tour photos ...

ok, heres some weird ones that i probably wont use on the drastics website, so you get exclusive shots ... hoooo ... feel lucky ... its like lookin into an abyss, seeing the face of god, and laughin at his face, jack ... reread the only parts ive gotten to here, and here

this is bob our mascot ... this is when i first put him on the van in denver ... bijans so excited !

tommy rides the bronto ... stats: undetermined amount of booze + 3 sparks, eta to throwin up on hoover dam: 25 min

herb shop!

thuggin, happy meal styleee

bob gettin the crap knocked out of him

mickey wan kenobi outsisde manns chinese theatre

dance sucka ! i dont know that ive ever seen someone look so ecstastic about dancin in a van w/ 3 smelly guys after a 2 week tour

jus plain creepy

Wow....just.....wow

I wish I could think of a pun involving this chick's band name to describe this

Oh, also, I kind of wish I could un-see that. Sorry. If I must suffer, ALL must suffer.

Leftovers

Been online a lot today, so I have a lot of cool, yet unrelated, stuff to post:

• On a political compass, I'm -5.50/-5.85. What are you?
• Laugh at the technologically ignorant!
• Does marijuana affect reaction time while driving?

Subtle racism

Black people "loot".

White people "find".

Hurri-crazy

So it looks like I might not have too much work to do in the near future, considering a large part of my territory is presently submerged under water. Not much need for microphones in a natural disaster, I guess.

On a personal note, I'm wearing pants that I think are from sophomore year in high school. I'm not terribly comfortable right now. Moral: Always give yourself ample time in the morning to choose an appropriate outfit for work.

Quitting smoking sucks, but maybe he will make it easier.

chicagos worst

the short list ... all hand selected from the musicians listing on craigslist ...

Robert Fairweather & Luv Machine

professor rock

artist x

the rawker ! (you MUST watch this or at least read the story)



followin picture via rockandrollconfidential.com


and people wonder why i hate the emo trend ...

blitzblog ( aka: blogkrieg ) [ ie: blizoggin ]

damn, jus too much stuff to sit on today ... im really not this un-busy (mmm, double negatives are fun) today, but i gotta share ... jus like i gotta keep on dancin ... boogie oogie oogie till i jus cant boogie no mo' ...

how to make yer own arcade ... purty sweet

theyve always been here ... the aboriginal ones creep me out (under B.C.)

buy these ... please ?

and i finally got all the photos from the drastics tour, so maybe ill start writin it out again ... in the meantime enjoy this ... its an eerie photo from the future ... me in about 4 years ...

I heart McSweeney's

Those crazy cats over at McSweeney's always make me smile. They're just so damned odd. My personal favorite. ...and my personal 2nd favorite.

Man, talk about your niche market

Sorry I'm slacking on the bluntest duty. Look what I did!!

bee-york

the winner and steeeel icelandic champ-een !
taken outright from hedonistica today, but i dont care cause she is my musical alien queen from beyond this dimension

cant comprehend...

linda bjork

finally ! now i wont have to go to two different websites to get my information about
bjork and hanson ! ill save so much time !

on a side note, check this auction and its sexy sexy model

sure shes cute, but shell cut ya ...

money will make a good man bad

wow, no love for the bluntest anymore ... i guess im the only one that cares ... which is why i am now claiming the title of "the bluntest" ... evidenced below ... (i made evidence into a verb ... wheeee !)

rejected

don hertzfeldt cracks me up

sucka djs

seriously, this is why i dont front as a dj as much as i should ...


thanks to the lovely surjeet !

dj tommy terrible

worst djs 2004

worst mix tape ever ... listen if you dare

Why I love my job

I love my job because when I get put on hold, I don't get elevator music all the time. Sometimes I get blindsided by a wicked, screeching Van Halen guitar solo. I think I need to go to the ear doctor.

