bikes and jeans and tunes and nerds
Going to Mexico on Friday is about to make me pee my pants. Jason piped me the Ruby Lee CD, and it RULES, and now I have peed my pants.
I think Bike To Work week is funny. Everyone that drives overpriced SUV’s feel all special and enviromentally friendly when they ride the poor man’s method of transportation to work. Plus they’re all tricked out with $200 helmets and $150 water backpacks, which is just silly. Why can’t EVERY WEEK be Bike To Work week?
Saturday’s show was an incredible blast! All the bands were awesome. I didn’t like sitting at the door, but Portland Jessee hooked a brotha up so I could get a beer and chill for a bit. I felt bad because I didn’t get to chat it up with Zebra Attack, and they took off before I could get them their money. I’m gonna mail it to them. I mean, they drove from freakin south bay to play one show in Flagstaff! Gots to get ahold of Moez about that one.
The F.Y.P made $300 which brings the grand total of savings to $700. Once we double or triple this ammount, we’ll be set. I’d like to talk to Bruce Zinky about some PA help, maybe a payment plan or something. The sound reinforcement thing is gonna be the killer of this project, I can see it already. Anways, I ran into Pete this morning, and he’s stoked to paint the walls once again. He did some awewsome art for The Young Princes of Darkness. Man, Pete rules.
It was awesome to see Case this weekend and in good spirits too. What a fag, heh. I wanna go visit him and Betsy in their new homes.
I tried out my new toy yesterday at Ladies, Please practice, the Boss ME-50.
It’s pretty sweet, like I need to learn it a bit better, and stop stepping on 2 pedals at once. There’s cool ass space sounds on it, and looping features, and the ability to store settings per song, etc…
Ok, time for lunch. Busy as usual… and I can’t wait for Ponies show on Thursday, and then MEXICO with the Minibosses friday - sunday!!!
I Love my new Bike! 
It’s light and fast and yummy! I’m gonna take some pictures. It’s an early? 90’s Ross with the nice black fenders and 18 speeds. I lvoe the fact that it doesn’t have shocks, I hate them, and it has the old Shimano Deore shifters and derailers, very comfortable to me (like an old shoe hahahaha,) and much like my old Stumpjumper. All these old jammer dudes have stopped me around town all like… “woah, a blast from the past brah… i haven’t seen one of those in ages,” and I’m all “thumbs up, yo, that’s how I rock it.” Just in time for “Bike to Work Week…” The funny thing is EVERY week is Bike To Work week. I dunno why anyone who lives and works downtown even has a car, let alone use it. Anyways, I’d like to get some bomber lights for the new bike because I cruise around way faster on the new bike and don’t wanna get crushed by cars.
Getting a second bike also gives me the time to fix my Schwinn Speedster right, instead of hack jobs to keep it up and running. I need to respoke the rear wheel on the Schwinn, since it eats spokes when I’m riding with the smaller tires. I also need to get the bigger tires, as to prevent the spokes getting messed up. The headlight also needs some repairs. The front fender also needs to be JB Welded… Whew… you can tell I love that bike too. It’s such a fun 3speed.
I got loaded on Tuesday, at practice, Blume and later at Jeremy’s place. I should stop doing that much drinking, I dunno if I’m creepy old guy when I drink too much, plus I need to get into better shape. Jetomi has too much crazy shit going on at once, and I love it. I was bummed we didn’t get an article in the Live, but it’s all good since we’re doing the Japanter show in late July… maybe make it a CD Release show and try to get the cover? I dunno yet. It’s cool to see people I don’t know into the band. The dude from the Orpheum had talked to Gabe about us playing there, which would be hot. The dude from the Flag Live who does most of the music reviews is also interested in hyping us as well. We also got calls from good ol’ Joker, friends of the Casebeers and SCSW to play Southwest Fest in Colorado this summer July 17th?. If we can swing it, we will… and Malé is looking at flying into Denver that day since he’ll be in Mexico till that day. Jetomi is so international. We should tour Spain. Hot.
I am still trying to figure out how to do the F.Y.P project and make it work. Noone else seems to be moving on it, so I’ll have to figure out how to get things rolling. We’re looking at dedicating show profits to the fund, as well as Punk Rock Bingo nights. I don’t have a full time job yet, so I’m worried about where funds would come from if we start to flail once renting the venue out on a monthly basis.
PS: Need to get those Japanther stickers done SOON!!!
Dinner is great. Chicken, cider, and bluetooth mouse *DROOL*
Well, first job applied for didn’t even give me an interview. Just some crap letter about how they already found someone for the position. Fuck the school of Comm and their blatantly crap ass hiring matrix. Time to apply for some peoplesoft jobs. Jeezzzz… I wish there were some ITS jobs available. Who wants to pay me like 35-40k plus ‘bennies’?
Summertime is more fun with my dog. We go on walks and play with each other, it’s awesome. It’s become more obvious how my life was centered around me going out and seeking friendship with others. I like not going out all the time, since I just get bummed out for one reason or another. Instead I take a walk with Stella and go to the Casebeers for JETOMI practice.
Maybe something is wrong with me, since work is “funner” now that school is out. I like the stuff I do at work, I just wish I could easily score a ‘real’ job doing it.
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