i played 2 new songs… now i just need like 8 more and i’ll be totally rebooted.

i like that ELVIS decided to use that name since the dead guy isn’t really using it anymore.

i also like calling beerland ‘beertown’ or ‘beerville’ now.

xoxox
t

i’ll play first… around 1015
then ELVIS, coma in algiers, and HUG

it’s their (hug’s) CD release party.

which means they will probably go fucking nuts…

c u there?

[here!]

not only does it feature my friends in taperecorder and toboggan, but it also has tracks from Ninjasonik and Meniscus Curve (featuring Kevin Lynn of Holy Fuck).

so what’s the story with this compilation?
marc (taperecorder) asked me to write a song called ‘diamond dick.’
that was it.
no other parameters or guidance.
so i did.
apparently, he and corey (toboggan) asked several other people as well.

the most interesting track, in my opinion, is Heather Green. she is actually an up and coming opera singer in new york, taking what is possibly the most unusual career choice of anyone on the album! i think that’s awesome! it is not unlike a dancer from the Royal Ballet Company stripping for one night at the Men’s Club.

anyhoo, i like the album and i hope you do too.

it’s free to download, which is the best part of it all.

i also have another song almost finished and hope to have 2 or 3 more by march, which is tentatively slotted for a toof EP release on galactique…

…t

…and i hope you like it!

it’s called DiamondDick and it will be on the upcoming galactique recordings compilation called Diamond Dick.

actually, every song on the forthcoming album will be titled ‘Diamond Dick’ i think.

it will feature music from taperecorder (marc hug!) and toboggan (corey martin!) and i think ninjasonik will also have a track on there as a very special guest!

listen here

[also: galactique]

my greatest memory of Bud Dry is listening to Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock’s “It Takes Two To Make A Thing Go Right”

that song was my generation’s equivalent of Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” or the Black Eyed Pea’s “Let’s Get It Started”.

my least favorite memory of Bud Dry was having my ribs kicked in by a group of neo-nazis after trying to purchase of a large amount of methamphetamines in Arizona.

i think “Barracuda” by Heart was playing on the radio of one of their pickup trucks.

however…

i’ve started playing shows again …

i will regale you with anecdotes here about said shows…

xoxo
t

sometimes, an older, more-seasoned prisoner will challenge a newer, less-experienced prisoner to a push-up contest.

the winner would be able to demonstrate who is the strongest of the two and enjoy bragging rights.

as a courtesy, the new prisoner gets to go first.

after pumping out all the push-ups he can muster in his best effort to win, his muscles begin to weaken.

next, the new prisoner’s muscles completely fail, and he collapses to the ground.

at this point, he is unable to fight off the unwanted sodomy he is about to receive.

and finally, a very valuable lesson is learned.

i don’t know why i’m so fixated on prisons lately!

speaking of prison (again!), i am considering getting an Andy Capp tattoo.

not only would that prove to the general population that i enjoy regularly getting the shit beat out of me by my wife, but it would also show everyone that i enjoy the manly sport of American Soccer.

the colorful tom’s snack food icon and british comic strip star placed strategically on my forearm or thigh would prove that i’m not one to be challenged.

i hear that thigh tattoos are very painful.

on my other thigh, i would like to get an american flag with the words ‘Born in the U.S.A.’

that would look really cool.

click here if you can’t see the video above….

here are some reviews of the show.

they’re not really discussing the band so much, obviously.

but in case you couldn’t make it to the shows, you can still read about what other people than i think about it!

… from the austin chronicle …

… from the austinist …

… from the austin live theater blog …

… from austin.com …

and toof has a new song written (mostly).

it only took 4 years.

and it’s not so much about tiddies, but about huffing gasoline at a carnival.

you can imagine tiddies if you want, i like to do that when i get bored with people telling me what to do like ‘put your hands on the hood of your vehicle’ and asking me dumb questions like ’sir, how much have you had to drink tonite?’

i just go into a happy place full of tiddies, not unlike Palazzio, Perfect 10, the Yellow Rose, or Expose here in austin.

anyhoo, why am i not playing any shows?

well, because i purchased a new laptop and a new audio interface.

but the manufacturers of the audio interface, M-Audio, still haven’t developed any drivers for Vista 64 bit.

i don’t care if you like Macs or PCs, Vista 64 bit has been out for like 2 years now!

hire some nerd in India to write a driver for it!

so now i’m stuck with this audio interface that doesn’t work and i’m not really interested in reinstalling an OS.

come on people, the mac vs pcs war is sooooooooo tired.

even the russians finally just got sick of hating us and said ‘fuck it’.

that is, until bush became president, i’m not sure how he fucked that up, but you can probably read about it some time at treydamico.com.

this is toof stuff, i’m talking about here.

and m-audio is pissing me off, y’all.

until i say otherwise, don’t bother buying their crap.

because you do what i say, don’t you?

luv,
t

i gotta get in shape!

i’ve been working on my ‘mean face’ too.

hey, i’m just kidding!

kinda…

it’s been more than 100 years since there were debtor’s prisons in america.

any C-Average, public high school and state college student with a BA in radio and television and a minor in speech communications knows that.

now i don’t about you, but i grew up hard on the streets of suburban northwest houston.

that’s where i learned about life, NOT at the university of houston

… where i learned about radio and television with a minor in speech communications.

and that’s why i am an expert on EVERYTHING.

anyhoo, blah blah blah, sarah palin is that bitchy mom down the street who got into everyone’s business, yadda-yadda-yadda, she’s not bright, rant rant rant, yeah she’s kinda good looking though, complain complain complain, karl rove is a satanic puppet-master, liberal liberal liberal, america celebrates mediocrity … and so forth.

so don’t eff with me, joe six-pack.

i will outsmart with you my 2.71 GPA and half-assed paragraphs about political stuff.

and i will do so in the cold, pink rec room of the renewed debtor’s prisons created by the united investment banks of america.

which, coincidentally, will occur only right before i decide to shave my head and create a local chapter of the aryan brotherhood in said prison in a last-ditch effort to survive the horrors of prison life and only right after i endure a merciless beating from a man who worked in the automotive industry.

not unlike the HBO television show, Oz.

afterwards, if anyone in the neo-nazi organization that i created in said prison asks me who i voted for in 2008, i will stammer uncomfortably for several minutes until it’s revealed that i voted for obama.

right before i get raped…

by the vice-president of the huntsville/bank of america minimum security debtor’s prison’s local chapter of the aryan brotherhood.

whose abdominal muscles, incidentally, are way more pronounced than mine.

WOW!