our show on the 18th

so like we're not quite sure what is up with our show this sunday the 18th. last night me and tommi stopped by club lamia to check out the event, bandstand as they are calling this weekly thing, and it was dead as fuck, no stage monitors, yeah. kind of a neat space, hella small stage though. of the bands we saw, the avenues were run of the mill emo-rock, boring but they were tight. the bad hand had an excellent drummer that completely over powered the guitarist and electric fender rhodes keyboardist, who bored us after the first two songs with tunes that meandered and all sounded the same with no low end. the last band were just awful, hippie jam rock fusion prog, sub-mediocre vocals and untight wankage, we bailed after two tunes. anyway, there were like ten people there, it was pretty tragic, basically the bands still waiting to play, some girlfriends, some cute breakdancers who were just hanging, and us just scoping it all out. anyway, as we were leaving, tommi ended up chatting with a guy named moose who is one of the people putting on the event, and basically he said that they had been having a lot of problems with the owner of the club and that everything was a total failure and that they were moving the event next week to a new venue where there would be more foot traffic and people, like something like a hundred people! i take all that with a large grain of salt, a hundred people, right... anyways, as of right now we're still waiting to hear back from the event organizers as to the new location so that we can get the proper word out to all five of you that are jonesing to come see us play. speaking of which, we will be more sonically enhanced, if not playing much new material that differs from our last performance. basically, we're using the drum sampler thing on about four songs, and the bass octave pedal on about three, i think. so we're still pretty minimal, cuz using too many samples and changing the arrangements too much just wasn't working with our two person line-up, as we really could only play with ambient drone samples for the most part, as playing into a locked time or with too much pre-recorded stuff just sounded too artificial and was sucking the energy from us ever so much. also the bass pedal only works within our context for the most part on the uber distorted setting, and that has so far only been appropriate for a few songs. as for the tunes that are just guitar and drums, i will say that my playing has gained a somewhat more fuck all noisyness, a bit more no wave, i suppose. the new song is coming along rather well, i just need to nail down the words and get them properly memorized and improve my vocal delivery. i've been fucking around with another new thing on the synth and trying urge tommi that we can throw another tune together in just a few days, though i'm not sure i can come up with acceptable words, as that's been the major creative block that i've had lately, words that don't suck, and any topical manner of interest at all. was toying with the idea of busting out an old tune or something, such as edge of california, which has always been a song that certain people responded quite strongly to, but it just seems so cheesy to me now, from chords to lyrics, and i'm not sure i have the desire to pull it off without dramitically changing some aspects of the arrangement. oh well, whatever.

i had a post from a couple days ago that blogger ate, cuz blogger fucking sucks, but basically, if someone throws a rock thru yr car window while yr at work, don't take yr car to STAR AUTO GLASS, they will STEAL YOUR CREDIT CARD and brazenly call you to ask for your zip code and use it to buy gas. so lesson learned, FUCK STAR AUTO GLASS and FUCK YOU JOHN AT STAR AUTO GLASS, vengeance shall be mine, oh yes.