as the title may suggest (to those of you in the know) the new radiohead album has completely sucked my brain out. in response to adam over at kempa.com: i like it. probably for all the reasons that most people (although i haven't met a person face-to-face that didn't like it) hate it. it's completely what you didn't expect to hear from radiohead at this point. i'm not gonna sit here and extoll the virtues of ok computer and how it saved music; hell…i'm kinda partial to the bends. but kid a is fucking amazing. hands down. i'm into the bleeps and blips. rock out. idioteque is the coolest song i've heard in the past few weeks. but even adam admits that the new album just may grow on him… and for the people who care, here's a nine part radio one interview with the band.

another new album worth mentioning is the new bluetip. it's great, and the packaging is top notch. once again, jason farrell has outdone himself.

looks like weezer is finally going back into the studio to record a new record. it's about god damn time. sample quote from rivers: "A lot of guys can write songs that have nothing to do with their lives, and they're great, but I don't seem to be able to do that."

i'm excited about next month. it looks like transmission3000 will get to head out to nyc for the cmj fest. i'll be out there recording lots of live sets and passing out tons of flyers. so if you see me, honky, you better holler at me.

::out::

wow…23 days. fuck it. i don't care. i'm lazy. and i've been dealing with the death of my good friend sebastian. so on with the show…

i took my little sister to get her first tattoo yesterday. it was an altogether painless experience for the both of us. she seems quite happy with her new status as a "tattooed freak," so as long as she's happy…

i would have to agree with adam that almost famous is by far the best movie i've seen all year. if you haven't already, i recommend that you see it asap.

i'm slowly working out my last week at kinko's, getting ready for my new job at hsa. the pay and hours are tons better and i don't have to be repressed for being a heterosexual. don't get me wrong, i'm about the furthest from homo-phobic, but i am definitely in the minority, and the shit that goes down around that place is ridiculous. there will be a few people i'll miss seeing on a daily basis, but for the most part, i can't leave soon enough.

i think matt ( –>) is an evil alien bent on world domination. living with him, i think i have the keenest insight into this situation. i don't think crawling into a pod to sleep at night is normal human behavior. we are excluding michael jakson from any further pod-sleeping debates…

back to tony hawk 2. you may never see me again…

wow. the past few days have been insane. after destroying almost everything in site, we finally got the hey mercedes show posted to transmission3000. it's a recording of their first show, and it sounds frickin' amazing, so you should check it out.

i went to see hey mercedes play here in louisville last night, and they rocked the house. they brought a band that i had never heard of, insidious. they were fucking incredible. they'll probably kill me for this, but they were like a melodic neurosis. they had an insane amount of energy and feeling come through in their music. they don't have a website at this point (which i'm gonna try to fix…) so until them, check out their label's site. we hope to record them for transmission3000 at some point.

the next show up on transmission3000 should be the drifts get deeper set. we plan on getting it encoded today, but sometimes shit happens. i'm really eager for everyone to hear it, because it proves that they're a lot better than a lot of people give them credit for. look for it later tonight, or monday.

in other news, it appears that sean mccabe from ink & dagger has passed away. right now there's some debate going on about how it actually happened, so out of respect for the family and everyone involved, i won't be posting an concrete info until there is some.

out.

so i skipped a couple of days…big deal.

nice to see that adam is back home and kempa.com is being updated again.

i'm hard at work on laying out all the new band pages for transmission3000. the hey mercedes show will go up tonight if it frickin' kills me. after a few aborted attempts to get shit done last night, i'm ready for something to happen right.

one good thing about the chicago trip last weekend was that i was exposed to mt. saint helens. those guys are frickin' awesome. and damn nice people, too.

another site from chicago: stop smiling. i met one of the guys behind this thing when i was up in chicago this time last year. they're super-cool, and funnier than dog shit. really.

sorry this is so pointless and short, but i'm hungry, and the t3k is calling me…