Posted 7.4.09 at 1pm.
Posted 6.25.09 at 6pm.
Michael Jackson died quite a long time ago.
working more on the nocityintheworld.net site. There's a link to it now. as of now you can only listen to the tracks but soon enough you'll be able to download it. Up now are Guard Rails, Young Lions, Children, Bafabegiy, Disconnect and many others. Go now!
Posted 5.28.09 at 8am.
Posted 4.29.09 at 12pm.
Posted 4.17.09 at 8am.
Saw Leonard Cohen's impressive 3.5 hour set at the Paramount. That was cool. His backing band is great to the point where it sounded kind of cheesy. Like Sax in Rock and roll. Everything was EQ'd to the point that it didn't sound like a band but listening to one of his CD's playing over the PA. It seems that everytime I see a show at the Paramount I see someone I've always wanted to meet. This time I saw Blixa Bargareld there and toiled with going up to meet him but he was talking to other people and my motto is when in doubt, leave people alone. Years ago I met Jello Biafra there at a James Brown show and we got to talking for a while. He told me about how the Dead Kennedys actually wound up playing with James Brown due to a promoter screwing things up and the two audiences didn't know what to do with eachother. Can you imagine how great that show would have been?
Last night I went to Ahren Hertle's art opening at Sheperd Gallery. That was great. The paintings are on such a next level. I hosted this open mic at Sierra Arts Gallery later and that was a lot of fun. I haven't hosted an open mic for years and it was a lot of fun. My Flag Is On Fire was the musical guest and that's always good. I'm going to be putting out a 7" of theirs which I'm excited about. I guess the idea for the open mic is that everyone signs up and reads their stuff and then at the end is the time for the featured person which spot I was in then. I was glad so many people stuck around for that long and they all seemed pretty excited to see me. I had a blast and finished by singing a song which was a lot of fun. Today I leave for Oakland and return to Reno tomorrw for a Gurard Rails show and then pack and then go back to Oakland. I do not have much free time right now.
Posted 4.6.09 at 11am.
In Boston now. Had a good time walking around DC and got all the museums in and what not. Some were really cool. Caught the Louise Bourgeois exhibit. That was great. Went into the capital and took the tour for the reason of taking a picture of stature of an ancestor of mine that resides in the crypt of the capital. His name was John Stark and he was one of Washington's friends during the Revolutionary war. here's what wikipedia has to say about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stark so the deal with the capital is that each state gets two statues to be placed in it somewhere. John Stark is one of New Hampshire's choices. I checked out what Nevada's choices were and I found Sarah Winnemucca which is cool and then this guy named Patrick Anthony McCarran who was this McCarthy type of guy who was a privelaged white male racist. If you want to read a couple paragraphs about someone who shouldn't have statues or streets named after him, go Here . All in all my favorite part of DC was walking around Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle, going to Crooked Beat records and having some real good Ethiopian food and got into a cab of this Nigerian guy who taught me things I never knew before about Fela Kuti, a guy who's every record I own and have read two books on. It's so cool, he told us that all of his wives were actually Ghanian and he married them to give them asylum to Nigeria. My time in boston isn't going to last long enough and I wish I could hang out longer. Looking forward to seeing Leonard Cohen on April 14th at the Paramount. Also, I am moving to Oakland on May 1. I never thought I would live outside of the zip code I live in now but it's time to give it a shot. I've been communting there from Reno every weekend for months now to be with Natalia and am done commuting every weekend. I will still be actively involved in Reno and perhaps more so than I have ever been so I'll still be coming back there often for band practice and whatnot. No going away parties or anything as I am not really going away and am looking forward to it. I love Oakland.
Posted 3.17.09 at 11am.
Posted 2.3.09 at 8am.
I was riding my bike to the bank yesterday when this bug flew in my eye and I was in the middle of the street. It was quite an experience to feel something struggle and die in your eye and I was about to rub my eye until I thought of pieces of bug separating and perhaps embedding deeper. So... what to do? Do I go into the nearest restaurant and explain my plight with this black thing in my eye and ask for the bathroom key? Do I tough it out and just accept it as part of my being? Get it out with something from the street? No. I need a mirror. The crisis wasn't that there was a dead bug in my eye. It was what to do about it. Thinking to myself, "Look, right now there are people fearing for their very lives in Somalia. There are people rebuilding their lives in Palestine. This is no big deal. What would Lee Marvin do? Just tough it out." Did I tough it out? No.I marched right into the nearest coffee shop and spent fifteen minutes in front of the bathroom mirror doing eye surgery with a paper towel. Of course that's when it's time for a guy and his four year old to walk in. Four year old points to me and exclaims "EEEWW!" before getting to supervised peeing. Everything in me wanted to wait for the sound of urine hitting porceling and then return another louder "EEEWW!" at him but I didn't because this bug had caught my eye and it had a date with a paper towell and a trash can.
I see that Eric Holder just got sworn in as Attorney General. I hope the throws the Bush order out and goes after Bolten, Meirs and Rove to testify infront of congress. That would be a helluva first day.
Posted 1.19.09 at 1pm.
Posted 1.8.09 at 11am.
A lot has been up lately. I got into a frightening car accident on the 5th on I-80 that totaled my Prius and luckily I came out ok. It was a thing where the car was spinning out of control ping ponging between guard rails before I was able to regain control and steer to safety. No one else was hurt and I came out of it with a renewed sense of life and how easily mine can be taken from me and a new importance on all of those close to me. Every meal I've had tastes amazing and the smallest aspects of life now appear with a focus they didn't have before. Am now in the midst of dealing with insurance. Other than that I have started a new group with my friends Teresa Flammia, Megan Boldway and Justin Craperi. I'm singing and playing guitar and we're tossing around a few names to have it be under. Right now I'm just listening to Funkadelic and Devo drinking coffee. thanks for reading.
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