October 16, 2003

The Three Greatest Genres of Rock and Roll Songs:

3. The song that is about how some bitch fucked you over, or your parents have been oppressing you with their rules, or your teachers have been hassling you, or the man has been keeping you down, or your boss won’t let you out early on a Friday night to see the bitch that is about to fuck you over, or your friends are a bunch of assholes who keep telling you that you are not going to make it but you are going to write that song that rocks so hard that you will show them all with rock. It is the song about how rock will conquer everything.

2. The song that is the story about how you and your band came together and learned to rock out and then took off together to conquer the world through rock. Or, in the alternate, the song that is the testament to your rock ability. “Summer of ‘69”. “Rock and Roll Band”. “Hit the Lights”. “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”. "Motorhead". "We Are Motorhead". It is the song that says who you are as a rocker and tells the world how much you are going to rock.

1. The song that is about the lonely isolation of celebrity or how empty it is under the spotlight or how the world only knows the on-stage version of you but will never know the real you. It is a song that says nobody will ever have an idea of what it is like to be you, the rocker.

Sadly, Andrej Cuturic has written none of these songs but Sleepy Kid is still going to try and get on stage tomorrow night and rock out at the Beachland Tavern with the Rainy Day Saints (featuring Tommy Fox on drums [How nice is that?]). Be there or just be.

posted by Thea at 8:55 PM

October 15, 2003

The good thing about not having a window in my office is that I almost never know what time it is at work. It could be ten in the morning or three in the afternoon and I would not know. To be completely unaware of the time is a good thing at work.

Laurie just told me that she bought special glitter lip gloss for the Rainy Day Saints/Sleepy Kid show at the Beachland Tavern on Friday night. The Kid practiced tonight and we did not rock. Hopefully, we can turn it around for Friday. I am too tired to do any more typing.

posted by Thea at 9:57 PM

October 14, 2003

As somebody who basically thinks that life is totally pointless, I think I do a pretty good job of keeping it moving. I mean, we should all just stop. There really isn’t any point to doing anything. I crack on people for being couch jockeys or just general run of the mill lazy assess but they don’t deserve it. If you want to spend your life doing nothing, I applaud your decision. And if you want to do all this wild shit with your life, right on. Just don’t ever tell me that there is a point to why you are doing it. Any defense that starts with “I have to because…” is bullshit. You don’t have to do anything and that is the beauty. There is nothing to life besides perpetuating your own existence. Hooray for maintenance. Yippee for self preservation. Big ups to everybody who keeps processing air, water and food. You have succeeded as a human being. You keep on living. Kudos.

I am smiling right now. I am smiling because I don’t have to smile. I am typing the words “optimistic nihilism” with the hopes of connecting.

Laurie and I just got in from a walk. We talked about things like the future and domestic bliss. We talked about work. I told her that I swore loudly in the hallway today a couple of times. I told her that somebody told me repeatedly that “It was on me”. What does that mean? What’s on me? Work was the lash, the hammer and the noose today. And I keep on going back to perpetuate the cycle that exists to keep me going back there. They call it the rat race. I am still smiling because of what it is. Tomorrow, I get paid and I am going to buy some more Magic Sam records and maybe a Graham Parker record and then I will count day the days to my next payday when I can buy more records. Hello, rest of my life. This is the sum of my existence and I think that it is great. Let’s hear it for a hundred dollars a month on records for the next 34 years. Another breath. Another glass of water. Another banana.

I feel like something good is about to happen.


posted by Thea at 9:09 PM

October 13, 2003

Rock and Roll Radio Show – WCSB 89.3 FM – 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – SET LIST

Phobia - Means of Existence - Means of Existence (Relapse, 1998)
Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away (live) - How the West Was Won (Atlantic, 2003)
The Who – Pure and Easy (live) – Who’s Next (Deluxe Edition) (MCA, 2003)
Neurosis – Times of Grace (live) – Official Bootleg.02.Stockholm.Sweden.10.15.99 (Neurot, 2003)
Cream – SWALBR (live) – BBC Sessions (Polydor, 2003)
John Lee Hooker – Hoogie Boogie – The Legendary Modern Recordings (Virgin, 1993)
Magic Sam Blues Band – I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie) – West Side Soul (Delmark, 1968)
Magic Sam Blues Band – Easy, Baby – Black Magic (Delmark, 1969)
The Easybeats – Hey Babe – Volume 3 (reissue) (Repertoire, 1993)
The Easybeats – Keep Your Hands Off My Babe - Volume 3 (reissue) (Repertoire, 1993)
The Easybeats – I’m Just Trying - Volume 3 (reissue) (Repertoire, 1993)
The International Submarine Band – Sum Up Broke – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Legacy Edition) (Columbia, 2003)
The Byrds – Lazy Days - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Legacy Edition) (Columbia, 2003)
The Byrds – One Hundred Years from Now - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Legacy Edition) (Columbia, 2003)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Older Guys – Burrito Deluxe – (A&M, 1969)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Dark End of the Street – The Gilded Palace of Sin (A&M, 1968)


posted by Thea at 10:02 PM

October 12, 2003

Starting off with “Shovel Into Spade Kit” and “A Nanny in Manhattan” off of “Better Can’t Make Your Life Better” (Che/Sire, 1996), the Lilys were as good if not better than any time that I have ever seen them before. They had a new keyboard player (the guy who played Ogre in “Revenge of the Nerds”) who totally added to the rock coming from the stage. Every band who wants a keyboard player should see this dude in action before they go ahead and hire somebody for the gig. This guy is a ruler. He kicked the ass. Mike Uva and Hook Boy, featuring two dudes from the Sleepy Kid Rhythm and Blues Band, were also very good and I am not just saying that because I play with those dudes. They were cool, playing subtle down tempo quiet rock with more of a focus on the tunes than just the atmospherics that a lot of these quiet bands dwell on. Good stuff. All in all, it was a good night. Big ups to everybody who came out to rock.

Today, I had practice, watched the Browns humble the once proud Raider Nation and went for a walk. Now, I am going to take a shower and watch television in bed.

Tomorrow, I have got the Assholier than Thou Good Times Happy Friends Monday Morning Radio Show Starring Baby Fea (yea) and the Rock and Roll Radio Show to do. I will be getting the Led out from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and then Saint Andrej, the Sinner, the Webmaster Flying V and I are going to see the Cavaliers. It is Lebron James’ Gund Arena debut as a professional (not counting high school). I am there, dude. Enormous ups go out to DJ Pat B AKA the Rock and Roll Butler for the hook up. God Bless America! Good night.

posted by Thea at 7:33 PM