you know…there once was a day when you could walk up and down bardstown road and post flyers on every ol' telephone pole you came across. no one gave you shit. no one harshed your mellow. now you walk up and down the road and there's nothing. no crazy band flyers, hardly even any "lost cat" notices. it's sad, really. really fucking sad.

today i printed up flyers for the forthcoming, last minute L&N show this weekend. we're playing with arch and moirai and a couple of other bands. it should be a kickass rock and roll explosion. instead of printing up 50-something flyers top post all around the area, i printed 15. fifteen measly-ass flyers. pathetic. i posted one on the board down at ear x-tacy, and then gave the rest to paul from arch to distribute.

here's the list of places to post flyers:

ear x-tacy
wild and woolly
za's
the rudyard kipling (where the show is being held)
kopilot (for their friday opening)
blaine's fridge
our fridge

and wherever else paul decides to post them. he can get down…he can get bad…it don't matter.

me? i'm gonna get back to work…

due to underwhelming participation, wings night was effectively cancelled, last night. i ended up going up there, ordering some wings, and just taking them home. no muss, no fuss, no bullshit.

i ended up sitting around the house for a while until i talked to jeremy, and then ended up going over to his house for a couple beers. monday night…it's good for something, i'm sure. i just don't know what.

tonight i'm headed over to a friend's house to have a smile listening party, as it finally came out today. awesome.

other than that? sitting around at work, being bored for a change.

hot damn. L&N was at the center of our first riot on friday. while we played, people started punching each other and things spilled out into the street, ending up with a garbage can getting thrown through the front window.

and, after all of that, joe and brooksie almost got engaged in a bit of fisticuffs with a gentleman who was less than approving of our "performance." things were sorted out, no one was beat down, and joe even bought the little shit-starting skinhead prick a drink, after all was said and done.

L&N: we'll play your show and then fight you afterward.

other than that, the weekend was pretty low-key. we've taken over a date at the rud for this coming weekend, so we'll playing saturday night with moirai and arch. it's a line-up that we've been trying to get together for a show for a while now, so i'm pretty stoked.

spent pretty much all of sunday helping danny paint the new kopilot. the new shop is really taking shape and it looks like it's on pace to finished for the grand re-opening shindig on friday.

does anyone really like peter frampton?

okay…i don't have any caffeine, i get a headache. i have too much caffeine…i get a fucking headache. what gives? why can't my body make up its damn mind? it begs for the caffeine and then it rejects it! i'm bewildered!

i tell you what, though…i reject big red. it is not a viable source for soft drink refreshment. i used to love this shit when i was a kid, but…big red: i reject you.

here's the updated flyer for our show tomorrow night. i know, i know…a little late, but justin did an awesome job, so who gives a fuck?

seriously…this headache sucks. aleve is not a quick enough headache stopper. i need to start keeping some excedrin migraine in my desk or something…

also related to the caffeine theme: i think i'm finally sick of this mountain dew pitch black shit. i mean…i like it, but i think i'm sick of it. it's unfortunate, as i just bought a 12-pack of the stuff a couple nights ago. i want a new drug. one that won't make me sick.

mcdonald's oven select sandwiches are nasty. if you eat them, you are risking your health and maybe your very life. they are vile and have the potential to induce spontaneous vomiting. well…the "reuben" is, anyway. i'm too terrified to try anything else.

there's a tickling at the back of my throat. it's a familiar feeling and usually precedes a nasty allergy attack. this can't be good, especially with that show tomorrow. time to overdose on orange juice and zyrtec…

what constitutes a good day? how do you know when you're having one? is it a feeling as soon as you wake up? who knows…

i know that when i woke up to discover i'd only downloaded about 4 folders of data that seth has salvaged from the burned out husk of my old hard drive, i wasn't too thrilled. don't get me wrong…i'm ecstatic to be getting a majority of the data back. i am not, however, happy about the slow process of downloading it all. couple this with the fact that the replacement drive that western digital sent me appears to be bad (tons of bad sectors, not formatting right…just a good ol' time), and you have a very unhappy brian. but the data is being saved, so i'm gonna try to remain positive about this.

but seriously…how awful is it to replace a bad hard drive with…another bad hard drive? do they even have a quality control department? seriously?

update on the "motherfucker" situation: still getting the stink eye. something tells me i'm not one of his favorite people, these days. damn. i'm totally heartbroken.

last night was kind of a bummer. i went up to spring street after work, only to find the place packed with football fans, all watching monday night football. it appears that our weekly wings pilgrammage is to be no more. i guess we'll have to move it to wednesday, when they have half price appetizers (the wings count as an appetizer). i like it better in the middle of the week, anyway. hopefully it works out.

i ended up meeting a few friends over at the outlook for a couple of beers and some whatnot. beers were consumed. songs were played on the jukebox. a good time was had. not bad for a monday night.

tonight i'm supposed to get ahold of seth about this hard drive thing. he said he may have had a slight breakthrough, but i'm not gonna get my hopes up. i guess i'm just anxious to get the new drive in and get on with the process of…getting on with my computorial life.

