a lot of my friends are from chicago – or ohio – or boston – most of them live in or near some type of urban area – I have a hard time explaining that I really did grow up in the woods – however, it’s not totally backwoods stuff (even though my folks’ house is about 1/2 a mile from paved road) – check out these pink guns!
see what I mean? these guns are totally about equality of the sexes
oh baby!
last night was the snow angels show at delilah’s – it was a lot of fun – tons of people showed up and most of them danced – especially during the drunken 2nd set
since I’m the keyboard guy, I get wedged in the back but here’s a sweet photo of the guys that make it happen up front
in a way, I’m like the quarterback and they’re like the linemen
now I’m off home for x-mas in a few hours
xi xi made me a surprise party – most of my friend’s are lame, and didn’t show – but the ones that did are totally awesome
we started out at some party for her work people then we went to the ashland (*ding* *ding* – dead giveaway that sophie was involved in the planning!) but dude at the bar was a fucking weiner schnitzel and would’ve serve me (because, obviously, I’m 20) so we split and went to rose’s which was approximately 100 million times more awesome anyway – see!?
they had a rad jukebox (I played an entire rolling stones greatest hits record along with a bunch of other awesome stuff that was way cooler than the songs that flaiz picked but I can’t give him a hard time since he at least showed up)
also, the bartender was nice to me – instead of not serving me, he gave me a free birthday cocktail (bourbon & 7 – baby!) – then sophie and I played the worst game of pool in the history of drunk people in bars playing pool
we played an unnannounced x-mas party at ricochet’s (rick o’shea’s – get it?) – it was fun – I wore my onesy that xi xi gave me – a good time was had by all (especially me!)
you can actually see me in some of these photos too!
snow angels season officially started last night – we played on WHPK‘s Pure Hype – it was lots of fun – we brought a bunch of neat looking broads with us and they danced the whole time
look how happy I am!
frigates played at the volcano room last night – it was pretty sweet even though it was poorly attended – it’s getting colder and colder in chicago – i’m thinking that next year, I’m going to take the winter months off – or move somewhere where it’s always warm – RPM challenge is coming up in february and there’s just one show (frigates, january 9th @ quencher’s) scheduled – could be a good time to stay in
when we went to detroit, I brought Viva Equals
dig eddy grant’s rad guitar (and everything else about this band that is totally awesome)!
these are in my top and bottom (inverse respectively) lists for sure – what happens when they combine!
seriously – stop littering – there’s a trash can just at the end of the block where these shoes were found
driving home from detroit, we stopped at a rest stop – all the urinals had little bee pictures in them – “pee on the bee?” – I don’t get it, but I kinda like it
check out this rad night light in the house where we stayed in detroit!
whenever I think of (or hear the word) detroit, I think of the scene in ‘a fistful of yen’ when dr klahn has the american spies captured and he beheads one and the other says that he’s not scared of death and dr klahn goes “take him to … DETROIT!” and the spy starts screaming “nooooo!! nooooo! not detroit!!!” as they drag him away
anyway – marc brian and I drove up to detroit on friday to play a show – we were at LJ’s Lounge and we played with scarlet oaks (brian knows these guys from way back) and the high strung
it was really fun – the bar is a total dive – we had to move the pool table out of the way so we could play and scarlet oaks brought a PA system since there isn’t one – they played second and did a cover of “don’t cry no tears” which was pretty rad
barely related to that, in the last week I’ve heard two really awful neil young covers on the radio – one – a bubbly euro version of “only love can break your heart” was at atlas cafe – I can’t remember the details on the other thankfully
the headliner was the high strung they kicked ass – I was really into their set – by the end I had gravitated right up to the front – they were playing their second encore and the bassist and guitarist switched instruments – the end of the song had a jam and the guitarist came up to me and was like “do you want to play? it’s in a!” and I was like “fuck yeah” and took the bass and we jammed out for a really long time – some other dude joined in on the drums and hacker spouted some poetry
dig these photos!
