Been on a couple of band excursions in the last few weeks. Two weekends ago, we went down to Chattanooga and Raleigh for a short weekender and this past weekend we played a friend's graduation party in Newark, DE...pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. At the start of every trip, I'm always so hassled by the preparations and the worrying if I ( Read more... )

Ok...so I never made it to Amsterdam at all. Just as the embarassing-ass rash was going away by Wednesday, I got some kind of bug and ended up staying home from work on Thursday and Friday. So fuck all that. To make matters slightly more humiliating, I watered the plants on our deck on Friday, and woke up Saturday morning with an even bigger and ( Read more... )

So I'm supposed to be in Amsterdam right now, where it's nearing dinnertime and my friends are probably walking around in a half-stupor with vapor fogged eyes taking in the canals and tulips and skinny houses on 700-year-old streets. But instead, I came down with a virus on Wednesday night that chose to manifest itself in a raised rash all over my ( Read more... )

"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the ( Read more... )

I'm really getting worried now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/opinion/16clarke.html?_r=3&oref=login&oref=slogin
Its been established that the U.S. has had ground forces within Iran for several months now, and both Seymour Hersh and ( Read more... )

...you'd probably feel better if you stayed and played with yourself.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=ahO6jjM9tN_U&refer=canada

The Roddy trip was awesome...sold-out or nearly-packed houses all three nights, clean places to crash, a surprisngly cozy van for sleeping, and enough money made at the shows that I only spent $30 all weekend! I also managed to talk one of Rod's old drummers into selling his set of 70s-era Ludwig clear Vistalites for $500, which is probably about ( Read more... )

Steph and I checked out "Why We Fight" at the Charles on Saturday morning. Its a BBC-produced documentary about the drivers behind American warfare over the last half century. What follows is a pretty damming depiction of the seemingly permanent fusion of the military-industrial complex onto American life; think of it as a less cutesy, more ( Read more... )

"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how ( Read more... )

Sometime last week, I signed onto a four-day weekend of shows with J. Roddy Walston and Business at the end of this month. The trip goes through Chattanooga, Atlanta and Lexington, KY and we'll be opening for the Features (on Universal Records!). The Chattanooga show, at Rhythm 'n Brews (500 capacity) is expected to sell-out in a matter of days, ( Read more... )