I spent all day soaking fucking wet because it rained pretty heavily all day and first thing in the morning I had to work outside-ish. Then you go back inside where the air conditioning is going full tilt and then you spend the rest of the day freezing. Fuck you rain.
There are few musicians that I think are good enough to … idolize. John Dwyer is one of them though. He’s been involved in so many fantastic bands, and I’m fairly sure I haven’t even heard all of them. 
My first exposure to him was in Baltimore, MD at the Ottobar. One of his former bands, Pink & Brown was playing with another really amazing band, Lightning Bolt. At that point I hadn’t heard either band, but I was absolutely blown away (yes! blown away!) by this dude in a fucking full pink get up (pants, shirt, tie) and this ridiculous mask and fuzzy pink bunny ears.
He was all over the fucking place, on top of the bar, up in everyones faces gyrating his crotch at them, running around squawking into (?) the microphone-esque device that was strapped to his throat. It was incredible, and the music they were playing… I’ll toss a song in here so yous can hear it.
Pink & Brown didn’t last too much longer, they put out one more very short album (LP had 5 songs, it was released on CD as a discography) called Shame Fantasy II (there was no Shame Fantasy I), and then split.
Not to worry though, he had another band in the works, The Coachwhips! They played (yeah… they’re done too) a really raw style of garagey rock and roll. I had the opportunity to see them play at MJQ in Atlanta. There were considerably less antics at this show, though it was just as fun. I managed to snag a shirt that is now way too small, but awesome nonetheless.
Now he’s in a band called OCS, The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees etc… all the same name, it started out as a solo deal (OCS) and members were gradually added. I’m not even sure how to describe the music. It’s a lot of different things all at once, and it works together really well. Check the shit out, I’d give you links to like myspace or youtube or whatever, but you should stop being a lazy fuck and look for it yourselves. 
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Alright, just a quick little bit about this pretty stellar ipod touch/iphone app my French Canadian friend hipped me to.
These folks have made an application that allows you to stream music from your friends iTunes or Winamp libraries via wi-fi directly to your iPod Touch, iPhone, or even to iTunes on your PC/MAC. It’s pretty fucking incredible.
The first 100k people get to download the iPod/iPhone app for free, (the PC/MAC/Linux client is free from the above website), after that’s over it’s four dorrah.
Even if you don’t have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, the library sharing is still pretty badass just on your puter.
If you get it, and register and shit, I’m on there as (you guessed it) cobracommander, you can only friend 30 people… which according to them is part of what makes it legal. That and you can’t actually claim any of the songs for yourself, or burn them or anything. It’s probably only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to do it though.
That’s right you heard right.
There was a Canadian in my home for 5 days, 2 of which I wasn’t here for. Instead, I was in the great state of Alabama in a town called Opelika which is apparently around Auburn or something. The Canadian character is a uhhh good ummm uhhh friend from a video game my wife and I used to play and this Canadian fellow used to also play.
We played video games, then some dumb fucking Floridian christian mutt came and took him away back to Tampa so he could fly home after a few days of misery.
As a call back to the last post I made regarding COCKFAN, I saw a sticker on a bumper today (bumper sticker, yes) that said YOU CAN’T LICK OUR COCKS. It should have said YOU CAN’T LICK OUR COCKS (unless you’re a dude, because we’re flaming faggots).
The Melvins show is rapidly approaching that should be pretty hip, I’ve requested the following day off of work as the show is on a Sunday night. I’m tired enough on Mondays as it is, don’t need the added late night out shit on top of it.
Supposed to do a podcast with Captain of the Butts, Monkey… it’ll happen eventually.
I’m not drinking during the week anymore (possibly on Wednesdays though), I’m tired of spending half of the day at work feeling like I’m going to fucking throw up.
This has been a forced post, blame the Atomicasschimp.