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Friday, May 8th, 2009
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4:56 pm - IMPORTANT!!!
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current music: Big Star - "O Dana"
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(eat pie)
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| Monday, April 27th, 2009
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6:33 pm - Old Blighty/Getting Old
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I'm going to London in two weeks to hang out with some dear, old friends who live there because they're English. This is the first time I've traveled fucking anywhere, let alone by myself. If anyone's been there and knows some cool shit I should not miss out on, do lay it on me. Same goes for any lame shit I should avoid at all costs.
Also, I think I've had it and I'm ready to crawl back to SoCal with my tail between my legs. San Francisco sucks ass and until the earthquake happens, it's just gonna get worse. If you are thinking about moving there, let me tell you, DON'T. Bikes are stupid and driving is cool. I'm tired of seeing bands I don't care about that the only reason I go is friends/people I know are in them. LA music is tight. I'm sick of my choices being counterrvolutionary synthy bullshit in San Francisco or equally irritating twee for babies and insular, hierarchical, 40-swilling, lazy, monotonous crust punk in Oakland and derivative dudely bro-psych everywhere. Berkeley is a fascist concentration camp posing in a pink tutu that is actually a citywide Westfield Shopping Center surrounding an empirical tentacle of a university where fiscally conservative douchebags who sniff their own farts squeal around in Priuses that don't yield to bikers or pedestrians and dog you at Andronico's while buying a $15 sushi tray and wearing an Obama t-shirt - no! Actually a Sarah Palin t-shirt that says "NOPE" in microscopic font. I'm tired of freezing wind and getting made fun of constantly by black people. Who can blame them? What the fuck am I doing living in their neighborhood? I'm sick of my crappy job and I'll probably have an equally crappy one down south but hey, I can drive to the beach and eat a delicious $3 burrito instead of a festering $6.50 urban food log with soapy cilantro, disgusting salsa, whole pinto beans with no refried option (WTF?!?!) and tough chicken where I get made fun of constantly by the staff who will inevitably fuck it up unless I go to that taqueria (a stupid word) 30 times a week and probably will anyways because there was some sloppy drunk whiny vegan in front of me with a retardedly complicated order who mispronounced EVERYTHING, texted the entire time and didn't tip and they think I'm one too because we both have the same American Apparel hoodie (IT WAS A GIFT AND I DON'T LIKE IT!).
pant pant pant pant
Or maybe it's just been really, really windy for like two weeks and this happens everywhere. At least Santa Anas are warm.
current music: Scene Creamers - "Better All the Time"
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(8 pies | eat pie)
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| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
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7:49 pm
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Best birthday ever.
current music: Kaledioscope - "(Further Reflections) In the Room of Percussion"
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(3 pies | eat pie)
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| Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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2:17 pm - Retiring
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So after five solid years in the ridiculous game, I've decided to retire from music. March 28th I'm playing with my one-off pop group (pun intended) World's Best Dad and this will be the last time I perform original songs for a proper audience in proper show format. Then I'm riding out the summer in Glitter Wizard and Steve McQueen for a Day and hanging it up at the end of August. It's just time, I guess. If a song I like hits me, I'll probably record it, and I'm not opposed to sitting in with a buddy from time to time, but for all intents and purposes, I think I'm done and have made my point. I don't plan to make this public amongst my friends/bandmates just yet, but I think the only person who reads this that has any bearing on my current social life is Cody, who might be the only non-gossip I know around these parts anyways.
current mood:  busy
current music: Big Star - "Take Care"
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(4 pies | eat pie)
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| Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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1:43 pm - Good
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I am good. And well. For the latter, Nov. 4 until about Wednesday I was in a deep, dark shithole funk, but now I'm riding high in the saddle again.
