I'm so glad to hear nothing but great things about that house party gig last night with Unfair Fight and Nomads and some other bands I can't recall right now. No Drama, and lots of people turned out. Good Friends. Good times. That's how it's supposed to be. :-) Oh, and some band full of Wankers and Poofs played last night too, but none of my Friends or acquaintances were stupid or lame enough to go to that farce. Oh wait... yeah they did. How Sad. See what I did there? ;-) And I didn't hear a thing about the Guttermouth show, which is either a good thing or a bad thing. Gotta love this City. No wonder Punk Rock Posing does so well here... heh

Speaking of PRP, they announced the bands playing the sacred Club shows last night, and seeing the line up had me barfing back up my oatmeal this morning. Luckily, oatmeal looks the same before or after throwing it up, so I just mixed it in with what I had left in the bowl and kept eating. Yeah, for those of you who don't see the direction this so-called "Punk" festival is heading in, then you're either ignorant, blind, or stupid, or maybe a combo of all 3. Could someone tell me why Suedehead is playing? An O.C. Pop band? WTF? Or Cashed Out, a Johnny Cash cover band? Seriously? The Untouchables? Really? Fuck off with that poseur one hit wonder shit. And I love Wanda Jackson but seriously, this is supposed to be Punk Rock Posing, not that Viva Rockasilly shit. Is she that desperate for a hipper audience now? Who thought it was a good idea for her to be playing PRP for an audience that, A) doesn't know who she is, and B) could give a shit less? I guess shilling for Jack White will make you do strange and embarrassing things like that. Oh well. And, just like last year, the Beardcore is getting their own special night as well. How cute... fuckwads.

In my haste to post something yesterday, I neglected to mention a few things that were added to the website lately. Uhhhhmmm, let's see, I posted up a bunch of Pictures recently, all of them taken @ the LVCS - go figure. The Guilty By Association photos can be seen by clicking here. I didn't get too many shots off because I had to go set up my drum set, so sorry guys. The photos I took of Mersa can be seen by clicking here. I dig those kids a lot. And the photos of I.D.F.I. can be seen by clicking here. I wrote up a Music Review for that Cash For Clay compilation that just came out recently, and you can click here to read it. There's probably more stuff to mention but I don't remember any of it right now... heh

Tonight! Instrumentalfest '13 @ Money Plays. Go check out the Bitters. I'll probably be at Scarlett if I don't just stay in altogether. Gotta be well rested for St. Patty's Day shenanigans don't ya know! Everyone and their Mom is gonna be @ the Pennywise / Anti-Flag show @ the House of Booooo's tonight, and that's just sad beyond belief. Flat brimmed hats are mandatory. If you're up early and find yourself out in Hendertucky for some gawd forsaken reason, the Civilians will be playing that festival thing going on out there, so check them out and support a band that deserves it. If you wanna work off some of that corned beef and cabbage you gorged yourself on, head down to Motor City Cafe and see F.S.P. and Last Rites tear shit up later that afternoon. Should be a cool gig. Try not to break a hip... ;-)

It's not like there isn't anything else going on that night, stuff that was planned weeks if not months in advance, and it's not like whoever put the gig together couldn't of looked on the Interwebz to see if anything was already scheduled that night and maybe picked a day where a lot of bands that were already playing gigs weren't playing gigs, a day where nothing else was going on, ya know? It's not like Clay is going anywhere, right? That motherfucker is here to stay, for a very long time. I wish I could be there. Badly. Whoever scheduled this gig needs a calendar. Badly.

The gig I'm referring to is Clay's Benefit Show going on this Sat. @ the Motor City Cafe. Take off that ghey ass Thee Dickless Bastards yawn inducing farce and you have one Hell of a line up there. The Civic Minded Five reunion is worth it alone, and having Shark Pants on the bill just makes this incredible. Plus the Seriouslys (who just finished recording this weekend somewhere in L.A.) Fredward (who I haven't seen yet but have heard nothing but great things about), and the Stormtroopers Of Dirk and Fuzz Solow just make it even more fun. Le sigh. I wish I could be there. Hell, I would LOVE to be there, but alas, I have a previous commitment I must attend to first, and that's the destruction of the LVCS that evening with J.F.A. <3 Anyways, it's a great gig for an even greater cause, and if you're like me and can't make it out to the gig that evening, a PayPal account has been set up by No Sale Radio for contributions, and you can click here to go to the page with all the info you need about donating to the cause. Give until it hurts motherfuckers.

