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Saying what I wanted Said

This post is overdue. I’m sure you’re used to that. I’m not holding up my end of the bargain — but I’m trying and I appreciate your continued love. I owe you. You see…. I’m brilliant at the first 80% of any project. I can whack off a good majority of the work, but when it comes down to finishing that last 20% I freeze up. This is true almost universally in everything that I do. (Except drinking… I can SLAY that last 20%.)

When blog posts are coming fast and furious, and smooth — it’s easy for me to just force myself to deal with the unpleasantness. To come face to face with completion and whoop its ass. And these are small projects. Miniatures. Sometimes it’s as if they get stuck in the barrel — obstructing anything else new from beginning to steep because I’m so frustrated with their retardation.

Last week I started working on a post that was going to relate a conversation I had with a nice young lady. I had just met her and we began discussing film. She had recently viewed Shortbus — a movie that features a very graphic auto-fellatio scene (to the point of ejaculation) — and I had just watched Ken Park — a movie that includes numerous graphic sex scenes and a full on, uncut (unedited, sicko) auto-erotic asphyxiation scene. The post did not come easily for me. It doesn’t have the tone that I want it to have and it’s just sitting there all retarded and staring up at me making me want to back over it with my car and then toss it in a pillow sack full of doorknobs and feed it to a shark.

Let’s skip that one for now. I’ll finish it someday. (right)

Today I’ll do a post that should have been done in the meantime. I’m going to do my best to keep you somewhat updated on shows that I’ve been attending. Last week (or the week before, perhaps) I went and caught The Long Winters. They are a band that I’ve always liked, but never REALLY liked. Now I REALLY like them. Great stage prescence, fantastic songwriting, and a very intimate show. Oh yeah, and I was there with good company.

Check out two tracks below. If anyone was there or has seen them on this tour and has a recording of Hey Joe that they did during the encore. (ok… not really… they are a band that refuse to play encores. They are right, too. They say if every kid in every school gets an A, then the A has no value. If every rock band is obligated to play an encore, then that encore is meaningless. They will do their part to make it a great show — they will play an “extra special” set after their main set and then they will leave — it’s sound reasoning.) The version of Hey Joe they played was incredible — one of the best covers I’ve heard in a long, long time.

The Long Winters – Hindsight
The Long Winters – Honest

I’ll do my best to get back to the good posts. Ones with relevant information. Oh yeah. And the states. The states are coming back. “Huzzah!” said the masses.