MLIW news:

Today's Rythm Den fest got cancelled which is the biggest bum out in the history of this planet. I was looking forward to finally share the stage with Agnostic Front but sadly it didn't happen.
Also, the New York and Philadelphia show got cancelled but new shows are being booked as we speak. any info on that I'll post on here and other people will post it all over the world wide web. keep looking out.

We're enjoying this unexpected day off in a holiday inn in Poughkeepsie with a couple beers and a movie. Tyler is beating everybody's ass in poker in the lobby, don't go down there.

update: I got served a great meal by a flock of hot waitresses at red robins. Edward 40hands went down while I was gone. we went to a grocerystore too! right now Big Bucks is killing Young Shooter in dice. I shaved my head, I'm bald now. We found Chris wondering by the side of the road. I hope this day never ends.

for pictures of this year rythm fest click here. they are awesome.

Music and Words

Been listening to:
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (why did nobody ever tell me how awesome this record is? thanks a bunch world!)
The Twilight Singers - A stitch In Time (I love this band to death, every record is so good it makes me afraid of picking up any instrument)
Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyo (finally gotten round to this after it was recommended to me a million times, it's awesome! a great hiphop/ idm mix)
The Hold Steady - Boy and Girls in America (the soon to be biggest band on the planet)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (produced by Steve Albini, Mixed by Jim O'Rourke and arranged by Van Dyke Parks, this girl is unbelievable)
Guillemots - Through the window pane (I fall asleep to this)
Lindstrom - It's a feedelity affair (2006 has been an awesome year for club music and I'll rank this record second to all the Ed Banger stuff that came out this year)
Uffie - everything (boys call Uffie when they feel freaky hot)

New awesome music is coming out so fast I can no longer keep up. these final couple months of 2006 make this a year to remember.

Been reading:
Henry James - Portrait of a lady
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travel's
Homer - Odyssee

Who has ever read anything by Thomas Pynchon? The more I find out about that guy the more curious I get. He seems such a weirdo but also something I would be totally into... any info is welcome.

Been watching:
Deadwood
I started watching The Devil and Daniel Johston (finally!!) but halfway through the disc gave up. Anyway who could burn me this?
I watched Brick the other day and I think I'm in love with Nora Zehetner now.
next up are Pan's Labyrinth and Darwin's Nightmare.

Mom: I just cut my hair, I look like a decent young man again.

World, get into it:

it's time to take back what's ours. support these guys in their struggle to make money. (oh guys, I won't ask for royalties or credits for the content stolen from this blog if you send me a free t-shirt)

give us back new york

New tattoo

A couple days ago we did a show at the inkspot in Jackson, Mississippi (where honkey tonk women was written!). Good times and after the show they pulled out the tattoogun and this is what I got.
The guys at the inkspot are great and should you ever find yourself in that area you should defenitly stop by there.

I can not...

...stop listening to Uffie.

Florida's wildlife

This morning Josh and me went for a minihike to take a look at some lagoon, and 30 seconds in we almost stepped on a cottonmouth snake. the creature was vicious and out to harm us with it's ferocious speed and razorsharp fangs. It's poison would have killed us within second. We escaped death by running like little girls.

Converge/ Some Girls/ MLIW

I'm leaving for tour in 1 minute. this is gonna be a long one so wish me luck. I'm looking forward to this because I have two pairs of jeans now instead of one. Also, I have made a commitment to listen to no other band ever for the rest of my life besides The Hold Steady. See how long I can stick to that.
Here we go!

Rythm Den Fest

SATURDAY NOV 25TH 2:00PM (pop punk day)
CHIODOS
BAYSIDE
JUST SURRENDER
I AM THE PILOT
THE DISTANCE
ENVY ON THE COAST
ALL TIME LOW
JOSHUA
THE TAKEOVER
PARK RANGER
SEARCHING FOR SKYLINES
FASTER THAN FASHION
ASTERIA
ENDWELL
THESE GREEN EYES
RIGHTFULLY WRONG
MORE BANDS TBA

SUNDAY NOV 26TH 1:00PM
CONVERGE
AGNOSTIC FRONT
100 DEMONS
SOME GIRLS
MODERN LIFE IS WAR
TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA
#12 LOOKS LIKE YOU
ED GEIN
BLACK MY HEART
ON BROKEN WINGS
BLACKLISTED
AMBITIONS
VERSE
HAVE HEART
ONE DEAD THREE WOUNDED
SEVERED TIES
MY BITTER END
BLESS THE FALLEN THE IMAGINE
THE EMBRACE
TOMORROWS END
MORE BANDS TBA
2 MORE SPECIAL GUESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Needless to say I am wicked excited about sharing a bill with Agnostic Front.

