it's time again for the next installment of the ongoing drama…"when will L&N actually practice?" tonight's practice has been pre-empted by the debutantes recording and then your black star practicing at 1am. to be honest, we could practice tonight, just not until 3am. not really doable. so we practice tomorrow while your black star is out playing their show with karate and then possibly again on saturday. we're really running it down to the wire, here, so i hope we're able to pull it together.

on to politics…

early polls are giving kerry the edge in last night's debate, with results similar to those after the first debate. that's good news, in my book. i think this country is starting to finally wake up and smell the lies and corruption. here's some of the "morning after" analysis from dailykos. but we're not out of the woods yet…cheney has vowed to attack the u.s. is kerry wins.

on to music…

SLINT HAS REFORMED!!!

sorry about that. give me a second to regain my composure. fuck! shit! hot fuckin' damn! word is they'll be playing a show here in louisville at the beginning of next year. i can't wait.

now i'm gonna go and pretend to do some work.

god fucking dammit. i love some fucking kinghorse. it's probably been five years or so since i listened to this record (hell…i don't even know what happened to my vinyl copy). if you don't own this record, get it. period.

there was no band practice, last night, but there is a plan in place to practice thursday and friday. this means we'll probably miss the karate show, which sucks, but we gotta do what we gotta do. have i mentioned how much i love not having a practice space and how unorganized it makes this band? love it, love it, love it!

fuck. i just remembered that i forgot to record the presidential debate. i hope blaine remembers…

speaking of voting, here's spider jerusalem's guide to voting.

jon made a liar out of me and posted the hot snakes review shortly after i made the post about him not posting it.

post post post? post! post post post, post post.

still not getting the amount of sleep i would prefer. i don't know how to combat this early waking bullshit. i've started doing little things like shutting the cat downstairs so she can't wake me up…no dice. i still wake up. there's no cause, just bam! awake. it's driving me nuts. nuts, i say!

it appears paypal is having some serious issues. i'm really glad i found out about this yesterday, right after i won an ebay auction. great. two days now and i haven't been able to access the site, at all. splendid. keep up the great work, paypal!

blaine and i went up to spring street for some wings and a few pitchers of beer. this ended up leading to a long discussion about just about everything in life, but mostly fathers. as blaine is about to become a father, i can see why he was down to talk about that type of stuff.

other than that, i've just been watching a lot of tv…

i haven't been sleeping well, lately. i stay up too late and get up too early. it's not by choice, either. hell…today i woke up a couple of hours before i needed to get up and ended up just tossing and turning the rest of the time. it sucks. i hate this shit. i hate being tired all fucking day because my brain decided it didn't want to go back to sleep.

fuck you, brain.

and fuck you too, monday.

maybe it's just that lack of sleep, but i've also been feeling rather down, lately. i'm sure it's more than that. it's probably a combination of a lot of factors. a lot of factors that are all starting to drive me nuts.

we need to have some band practice, this week. i'm still waiting to find out when we'll be practicing, though. we have to get the songs straight with billy before we can go down to nashville to rock them out. not having a practice space has slowly been killing any momentum we had with this band.

i was digging through some old notebooks the other night. i'm starting to think i have two modes: angry and depressed.

jon finally posted my new hot snakes review. i know it's short, but it's about as "to the point" as i could get it. if you don't own that record, go buy it now.

now…on to office politics…

dear customer service rep,

your pal,
brian.
high speed data department

other than that, i got nothin'. i've been watching too much tv, lately. i think it might have something to do with that fancypants cable box i just got installed. yep. i think that might be it. something tells me having every fucking channel our cable system offers and a dvr box to record shows that i would otherwise miss…yeah. i think that might be a problem.

yeah…looks like jon didn't get around to posting that review today. no big deal. it'll go up when it goes up.

i set the dvr to record the vice presidential debate, last night. i hung out for a little while after work and then came home to watch it. i noticed i had an unwatched episode of futurama on there, so i watched it first. after that, i started up the vp debate. 10 minutes in and i fell asleep. i guess i just wasn't up for it.

i spent $11 at the grocery last night and came home with lunch for the rest of the week. kroger plus…i love you!

have i posted a link to this yet? well…if i haven't, i should have. it's awesome.

no wmds in iraq? no shit! like there was anyone left that still thoguht there would be any.

i'm abviously just filling space with links. i'm calling time for the day.

that review of the new hot snakes record? in the can. expect it up on 75 or less tomorrow. jon didn't want to run it today because he was busy being a corporate whore.

i git my new dvr box all hooked up and running, last night. it's nice to know that the headache of getting all this cable shit hooked up and working is pretty much over. now we just have to sit back and enjoy endless channels of absolutely nothing to watch. excellent.

i had some thing i was going to write about yesterday and ended up going off in another direction. i made a mental note to post about it today, but i seem to have…ummm…misplaced that mental note. maybe i'll remember tomorrow.

congratulations to the winner of the ansari x prize. blaine and i are stoked about this. i wonder if they're taking bookings for virgin galactic yet…

the new hot snakes record comes out tomorrow. i better write a review of it, real quick.

the melvins were amazing on friday night. they rocked and rocked and kept rocking. joe and i were grabbing beers when he looked at me and said "they should just play until the sun comes up. i'll watch every minute of it." unfortunately, they didn't play until sunrise. as a matter of fact, they didn't even play an encore. oh well.

the less said about our show on saturday, the better. as a matter of fact, i don't think L&N actually played. i think europower did. that said, moirai and arch were fucking amazing. we're hoping to do the exact same line-up at a future date in a different venue with much more promotion. sounds like a plan.

i just spent the last few minutes reading through the first page of posts i eer made on this site, way back in may of 2000. i've been really nostalgic, as of late. i think it stems from seeing and communicating with people i haven't seen in a long, long time. i've been thinking a lot about "the good old days," lately. i feel like my best years are behind me. like my capacity to have fun has diminished. i mean…i guess i need to face facts that i'm a washed up old drunk.

wow. so how about that debate? bush came off like a little monkey hopped up on pixie stix, lying through his teeth and out his ass at the same time, while kerry came across as strong, calm and confident. i was quite pleased with it, really. that and angered by bush and the thought that so many people still believe his bullshit.

i've been listening to and digging a lot of early smashing pumpkins, lately. 10 years after the fact, i'm finally giving siamese dream a fair shake. good songs. lot of heavy guitar. right on.

tonight i'm going to see the melvins after work. i'm kinda stoked, as i've never seen them. i'm thinking of trying to slip buzzo a copy of the L&N demo.

other than that…i'm a boring individual.

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…