In regards to the former, a couple weeks ago, I was at practice w/ my grungesurf band Steve McQueen For A Day and I noticed what I was playing and I went "hey, I think I might actually be getting good." Then earlier this week I was playing some songs I'd written and playing some of my friend Bevan's songs that I'm learning and some songs from my poppunk band ESP and I went "wait a minute, I think I am getting good." Then later that night I was at practice with my Pop group (no pun intended) World's Best Dad and I was playing a buncha shit and I realized that I'M TOTALLY GOOD!
When the Most first started over four years ago (!) I began getting good and then quickly entered a long, long plateau pretty shortly thereafter. In the last year I've acquired three bands in addition to the already existing ESP and have been playing a lot of music that is not my own and now I'm seeing a qualitative change in my playing and it's awesome. It's rare for me that I work at something for a long time and see concrete results. It fucking rules. If only my solo album was recorded anywhere besides in my brain. Then I'd really be stoked.
Man it's nice out. I wish I could get stoned.
current mood:  good
current music: Bean and the Coat - "Jigsaw Paws"
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(eat pie)
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| Friday, October 17th, 2008
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12:26 pm
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| Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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12:13 am
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"Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture."
My phone started ringing. Swear to god.
current music: Big Star - "Kizza Me"
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(2 pies | eat pie)
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| Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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12:13 pm
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What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?
current music: Kevin Ayers - "Only Heaven Knows"
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(2 pies | eat pie)
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| Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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5:12 pm - Never mind
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This shit's better than all those other ones I posted before combined.
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(eat pie)
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| Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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4:51 pm - My birthday's in ten days.
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Lately:
Amon Duul II: Made in Germany
Kevin Ayers: Rainbow Takeaway, Yes We Have No Mananas
Blake Babies: Nicely, Nicely
Alex Chilton: Like Flies on Sherbert (excerpts)
Chumbawamba: Shhh!
The Clean: Anthology
Ornette Coleman: The Art of the Improvisation
Sam Cooke: Ain't That Good News?
Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses
Eleventh Dream Day: Beet
Gil Evans: Blues in Orbit
Dexter Gordon: Tangerine
Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun
George Harrison: Wonderwall Music, All Things Must Pass
Jesus Christ Superstar: Original Broadway Recording
The Leaving Trains: Kill Tunes
Liquorball: Fucks the Sky, Live in Hitler's Bunker
Mammatus: The Coast Explodes
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
Monoshock: Running Ape-Like From the Backwards Superman, Walk to the Fire
Mothers: Just Another Band From LA
New Thrill Parade - Slumber in Colorland
NRBQ: S/T, Workshop, Scraps
Ariel Pink: Haunted Graffiti
Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Songs for Moms: the Worse it Gets the Better
Velvet Underground - Gymnasium
The Wedding Present: Seamonsters, Watusi
Ween: Quebec (second half)
ZNR: Barricade 3
current music: bullshit
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(eat pie)
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| Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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4:54 pm - SDCA07
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I'll be in San Diego, California, December 21st until the 26th. You know how to reach me. See you at Record City. Fuck the pigz.
current music: Amon Duul II - "Soap Shop Rock"
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(eat pie)
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| Thursday, October 11th, 2007
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3:38 pm
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I didn't know of of the five jobbies of Kubler Ross was drama. Drama drama drama. It's seeking me the fuck out these days.
current music: Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You?"
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(eat pie)
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| Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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10:54 pm - New
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Haven't posted nothing on this in a while. Reckon any form of documentation is probably okay ultimately, even if it feels a bit wanky sometimes.
Let's see. Things are pretty much in full upheaval. Me and Jennie broke up about two weeks ago, ending a three year-plus relationship. It's all very civilized as my three year-plus breakups seem to be. No plates flying at the walls or record collections getting thrown out the window. We both kind of reached a point where we got tired of the whole codependency thing and were feeling a huge loss of a sense of what it was to be ourselves and our individuality and stuff that living in different rooms or different parts of Oakland wasn't going to solve.