PLAYLIST

all of this comes highly recommended and gets me excited about music:

pinch -qawwali
pinktronix - elettrica 002
nathan fake - the sky was pink
analog fingerprints - ep
apparat - multifunktionsgebene
extrawelt - soopertrack tools and remixes
mathew dear -ep 1
slag boom van loon - slag boom van loon
underground resistance - dark energy ep 1
mathew jonson - return of the zombie bikers
speedy j - the entire collabs series
uffie - everything of her I can find
mum - everything they do
asobi seksu - citrus

last week I been to a wedding, i will post pictures soon! tomorrow a show in madison, wednesday is kinda the start of the tour. I can't wait to go back out and play. we will maybe play some new songs.

Dear mom or dad...

could you please ship me one (1) Jack Russel? I will do dishes forever and ever.

i quit

i can no longer compete.

tourpics (click for more stuff from max, it's worth it)

us standing at the edge of the ocean


this is wat chinese watercups or something will do to you


jeff and me listening to justice vs simian


jeff, me and a gorilla


me and tyler

Me in Toronto

Pic by Max.

History 101 with Dr. Papa Bear

Das Oath's Dr. Papa Bear gave me a little lesson on the influence of The Netherlands on parts of the US' east coast. you better recognise, here we go!

-The Dutch settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam were called Yankees by the English, because the most common Dutch male names at the time were Jan & Kees.
-When New Yorkers are talking about the stoop in front of there house, they are actually talking about their 'stoep', which is a sidewalk
-brooklyn = breukelen
-flushing = vlissingen
-staten island, named after the 'staten generaal', our old form of government or something
-the bronx, named after the farm of Paul Bronk, a Dutch immigrant
-Before New York was New York it was New Amsterdam, and a Dutch pirate named Blauveldt lived there. NJ has a town named after him.
-In NJ you can find a bunch of other towns with Dutch names like Hoboken and Orangeburg
-Near Alabany there's a ton of towns with Dutch names such as Kinderhook, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Renselaer, Watervliet.
-Speaking of OKinderhook, in the days of old the apples that were grown there were called Old-Kinderhook apples and shipped of in crates stating O.K. apples, thus coining the term O.K.
-Martin van Buren, a US president who had Dutch as his first language was born in Kinderhook and was nicknamed Old-Kinderhook, so his campaign had the catchphrase Vote O.K.!
-Furthermore in Booklyn and the Bronx you can find a lot of streetnames like Ten Eijck, Havemeijer en Boerum, which are Dutch names.

-Tales like Rip van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow all take place in Dutch immigrants settlements.
-Hudson discovered the Hudson river, coincidence? I think not.
-The Bowery is named after Peter Stuijvesant's farm named De Bouwerij.
-Harlem is Haarlem

Thank you Dr. Papa Bear!

Tour's over

Last wednesday we played the last show of tour in Iowa CIty and afterwards I went with Josh and Beth to stay at their house in Des Moines for a couple days. It was great, I slept in, did laundry, hung out with their puppy and Benji and Allison. Allison gave me a new pair of white converse shows! Saturday Josh took me to the Omaha zoo which was pretty awesome. Oh, and we ate ate Hoo-hut. I can never get enough of Hoo-hut, ever.
Thank you Josh and Beth!

Back in Marshalltown now, I got waaaay into morrowind again. I'm such a nerd.

playlist:
the residents
nurse with wound
pfadfinderei
the junior boys
pissed jeans

race to the oven

tired and bored

playlist time:

dopplereffekt - linear acceleration
U-ziq - billious paths
Akufen - Quebec Nightclub
Autechre - Peel Sessions 2001
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - I see good spirits and I see bad spirits
Boyd Rice/ NoN - Terra Incognita
DJ Hell - Muscle
Mates Of State - Team Boo
Drive By Truckers -
Legowelt - Wirtschaftswunder
Sisters Of Mercy - Kiss the Blade
Coil - Love's secret domain

It seems I'm slowly more getting into old noise stuff so any advise on this welcome. Also, I need more 80's waxtrax stuff and since I don't get to be on the internet all that much I don't really have time to seek it out, any advise on this is welcome too. Last... anything Boyd Rice....

Quit stepping on my dreams

She looks like Axl Rose

Tour with Strike Anywhere is over. Too much has happened since my last post and I don't feel like typing a whole lot so in a nutshell: I've seen human suspension, lots of partying, an agent orange show, lots of people I hadn't seen in a long time, Isis, did I already tell about that mastodon show we went to? I don't know.
We are now on our way back to Iowa, 3 more shows and I'll have a couple weeks off before the converge tour starts.

This is not a laptop set

Quick post. All of us came down with the plague at one point or another and a couple days ago it was my turn to get sick as dog. So yesterday I did the only thing there is to do which is drown all germs in hard liquor and besides a serious hangover I seem to be getting better. Chicago always shows me a good time. Three days ago the Mastodon/ Converge tour hit cleveland on the same day as our tour so as soon as we got done we went to see them and arrived just in time to catch Mastodon. Pretty awesome.

This tour is a whole bunch of fun. After this one we got a couple weeks of before we go out with Converge and Some Girls for six weeks.

Playlist:
The Hacker
DJ Skinhead
The Notwist
Miss Kittin