Here's a link in your eye

Comin' at you in Hi-fi!

response

1. i have never introduced myself to anyone as tony

2. the guy that wrote that is a not a douche, but a colostomy bag

3. eat a big ol heapin bowl of dick

4. i wouldnt trust anyone that disses tony bennett and tony the tiger in the same breath ... one or the other, i could tolerate ... but definetly not both

5. that guy is seriously a chump, exhibit a

6. i will eat his soul

7. from one of his posts : "You give people tattoos -- While you are certainly providing a service, you aren't an artist and therefore should not be referred to as such. No, I don't care how good you are. Drawing skulls wrapped in snakes and roses onto the bodies of drunken punk rock kids doesn't exactly make you Pablo Picasso. In fact, name one famous "tattoo artist". Exactly, you can't because there aren't any because you're not a fucking artist. So why don't you get back to work - I'm sure some sorority girl needs her bellybutton pierced."

i could go for a while on how many idiotic statements are in that, but i think it speaks for itself (ie: name one famous cubist artist.)

people like that guy seriously make me sick ... and theyre a good part of the reason why the left is considered to be a bunch of tools ... run yer mouth off without thinkin of a goddamn word yer sayin, and insult as many people as possible cause yer an insecure fuckstain livin in a trendy city where you cant even get laid (probably) ...

from another post ...
Ah yes. Upon quick perusal, anyone who Googles me will immediately understand that I am a successful humorist. I have a blog. With traffic. I contribute to popular humor sites. In other words, I am a winner. Living the dream. Satisfaction washes over me.

seriously ... thats one supersized colostomy bag of a man

and ridiculously insecure ...

ps this isnt a rant at you bogardus

c.r.e.a.m.

cash rules everything around me, cream get the money ...
dollar dollar bill yall ...

oh the possibilities ...

huh ?

i repeat, huh ?

haunted door



why get things for free when you can just pay for them !

Driznastic is not a douche...

...but he's close!

I don't know too much about him, but I think I like him

This guy sounds like he has a pretty level head. Check him out here.

bijanaconda

a case for the "war" against drugs just say no !

warning ! long and pointless

since der pimpernel is no longer postin, heres a sports related video

Mormons

Sorry no links today kids, but I got some stuff on the Mormons.

Things I learned about Mormons from living with one for 9 months:

1) Mormons don't like booze
2) Selling drugs will get you kicked out of BYU
2) Mormons do check up on eachother
3) The Mormon checkers do dress like middle management, short sleeves white dress shirts with black ties
4) The Mormon checkers especially don't like it when the Mormon they're checking up on comes stumbling out of his room yelling with a half drunk bottle of Jack in hand. Oh yeah, his dad got kicked out of BYU for selling drugs
5) Their feet smell real bad (this might have been because my roommate was a hippy, not solely because of his Mormonist tendencies)

its all really rather simple ...

first you must be a male-humanoid living on an earth-like planet, then you must die as a baptized soul (or be baptized after death), after death you travel to kolob where you meet your new spirit wives, who all look identical and perfect (you as well look perfect, and since everyone is perfect, i presume implies identical) ... then you and yer wives get yer own planet that you are now a demi-god of ... of course this is all forfeited if you go to hell ...

and this is all jurisdicted by the heavenly father, who lives near kolob (along with jehova-jesus and holy ghost [i thought they were in wu-tang ...] ) who is in fact humanoid, in the flesh, but his veins are filled with a powder that is propelled by air, all through an otherwise normal (read: human) system ... he however does NOT (as depicted below) live on kolob, kolob is just the nearest planet to his kingdom ...



sing a little song onto kolob ... sing it out loud and clear

shes a little bit country, and hes a little bit space alien

i didnt read this, jus thought the title was funny

i think we make fun of mormons too much, so check these people out, theyre jus as good ...

this is fun [warning: after the fun will come anger, disenchantment, rampant alcoholism (in that order) ]

this is garth the appaloosa

Playing the Drastics for the Drastics

GIS for "The Drastics":



I'm 100% sure that this is the best movie ever made, and I've never even seen it before.

wack guitarists

not really funny till the john mayer guy ... then i laughed out loud ...

on a side note ... john mayers face is a wonderland for my fists ...

boners

fred wesley ...

yeah, you know him ...

all those ridiculously soulful trombone solos on jb's hits (pass the peas, doin it to death, etc) ...

yeah thats him ... hes the one with the trombone ...



he also has the best intro to a website ever

i got soul like fred wesley
ya know its lord quas up in the spot hittin fresh beats

more from everyones secret society ...

good to finally hear from ya bogardus ...

i just get so lonely ...

ahem ...

anyway, i found this site, a decent amount of information (though its so reactionary its hard for me to read it objectively), but lawd, whatta collection of crack-ass pictures ... such as ...







yer guess is as good as mine ...

(are those pirate ku klux klansmen !?)

I'm back, baby!

So, I've been a receptionist for the past week and a half, but now I'm back up to my little cubicle where I can blog for days and days. Miss me?

Driz, Utah is a scary place. Stay out of it at all costs!