Which is sorta what's making this process so difficult at the same time. It would have been much easier if one of us had fucked the other one over somehow, or if we had some terrible fight and never wanted to see each other again. It's just not the case. So it's less of an emotional loss and (for me anyways) more of not knowing what to do now. She was never just my girlfriend or some girl I was seeing or someone I was sleeping with. We started the Most while living at the same coop together, and then she lived two doors down. Ever since then, every decision-- emotional, creative, geographic, social, financial decision-- we've made has been completely dependent on the other person. Everything that was true about my life for the last three years is now not true. I came out of a three year relationship, was single for less than a year, and was in another three year relationship. Last time I was really my own person, I was 20 and living in Santa Cruz. Now I am 24 and living in Oakland. What does this mean?
A few days after our breakup, the Most played its final show ever at Apgar house in Oakland to a large audience of a lot of old friends, new friends, well-wishers, party-goers and people who had never seen us before. It was Songs For Moms tour kickoff, so there was a shitton of people there anyways, and a lot of folks came up from Santa Cruz for us. We played a very long set and recorded it. There was a lot of love in the room for what we had created over the last three years.
As of now, I'm living in the same house, but moving soon. Initially, Dusty, Caroline and I were going to live together, but Caroline couldn't commit to giving 30 days notice and house hunting, so it's just me and Dusty. We looked at an awesome two bedroom that's huge and cheap and in the same neighborhood in Oakland. I really hope we get it. I think we find out tomorrow. Continuing to live in the same house is the worst thing about my life right now. We've been sleeping in different rooms and each doing a bit of couch surfing, but the whole reason we broke up was codependency, so seeing each other all the time and still being able to talk out our shit with each other is just kind of creating a new codependency. We both have lives we're ready to start and things we want to do with ourselves and getting over shit to do, so living in limbo hasn't been particularly easy or healthy. It's made Jennie mopey and me aggro. I totally suck when I'm home. I'm completely fed up with living with six people in a three bedroom house. There used to be a time when I thrived on having a bunch of people around and disorganization and random shit piling up and not knowing who would be around when I got home from wherever or when there was going to be a spontaneous party, but it's just not my jam these days. I'm ready for a quiet, stable home life which will hopefully encourage a crazy, random social life for me.
I'm trying to learn to be more socially aggressive. I'm not naturally very predisposed to it, and being with Jennie, whose whole thing it is, made me even lazier and more useless when it came to meeting people, talking to people, making plans, etc. That said, my friends have really been there for me lately. They're all really reaching out to me and making me feel really good. I went down to Santa Cruz last weekend, and had a proper couple of days bumming around the city this weekend. Riding the cosmic tide's been working out. I like going were the night takes me it turns out.
Also, adhering to my own set of rules and schedules has been treating me well. I haven't been drinking at all during the week since I started my new job (which is totally rad and the best job I've ever had [working in the warehouse of a wine importer in Berkeley]) and have had myself on a strict sleeping schedule. I shower at 11:30, at midnight I have "J & J," or Jazz and Journal until 12:30, when I promptly turn out the lights. Usually, it takes me about two hours of tossing to fall asleep, but these days I'm asleep within the half hour and having full nights of sleep with lots of dreams.
I wanna start writing more songs and playing music with folks. I finished recording a song I've been working on for a while today for my country music solo project, the Fucking Burrito Brothers. I'm doing a solo split with my friend's solo project, the Jen Weisberg Experience. I want the FBB side to be titled "Sweetheart of the Brodeo." Steely Dan's been there for me in a big way too. It gives me confidence and makes me not give a fuck. Which is tacky, but I'll take what I can get. Also digging on Genuine Basement Tapes 2 and 3, Screaming Trees, Gong, the new Residual Echoes EP, Dinosaur, NRBQ, Popol Vuh, Sun Ra, Beatles, the Clean, Husker Du, Red Krayola, Sun City Girls, "Then Play On" by pre-Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham Fleetwood Mac, Amon Duul, Happy Flowers and the Blake Babies.