L&N show on friday at woody's in louisville. be there or be…uh…not there.

there's nothing like coming in to work on a monday and remembering that you only have to work a four day week. seriously…that just kicks ass. it helps shake the cobwebs from the brain and put a smile on the face, which is definitely rare on a monday.

speaking on mondays, it looks like "motherfucker" came in early today. he's already shot me the evil eye a couple of times, so i guess he's taking it as some sort of insult that i went over his head. well…tough shit. i can play the office politics game as well as he can. if he wants to be a dick, so can i.

practice went pretty okay on saturday. we started work on a new song, which is nice, since we haven't really written much as a band in the past couple of months. not having a practice space is killing us. hopefully that problem will be righting itself within the next month or so. we're all systems go for friday, though. i hope some people actually show up…

kopilot it moving. we were in the new space yesterday, helping danny strip out all the nasty floor tiling. they should be reopened and ready for business on october 1st. awesome. they should have a new website open by then, as well, complete with a webstore. double awesome.

seth has reported that the data on my old hard drive is pretty much…gone, never to be seen again. this is disheartening, but i guess i'll have to pull myself up by the bootstraps and…

damn it. who am i kidding? i cried myself to sleep, last night.

back to work…

i've had quite a turnaround, since last night. i left work more frustrated and pissed off than i've been in a long while, due to some clashing with a guy that i will only refer to as "motherfucker." i'm not really a fan of "motherfucker" (hence the name) to begin with. add that to the fact that he was my direct supervisor and you have a recipe for disaster. but notice that i said that "motherfucker" was my direct supervisor. yeah…after i got home from work, incredibly pissed off and frustrated (as previously mentioned), i made the decision to have a little talk with the head supervisor around here…the big boss.

don't get me wrong…i didn't go in there trying to get "motherfucker" fired. i just wanted to get moved to under another supervisor. no big deal. as fate would go, the big boss was sympathetic to my plight and agreed to move me to another supervisor's group. so…bye bye, "motherfucker." i wish i could say it was nice knowing you, but it wasn't, asshole. and, for the record, "motherfucker" has not been fired and will not be fired, i'm sure. i'm just out of his reach and it's all documented. so i am now incredibly happy.

and after work tonight…the weekend! hanging out with friends! relaxing! band practice for the first time in nearly a month! insanity!

L&N show next week. here's an awesome flyer for it to has the wrong month. oops. the demo is pressed and we're just waiting to print up the artwork. we should have them available for sale at this show. hopefully. awesome.

back to work, i guess.

it looks like the plan came together quite well. the midweek get together that i was hoping for actually ended up happening. i got home from work and called kevin, who was right around the corner at drew's place. i went over there for a beer and then we walked the couple of blocks to jeremy and el's house. we sat around there for a while and the viking and blaine even ended up showing up. it's really awesome that everyone now lives within a few blocks of each other.

other than that, not much really going on. in the ongoing drama that is the retrieval of the data on my bad drive, i'm handing both hard drives (the bad one and its replacement) over to seth so he can try to salvage what he can.

firefox 1.0 is awesome, but i've had it crash more than any other build of firefox. ever. it really seems to hate pages that actually are supposed to launch pop-ups. as soon as i click on a javascript link on a majority of pages, firefox crashes. and burns. in a spectacular fashion. i hope they get this fixed before the actual release of the product. then there's the issue with the scrolling frames on matt's new coding of bipolar…

but don't let those things stop you! download firefox and cut the internet explorer chains! you'll be thankful that you did.

we now own a large spindle of pressed and printed cds of the L&N demo. excellent. now all we have to do is decide how we want to package it and finish the layout. ho hum.

here's a flyer for our next show (designed by angryblue). it's a festival type thing, so there's gonna be a lot of bands. show up and check it out.

it looks like mozilla and spreadfirefox.com are trying to rack up 1 million firefox downloads in 10 days. go over there and help 'em out. and then thank them for making a superior web browser.

i got nothin'. i'm praying for a little midweek, hump day get together of some sort tonight.