On that note, a little GIS of 'Utah is scary' gives us...


In other news, I watched 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' for the first time last night. Great flick. Clint Eastwood just found himself a few more spots on my Netflix.

quadruple f

so i think i met this guy at that hippie festival we played near st louis last weekend ... he somehow has a connection to chris ... were also playin a show w/ these film cats (free form film festival) on sept 25 at rodan that yall should check out ... its free, and theyre gonna broadcast weird things over us while we play ... anyway, the story is that they were gonna get interviewed, and so this kid (tyrone) who can puke on command ate a gallon of blue ice cream before goin air ... best part is that it was live AND rebroadcast 3 more times that nite ...

funny funny business

eniac

ahem ... ok, seriously, what gives ... ? am i the only one left !? its like vanilla sky up in this blog, people ...

tell me you wouldnt want this job ...

mac thinks they got all the style ... (cray I, circa 1976)

eeviac (unfortunatly, its their worst work)

mmm ... show me yer tubes and circuitboards baby ...

utah

utah sucks balls ... seriously ... read this, then watch the video, it is severly fucked up ... literally gave me goosebumps watchin it ... i cant stress it enough, watch our own fuckin government at work as a facist police state ...

(all info courtesy; lord dubious of superstatus crew)

Knick of Evol intent puts the night's events into his
own words::

Last night, I was booked to play an event about an
hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind
this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they
expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did
an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats
with the flyers on them to promote in local shops.

So, we got to the show around 11:15 or so and it was
really cool. It was all outdoors, in a valley
surrounded by huge mountains. They had an amazing
light show flashing on to a mountain behind the site,
the sound was booming, the crowd was about 1500 people
thick and everything just seemed too good to be true
really. Well...

At about 11:30 or so, I was standing behind the stage
talking with someone when I noticed a helicopter
pulling over one of the mountain tops. I jokingly said
"Oh look, here comes big brother" to the person I was
with. I wasn't far off.

The helicopter dipped lower and lower and started
shining its lights on the crowd. I was kind of in awe
and just sat and watched this thing circle us for a
minute. As I looked back towards the crowd I saw a guy
dressed in camoflauge walking by, toting an assault
rifle. At this point, everyone was fully aware of what
was going on . A few "troops" rushed the stage and cut
the sound off and started yelling that everyone "get
the fuck out of here or go to jail". This is where it
got really sticky.

No one resisted. That's for sure. They had police dogs
raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out
a guy who obviously had some drugs on him. The
soldiers attacked the guy (4 of them on 1), and kicked
him a few times in the ribs and had their knees in his
back and sides. As they were cuffing him, there was
about 1000 kids trying to leave in the backdrop,
peacefully. Next thing I know, A can of fucking TEAR
GAS is launched into the crowd. People are running and
screaming at this point. Girls are crying, guys are
cussing... bad scene.

Now, this is all I saw with my own eyes, but I heard
plenty of other accounts of the night. Now this isnt
gossip I heard from some candy raver, these are
instances cited straight out of the promoters mouth..

- One of the promoters friends (a very small female)
was attacked by one of the police dogs. As she
struggled to get away from it, the police tackled her.
3 grown men proceeded to KICK HER IN THE STOMACH.

- The police confiscated 3 video tapes in total.
People were trying to document what was happening out
there. The police saw one guy filming and ran after
him, tackled him and his camera fell, and luckily..
his friend grabbed it and ran and got away. priceless
footage. That's not all though. Out of 1,500 people,
there's sure to be more footage.

- The police were rounding up the staff of the party
and the main promoter went up to them with the permit
for the show and said "here, I have the permit." The
police then said, "no you don't" and ripped the permit
out of his hand. Then, they put an assault rifle to
his forehead and said "get the fuck out of here right
now."

Now.. let's get the facts straight here.

This event was 100% legal. They had every permit the
city told them they needed. They had a 2 MILLION
DOLLAR insurance policy for the event. They had
liscenced security guards at the gates confiscating
any alcohol or drugs found upon entry (yes, they
searched every car on the way in). Oh, I suppose I
should mention that they arrested all the security
guards for possession.

Oh another interesting fact.. the police did not have
a warrant. The owner of the land already has a lawsuit
against the city for something similar. A few months
ago, she rented her land for a party and the police
raided that as well. And catch this, the police forced
her to LEAVE HER OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY. That's right.
They didnt arrest her, but made her leave her own
property!!!