Anyways, shower time is two minutes away, and riding that cosmic tide for the last few days has gotten me pretty drunk for free and not a whole lot of sleep, so I reckon I'll be tucking into the regime.
See you in the future.
current mood:  contemplative
current music: Steely Dan - "Everything You Did"
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(11 pies | eat pie)
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| Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
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2:06 am - SAN DIEGO
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The Most is playing San Diego on Saturday, September 1st at The Golden Hill Pop Luck</b> (21st and Broadway in Golden Hill). Thirteen other bands, starts at noon, we're on at 5. Tour's off the hook; this country's full of really wonderful, hospitable people. I'm in Houston, Texas right now at a venue called Super Happy Fun Land. Holler.
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(11 pies | eat pie)
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| Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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1:31 pm - PDX
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Also we'll be at a house in Portland, Oregano on August 2nd the Red and Black on August 3rd.
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(eat pie)
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| Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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1:00 pm - Toor
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If you or someone you know will be in any of the following cities on any of the following dates, you should come see us! Also we're going to the northwest now, so I'll have those dates soon.
26 Jul 2007 9pm
STUD San Francisco, California
28 Jul 2007 8pm
66th and Telegraph Art Show Berkeley, California
31 Jul 2007 8pm
Apgar House Oakland, California
3 Aug 2007 8pm
Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, Utah
6 Aug 2007 8pm
The Lab - All Ages House Show! Missoula, Montana
7 Aug 2007 8pm
Red Carpet - All Ages! Minot, North Dakota
8 Aug 2007 8pm
Toybox Minneapolis, Minnesota
9 Aug 2007 8pm
Hexagon Bar Minneapolis, Minnesota
10 Aug 2007 8pm
Yacht Club Iowa City, Iowa
11 Aug 2007 8pm
House show Ann Arbor, Michigan
12 Aug 2007 8pm
Chicago with jen urban and mahogany(NYC) Chicago, Illinois
14 Aug 2007 8pm
Cafe Bourbon St Columbus, Ohio
16 Aug 2007 8pm
Goodbye Blue Monday Brooklyn, New York
20 Aug 2007 8pm
Desoto Row - All Ages! Savannah, Georgia
21 Aug 2007 8m
1982 Bar Gainesville, Florida
23 Aug 2007 8pm
Cell Block Mobile, Alabama
25 Aug 2007 8pm
Soundpony Tulsa, Oklahoma
26 Aug 2007 8pm
1919 Hemphill - All Ages Ft Worth, Texas
27 Aug 2007 8pm
Super Happy Fun Land! - All Ages Houston, Texas
28 Aug 2007 8pm
Headhunters Austin, Texas
30 Aug 2007 8pm
Line Bar Juarez
31 Aug 2007 8pm
Dry River - All Ages! Tuscon, Arizona
1 Sep 2007 8pm
The Habitat - All Ages House Show San Diego, California
2 Sep 2007 8pm The Smell LA, California
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(5 pies | eat pie)
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| Monday, June 18th, 2007
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4:01 pm - Where's your broad? Is she on her way?
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| Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
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8:21 pm
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| Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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10:16 pm - Where am I?
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The Most is playing at our house again Saturday at 10pm w/ Loyal Sons and Daughters, Sweet Nothings and Connie Fucking Francis. Different lineup.
Also, I will be in San Diego from May 31 until ?. Probably in the two week range. Maybe more depending on drama. Buy me a drink and I will buy you one.
current mood:  determined
current music: Kevin Ayers
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(1 pie | eat pie)
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
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1:21 pm - Fone iz deeeed
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Not that this probably pertains to any of youse, but my phone's been in one of its moods for a few days now and generally not happening. Today it is not speaking to me at all. If anybody's been trying to call me, mea maxima culpa. Or maybe not. I'm not apologizing on behalf of my spacephone. My deepest condolences anyways or something.
Also, I thought of a cool rant this morning I'll probably post here in the future.
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST EVERYBODY. FUCK THE PIGS.
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(3 pies | eat pie)
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