I didn't see this when it came out, I guess last week or whatever, but there's a great quote from me in the story Jarret Keene did on Mercy Music, which is Brendan from Deadhand's acoustic Hippy beardcore project, and you can click here to read the whole thing. I love that guy something fiercely but I still stand by my comment stated in the write up. Also the tag line above the website header says it all perfectly for me. I hate that beardcore shit. Playing power chords on an acoustic guitar does not make you a thoughtful train hopping troubadour. What it makes you is a Hippy. Not Johnny Cash, not Hank Williams, not Woody Guthrie, but a Hippy. Welcome to the world of Peter, Paul And Mary. You all should be very proud... heh heh

Gawd, the things I would do to PJ Harvey. Gawd I love that woman. You know what else I love? I love waking up on the American day of Independence to read some horse shit message on Facebook from some cock sucking Kraut thief trying to educate me on the merits and meaning of words like Libel, Slander, and Defamation. Hey fuckwad, I will say anything I want about anything I see fit to comment on, especially if it's on Facebook. You can't really expect to receive any amount of Privacy on there, can you? Especially on what is essentially a public airing of opinions? I don't think you can do that because of something called Freedom of Speech. It's in the Bill Of Rights, it's in the Constitution that Americans fought and died for, to break free from British tyranny, I think LOL. You think your idle threats are any deterrent to me? Think again dude. If my own personal Lawyer Robert Walsh doesn't spank you, then I got a team of Lawyers who work for my Tribe in California who have got nothing better to do than bury your ass in Legal papers a mile deep. I've seen them do it. It's ugly. And BTW, you should of read that stuff you copy and pasted from somewhere on the Internet. At the end of it all, it explained Why Commencing A Defamation Action Is Not Always A Good Idea. They're 95% non winnable, and never worth the $$$ spent on Lawyer fees, and I know your broke ass can't even afford a good place to live in, or a nice car to drive around in, much less extravagant Lawyers fees. So just man up and hush it, OK? Don't make me be the bad guy. Please. It's not worth it. If you would just take responsibility for your chickenshit actions then maybe I could see fit to take you seriously. As it is, your just a scared little boy who likes to play games, and you get soooooo butt hurt when things don't go your way. Boo fucking hoo. Go chase after the pussy you lost like you always do, like you have before, and like you obviously are again. Pathetic. Does it really bother you so much that she's lost interest in you? Guess so, if you're talking crazy like you are to me... hahahaha Anyways, next move is yours kid. Send me those lawsuit papers so I can feed them to my Shark Lawyers. I guarantee you will regret doing such an asinine thing. Don't you got better things to do? Seriously? I know I do.

Yeah, my Life is never dull, that's for sure! hee hee hee Hey! Happy Birthday to Battle Born, one of the best bands to ever come out of Vegas. It was 4 years ago yesterday that they all got together to play a backyard BBQ party thingy, and it seems kind of appropriate in hindsight. Battle Born. Independence Day. That whole Revolutionary War thing. Work with me people. Anyways, big ups to Battle Born for setting a fine example of how a real punk band gets things done nowadays - by busting their asses and playing some amazing punk tunes, and not by how many pyramid studs they can fit on their denim vest or by how many shitty punk band patches you sew on your pants. Substance over Style. You pathetic cookie cutter punk bands here in Vegas could learn a few things from Battle Born, that's for sure. Now where's that new album at dammit? LOL

Man, I don't know why I got such a bee in my bonnet over that Adicks gig @ Wasted Space last night, but I did. It just didn't seem right that so many people were hyped on that gig. It was the 4th of July! You mean to tell me that with all the parties going on around town, and all the other things you could of been doing on that Holiday, the best thing you could come up with to do was to pay some over-priced cover at some douchey club where they're only gonna herd you out like cattle when the gigs over so they can get 'the beautiful club people' (their real bread and butter) in there, just to see some British band play on the day of your American independence? You should of gone to the LVCS to see that Johnny Cash tribute band play. Now that music is as American as it gets, not some posturing from some Limeys shouting out revolutionary slogans in Spanish that they neither mean nor support. The last time the British tried to do anything 'Revolutionary' didn't end so well, did it? hahahaha Fuck that. I mean seriously, didn't the Adicks just play that same venue a few months ago? It sucked then too, memmer? You memmer. I memmer not going to that gig because one of a certain someone's icky musical projects was playing that night, and I don't have any idea who opened the gig last night, but I'm almost positive it was someone who didn't deserve it! LOL Gawd, the Apathy that just seems to thrive here in supposed 'Sin City'. Oh Vegas, my Love/Hate relationship with you just grows and grows. Hey, if you had fun @ the Adicks, God Bless ya. I think I'm just over it.