Don't get it twisted, this is all going down in
probably THE most conservative state in the USA. And
this is scary.. a gross violation of our civil
liberties. The police wanted this party shut down, so
they made it happen. Even though everything about this
event was legal. The promoters spent over $ 20,000 on
this show and did everything they had to to make it
legit, only to have it taken away from them by a group
of radical neo-con's with an agenda.

This was one of the scariest things I have ever
witnessed in person. I can't even begin to describe
how surreal it was. Helicopters, assault rifles, tear
gas, camoflauge-wearing soldiers.... why? Was that
really necessary?

This needs to be big news across the USofA. At least
in our music scene (edm as a whole)... this could
happen to any of us at any time. When we're losing the
right to gather peacefully, we're also letting the
police set a standard of what we can get away with.
And I think that's BULLSHIT!

The system fucked up last night... They broke up a
party that was 100% legal and they physically hurt a
lot of people there at the same time. The promoters
already have 6 lawsuits ready to file with their
lawyers and the ACLU is already involved.

I'm sure some pictures (and hopefully some video) will
surface soon. I'll make sure to post them up here on
404, so you can see the Police State of America at
work.

pics and vid here:
http://v2.vidman.ca/utah_rave/

bummermooger

i heart hedonistica and seafood

i really do ... seriously, ive been goin through there archives durin my slack time at work (read: while at work), and they got some real funny stuff ...



in case that didnt creep yer shit out ...

and this one ...

from aes-nihil productions, "Also, the only transsexual/ex-quadriplegic/ex-hooker/drag queen, period. Includes the infamous Tap Dance, Hollywood Girls, Hollywood Vice and live shows in Hollywood. Sorry, no porno!"

jubilee !

picture of a jubilee, another one

miss jubilee rowwrrr

my favorite jubilee (i thought she was so hot when i was 10) ... wait, i still think shes hot ... hot and fictious ... the way i like em !

on a side note, ever since theyve been gettin those fat royalty checks, the x-men have really let themselves go

consecrate my love

those sexy catholics are at it again ...

said one priest ... " "I know I am hanging in a few girls' bedrooms too, but that's fine -- we need their prayers for more priests,"

whats up wit no one postin anymore ... !?

makes me sad ...

but not as sad as him ...

i like the midwest (part II)

ok, well two things first off ... i started writing more yesterday but then mozilla crashed out on me, and that jus made me angry (like the hulk), and not want to write anymore ... second, i must apologize for my piss-pour blog writing abilities; after re-reading the shit i wrote in that first post, i was somewhat disappointed in myself ... business papers, school reports, resumes, no sweat, i got that shit down, but when it comes to tellin stories in an informal manner in a blog setting, i aint got shit ... so im sure ill get better with time and experience, but in the meantime, deal wit it, im tired of yall bitching ... christ ...

also, i have a bunch of good pictures, but dont have them here at work to add to these posts ... i will as soon as i get them ...

where we last left our heroes ...

• 08.06 ... back on the road, today to provo, utah ... we got really spoiled havin a (nice) hotel to stay in our first two nites cause the rest of tour would not be so comfortable ... chuck wren gave us a box of jumpup cds and tshirts to sell on the road for gas money, which was ridiculously nice of him, he turned the trip into a family vacation of sorts, and was there with his wife and baby daughter (whos one of the cutest kids ive seen, and she likes to dance to reggae) ... nothin to memorable bout the trip to utah, except that im sure the mormon jokes were flyin ... oh, we warned ahead of time to buy beer before leavin colorado cause utah has this 3.2% law ... for the uninitiated, basically beer can only contain 3.2% alcohol (except for imports), so for example budweiser and coors makes special 3/2 beer that they sell in utah ... you also have to be a member or have a membership to a bar in order to drink there, which i didnt fully grasp ... its like a cover charge but you buy it for weeks at a time and it allows you to get friends in as well ... and no booze after 1am ! whattup wit that !?!?, also in utah if you order a shot, you get 1/2 a shot ... no joke ... weak ... anyway, so we got to provo early (we were actually pretty good time-wise all tour) and jus chilled for a while on what im guessin was the old-school main drag ... ok, seriously though, provo creeped my shit out, and im not even gettin to the LDS thing yet, cause on every block there was 1 if not 2 (and sometimes 3) DIFFERENT flyers for missing teenage girls put up ... what the fuck provo !? seriously, there was alot of missin girls in provo, and i dunno if the mormons or las vegas are gettin em, but regardless it made me feel a little off ... anyway, so we ended up eatin at some place called "sensual sandwiches" (which smelled pretty nasty) after none of us were brave enough to venture into "la taqueria tormenta" ... i was gung-ho bout "tormenta" till i actually looked in the place, and saw that it resembled a homeless shelter with a sink ... i was feelin pretty tired by this point (late evening) and decided that caffeine was what the system needed, so we talked to some locals and were directed to the only coffeeshop within walkin distance, a neat little garage of a place which actually cooked up some decent java ... i think jus me and bijan went, and while were sittin there hepcat came on the speakers, and so i decided to make sure the kids workin there knew about the show ... which. of course. they didnt ... fuckin promoters ... if the "ska kids" in town dont know bout the only fuckin "ska show" for the month, yer seriously not doin yer homework ... i will say however, provo was the only club (out of 6) to actually put up the promotional flyers we sent (i dont get it, do clubs enjoy not makin money, while seein bands suffer ?) ... regardless, now the kids knew, and they came to the show, but even witout them it was a pretty kick-ass show ... good crowd and everybody was dancin ... AND, the bartender workin there ... god ... damn ... murder me wit style ... seriously, hottest chick i saw all tour: in provo, utah ... go-fuckin-figure ... i tried chattin her up, but i dont think she was into me past the "ill be sweet so you tip me" style ... blah ... cant blame her though ... gotta make that money somehow ... tommy (our merch guy) had some good luck though, and actually had a girl come up to him and say "if i buy you a beer will you make out wit me" (or somethin very similar) ... she wasnt a fox, but goddamn, thats a pretty sweet deal ...
  
  after the show we went back to some guys house for a pseudo-party kinda thing ... i wont lie, it was pretty boring ... the most excitin thing bout it was that when we first got there, there was about 3 cops wit drawn shotguns walkin around the block, addin that final touch of paranoia that makes utah such a magical place ... i think i slept on the kitchen floor ...
  
  
• 08.07 ... wake up to the same routine ... first three questions ... where am i, and what day is it, where do i have to be tonite ... im on some guys kitchen floor, its sunday, we have tonite off ... word ... we have 2 days to get to phoenix, and theres a whole lot of indecisiveness about where we should go and what we should do ... we have a place to stay for the nite in salt lake, but its in the opposite direction, however las vegas is exactly on our route, and our merch guy has friends there he liked to meet up wit ... so off to vegas we go, although the nite is still not decided ... we rolled into vegas in the early evening, and sweet crackers ... whatta wicked place ... id been there once before, and though not old enough to gamble yet still thought it was pretty "blah", but this return trip definitely re-established that notion ... babylon live in las vegas ... fe true ... so we parked the van on the far end of the strip near the luxor and all went about doin our own thing ... django and tommy went to meet tommys peeps while the rest of us wandered around ... we hit up tropicana, luxor, mandalay bay, excalibur (and yes, thats merlin holdin it down in the middle) ... jus walked around and made fun of people kinda thing ... chris almost had me on the floor laughin doin his crack-head impression and scarin people around us ... we did however find a spot where we coulda gotta a 35 dollar shave ... or for 55 bux, the "royal shave" ... the lady workin there didnt find us amusing ...
  
  now dont get me wrong on all this, im certainly not a moralistic law-abiding citizen, but las vegas jus embodies so much of the shit i hate about american culture in such a condensed area that it jus gives me the heebie-jeebies ... as bijan so eloquently put it, its a city which constantly consumes, yet produces nothing ... to which i remembered that las vegas was (im not sure if this deal still exists) so desperate for families that it was offering a full 4 year tuition to UNLV if you lived in the las vegas area for 6 months ! the catch ... the only degrees worth gettin from UNLV are in hotel management, casino management, etc ... kinda creepy ...
  
  anyway, so we all collected again, and after a stupidly-long discussion on what to do now, we decided to jus hit the road and straight-ball it for phoenix, or to stop somewhere along the way ... (were so fuckin decisive) ... oh, also, we started drinkin sparks ... if yall aint got down on this shit yet, i highly recommend it, though make sure yer in the proper setting (read: anywhere but a van w/ 7 over-tired guys) ... cause this shit will fuck you up ... like a steel reserve and red bull with the taste of orange fanta ... i drank one and actually felt like i jus burned a j ... it was strange ... for others it jus makes you want to DESTROY EVERYTHING ... specially if you get more than one in ya ... tommy (merch) was in the lead as he had been drinkin heavily the past 2 hours w/ his boys and then was gettin sparked in the van ... so were goin along drivin and we come across that human marvel, the hoover dam ... but wit heightened security, were forced to stop since our vehicle is larger than a car ... fuck ... we got open booze in the car, and were a reggae band ... it was decided early in the trip though that if pulled over we either played rock n roll, country or christian rock ... so when the cop asked us "whats in the back", "uh, musical instruments", "oh yeah, what kinda music you boys play?", "rock and roll", "oh yeah, what kind, alternative, heavy metal, classic rock", "um, jus good ol rock and roll sir", "ok, well drive safe" ... word ... though theres somethin fucked up about havin to lie about music you play to avoid suspicion ...
  
  and, i jus remembered, i forgot to mention in the previous post that i managed to get us pulled over in-between denver and grand junction for jerkin the wheel of the van as i went to answer my phone ... cop was cool though, first he said was "im not issuin a citation, jus wanna see yer licence, etc" ... weird ...
  
  ANYWAY ... so, now were drivin over the hoover dam now and tommy (merch) aint doin too well ... bout 3/4 of the way over the dam all a sudden the side door flies open (while were goin 40mph) and tommys ralphin all over the hoover dam ... jive turkey ... it freaked us all the fuck out cause no one knew what the fuck he was doin at first, there was no warnin, jus open door and "blehchhhh" ... in a way its kinda cool, not that many people can say they puked on ol hoover ... so we pulled over in a parkin area, checked the dam (which is really impressive, specially at nite, it looks like a big ol 1940s futuristic art-deco monstrosity) then drove for another couple hours before findin a really cheap motel somewhere in arizona ... all in all a pretty interesting day ...
  

thats all you get for now ... ill try to add more later today ...

provo, a fun place to visit !

When you're feeling down and out

This guy reminds me of me in high school. But he's ten years older than me. And a lot less attractive. At least I had puberty as an excuse . . .

In case you are as bored as me

Interesting

Blunt

I'd pee my pants

I'd pee my pants, but this time in a good way

NEWS NEWS NEWS

I went this crazy when I got my first Apple II GS

And insert jokes about Madonna and a horse here

i like the midwest (part I)

ahhhh ... 5600 miles in 10 days ... and 2200 of those were in the last 33 hours ... it was weird to be sittin back at tumans on monday nite enjoyin my 3rd gin and tonic to think that sunday mornin i was in san francisco ... all in all, it was a good time and we jus covered our costs, so no complaints from this guy ... there was however a disturbing amount of pictures taken of people sleepin ... not sure whats up wit that; i think the drastics jus like to see people at there most vulnerable, like, i coulda killed you right then, but instead i took this picture so youll know what i coulda done ... freaks ...

so since there's been a serious lack of postin to the ol bluntest, ill give you the run down of my past 2 weeks ... or at least what i can remember, since im already sketchy on everything and will probably leave out copious amounts of entertaining anicdotes (ha) ...

• 08.03 ... so lets see, we left at about 11:30pm, after agreein to leave by 10pm at the absolute latest, see we needed to be in denver by 3pm for this ridiculously early show (doors opened at 4 or somethin, on a thursday) ... we had a legitimate reason for leavin late though, as after fillin the cargo area of the van with all our instruments and bags and stuff, we realized we had about 6 more large bags that needed to go in, so we had to take everything out, take out one of the benches and then load everything back in ... this was really unfortunate as it made the whole trip pretty tight for actual passengers (while gear had plenty of breathing room) ... 3 people in the back bench, 2 people in the front bench, and then driver and shotgun ... smostly cause king django had a store on wheels ... about 12 shirts and 15 cds, and a full setup display for all of em (which i must admit looked pretty pro) ... i started off the drivin wed nite, but i dont even remember where our first stop was or who took over after me (im guessin it was chris) ... i musta slept for a little while ...
  
