SLEEP'S HOLY MOUNTAIN

Not sure how I forgot to mention this, but in Virginia we came across some kind of Mexican Burlington Coat Factory cowboy arcade. I'm not going to even try to explain that I think. Dan described it as what American will look like in 200 years.

Oh did anyone see the shit we were streaming from PLAZA BOWL? I tried to get a still on the webcam but it didn't work out. It looked like we were checking our email in outer space if you seen it. Nick Miller came in straight up rocking a SLEEP shirt. This is also awesome because Rodney has a SLEEP tattoo I would come to find.


Migwell and NFM

Actually NFM DID describe this venue to me via a text as "looking like time travel" some weeks ago. Cubscout and Rhino played this particular banger. FIND THEM. They murdered it. We broke some strings and played Eerie Indiana which we have been playing since again. Oldtime stylie.



Afterwards we had an Afghan Whigs dance party where Nick Miller tells me he once djed at a strip club and played "Somethin Hot". This is why this dude is my cosmic brother.

Then we headed to Myrtle Beach where things got real tapped. To be continued next time I have a minute to get on this thing.

LOVE/RESPECT
P TONIE

PREMIUM SKULL

So upon getting to Wilkes-Barre we make a fantastic discovery that we left an amp back in Brooklyn. Which is even funnier because we were doing things like, you know, hanging out in the park there while not even thinking about it. See the clear look of concern:



Popped off the set in the WB and then straight up hauled booty back to BK where our Vox was still intact at Bruar Falls. YAY!

Right now we are streaming the show from Richmond. It is at a bowling alley venue called Plaza Bowl. Xiu Xiu played here recently I wonder what Jamie Stewart looked like across this blinking backdrop. Nick Miller who was here once texted me from a show here saying "It is what time travel looks like."

Cubscout and the Rhino as well as VIKING are doing this thing with us tonite. Im stoked to see em actually. I wonder what it will sound like with pins getting destroyed.

IF MORRISSEY WERE FROM QUEENS

Brooklyn is always six thousand degrees hotter than Providence even though not much more virtually south. Bruar Falls is on Grand street which is 4 or 5 store fronts down from a small D.I.Y (?) church. When we walked by it there was a lady, approximately 150 years old, playing a tambourine and screaming really high while 2 old men and a small child watched the "set" from some pews. I would have a picture of it for you but the Shaman fronted hard and got scared to go in and get a clear shot. BOOO. The back of the stage at BF had a weird curtain with something looking like a Cindi Lauper hologram projected on it. Although the venue was cool they had this weird thing about not turning the BEATS loud, yet, there are drums playing anyway also??? I guess they have some kind of weird neighborhood policy thing and a women upstairs caled the Feds. BOOOO. It was after the show was over though so it didnt matter anyway. The cop looked like Robert Dinero from what I could see from the van except 4 foot 1.





We did this show with MUBU and this new band or to new to me THE PRESS that I was stoked to see and they totally murdered it. They were real Q.T pies too. Probably gigantic in 12 months.



Our boy MAY I BE FRANK was djing round the corner so we went to dig that too. He once told me freestyle dude Noel was "The Morrissey of Queens". Actually was right then and he's right now:



Frank also slapped my nearly bare ass so hard it might as well been Oscar de la Hoya punching my teeth out. It was actually worse. If an effeminate gay man ever asks to slap your ass don't go for it. He also dropped the line upon coming into Kat Deem's packed Brooklyn pad floor ".....8,000 COCKS!! LETS GET STONED!!"

STEELY BILL

All members of every band should sing I think. Imagine doing sound for these guys. "Yeah we needs seven lead vocal mics. Also our guitar player stage left may appear to be in rem sleep but he's just soloing. Oh and lastly Tony Danza's twin is filling in on keys tonite. Other than that our set up is pretty straight forward."

Also Bill Cosby's face at 0:16 sums up alot of things for me these days.

GOOD NOTHING/ BAD NOTHING

So yea THIS is back in rotation again. I usually revive this like once a year, you know get pumped for the summer. Dan Burns recently pointed out that Freaky Frusciante looks like someone from Olneyville, name witheld, in which I said that I think everyone living in Olneyville either gets this look or Vincent Gallo's at age 30. It's like getting your ARP card, it automatically happens if you live to a certain age. I mean don't get me wrong that rules. Anyway there is a real good point somewhere in one of the six parts of this interview where he talks about the difference between "Good Nothing's" and "Bad Nothing's". Don't kid yourself it totally makes sense. I think in this part he is talking about not having enough money for coke and going into bookstores in LA and looking at pictures of Bowie to feel like he was coke but I can't be sure because there is no sound in the AS220 sound booth computer (isn't that crazy actually?). This also proves that the average human body can go through more than you think without disintergrating completely. I think he revived himself with yoga or spinning courses or something. TRUE MEN DON'T KILL COYOTES!

Also, completed unrelated, can we talk about THIS guy:



This SCOOP NECK shirt is killing it!! I think the chest hair shaped around the scoop was calculated too. This is, according to the media, the mastermind behind 9/11, I don't follow that kind of thing, but he DOES look a little stressed out. Actually this might actually be related to the above. Maybe this is what Frusciante looks like on the inside during that interview.

THE GREAT AMERICAN SCREAM MACHINE

So as some of you may know Spanish Dancer has quietly been producing songs for dolo pop wonder STERLING SILVER. We managed to bang one out at The Wayne Gayle a few weeks ago called "The Great American Scream Machine" which is now streaming on the MAGISTRATE OF CHRIST page for your pleazure. Someone told me it is a roller coaster at Six Flags. I guess that makes sense. I have no idea what the mirror maze is though although it sounds nuts.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Photos from Friday's Tazza giggles by The Shaman: