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Friday, April 07, 2006

fried

Bob Nanna has cancer, and undergoes Chemotherapy for the rest of summer. No City on Film shows, no nothing. Kinda sucks :-( - he's a better man than I... While his condition is a rather non-serious version of cancer, it still sucks, and I'm not sure I'd be able to handle it.

Good luck Mr. Nanna - I'll be thinkin about ya, and probably seeing you at the next few shows that are here in Chicago.

So... That leads me to today's topic:

Hey Mercedes is awesome.

I simply love the overall concept of this group. Everything they did worked really well with the design elements and music elements, and their live shows worked as well. It's by no means stellar work or mind-blowing work, but their overall presentation really worked well for them. I think that's pretty cool. That's kind of what I want to go for.

I keep thinking of the scene right now, and what's popular vs. not popular. It seems like that cheesy emo-punk rock scene is losing steam (except the incipid Fall Out Boy, which even at the height of popularity of that scene STILL should not be popular). The whole 80's rock thing like Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand seems to be losing steam as well. Or maybe I'm losing steam in keeping up with it all.

The most I can do is make music that I think sounds cool and go from there. It is REALLY hard to coordinate all these things together. They sound good on my acoustic guitar, but when I try to add other instruments, they get a little muddled. I don't want an all acoustic album, so I practice these things each saturday and make new things that sound different and are a stretch for me, but only time will tell if it works. We shall see.

I have the house to myself this weekend. It's nice when that happens. I clean things up and can relax in peace without worry of interuption. Not sure if I'm going to do the drums this weekend or not. It would be nice, but... I don't know. I feel I could get just as much done here by working on the guitar stuff for once. Maybe I'll do that. Possibly some demo postings next week? No promises (as usual).

Someone was cute on the bus this morning. Not my type, typically, but cute. Rare on the bus these days. I'll have to stalk this one... ;-)

For some reason, I'm reminded of the Insane War Tomatos right now, and their album "I Rock, You Suck!" with tracks like "I Live In An Asshole," and the title track. I first came across this gem back when I was 14 at Heritage Fest in Downers Grove. They had a man in a giant fat suit playing the re-animated Elvis from the grave, and this "Elvis" was about 350 pounds, green and blue, his pants were falling down, and he couldn't really talk much... Just spewing things from his mouth and gurgling. Needless to say, they didn't have a stand the next year. Unfortunate, really.

Why am I reminded of this? Well... I don't know. But anything titled "I Live In An Asshole" is grade A material in my book. I wish I still had the copy.

Megan will know more than I ever could that they are no Punsapaya, but... who is? I mean... seriously...

I'm out... LATA!

posted by grey as mike @ 10:04 AM

2 Comments:

At April 07, 2006 10:36 AM, Simon said…

haha - excellent!
At April 07, 2006 3:02 PM, Anonymous said…

It's great reading your blog. I will be thinking "I live in an asshole" all weekend.
You Rock!