skeksis

My new band is shaping up nicely - The Minor Injuries...
theminorinjuries.com

also - we're working on a rough demo - here's a draft track:

haha all you iPhone haters - there IS an iPhone app for the Shizz :-)

will check out this LFAZ app when I have a few moments.

sorry, no ideas. (kinda prefer the brewer version myself...)

I thought Tony's rooster thread was pretty great. There are others, will need to think about it.

Thanks! we're about the only weekender/hobbyist band on the list, so we're way flattered. Recorded the album mostly one Sunday afternoon last October... "production" is minimal, to say the least :-)


10 non-local bands I got turned onto this year:

(yeah, several are years or decades old - but new to me)


Sleigh Bells (mainly just that one infinity guitars song!)
Gaslight Anthem (not the new album)
Two Cow Garage
Ha Ha Tonka
The National
Frightened Rabbit
The Hold Steady (not the new album either)
Big Star
Best Coast (kinda)
Tarkio


can you tell, I'm bored at work....

I mainly wanted to post this to gloat a little bit: the worrymen record released earlier this year got picked by the Americana Rock Mix podcast/website as one of the top albums of the year (!) in company with band of horses, gaslight anthem, avett bros, robert plant, two cow garage, glossary, etc... granted he had some rules for his list that favored a band like us, but still, flattered :-)

http://americanarockmix.com/

Any other lists we want to make or link to?

I haven't got much good advice... & most of the folks on this board, whatever age, are clinging to their youth by their fingernails - for the most part not behaving like proper adults at all :-)

My advice (@ 33 yrs):

1) Don't "do what you love" for a career... once you make it your career, you probably won't love it. INSTEAD get a job that allows you some flexibility to do whatever it is you're really passionate about. Sure, work is important, and it's important to do what you do well. But it shouldn't be your whole life.

2) Don't buy a house next to an elementary school. You'll spend a large part of your life cleaning up after other people's kids. Hot Cheetos, popsicle sticks, soda bottles. Grrr...

3) Generally... things get better in terms of your comfort, happiness. You're more & more comfortable with who you are and where you fit in. More experienced, more relaxed, and a heck of a lot less concerned with the opinions of others. On the flip side - most of the usual cliches about getting old are true too: there will be back pain, headaches, other adult problems. When you fall down, it hurts and you won't bounce back up.

4) Avoid creative/aesthetic atrophy... basically you can withdraw into a shell of what was cool when you were 18 OR you can keep your options open. Listen to new music (most of it will suck), read new books, learn new things (like learn to cook, work on your car, carpentry, whatever).

5) Get involved in stuff. Non-profits, politics, theshizz.org, whatever. Don't be afraid to take the lead on stuff... everyone wants to help out, but no one wants to take responsibility. It's not that hard, step up.

6) Lastly - happiness is what you make of it. It doesn't have much to do with what city you live in, relationship status, income, etc. If you wanna be a pessimistic grouch (usually me) then that's what you'll be.

My wife is now a freaking Ph.D.

I've always been a second class citizen in this house... but now she can really rub it in.

Yeah, it's got a very creative name: Garfield Rocks



Kirkwood Dellinger: http://www.myspace.c...rkwooddellinger
The Green Lady Killers: http://www.myspace.c...reenladykillers
The Worrymen: http://www.myspace.com/worrymenmusic
Snow Songs: http://www.myspace.com/snowsongs
Universal Spunk: http://www.myspace.com/universalspunk

Dec 11th, starts early, doors at 4, first band at 5pm.
Old Red Brick Church, 902 E McKinley St (NE corner McKinley and 9th St.)
Benefit show for the Garfield Organization, a neighborhood non-profit working to improve quality of life in the hood.

ALL AGES - and we're trying to work out the details on a food truck :-)

Tony's mostly right - this is exactly what BO needed to ensure re-election... particularly in the context that the tea partiers largely run the nominating process for the GOP now, making me guess that we'll have a rather extreme, relatively weak GOP candidate for '12. (note that Rubio in FL worries me a bit, given that he's got some polish, can speak, and can pull latinos).

BUT locally, the only positive I see is that managing the AZ govt over the next few years is going to be an ugly, ugly affair. And whatever happens, it's 100% the fault of Republicans. Whether they can smokescreen it enough with blaming brown people, I don't know (people are pretty effing dumb), but their inability to govern should ensure a fairly quick shift of blame back their direction.

Goddard didn't really want the job that bad, else he would have tried harder :-) let Brewer & co. go down spectacularly (per Bush) and try to frame yourself as a viable alternative (per Obama).

my $0.02 - is that the guy had it coming for some time, but that NPR should have handled the firing more discretely. that's where they screwed up (plus it was right during fall pledge drives all over the country, oops!).

but basically I agree with the folks that say Williams lost track of the difference between analyst vs commentator. he'd been slipping further and further from NPR standards and closer and closer to the Fox norm (if on O'Reily, say something obnoxious) for quite awhile. this particular incident wouldn't have justified dismissal, except that it provided an excuse for NPR to act on what's been a bigger pattern.

my gawd, do you really want to know? by "looking good", I mean "likely to win", not "good for us"

Short answer, stating the obvious - the more hypocritical, dumb, and irrational the candidate, the better they're looking for Nov 2. Because basically we've got a dumb, irrational electorate. AZ is in a really ugly feedback loop - elect conservatives, get no investment in education or services, which means a generation later you've got a deficit of smart folks with good jobs, and an excess of dummies with lousy jobs and a tendency to vote conservative (reinforcing the lack of investment in education). Regardless of tax policy, businesses worth having won't come into that kind of setting. Which means tax revenue spirals lower, more $ pulled from education, and more & more extreme right policy. Basically we're at the point that most Arizonans see a dumb disaster Gov. Brewer as a better option than a moderate, proven competent democrat. Nationally, things are only a pinch better. BUT the Dems are poised to lose the house right before redistricting - which will likely entrench them in the minority for at least another decade. Effing fantastic.

Rant over.... wish I could adopt the AJJ philosophy of "stay & change the place where I was born." But I'm awful pessimistic about things.

I want to learn how to fix bikes for a living. Maybe start welding n shit

yes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw

Just ate some ribs that I slow smoked all afternoon. Used that same honey habanero sauce from the brisket, and I smoked them over the hickory remnants of old broken drumsticks. I've done this before, but this time I felt like I actually knew what I was doing. I call them drumstick ribs.

Dang sir, nice work...

I cooked/dried some 8 lbs of beef today, quite possibly the most I've ever done in one afternoon... Made a mexican red chile (about 3.5#) and a mexican green chile (about 1.5#) and the rest went on the dehydrator as a mid-sized batch of jerky.

Had some of the green chile with a buttered tortilla a little while ago, and yeah, I'm getting pretty good at this :-)

I've been having yet another nostalgic fit, so I'm watching the complete 85 episode run of Robotech.

Good stuff.

No kidding?

I've been ripping my DVD's of Robotech to a format I can watch on my iPhone... about 26 episodes in right now, intend to watch the whole thing over the next month or two. Love it :-)