• 08.04 ... got to denver before the club even opened ... hung out in the downtown area for a second, where i finally remembered to put our soon-to-be mascot for the tour bob on our antennae (picture coming soon) ... so this was a really weird show, billed as a matinee of some kind, it was held in this room that was setup like a hockey rink, but sans-ice and hockey players ... the middle of the room was all ages, but around the perimeter was chain link fence, and a really shoddily put together wooden barrier, where from behind you could drink ... this club also had the largest disco ball i had ever seen, it probably mesearued about 6 feet in diameter and was on the whole time we were there, which made playin somewhat difficult as i was constantly blinded while tryin to look for signals from our singer ... pretty sweet ... oh, also, this club was run by a straight crack head (i really wish i had gotten a photo w/ him), but if i may try to do him justice ... he was wearin a straw hat, a 70s disco polyester paisley shirt (tan/gold, w/ huge collars), and a pair of maroon dickies overalls so the shirt was blousing out of his tight-ass overalls, and made him look like a reject from some 1976 futuristic disco moon-farm collective ... he definetly ranks in my top 5 worst dressed ever (unless it was jus laundry day and thats all he had left, but judgin by the state of his teeth, he spends his quarters on rocks, not detergent) ... regardless, the show was ok, there was way more kids then then i expected to be for denver, on a thursday, at 4:30pm ... we played with some local band that was like a ska version of the drastics, they had some nice grooves, but the name escapes me now ... the club also had an excellent collection of pinballs ... eight in total, of which i cant remember a single one now, they also had a pretty large collection of vintage arcade video games, some serious shit too, not jus ms pacman and galaga (again, i wish i had taken a picture, jus now i am startin to realize i shoulda photo-documented better than i did) ... anyway, so despite the fact that we had jus drove 15 hours, we all piled back in the van, and drove another 2 or 3 hours to grand junction (on the very west side of colorado) cause we had a hotel room there for the nite ... im pretty sure i drove the first stretch of this, which was pretty crazy, drivin through the rockies at nite is kinda an intense experience, specially in a big ol van w/ 6 other guys ... we did stop at a wendys half way through and were serenaded by a wendys employee that (what i would bet) was the only jamaican within 100 square miles (after he found out we played reggae) ... he was pretty cool, and we talked about music w/ him for a while ... once we got to the hotel, i dont think we did anything else, whiskey and dice (i think i lost a couple bucks) we were all really exhausted, oh, but the lady at the front desk gave us all warm cookies, that was pretty sweet ...
  
• 08.05 ... grand junction colorado ... festival day, and the festival was at the hotel we stayed at so we jus got up and went downstairs ... overall it was a pretty fun day, though the turn-out was way weak until nite fall (skinda what happens when you have an all festival in the middle of nowhere on a weekday) ... but ska brewing company was there allday w/ brew for the bands, so it was one of those kinda days ... wake up and start drinkin ... id never had ska brew before, and i was pleasently suprised ... like a really creamy sam adams ... you cant get it in chicago yet, but i ended up hangin out wit the owner at nite, and he was sayin he jus wrapped up some deal to start distributin past the west coast, and i think chuck wren of jumpup records was sayin he was gonna talk to delilahs bout gettin ska brew in up there ... that would be outstandin ... anyway, we played our set and then hung around allday gettin drunker till we had to play djangos set (this was the only show were our 2 sets werent right after the other, which made it a bitch to tear down and then setup again) ... i think my favorite group allday was irie beats, very nice sounds, chilled and dubbed slightly ... then there was this all-star thing that was kinda cool, it really jus ended up bein the chris murray combo playin another set with sporadic guest spots by people from other bands ... kinda strange, specially cause they cut djangos set short to start it up ... drastics played a couple tunes on it though, engine 54 and save a bread ... it was fun, everyone had a few in em, and the crowd was really movin by that point ... after the show, we moved inside to the bar, and setup the drastics dub machine as a sound system for chuck to spin on, the hotel was mad strict about it though, and at first wasnt gonna let us, but then relented, but only till midnite ... corporate shit ... i had gone to eat, so needed to catch up, and i think i did 4 shots in about 15 minutes upon my return, the bartended was a sweetheart and jus kept refillin our glasses ... i think we jus chilled out in some kids room for a while (he had a keg in his bathtub) and then jus crashed out ... all in all, a pretty good day, met some cool people, and played a bunch ...
  

ok, thats all you get for now, ill do 3 days at a time ... ill probably get to more before the end of the day ... and ill add pictures once i get em from tom ... so yeah ... im a rockstar ... blahhhhhh

The Future of America

You know, I don't think I've ever crapped my pants from hearing that someone was running for president. Well, those days are over, friends!

Did I just imply that I have crap in my pants? Good. Cuz I do.

Sorry I've been away so long . . .

I hate Tom DeLay

Feeling lonely? Not as much as these people

And just when you thought Red Meat was sublte

Love of God

Jesus wants to have sex with you.

Getting Lonely

Where did everyone go?

Are they over here?

No?

What about here?

Sigh.

