Just surfing the net today. Got a haircut at Best Cuts earlier today. Had a nice 4th of July watching the Lakewood (and a little bit of Cleveland's) fireworks from the 3rd floor attic in our house...and on the porch, waiting for pizza from Angelo's, which
hyacintheraven and I quickly ate (well, most of it).
I went to The Chamber. Guest DJ Textbeak played Skeletal Family, which was awesome. I don't recall ever hearing Skeletal Family in a club here.
On Friday, I went to Now That's Class for a benefit for (in part) Steve Hauschildt of Emeralds, who had his gear stolen in NYC during the No Fun Festival (which I went to). Show was awesome. Local noise artists Skin Graft and Aaron Dilloway absolutely fucking killed, period.
Cleveland truly has an awesome noise/experimental music scene.
I've been on a diet for about six months now (hard to believe, I know) but I've generally been quite good about sticking to it. Probably because days like the 4th I decided to break it, long it (as I will for vacations and holidays). But, I needed to get my eating habits in check because I probably had the worst high-fat/no veggie diet in existence. I'm still not eating veggies really, but I've been eating a lot of low-fat/cholesterol/sodium stuff, organic stuff...and lots of fruits, oranges at first but I've taken a particular liking to bananas lately (Dole Organic from Trader Joe's) as they're less messy and they're cheaper. Also been trying to stay away (and I'm generally successful) from nitrates/nitrites, too. I've lost about 30 lbs. in the past six months.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are coming to the House of Blues toward to the end of the month..I'm gonna try to get tix. Missle Command is playing at the Phantasy on the 17th.
Also, Subhumans are playing that Now That's Class tomorow. I can't believe they're playing at such a small venue with no advanced tickets. I'm gong to go right after work to the show and hope to get semi-decent parking and, most importantly, get into the club.
Next week I'm going to be renting a car and drive to Philadelphia to see Leaether Strip & Noisuf-X. Really looking forward to the show. Wolf Eyes are playing this Friday at Pats in the Flats but I'm going to probably skip since the show will probably go past midnight and I want to be on the road to Philly by 8am.