Man, I really don't feel like doing yard work. Is this what life is all about?

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So, playing last night didn't go off extraordinarily well, but it wasn't my fault, and it was a learning experience, so it's all good I guess. Brad's crash cymbal cracked and fell off in the middle of the second song, which he was playing ridiculously fast to start with. Then we almost got in a fight with some jackass while having a post-bad- ( Read more... )

Oops, that last entry was meant for mathrockfans. Tonight I have to do two things that I'm apprehensive about, and for some reason this made me want to mow the lawn earlier. So I did. And trimmed the hedges. It all seems rather ridiculous.

Okay, I have got to update this thing. The band is playing in public on Tuesday for the first time, which I have conflicted, but mainly positive, feelings about. I feel like Brad is getting us ahead of ourselves, but I have similar inclinations in the opposite direction, so I guess it works out. We're called 'Dreams of Being King'. Yes, after ( Read more... )

Tonight was fucking weird.

It's really a trip to be on the Don Caballero message board and see that Mike Banfield is online. On a related note, an amazingly awesome person has been kind enough to host a great bootleg of a show by the new Don Cab lineup. By great I mean in sound quality, although the new stuff's not bad! Nowhere near as good as anything else Don Cab has ( Read more... )

A very interesting article from the New York Times has got me to thinking. The piece is a good read, but once more I find myself frustrated at the dichotomous picture painted by the media, the public, and scientists themselves. It's always 'Science vs. Religion' or 'Science vs. the Fundamentalists'. The issue is hardly so black and white. ( Read more... )

Sorry, I found this one entertaining.


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Just got back from the Mono show, and damned if they didn't knock my socks off for the 2nd time in the row. Very entertaining to see Brad use his French-speaking skills on girls at bars to some level of success. I apologize for lack of updates, I am quite simply an evil person.