Milk It - Nirvana

02/06/2012

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Man, those Long Island Ice Teas sure are tasty! :-)

A really boring Super Bowl game yesterday. The last 5 minutes were pretty good, but other than that? Blecch. I was too busy eating and drinking and catching up with what's going on with everyone's Life right now to pay too much attention to the TV. I'm glad the Giants won, because as a Raiders fan, my motto was "Anybody but the Gaytriots". Loved that Tom Brady's bitch Gisele Bündchen complained about the receivers dropping some important passes in clutch time. She's absolutely right. They catch those passes and New England wins. Oh well. Congrats Giants! 6 months until preseason Football starts. Aug. 11 Raiders vs. Cardinals. YES!!! <3

The only good thing about Football season being over is that I can now focus on Hockey! :-) The Sharks are on fire right now, and I for one couldn't be happier. I'm going to San Francisco in a few weeks and I'm catching a couple of games while I'm up there, against Anaheim and Boston. One door closes and another one opens. Time to switch out the silver and black jerseys for the teal and black jerseys. Go Sharks!!

Hey, my band Aluminum Falcon is playing our first gig of the year this Weds. @ the Bikini Bar with The Heroines from San Antonio, TX., not the Local group of malcontents who were once led by Kelly Benway. It's my Birthday party show, and we're playing with The People's Whiskey and the Quitters, who are 2 of the better bands gigging around the City right now. I wish I had a flyer to show you or to use to promote the gig, but apparently the Promoter didn't get my text messages about sending me one, so whatever. And please, when you create an event on Facebook, would it kill you to post the flyer for the gig on the page, or at least a link to the full size flyer on there somewhere? Fucking lazy bunch of bastards, myself included. I could of made a flyer for the gig myself, but what for? There obviously was one already made, and besides, that's the Promoter's job, right, and I don't wanna do the Promoter's job. That's why they get the big, big bucks, right? LOL If you're into kick ass Punk Rock and Roll music, then get your ass to the Bikini Bar and check the gig out. Birthday shots are always appreciated, but only AFTER I'm done playing. Yeah right. ;-)

Happy Monday! Everything is updated. New Pictures of Vanish Twin and Fuzz So Low added to the website. It's gorgeous outside. Get off your ass and do something! Me, I'm going out back to work on the yard. It's always good to get a little sunshine on your face. :-)
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Skins, Brains And Guts - 7 Seconds

01/23/2012

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Yeah, look at what you missed out on... heh heh
I know! A new Mapes song! And it rules!! ha ha ha It's worth watching just to see Haywood J. putting his mouth around a beer can and guzzling it down with no hands involved! LOL Now that's Sexy times 12! ;-) Oh man, Friday night was sooooooooo much fun. Yeah, I know everyone and their Mom went to that Adolescents / Youth Brigade / Vermin gig @ LVCS (sheep), and I heard it was a pretty OK show (what was up with TheCore cancelling?) but the gig @ the Arts Factory had better bands and a record swap meet, with lots of crates and boxes full of colored vinyl goodness! I was in Heaven!! ha ha ha I easily blew hundreds of dollars stocking up my vinyl collection with stuff I used to have and stuff that I never had before. F-U-N. Phooey to the elitist record collecting scum dogs who wouldn't take my money for their records. I lost out on a few choice pieces of vinyl because of it, but that's OK because it was their loss. :-) All the Bands that played were cool. Vanish Twin from AZ. were easily the highlight of the night, playing some twisted Neurosis type ambient noise grind-core shit. Here's a video of them doing a song called Looking For Flames. I stopped recording at the end of the video because I thought they went into a different song. ;-) They continued playing for like 3 minutes after I stopped filming... heh.
Yeah, I was just hanging out and walking around doing my thing and observing the happenings and goings ons and whatnot. Life's Torment kicked things off with a blistering set of Noise not Music that was just broooootal as fuck. Why don't these guys just pack the places they play in with fans going ape shit over their music is beyond me, but whatever. I'm all about catching small, intimate performances with little to no one there, as opposed to big HOB corrals full of automatons and sheeple. Lame. Watching Bob play drums is a trip, because he's a lefty, but his technique is destructive and he's got a good sense of timing and fills which is cool to watch. Larry looks like he's channeling demons when he plays his guitar and screams into the microphone, and Travis acts like he's being tortured and mutilated while he shreds the bass and screams along. Life's Torment are fucking Ace and they just get better and better every time I see them. They're pretty fucking sick and you should check them out each and every time you get the chance. If you like your Punk music chainsaw fast and just as delicate, then look no further than Life's Torment. They bring it each and every time. I posted the photos I took that night already, and they're over to the left of these words. ------------------------>

Speaking of checking things out, check out this thing that Fuzz, one time bartender extraordinaire at the Legendary Cooler Lounge (R.I.P.) has going on. It's a solo project called Fuzz So Low (get it?) with Fuzz playing guitar while accompanying himself on a kick drum and set of high hats. It was pretty cool stuff and it's always fun watching Fuzz kick out the jams. Kick out the jams... get it? Oh, the puns are flying fast and furious today! :-)
Fuzz So Low played inside, and everyone else played outside. Good Greens ( a total Sublime rip off band) played inside, and Spotted Dick And The Love Stew cancelled. Again. Do those guys just sign up to play gigs and then don't play them or something? LOL Sabertooth Snatch (from AZ.) played, and they were pretty good, in a Victim's Family kind of way. I don't think they went over too well with the majority of the crowd, either because they were a bit different then what Die Laughing and Life's Torment threw down, or because everyone was inside checking out the Record Swap Meet. Either or, not a lot of people were checking out Sabertooth Snatch, which was a shame because they were pretty good. Check them out for yourself and see.
_And last but not least is Die Laughing. They were pretty good but their set kind of just meshed into the Life's Torment set, because they played back to back from each other and they're basically the same band but with a different bass player. How Bob pulled that one off I'll never know. ;-) The music they play is kick ass though, so it makes it worth it. Their set was short but sweet, ending with a Black Flag cover that brought Travis from Life's Torment back on stage to handle lead vocals. Check out the video and see how well they did thrashing out Gimme Gimme Gimme.
So yeah, there's my little video wrap up of everything that was going on at the Arts Factory last Friday night. It was a great time and if you weren't there, then you're lame. And if you were at that gig at the LVCS instead of this one, then you're stupid - real stupid. :-)
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