Horsefeathers

“You ain’t a beauty , but hey you’re alright.” that’s been stuck in my head most of the day. Hey I’m in no position to complain.

What the What?

So what does a ska/punk band do when it’s rainy and we can’t play soccer or ride bikes? Write acoustic music, duh. We’re supposed to be playing an in-store at our local shopping mall in a store whose name I won’t mention cause it makes me feel kinda dirty that I agreed to do it. The only stipulation is that it has to be acoustic, which kind of scared us at first, but after listening to enough Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution we decided we could do it and the challenge has been lots of fun so far.

50ft Eyesore: 1

Grandpa guitars: 0

Sunday bloody sunday

Right now I’m more excited about and prepared for  my friend coming into town than I am for mothers day. I’m a terrible son.

Tour De Tech Terrace:

photos courtesy of my friends: Kristen Shaw(top) and Josh Ward(bottom, duh!)

Shit homes!

So today I went out with some friends and participated in something called “Tour DeTech Terrace”. It’s basically about 1100 college kids riding bikes around this neighborhood near the campus and stopping at peoples houses to drink every once in a while. Pretty fun, but kind of annoying what with all the frat fucks who get involved and all the people who you can tell only ride a bike about twice a year.

Psssh! hardcore shows, whatev.

So tonight my band played a show at a local hardcore venue.  We’ve played there before and a lot of the kids who go out seem to like us despite the fact that we’re a ska band, and we’re friends with most of them outside of the whole music scene, but goddamn, everytime we play there it just seems sooooo akward. We’ll have like two or three kids dancing out of about one hundred through our entire set.That’s fine, but if you don’t have the balls to dance and have fun and make an ass of yourself (like all eight of us do), don’t come up to me after the show and tell me how much you liked it. You’re either a) bullshitting me or b) too afraid for your friends to see you as anything but tough. Like our music or don’t I really could care less if a bunch of suburban high school kids think we’re cool. We aren’t, we’re a ska band for christ’s sake we know we aren’t “cool”, we’re all band nerds and spastics, but we aren’t afraid to have fun. Why are they?