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[Patrick]

Let me tell you guys a story about an alcoholic named Steve.

This man has been harassing my friends and I while we've been running our open mic since we took over running the show. And before that. He's been a drunken menace ever since my first night at open mic last January, and we've had to ask him a number of times to leave.

Tonight, while our hostess Lindsay was announcing our next act, he commandeered the microphone she was using and started spewing a bunch of unintelligible bullshit. Lindsay asked him to back off, but he wouldn't. So I yelled for the world to hear (since I have stopped giving a shit about his pride), "STEVE. YOUR BEHAVIOR IS UNACCEPTABLE. BACK OFF IMMEDIATELY."

He responded by getting snippy with Lindsay a few minutes later near the entrance. Elvis Bob, our mentor and good friend, took matters into his own hands by grabbing Drunk Steve by the collar and pulling him away with a quickness. Steve got butthurt about it and called the police on us. This action, of course, bit him in the ass, because he was drunk while on the phone with them. The police arrived, and we were compelled to put on hold our duties at the open mic in order to give the police our side of the story. The fact that he kept drunkenly interrupting with a different version of his story every 30 seconds didn't help his case at all, so now the police have him in their custody and he's been officially 86ed from the premises. Police report, breathalyzer records and all.

tl;dr Drunk belligerent asshole fucked with us, ended up getting B&. Never fuck with a bunch of hipster kids and a professional Elvis impersonator.

[öde]

I really want to see a kids show based on a group of hipster kids led by an old, fat Elvis impersonator now.

[Coward]

Never fuck with a bunch of hipster kids and a professional Elvis impersonator.

I remember that one from Aesop's Fables.

[valley_parade]

Let me tell you guys a story about an alcoholic named Steve.

Frank Turner did a song that starts off this way, sort of.

[Patrick]

I really want to see a kids show based on a group of hipster kids led by an old, fat Elvis impersonator now.

Hey man Bob's put off a lot of weight lately

And I don't think any of us (except maybe Lindsay) could ever be part of a children's show. Ever.

[Lines]

I would still watch that show, but it wouldn't be a kids show, it'd be a show of the tone of Kate Beaton's Mystery Solving Teens.

[Christophe]

Let me tell you guys a story about an alcoholic named Steve.

When I ran Open Mic on Valentine's Day, there was this table of old, bitter assholes directly in front of the sound booth that booed the last three acts, were talking shit about the bartender, and the door guy for "bad service" (Protip, he's the fucking DOOR GUY, NOT YOUR GODDAMN FUCKING WAITER YOU ENTITLED LITTLE SHITS, STOP CALLING HIM GARCON.)

[Dimmukane]

I would actually be totally down for that.  I can't grow my own hops (living in an apartment has it's downsides), but I do have a dinky little Mr. Beer kit that I can use.  One of my friends has a buddy who is trying to open a homebrew supply/craft beer shop nearby; once that happens I will totally be moonshining all up in this bitch.  Eventually I'd like to upgrade to a copper fermentation tank, because novelty plastic barrel kegs probably ain't the best thing to use, particularly seeing as they're transparent.  But yeah, I'd be up for that in like the next couple months (I need to clear some bills/wait for that store to open and failing that buy some ingredients online).

[pwhodges]

Eleven postings... but they were all a dream...

[Hairy Joe Bob]

I miss that talking ass.

[öde]

Brewing beer sounds rad, cider might be easier. I'll see if I have the funds for it!

Also note to self, if you spend 40 minutes talking to a cute girl on the train, at least ask her what her name is.

[Patrick]

I neglected to mention that on Thursday there was a talent scout that was there to see us. My bandmate and I both knew about it, and we bombed. The saga now continues with me having asked our manager to not inform us if there is a scout coming ever again, and her being pissed off at me for suggesting it. Fuck that shit, not dealing with it. Just gonna ignore her as much as possible for now until she realizes that making the guitarist and lead vocal nervous is a stupid idea.

Otherwise, today's been cool. My lady called me to wake me up, she's been doing that lately and I like it quite a bit. Got to chill with my bestie and my roomie, too, which was very nice to do. Just kinda been lazy all day.

[jhocking]

I'm gonna get my foot in. I'm gonna do it. Even if it takes all day.

Are you sure you want to risk it? I'd be scared of getting my foot back out.

[Coward]

Going back on tour soon. Reading another thread in which The Wire was mentioned made me chuckle as, like any viewer of the show will tell you, you only ever do two days on tour - the day you get in and the day you get out.

[Lunchbox]

I gave up on the left boot eventually because I had to get back to work.
I have found a bootmaker in the city who can supposedly stretch boots for you, so I will visit him today hopefully.