I've been missing out on a lot of Birthdays this month. From people I care for dearly who try to pass poisonous fish to me, people that I just get drunk and play them at pool all night, to people who spend too much time skateboarding in search of dead hookers, I've been hugely slacking in the birthday wishes department, and for that I apologize. Heroin is a Hell of a drug... heh heh. I'm slowly snapping out of it, coming back to reality, dealing with the ugly facts as they are presented to me, and again, I apologize, so if you see me out and about, just slap me in the head and remind me that I got you nothing for your birthday and I'll buy you a couple of rounds of drinks at least. It's not like I don't do that for you anyways, right? LOL To all of you, a belated Happy Birthday! Hope you got what you wished for.

Ya know, seeing the video for Jenn. O. Cide's birthday bash @ the Double Down almost makes me wish I could stomach going to that place. It was impressive that she drank a whole bottle of ass juice (out of a goblet though, and not straight from the bottle... boooooooo) but even more impressive was her eating glass, and trying to light a cigarette using sparks from a grinder applied to a hatchet. Don't know what I'm talking about? Click here and here to see that shit for yourself. It is funny, to say the least, if only to hear Turbo from the Vermin cackling like the Joker. :-)

Again, I know there's loads more I wanted to talk about, but I gotta get back to my newest addiction - Red Dead Redemption for the Xbox 360. Such a great game. I just opened up the Tall Trees area, so I'm looking forward to killing me some bear and hopefully some beavers, so I can get that stuff to that guy who's building the airplane... hee hee hee I'm sure none of you know what I'm talking about and that's OK. Par for the course around here. See you at the gig on Thurs. Why is CJ Ramone playing a bunch of Ramones tunes? Don't know, don't care. All I know is that I would be there regardless of whether or not my band was opening. American Punk Rock motherfuckers. You should be supporting his gig instead of that Adicks gig. CJ Ramone doesn't play here every few months, and he ain't playing at a club where Pink and 5 Finger Death Punch are considered 'Hard and Extreme'. It was the Ramones who turned the British onto the whole Punk Rock experience, and I don't know whether to Thank them or Curse them for that... hee hee hee. To quote Glenn Danzig: Fuck the British! The British Suck!. Yeah, couldn't of said it better myself. See you around.

OK... while my personal life is disintegrating into nothing, on the band front we're doing OK I guess. We just finished playing 2 great shows with Curl Up And Die and after the next upcoming shows the search for a new singer begins. I'm totally happy that the split with Bryan is amicable... we ask A LOT from our singers, and it's not that easy to dedicate your life to this band 24-7... and add the fact that everyone in this band is an asshole and it doesn't help... LOL. Lots of people have stated that they wanna try out, so who knows? Our motto has always been that we always improve with changes no matter what, but jeesh... what does it take to get a kick ass singer in this town? Show Reviews are up... I haven't been reviewing anything CD wise 'cuz all I've been listening to is Johnny Cash... but I feel better now... I don't mourn the loss... I celebrate the Life. Uhhhm... more to come later?

Fuck... one of the first shows I ever WANTED to go to was a Johnny Cash gig... I was HYPED! I practically begged my parents to take me to that show, and once I was there I sang along to all the songs I knew by heart and just jumped around and rocked my ass off! To finally see the Man In Black perform live was just the best thing ever... and I think I was 5 years old at that first show, and I always tried from then on to see him whenever I possibly could. Oldies shows... County Fairs... Clubs... Stadiums... didn't matter if he was popular or not... I have always loved his music and like a lot of people I have my Father to thank for that. One of my favorite memories as a child was listening to Johnny Cash records with him, and my Dad always played it at a LOUD volume, so I just thought it was the coolest. And I defy anyone to say that they've never been drunk off their ass singing his songs at like 3 in the morning! How many of you out there remember your Dad doing stuff like making breakfast or working on the car or BBQ-ing in the back yard to the music of Johnny Cash? To just tell people that I was bummed over his death didn't even seem right... like the words didn't do justice to what I was feeling. It didn't absolutely devastate me like Joe Strummer's death did, partially because I sorta knew it was coming... partially because I knew it had to come, but still... knowing it was coming didn't make it any easier to deal with. Once his wife passed, it was pretty much a done deal. I just hope his suffering is over, and that he'll find the Peace that he deserves. It's for purely selfish reasons that I wish Johnny Cash would of lived a bit longer... like Joe Strummer before him, he died while in the midst of recording a new album... he was supposed to go to California next week to record with Rick Rubin. I love the stuff they did together, and once I heard the news of his passing, I grabbed American IV and just put Track 2 on repeat and started drinking myself into oblivion... such a haunting song.... and even more so with his passing... FUCK... I'm gonna go cry again... and raise my whiskey bottle one last time for Johnny Cash - The Man In Black. Salud.