One thing
I wasn't ready for was how loud the drums were. They weren't
miked or anything, I just realized I never stand so close
to MRK
when he's playing the kit. Jesus, that was loud! We made a
minidisc recording of the show and it appears that the sound
levels were generally correct, but after all it was a pretty
small space. By the way, thanks to everybody who showed up.
I don't wanna get all earnest on ya, but it did mean a lot
that so many of you showed up. It certainly lowered the pressure
a tick. Then again, if you folk hadn't showed up, I dunno
who would have been there to witness it. We did a couple of
nice comments from Pourhouse regulars who wandered back for
our set (not counting the after-work crowd who kept asking
about our political affiliations and whether we were a 'classic
rock' or a 'new wave' band).
We
sold several CDs
and made some money on the tip jar, at least enough to repair
Zack's speaker cabinet at least. The evening ended on a down
note for me, as I had neglected to think about the fact that
after the show we'd have to unload all the equipment back
into the basement. When I lived in Athens,
Ohio, we'd often just leave the gear in the van over night
and unload it the next day. While that's obviously not safe
to do around here, I'm now wondering how we got away with
it so often back then, what with all the scroungy college
students at large.
Motico
definitely has a show on Tuesday, May 11 at Black
Betty, and we might have another show this month, but
we're still waiting to hear about it. And the ever-burning
question: When will Freddy's
call?
If anybody took photos at the show, send
em to me so we don't have to look at Ted Nugent's crotch
any more.
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