[Allybee]

back from the zen mountain monastery. I really liked being there. not sure if I could ever live there permanently (I don't think I'll ever get the world completely out of my system...) but as my friend said, you don't ever think you can until you do. I could see myself living for a month there. I really actually just want to sleep now because were waking up at 4:25 AM to meditate before dawn but it's 7:30 right now and that's too early for bed!

[Eris]

I bought a book years and years ago because I was going to make a cookbook of things I make a lot so that it's all in one spot and I don't have to rummage for that one particular book which has an unlabelled list of ingredients when I want to make a certain thing. I brought it with me to Sydney when i got given some cookbooks my mum made for me for christmas, thinking I could go through that and find out which of those meals I actually liked and put it in my own cookbook.

I did the whole process of remembering where i put that one notebook that i had written the recipe for pancakes in to see what I needed to buy after work (I want to make pancakes/pikelets for shrove tuesday) and I looked at the aforementioned unlabelled list of ingredients and decided to bite the bullet and write it into my designated cookbook. It was then that I realised that I didn't really know the official process for making the pancakes, i just would chuck everything into a bowl and mix it up before cooking it until they were cooked. That is kinda how I wrote the instructions because it is just for me and I know how to make fuckin' pancakes.

I am probably going to still write recipes on scraps of paper and search for them and all that, but if I make something more than three times and i like it, it is going into the cookbook. I have to write up the ridiculously easy brownie recipe that I have now. It also means I should try out some of the recipes in that cookbook of mum's, but it all seems like too much effort?

[squawk]

so um, i guess i never backed up my shit. just manually restored all my bookmarks. thank god for my habit of screenshotting shit. i don't have the stuff that was in the bookmark folder but at least i have my constantly used bookmark bar back. (though i don't have the direct URL for the meebo chat room, oh well, it's 98% good)
and then i re-logged in to all the sites i visit on a daily basis
i really need to cut down my internet dependency. fuuuck, dude.
this took too long. time to write this paper
thank god it's only supposed to be three pages
sorry for all the line breaks

oh yeah and first thing i did when i finished restoring everything was use the backup function so this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN

also i posted this in the photo thread apparently where it remained for like five minutes before i noticed and was like "hey wait a minuuuuuute"

[Patrick]

Just posted Prudence, my beloved Fender Jaguar, on Craigslist 

God I'm going to miss that old girl, she's treated me so well for 4 years. But I need a car. I need a car. It's an unavoidable fact when you live in the poor bit of suburban America and you have ambitions for a better life. I need a car so I can get a second job so I can support myself, get my own place, get health insurance, get more music gear, and make a proper career out of my music. Having a lady who lives in another town is also a motivating factor, although my priorities aren't what they used to be (read: they're more geared toward making sure my life is in order first and foremost).

I'm so broken up over making this call but I have to. I absolutely have to. If I don't do it I'm just going to continue getting nowhere in life, living in my friend's house with him and his mom, just two blocks away from the projects.

In happier news, I've spent the week cleaning my room. My bestie Lukas came over to help today, and we got a metric fuckload done. All I've left to do is change my sheets and do laundry (and find a place for said laundry to go once it's clean) and I'll be good to go. My lady is coming down from Davis on Thursday, and I'm definitely looking forward to having a presentable bedroom to cuddle in. Lukas and I will be able to use my room to record in instead of one of the spare rooms, which will make my landlady mighty happy. And now I'm able to get into my bed without climbing over a mountain of clothing, amps, and various other bits of god knows what.

Tomorrow I'll be going with Lukas to his family's ranch until Wednesday. I'm going to do everything I can to get some Argonauts originals written and recorded with him so we can stop being a damned cover band. I want so desperately for this all to get off the ground... anybody who has ever felt trapped in a stagnant period of their life totally must feel me on this.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I feel you, dogg. I'm glad your life is less shit than it was.

[The extra letter]

I haven't slept for 42 hours and now I'm gonna watch a David Lynch film.

Also dudes I have spent pretty much all day reading about beer brewing and how it's really easy to do at home, and it reminded me of an idea I had not so long ago about starting a forum brewing club, so, any of y'all interested? Excitement! Cheap and delicious beer! The ultimate punx hobby for everyone that isn't a straightedger, and even if you are, you can always join the club and brew some water! Grow your own hops! Fuck the police!

I guess straight edgers could brew ginger beer as long as they don't let it get to the point where it starts getting alcoholic?

[jhocking]

All the grandparents in the photo thread are... awkwardly timed for me.

