I rode my bike into a pothole and flipped over my handlebars. That's bad.

But I landed without hurting myself. That's good.

But I bent my bike out of shape and had to leave it locked up outside the Burrito House. That's bad.

But when I returned to pick up my bike, someone had left a box of halloween candy for me. That's Chaotic Good.

"[In] the upcoming 'Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2' game, Stan Lee will be an unlockable player character."

Lifted from the Afterlife rehearsal. Weston and Wes are different dudes. Weston plays the washboard percussion, which is why we're discussing it in the first place ( Read more... )

While Chicago is probably the worst "Big City" for local music, there's a ScroogeMcDuckload of cash available for cover bands out in the West Suburbs. For this reason, I am always talking about forming a cover band of one sort of another (90's college rock cover band, Talking Heads tribute act, Weezer cover band with non-traditional instrumentation ( Read more... )

One of the most frustrating things about my last band was that we could never assemble a full lineup for a live show. Throughout Liam's five years, we had ONE show with four people on stage. As someone who sees performing live as the main reason to be in a band, with all other features being something like pre-installed software I forget I even ( Read more... )

Please name:

1. My new band.
2. My new Talking Heads tribute side project. (In a better world, it'd be called Radiohead.)
3. My new podcast.
4. My new comic book/strip.

P.S. One of these is not remotely real. The rest all have the chance to be.

I just realized the last two entries, spaced four months apart in real time but next to each other on this page, read suspiciously alike. So to break up the monotony, three great things ( Read more... )

Okay, so I can safely say that the year got off to an awful start. I think the worst of it is over, now that Liam has gone from "inactive" to "nonexistant." I'll be back June 1st.

So by and large, this winter break has been pretty shitty. There have been a couple bright spots, but I'm hoping for a break in the clouds.

In what might the sun peeking through, I had dinner with idsmackhim and I got to see Liz Bagby at the Elbo Room. She was opening for a band that could be (and was) compared to a cross between Pink Floyd and Panic at ( Read more... )

My grandfather passed away this evening. He was eighty-nine. He served on an aircraft carrier during the second world war. He ran a manufacturing company for forty-plus years. He had twelve children, thirty grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren. He outlived his wife and three of his children ( Read more... )