alcoholism.

the amazing alcohol timeline for Dr. Scott Longman MD, Friday the 13th of October, the year of our lord 2006.

#1. ) St. Pauli Girl - Apartment
#2. ) Coors Light - Walnut Foundry
#3. ) Coors Light - Walnut Foundry
#4. ) Bud Light - Walnut Foundry
#5. ) Corona - Walnut Foundry
#6. ) Coors Light - Walnut Foundry
#7. ) Double Redbull Vodka - the Harding Estate
#8. ) Half of an awful microbrew - Blake Street Tavern (the old/current flying dog brewery... it's complicated)
#9. ) Redbull Vodka - the Celtic
#10. ) Shot of something - the Celtic
#11. ) Double Jameson Rocks - the Lure
#12. ) Shot of something - the Lure
#13. ) Double Vodka Soda - Tryst
#14. ) Budweiser - Front Porch
#15. ) Shot of foreign whiskey (awful) - Front Porch
#16. ) Bud Light - Tryst
#17. ) Amstel Light - Tryst

Yep.

Going to be a long weekend.

powerful and compact; fits in the back of a van.

i lied. this is the greatest thing ever.



song is by 'Italy's greatest DJ', Benny Benassi. If you're into that sort of thing.

someday i'll do something other than redirect you to youtube.

but not today.

hotwax.

in case you live in a cave, this is the greatest thing ever.



really. it is.

ladies, i don't care who you are... when you're fucking your boyfriend, this is what he's thinking about.

eric prydz.

oh lame saint...

Fuck This Guy.

stolen goods.

matty informed me this is up on the inter-web.

other than beckham, this is what i aspire to.



soooooo...

here's something to think about...

say your band plays shows that look like this...



or maybe makes videos like this...



...

point being?

performance vs. medium/media I guess...

all i'm saying is if i saw antioch arrow live, i would never have listened to their record, but having heard what i've heard... you get the idea.

and then with kill me tomorrow...

that video (in my head anyway) represents what they do live in no way shape or form...

so there's several arguments as to how live performance should relate to material on record or extensions of a band (art, merch, videos, interviews, airplay agereements, photography, puppets etc.) ... but i think there's something to be said about how a person discovers any artist or branch of music these days given the number of oportunities available. it's easier to make yourself more accessible if you choose, but i'm beginning to understand why there's such a varied fanbase for any variety of bands anymore... which also halfway explains the crossed-arms-eye-glaring from across the aisle at so many shows over the years.

so yeah, maybe i didn't catch these guys when you did back in charlotte of '96 when they played your cousin fred's leaky basement apartment... but i'm into them now.

and things are probably better that way.

* * *

and now back to laundry.

listen to camera obscura. don't listen to hefner.

buy the newest of: rapture, method man, decemberists, mewithoutyou.

sell your soul... and gym class heroes. shit sucks.

+S

things are only going to get worse before they get better...

that aside...

this is going to be more of a lesson.

'head rule for audiences of rock #1:

1) Don't sing if you aren't one of the dudes on stage getting paid to do it. Nobody paid their hard-earned money to hear your dorky, untalented ass sing. We came to hear the dudes on stage sing. Paying 40 bucks to go see Tool, but instead of hearing Maynard, you get the dorkus malorkus with mad zits standing next to you singing "Sober" really loudly and out of key in your ear is enough to murder mother fuckers for.

and so we have rocky doing everyone's favorite below... which starts out all right... until... wait for it...



hurting. kind of ruined it for me buddy... still, the room he's in in that video reminds me of this church basement which was ultimately the first place i ever played in front of strangers... first band of sorts... the gadertian invasion or something... can't remember what we played... but it was bad and everybody snuck outside for weed and some heavy petting... and who isn't still up for that?

anyway... here's a less annoying version of the same song.



salud.