I saw Colbert's condemnation of the decemberists coming as soon as they started their greenscreen contest without crediting the best pundit ever. Lame. If you take an idea, you should at least allude to who had it.


In other news the wii is cool, but I might rent the zelda game for gamecube over break and try to beat it in 5, or whatever, days. Also, ff12 because it's supposed to be great.



Fruckus concert right now, gotta go.

Today, my Journalism Prof., Bonnie Bucqueroux, expounded on the importance of keeping one's blog updated, so:

1) Last week a PE teacher, and wrestling coach from my school was arrested for something that was thoroughly suspected by us students but not from him.

2) For fun, I've been messing around with guitar tunings and lately; mostly, I've been working on modifying the Ripley (believe it or not), which is a guitar with strings all tuned to the same note. It's been giving the guitar a sound similar to an indian banjo, except for the low notes, which sound distinctly guitary. I've been messing around with the Ripley form by replacing one or two of the unison notes with a major or minor 3rd, or a 4th, or a 5th--with interesting sounding, if not interesting to explain, results.

3) With some help, I've been writing a christmas song. It's about Jasper, one of the magi, and his trip to see the baby christ. I turn him into a cowboy and he wears a hankerchief.

To my Secular Friends: Don't fear, I haven't been 'saved' or anything...Fruckus has just been asked to do a Christmas song for a compilation and I'm giving it a try.

To my Religious Friends: Hallelujah!

4) Speaking of F. Ruckus, we just got done with basically all the recording except bass. Our recording engineer, Vince, isn't happy with the EQ of the tracks layed down previously, so we need Eli to redo them, all of them. Vince is almost certainly right, but...I wish we were done already.

5) Speaking of talented musicians recording, La Remodea has been making a demo that's coming along ok. Songs worked on so far in the secret sessions include Oak Grove and Central Park. Songs left to do include JSM; Too Cool, Too Coy; According to Wikipedia; and Gal Cadet. I plan on doing most of that Tuesday night.

6) I would like a wii because of the new Zelda game. I think I'm going hang out with Seth M. over break in Spring Arbor and watch him buy one. Sigh.

7) Over break, I'll be having big meals with my families in Farmington and Milford. Farmington on Thursday and Milford on Friday.

8) Of Montreal is sold out now I guess, but I can't help but love the absolute correctness in the choice of "Every Day Feels Like Sunday," for a stock market commercial. The story of the song is about a guy recovering from suicidal depression--the commercial doesn't last quite long enough for us to hear "I get further and further, away from the fall," but isn't that perfect for a NASDAQ commercial? Of course I don't approve, but I can shrug it off because at least they put thought into it:

ARgamdasd, Temple Club is closed down indefinately as of yesterday--I called to confirm the rumor today:

*ring*
lady: Temple Club?

me: Hi, I heard a rumor that you were closing, is that true?

lady: yeah,

me: ok, thanks.
*click*
*sobbing*

I hated, playing upstairs because of the awful sound, but where are bands going to play now? Animal-Collective-type popularish bands won't fit at mac's.

I heard that there used be a cool spot underneith Beggars Banquet. Lizard Lounge or something, the stones played there? Anyway, is mac's really the only cool venue left? What about The Litterbox? Magdolina's? Gone Wireless Cafe? The Gilchrist Pub?



Also, I got this late today:

Greetings Temple Club Friends,

���

��� I'm sorry to have to pass this information along, but effective immediately the Temple Club is closed for business.� I would like to thank each and every one of you that has supported us over the last five years.� We have had a great run with many adventures, but the time has come for us to close.� To all of the patrons; we could not have lasted this long without you.� To all of the performers; we owe a huge debt of gratitude to each and every one of you for every person you ever brought into the club.� To our staff; you will forever be family.

��� For those of you that have purchased tickets for upcoming Temple Club shows, refunds will be available at point of purchase.

�

Thanks again Lansing.

�

Jerome White

Temple Club General Manager�

(Compare to this)

I wish of Montreal would quit that shit. Does every band that can sell out, sell out?

P.S. Don't eat at outback.