Funniest Thing Ever

For the first time in my life, I wish I had been in a Denny's in Gainesville, FL

Seriously, made me laugh out loud at work. Enjoy.

Mature political discourse

Bob Novak is 12 years old.

Jon Stewart reacts

Never saw the movie...

...but I'd see the sequel

Now I like sports, but . . .

And the picture probably doesn't help

Plagiarizing Smagiarizing

I know Driz gets his panties in a bunch every time I post something I found on another website, but he is a biatch.

Cuz this? Is awesome

Martha Stewart, kickin' it in the hood

Cop killa

News News News

The Bastards!!!

Hee Hee . . . Nipples

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

Fighting the War on Terrorism

In case you were wondering, segregation is still illegal

And evolution is still being debated

My new favorite band

Sell the donkey, run for mayor

Colors or Colours?

Perhaps you think you know the difference between gray and yellow.

Perhaps you are a fool.

in this cut-throat world of bloggin ...

you either post ... or be vanquished !

you see, for i have gone MAD WITH POWER ! ... ADMINISTRATIVE POWER ! MWAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA ! who knows who will be next ... bogardus !? der pimpernel !? maybe even myself !!?? IM THAT MAD !!!! MAD WITH POWER !!!! ADMINISTRATIVE POWER !!!!!

enjoy these while you wait for your eventual demise at my hands ... MWAHAH HAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!



orange speedo guy and the krishna are into it ...

speakin of 40s ... i enjoyed a nice king cobra las nite ... even managed to finish it before it got warm, sittin on a back porch in 85 degree weather ... GOT BIT !

3091

That's the score to beat, ladies and gentlemen, on the cursor catcher game. Man, that's fun. Fun in a "I'm stuck at work with nothing to do" way. Not fun in a "What are you doing Friday night? Playing cursor catcher" way. I'm looking at you Drizzy. And I've noticed we've lost a few bloggers on the way. I'm pouring a virtual of 40 on the curb of the information superhighway. Munkeyfartz, we hardly knew yee.

BREAKING NEWS!! BREAKING NEWS!!

Rachael loves Ross!!!! She's not going to France!!!! She's staying with him!!!!

What could be mistaken for a bomb?

It's not a bomb on a bus, but it's a . . .

worst wrestlin names ever

things are different in the south ...

i hope they dont mean chicago

grrrr ... hes tough !

i wonder if they know what it is

wonder why hes divorced

not much thought put into this ... but he is old school ... i guess he gets the right ...

so many things wrong with this ...

not a cat person

ok, im jus throwin anything up here right now so im not face to face wit that cat everytime i load the bluntest up ... not a fan of cats wearing things ... unless they look like theyre in physical pain ... then its FUNNY !

sri lankan devil dance !

the world is never at a lack for terrible, terrible music ...

who does this ??

ok, ok, i AM NOT! i swear ! even though every post i put has somethin bout it ... this guy jus rocks !

muscle bikes ...

just like in mario brothers !

Kitty thug

Speak n Spells?

Speak n Spells are for the weak

German Weddings

Just some strange german wedding traditions:

Kidnapping of the bride - in some areas (mostly in small villages) friends kidnap the bride and the groom has to find her. Normally, he has to search in a lot of pubs and invite all people in there (or pay the whole bill). Sometimes this ritual ends badly.
Polterabend - this is an informal (informal dress and food) party at the evening before the wedding where plates and dishes are smashed (the broken pieces are thought to bring good luck to the bride). The bride and groom have to clean up everything.
Rice - after the wedding when the bride leaves the church, friends throw rice on them and it is said that they will get as many children as rice grains stay in the hair of the bride.
Veil Dance - this is a popular game for a wedding evening. Every woman or man who wants to dance with the groom or bride, has to pay for it.

how you feelin, hoopty-hoo speak-n-wha ... ?

ok, since im gonna be gone for 2 weeks, im gettin all my A-material out of the way right now ...



personally, i always liked the ones with the real buttons best, not the membrane-style "soft buttons" ... i had all three of these growin up, but thats what you get for bein the son of two chicago public school teachers ...

speak n spell with bill cosby !

all bout yer speak-n-spell

trick yer speak-n-spell out !

saga of the the beetle versus THE SPEAK-N-SPELL FROM HELL! (not without its charm, pretty classic 20s-somethin-esque humor)

more weird speak-n-spells

mod ! ... listen to the oracle ... if you dare ...

speak n spell icon set ... for mac and pc !

ok, this is enough, methinks...