[redglasscurls]

I can't believe I almost missed the brew thing before it buried in posts! I am so down, have I mentioned that I brew on here before? We've done 4 batches of cider to varying degrees of success (year 2 was AMAZING) and several beers at this point. We brewed 3 different ones (belgian wit, british ale, and a brown ale)for the wedding, supplying about 60% of the alcohol for the whole thing via our tiny DC apartment! I have also dabbled in mead, but it is expensive to make and not great tasting.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

finally had somed dudes with chainsaws come by this morning to get rid of the tree that fell on our house last week

i kinda miss the damned thing

[Papersatan]

A guy backed into my car in a parking lot today.  I am so pissed.  I had pulled half way out, and I saw him start to go, so I honked.  As he continued I just laid on the horn and watched him slowly back into me.  The damage is not too bad, but I just got this car fixed from spinning out on the highway.  It has been whole and un-dented for maybe a month.  Also i just had to have it inspected.  It failed.  They 'fixed' it for $1,000 and gave em a temporary sticker, I had to drive it 100 miles and then go back for a new inspection.  On the way home from getting hit I made my 100 miles and the check engine light came back on. 

Fuck this shit.

[Lines]

Man, I worked really hard on a project this weekend knowing that today was the day everyone in class would present their projects and I didn't even get to go. I had to watch people pull fluff out of their butts to describe their half-finished stuff (it's officially due next week) and I couldn't even show my awesome project. Boo. I'm proud of it, too.

But at least I got it done! And now I can hang out with my cat and do things more fun than working on that project. At least for now.

[valley_parade]

So far, a good afternoon at work. Very good.

[Caleb]

Last night at 8 PM I had my driveway and my car completely cleared off.

Then I wake up to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idRz52M13B4

Also my work was nice enough to wake me up at 6 AM to tell me that I didn't have to go to work today.

Too bad it was my day off...

At least some dude with a snow blower helped me out with the worst part at the end of my driveway.

There is now a 9 foot tall bank of snow next to my car.

[Inlander]

Today I am amusing myself by replacing key words in band names with the word "hugs". For instance:

- Hugs From Above 1979
- Arcade Hugs
- Hugs Parade

[Inlander]

Fuhugzi

[Hairy Joe Bob]

This amuses me and makes me happy.

Psychic Hugs
British Hug Power
Hug Division
...And they will know us by the trail of hugs
Hugs of Horses
Big Hug Dynamite.
My favourite: Richard Hug and the Hugugs.

I could do this all day.

[ummmkay]

you guys i was already having a pretty good day and this is just really delightfully enjoyable to me

[Hairy Joe Bob]

Harry you should get some sort of award for joy-inducing idea of the day.

[Inlander]

...And they will know us by the trail of hugs

Amazing. Magnificent.

[Inlander]

The Rolling Hugs.

The Sex Hugs.

The Hugzcocks.

Hmm it gets kind of dirty when you start playing with punk names.

[Inlander]

For the Australians:

Underground Huggers

Radio Hugman

You Am Hugs

[valley_parade]

Stiff Little Hugs

Hug Sparrer

Angelic Uphugs

Drophug Murphys

The 4-Hugs

Hug Religion (and/or Bad Hugligion)

You're right Harry, punk bands are fun.

[Inlander]

Crowded Hugs

[Inlander]

Hugs in the Sky

[öde]

Neutral Hugs Hotel
Modest Hugs
Hugs and not U
Sleeptytime Hugs Museum
The Reverend Horton Hugs
The Hugs Plan
The Definite Hugs
Ten Hugs
Sunset Hugdown
Built To Hug
Godspeed You! Hug Emperor
Hugs from Barcelona

[ummmkay]

...And they will know us by the trail of hugs

Amazing. Magnificent.

yeah i think this is the best one, i giggled uncontrollably for a solid minute

[valley_parade]

Sigur Knúsa

Hug Water Music

Hug City Radio

Hugg0)))

Das Hugist

[öde]

[Jimmy the Squid]

DragonHug

Cradle of Hug

Hug Borgir

Hugoroth

Morbid Hug

Iron Hug

Anal Hug

Nine Inch Hugs

My Hugging Bride

Hecate Enhugged

Nick Cave and the Bad Hugs

The Birthday Hug

The Hug Party

[Hairy Joe Bob]

The Notorious H.U.G.

Rage Against the Hugs

Teenage Hugclub

The Hug-Betweens

My Bloody Hug

Nick Cave and the Bad Hugs

Nine Inch Hugs

Hug Power

Tom Hugs.



I LOVE THIS

[celticgeek]

Steeleye Barrog

[Tom]

Hug
Huggerbait
Magic Hug
Rehugitator
Midnight Hug (known to fans as: The Hugs)

[Tom]

Hugged Up
Gang Gang Hug
Grizzly Hug
Hug Bear
Hug Collective
Hugbreaker
Modest Hug
The Decemberhugs
British Hug Power

[StaedlerMars]

2 many hugs
lcd hugsystem
the hugs in stereo
hugfucker
spacemen hug
sharon jones and the hug kings
murder by hug


this is the best game (A couple of friends and I have gone with #bandhugs on twitter, do with that info what you wish)

[valley_parade]

Hug Up Hug Up
HG
Hugsopp
Against Hug!
Chris Wollard and the Hug Thieves