UNDERPANTS!
This little skit reminded me of the tiny toons episode where the baby daffy duck character starts flushing everything down the toilet. Cute!

Yes, we folked those peoples' brains out and it was fun, but now a break in the F. Ruckus concert calender.

The last two albums I've procured have been the new Decemberists and the new of Montreal--I'm just starting to get into both at once. And even if The Crane Wife has no pirate songs, and Hissing Fauna: Are You the Destroyer? marks Kevin Barnes' complete tranformation into Prince, I still love them both.

About to go to the Punk Vs...concert and I'm excited. We're going to folk those peoples brains out!

Tomorrow there's a frontier ruckus concert at Temple Club--Punks Vs. Pokes. We're the pokes.

Anyways, me and some folks went entering this weekend and it was an adventure. Entering is when you go visit a building that's dark and empty:
And, I don't know how much you guys are into really awesome stories, but there's a million of them in the archives of this american life's website.

Could someone explain to me the hand/whatever through glass trick? Is it a trap door?

I saw this on TV where david blaine or someone just like him crawled through a deli window--more recently I saw this:



anyone?

My friend heidoid made a movie this summer with her Fargo friends and film society.

Popfest memories:

Yeah, so a band I really wanted to see when I got down here is called the visitations. the visitations used to be Fable Factory but they broke up due mostly to some e6 gossip stuff. We weren't disapointed. the visitations were excellent and later, when we went to go say something to the guy before we left, (we had been up for 40+ hours), he seemed really excited to have Fable Factory (FF) fans there for him (actually, he kissed both of us). Great guy!

Then he, Davey, told us why they broke up and expressed his grief that, though his Fable Factory partner, Johnson, was in GA, he wasn't coming to the athens popfest. We told davey about our favorite FF song and he told us it was also Johnson's favorite--then Davey asked us to email Johnson at suchandsuch an email address. We were to write him to ask, as two fans, to come and play. So, we emailed him yesterday and today we got a the mailer daemon. Maybe it needs and underscore?

Anyway, lots of fun down here. 80 music shops on each corner, great liberal styled nicknack etc. stores, yummy vego-cuisine. The heat.

Greetings from Georgia. My last day of work was last friday. I'll miss not speaking spanish every day, but I won't miss the labor and boredom that went along with trabajo del fabrica (sp sandi?).

That night, the night I quit, ben and I met up and went to Sara's party which was a lot of fun--I met a one friend of Sara's and one interest, both shy and nice. The next day, we recorded a final draft of Sweatpants Kid, but had a horrible time trying to send it to Heidoid for use in her movie. In fact it wasn't properly sent when we had to leave for Milford to meet up with Amy and the gang to go up to Tawas. When we got back we tried again, but outragous computer issues ensued again and it only partially worked out for us, before we were off for Athens. Athens, Ga.

Ok, you have to admitt that Zidane is a good guy though.

Today, I finished a 66 hour work week, yo estoy cansado!

Italy won the world cup. I'm glad they won, but I was rooting for France, at least for the first part.

For most of the game it was 1x1 and then Italy scored a goal but it was discounted due to a bad off-sides call (so I wouldn't have been happy with France unless they won by two points, anyway). Then, in the second over time, France's best player, Zidane, who was/is retiring after this World Cup, head-butted some Italian player just because he said something. So yeah, France deserved to lose.

I am the grunt!

Soccer today during lunch break, caliente!

Been looking for a job a lot lately, listening to NPR, playing guitar, and hanging out with the gang members. Today there was a fly over for the parade, it was rumbly. I imagined I was being bombed and that was scary.

I apologize folks for not updating, but I find solace in the fact that I've been updating more often then Seth's academic comic-blog, Logos.

Elodea is dead, but will be reborn as another band when Ben and I do some recording work the weekend of June 1st, probably in GR. I've been using the trumpet a lot lately to make loops and stuff and Ben's been recording a new song about one of this nation's great colleges--can you guess which one? No, not MSU.

The job hunt is slow, but I think I'm onto something. I'll update you if I get one. I have a lot to save up for, so far I have $10 towards the list. Did you see the new Zelda stuff from E3?

I'm back in milford. Comfy bed.