Garr's new house

So last night I got to see Gary's new house last night, and it is a nice step up from his old house in the city. His new his is very similar to my old house back on Bordeaux, a small ranch style perfect for starting a family. Since it's just Gary and Julie, there is more than enough room. Upper floor plan is almost exactly the same as my old house in the configurations of family room, bathrooms and bedrooms. The kitchen setup is different and I dont think I saw a door from the house to the garage, and the stairs to the basement seem strangely placed, but to each his own. The family room even had some fake brick on the walls, just like my old house!

The basement looks the "newest" I suppose. It feels like it was the most recent to undergo updated work. I was surprised that it is a finished basement, complete with a living room, storage area, computer room and best of all a large band room! The band room is HUGE, easily twice as big as at Gary's old house! Can't wait to get everything moved in there.

The funny thing about Gary's new house is the painting. All the rooms are painted in fucked up shades of browns and pastels. One bedroom/computer room is Lime Green, the kitchen/living room/bedroom is a shade of Mauve, and the band room Red. Thats right, red. So let the rehabbing begin!

Just Bills

Last night's show was one hell of a musical venture. We played with our studio engineer Brian's band, Street Corner Kings. There was also a band called Covent Garden, who Tim and myself hypothesized, were playing their first show. They were all excited and full of energy, pumped up and showing the occasional nervousness of first show jitters. They were quite good, and their singer/bassist looked like Napolian Dynamite in my opinion.

We played and excellent set, very hard, very precise for the venue. It is after all a Metal venue, so we had to pick some of our hardest songs. But overall, we all played a good set and were well recieved to the audience. Yes, there was actually an audience at Just Bill's for once. Usually there is no one there.

After the show I met my family out at our lake house and then this morning we headed up to Truman to move my sister into her dorm. So now I'm back from a day of moving Laura into school and I miss her already. But she's coming home next weekend for Labor Day weekend, and she'll have a car this year so she can come home whenever she wants.

Now I'm thinking about going to see Gary's new house that he's been painting/stripping carpeting all day.

ImThere

Dim Lit Daylight

Some months back we played with this band Dim Lit daylight, who was on a summer tour across the country. I thought they were pretty damn good for being a travelling duo and admired their gumption to just get in their car and go. To pack up their shit and make some calls to bars, set some schedules and hit the road. Despite only being a two piece they sounded great, and I enjoyed playing with those guys. Another cool bit about them is all of their flyers are taken from movies posters...which I find creative and highly amusing.

Crawling out of the woodwork

We've got shows out the ass right now. In the past week we've been approached and asked to play 2 more music festivals and asked to play another gig at Lemmons. The way the schedule is looking we may be playing 5 shows in September. The current schedule looks like this:


8.25.06
Just Bill's with Hawaiin Punch Suicide, Falling From Grace and Covent Garden
9.03.06
Sound Festival at The Atomic Cowboy
9.08.06
The Ten Mile House with Powers Court and Lung Dust, it's gonna be a loud night.
9.20.06
Lucas School House (Imthere.com promotion show)
9.29.06
Lemmons (Tentative)
9.30.06
Putt Putt Pub Crawl
10.21.06
Ten Mile House (STL UNPLUGGED) Acoustic show, I dunno about this one
10.26.06
Twilight Hayride
11.11.06
The Red Sea

The Atomic Cowboy?

Gary's posters are infinitly better than these "professionally made" posters.

Let the Hilarity Ensue

Sunday night we played The Local Show again and this time around we played pretty damn good. The problem with Pops is that when you sit around for five hours before you play, well you lose intrest in playing by the time you go on. So even though we played well, I could have cared less because of the headache I'd had for 3 hours from the incredibly loud and crappy music blasting out of there. The night wasn't a total bust, there was one amazing band and a few that I would call sideshows and one sideshow freak.

First of all there was this angry band of what I thought were kids called Demallion. They wore all black and Pantera tshirts, mohawks and they looked angry like they were forced to do their homework and skip the new episode of Teen Titans. I thought they would be playing punk, but they were deathmetal, and I mean real deathmetal. This kid who was the singer, he looked like he was 15 and he was doing the gruff deathmetal voice like Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse. It was crazy, Tim recorded and entire song which I'll be posting here once he gets that shit to me. I gave these guys credit for surprising me, they were hardcore. Check out Demallion at your own risk.

Then there was this guy from The Coil of Sihn. Just look at the links, I don't need to make jokes, just look at the links.

Just wait till I get the pics from the show up.

Heat Wave

This past week has been abnormaly hot, I mean outta control hot. I think we've had 4 days in a row now where temps have been over 100 degrees. Thankfully a cold front is supposed to be coming in tonight I think, but it's not like the weather is going to change that much. A cool down from 100 is still hot, but I'll take whatever I can get.

New music is going well. We've been writing new music over the course of the last month. Well, really we're always working on new music, but over the course of the past month we've gotten some of it performance ready. We've been playing I Can't Even Feel My Toes and Infamous at the past few shows and they are turning out to be some of our best. We've also got at least 4 more songs on the back burner that we've working on and that we're very excited about. Two of the four are songs that we wrote spontaneously at practice and when that happens they usually turn out to be some of our best.

Come see us at Pops this sunday for the local show.