SWEET!

finally! a good show coming to nashville that i'm actually really excited about!

Thursday Sept. 8th
The Life And Times
Nashville, TN
@ The End w/ DropSonic

the angels of rock rejoice!

a sad day for comics

R.I.P. Jim Aparo. 1932-2005

if i could change your mind and clean your cobweb eyes

still loving the 'times album.

other than that just trying to get through each day i guess. lot on my mind and not much i'm able to do about it, it seems.

here's to hoping things work out the way they are supposed to... whatever that might mean.

i'd really like to play music again.

gushing, part 2

today is the day that the first issue of ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER comes out! written by frank miller and pencilled by jim lee. this is going to rule. even if the story sucks(which i'm hoping it won't... Year One and DKR were great) at least the the art will be gorgeous! lunch break can't come fast enough today... i'm making a beeline for my local comic shop.

gushing, part 1

yummy goodness. ex-shiner frontman, allen epley, does not disappoint. this is way better than the first life and times ep(which i am quite fond of.) this was recorded at matt talbot's(hum) studio in nowheresville, IL. (okay, so the town is called tolono and is just outside of champaign.) that and paul malinowski at the helm produced a gorgeous sounding record. the bass tone is delicious! this may be my favorite record of the year. some of mr. epley's finest work. i dig.

listen to a sample here.

seems like most everything used to be something else

weird. ironic even? i randomly pulled the heading of my last entry from a six parts seven song and just two days later and the hour of the show's start i find out that the six parts seven are playing in nashville. so i went. and i'm glad i did. they were great. i wasn't able to catch their set when TSG played with them a while back because we had to scoot off to another show. i wish megan could have gone with me... but she was pretty pooped after a day of shopping for(and finding!) her wedding dress. other than that my only complaint is that they did not play longer.

i also got a chance to catch a little bit of pink floyd's live 8 performance on VH1. wow! just WOW! i can only imagine what it would have been like to actually be there. roger waters looked like he was having the time of his life! david gilmour was business as usual until he cracked a bit of a smile at nick mason.

what you love you must love now

our vacation was pretty freakin' sweet. we got to hang out with my mom a ton and go to the city for thai food(read: really good thai food and not the so-so kind i get in nashville) with some friends and a bit of shopping at chicago comics, belmont army-navy surlpus and urban outfitters. i also saw batman begins(5th time) with my dad and megan and i hung out with the entire side of my mom's family on the 4th. on the way home we stopped at the superman museum in metropolis, il. good times. i was missing chicago... but again realized that i enjoy living in nashville and visiting chicago when i can.

also i'll just say that i've been kind of sick of music(scenes, shows, politics, etc) lately. fortunately all it takes is listening to the music you love to make you love music again.