well…the johnny king is home. he had a whirlwind trip to venice, italy, and now he's home. we went out wednesday night to celebrate and it carried on well into the next morning. all told, we had a blast. the hangover the next day was well worth it.
i'm starting to get rather pissed about how ridiculous the christmas season is getting. they're showing christmas movies on tv the week before we even hit thanksgiving. that's just stupid, if you ask me. we were out shopping prior to halloween and there were christmas decorations for sale. when will enough be enough? will we hit new year's day 2003, only to turn around and be told that we better get ready for christmas?
i'm sorry, people…i don't need to be reminded about christmas. it's kinda hard to miss. really.
remember that awesome stereo i was bragging about getting? well…it has problems. it doesn't like to repeat a cd in its entirety. it gets to the end and skips back three tracks and keeps playing those over and over. slightly annoying, to say the least. i'm taking the car into circuit city later this evening to have it swapped out for a replacement…
hi. my name's brian. my life is incredibly boring.
i somehow forgot to mention (probably because bipolar has been down for the entire weekend) that i have a couple of new reviews up over at 75 or less. read all about the new rocket from the crypt and shipping news releases. or not. it's not like anyone is twisting your arm.
it's wednesday. i'm off work. i'm in the middle of beta testing the new everquest game on the ps2. so far, so good. that is, except for the server going down on a regular basis. i also got a free copy of twisted metal: black online in the mail, so i can always play that, i guess.
other than that? i've been sick off and on for the past couple of weeks, so that's always a drag. there was apparently some serious power fluctuations at seth's house, so the transmission3000 server (also the home of coffeemonk.com) scored itself one burned out hard drive. seth got a new one shipped overnight, and as of right now, i think we're back in business. i uploaded a national acrobat radio performance from a long while back, but i haven't had a chance to design the page for it yet. i'll get around to it soon, i'm sure. the stooges footage looks great, from what i hear, so expect to see that soon, as well.
time to go play some video games…
well…i've somhow stumbled my way into a showing of some of my joycam pieces at an art opening tonight. i've been working at blowing them up to 8×10, and someone wanted to see them. the next thing i know, i've got myself an art show. the funny thing about this whole deal is that the pieces that found their way into the show aren't even the ones i wanted to do. i had to settle for a different series at the last minute. the ones in the show were actually hanging in elizabeth's bathroom until…oh…monday when i took them down to the space. heh. i only have scans of four of the six, but you can see them here:
numero uno
number two
trio
and the fourth
i'm also putting together a little book of other snapshots to go along with it. all in all, it's a huge mess of joycam madness. i should be sponsored by fuckin' polaroid.
time to go occupy myself for a few hours…
i can't believe i forgot the url for the pictures that seth took. it was about as easy to remember as my own phone number (which i often get wrong because it's very similar to matt's, which used to be my number, as well…nevermind). so here it is:
seth's gallery of pictures from the stooges show
they're quite big, but you'll get the point.
i opened the store this morning. i need a nap.
well…halloween has come and passed. this one ended up being a lot more fun than the last few, mainly because scott and i got together with some friends and played a set as the stooges. we had fun. we wrecked massive amounts of shit. i was covered in beer and wounds i don't quite remember getting.
you can find some pictures (taken by elizabeth) here, here and here. seth took more pictures, but i don't have the link on me, so i'll post them tomorrow. there'll also be audio and video of the whole thing coming soon.
now i'm gonna go eat some poppers and go to bed.
last night rocket from the crypt was on craig kilbourne. it was a pretty good performance (as always), but i was a little pissed that they kept showing clips of a three minute song throughout the rest of the show. it's like they were just itching to spoil the surprise of what song they'd play or something. oh well…it's of little consequence.
i went down to nashville with steve to catch cat power last week. as soon as we got into town we started drinking. this only became a problem when i remembered that i had been up since 5:30 that morning and wouldn't be back in bed until around that same time. needless to say, the drive home was hell. cat power, on the other hand, was quite good. chan kicked out the jams in her own special way, only making me fall asleep toward the very end of her set.
halloween is just three days away. we're spending the next couple of nights crammed into the studio, doing rehearsal and such. if you're in louisville, maybe i'll see you at the lava house.
other than that, i'm supposed to take part in some art opening. i was asked to put four pieces in it, but i haven't heard back from the girl in charge. maybe she's flakin' out. it would suck to get these things all prepared and then not have anything to do with them…
work is work and it owns my soul.
so…has everyone seen the new nirvana video? the song is amazing and i can see why there was a big legal battle over who had the rights to what. now that it's all resolved, hopefully we'll be seeing that box set soon. someone made the comment that it was a sad fact that the best new song they'd heard in a long while was from a dead guy/non-existant band. indeed.
i finally picked up a stereo to replace the one that was stolen out of my car a couple of weeks ago. feast your eyes on this bad boy…
other than that? i've been sick for the past week. solid. sore throat, stopped up nose, headaches…the works. it feels like i'm starting to come out of it, so wish me luck.
well…after a few days of trying, i've finally wragled down a good set of speakers for the new computer. i lost the subwoofer to the old set in the car break-in, rendering them completely useless. this sucks, mainly because they were great speakers. i'll miss 'em. i bought a set of altec lansings and the subwoofer didn't have a level control on it. i took them back and settled for a crappy set of creative labs. they sounded like absolute shit, so i took them back two days later and ended up finding a great, cheaper set of altec lansings. third time's the charm, they always say.
i've been sick for the past couple of days. i even missed a half day of work because of it. the fall season is already trying to beat me down. scott spent the last couple of nights coughing on the couch, himself.
still no word back from apple as to when my commercial starts shooting.
other than that, i'm off for the next three days and plan on using the time to get myself back up to top notch on the "feelin' good" scale. it's a solid goal, anyway…
as you can see…the shit is finally working right.
