monday night jazz destruction or poperratic
another monday night at the fucking jazz club, bored as fuck all, ugh. so my wallet got stolen over the weekend during pink saturday in the castro, or i haven't found where i drunkenly threw it while, err, drunk. pretty sure though it was pinched out of my back pocket, perhaps by the kid i momentarily disappeared and had a brief tryst with, but he was lame, as soon as he came he was like, oh my god, where's my hat, and i'm like, who cares! pay some attention to me now, hello? my turn! fucking douchebag. whatever, i even got him his fucking hat back the next day. he had an interesting cock, one of those upside down umbrella thingys, neat. anyways, nobody used my credit cards or nothing, so i'm just down the $20 i had in there and the $20 i had to spend at the fucking dmv to get a new ID mailed to me in 2-6 fucking weeks. lameness, i shalln't be able to play at bars where i am not known and am sometimes carded, oh the curse of youthful looks!
of pleasant surprises over the weekend, yesterday after pride i received an email from JBL of poperratic in LA that she had finally completed her album and including a link to sneak preview mp3 of the record for her friends. promptly i downloaded it and have thus made a copy for my car. i have listened to the album one and 2/3rd times, so i can not yet write a proper review, but aside from some small criticisms, i am very much blown away by the final mastered mixes. really my only complaints are that some of the material sounds a bit over-produced, and some of the vocals are too multi-tracked for my tastes or a bit undersung. otherwise the shit rocks and it's great to hear so many tracks with a real drummer, and the electronic interludes are fun and cool, and even the songs with drum machines sound so much better now that they are properly mixed. really the only thing that i don't particularily like is the album cover, haha. oh, and my favorite song of hers, prowler, is not on there, which is a crime, as it has one of the best bass lines ever!
saw the new episode of the venture brothers last night, and fuck, there was just so much crammed into there from references and jokes that it was really hard to follow at points. but the new opening sequence was great with the new venture brothers in action! also the whole opening montage of dr venture finding himself, the monarch eating a butterfly and later the gorilla attempting to ass rape him, and the grieving dr orpheus were all killer funny. one of the best shows on tv, wish the guy who had encoded it and put it on the internet had done a better job, really his shit was hella sub-standard, gonna have to re-download it once a better rip becomes available, which is probably already.
me and tommi made some noise with daniel this afternoon, it was interesting, i guess. we basically just jammed, and there were some moments i suppose. i mean, it is really good for me and tommi to play and improvise with other people, and daniel does have some natural skill, but i'm really not sure if it's gonna be enough with him having no training at all. i guess i'm willing to give it some time if he takes the initiative to learn some basic theory and shit, cuz tommi started off on the drums the same way with no skills either and that worked out well. but it's gonna be up to him to push himself if he really wants to do this. jessica if yr out there, we'd still like to play with you!
of pleasant surprises over the weekend, yesterday after pride i received an email from JBL of poperratic in LA that she had finally completed her album and including a link to sneak preview mp3 of the record for her friends. promptly i downloaded it and have thus made a copy for my car. i have listened to the album one and 2/3rd times, so i can not yet write a proper review, but aside from some small criticisms, i am very much blown away by the final mastered mixes. really my only complaints are that some of the material sounds a bit over-produced, and some of the vocals are too multi-tracked for my tastes or a bit undersung. otherwise the shit rocks and it's great to hear so many tracks with a real drummer, and the electronic interludes are fun and cool, and even the songs with drum machines sound so much better now that they are properly mixed. really the only thing that i don't particularily like is the album cover, haha. oh, and my favorite song of hers, prowler, is not on there, which is a crime, as it has one of the best bass lines ever!
saw the new episode of the venture brothers last night, and fuck, there was just so much crammed into there from references and jokes that it was really hard to follow at points. but the new opening sequence was great with the new venture brothers in action! also the whole opening montage of dr venture finding himself, the monarch eating a butterfly and later the gorilla attempting to ass rape him, and the grieving dr orpheus were all killer funny. one of the best shows on tv, wish the guy who had encoded it and put it on the internet had done a better job, really his shit was hella sub-standard, gonna have to re-download it once a better rip becomes available, which is probably already.
me and tommi made some noise with daniel this afternoon, it was interesting, i guess. we basically just jammed, and there were some moments i suppose. i mean, it is really good for me and tommi to play and improvise with other people, and daniel does have some natural skill, but i'm really not sure if it's gonna be enough with him having no training at all. i guess i'm willing to give it some time if he takes the initiative to learn some basic theory and shit, cuz tommi started off on the drums the same way with no skills either and that worked out well. but it's gonna be up to him to push himself if he really wants to do this. jessica if yr out there, we'd still like to play with you!
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