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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
WOW!
as i stood on an shaky, wooden stage last nite under a tent in a parking lot in far north Austin, and looked out onto IH-35 while we were playing Del Shannon's 'Runaway', i truly felt (for the very first time in my life) like i had finally arrived.
while the ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
i'm nervous.
tonite is the plucker's show!
i'm also in a great deal of pain from the little festival that exists here in this town each year.
i have injured my foot somehow and have been forced to hobble around austin like the guy in no country for old me.
i have decided that ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
i think i want to get to plucker's early on monday just in case they run out of fried macaroni and cheese sticks ('FMACS').
i'll probably want to use the FMACS rather than tortilla chips ('CHIPS') to scoop out the queso i'm gonna order.
so how did the hole in the wall ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
just roughly 43 hours after doing things to my liver that would make a grecian blush, i have been sent a link (via john mason's text phone thing) regarding our performance at the guided by voices hoot nite.
__here it is__
now, mind you, i did that thing where i drink, get ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
last nite.
club deville's guided by voices hoot nite.
not form complete sentence now.
like bad haiku writer.
or stroke victim.
show good.
really good.
head hurt.
really hurt.
face numb.
sxsw make liver mad.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
hi folks!
it's still ratcheting up to the big week!
this year, i'm not leading up to this week by drinking every night and eating Arby's and sleeping on unlevel hardwood floors and not bathing and messing myself in grocery stores!
nope.
not this year!
this year, i'm actually taking care of my temple!
and i ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
flame on!
sxsw is clicking nearer!
where do i escape?
we have like 100 shows in 5 days.
okay, maybe not that many.
i'm looking forward to the tuesday nite guided by voices hoot nite.
that should be fun.
i like the 2 gbv songs we do.
now i'm writing like a third-grader:
i like food and ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
yep.
you guessed it.
i'm at a coffeehouse.
or coffee shop.
one that serves beer.
pitchers of beer.
pitchers of sweet, sweet, delicious beer.
next-day, painful, headache-inducing, crappy-food-cravings-causing, obnoxious beer.
at a coffeehouse!
... or coffee shop.
what have you.
that wasn't a question, either.
so the masonic show this friday at club deville isn't happening due to an 'oopsy-daisy' with booking ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
hi y'all
the beauty bar show went really well last nite for masonic.
and mustaches were in full bloom.
it was mushtastic!
it was mushtacular!
ahhh, the irony of being a hipster.
the real irony of hipsters is that they actually haven't truly been hip since 1999-2000.
i'm not sure why they still pursue it.
i guess it's ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
and that's important.
for a lot of reasons.
first of all, let's get to the music news.
masonic is on 'stand by' at sxsw, despite all the friends we have!
but i will say that it's better than a flat-out 'no,' even though it usually amounts to being just a ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
politics are gay, but sports are WAY gayer.
especially if you're from houston.
and now i'll explain why.
you see, houston is cursed.
it is a hot, steamy bowl of crap, despair, and broken dreams for about 10 months out of the year.
just drive down I-45 south of the loop.
crappy furniture store, check ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
SCENE 1: Wide shot of a two-story house in Anywhere, USA.... switch to a living room where BLACK DUDE and BAPTIST GUY are on the couch.
BAPTIST GUY: "The world is flat."
BLACK DUDE: "Tiger Woods is the greatest athlete of all time."
We see WOMYN come in from the kitchen wearing ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
it's off to a good start
masonic played at emo's free week last week in front of probably the biggest crowd i've ever played for.
maybe the roller derby had more people, but i really have no idea, emo's was elbow-to-asshole in there.
coming up this tuesday, we're playing at the beauty bar ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
after a pretty crappy start, 2007 is ending pretty cool.
masonic turned out to be a really good source of joy for me and i feel like i'm 10 times the bass player i was before joining them.
and that's a lot because i'm kind of a bad ass! ;) winkey face
also, ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
my quebecois friend, Corey, has an impressive remix of the Ballad of Mean and Nasty!
i freakin love it!
and you can hear it: >>here
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