In case you feel the least bit bummed on Obama...

thanks Merc blog for this one, a ton of gems I've never even seen. My favorite is at 1:56 for some reason I kept watching that one over and over...

Wisconsintration Camp

Before I moved to Portland from Wisconsin, about a week before I moved, I had a dream that I was out with my sister and her friends (which, occurred almost exactly how I had dreamed it, but that's not the main point) and we were having a gay old time (a couple of my sisters friends were gay, but that's not the point either) and throughout the dream, I had the complete feeling of relief. Like a giant weight that living in the midwest had created for me, was just lifted off my back. The anxiety, depression, and general bad vibes that I had just come to expect as a reality of living in Milwaukee or my suburban hometown was just gone, and when the plane landed in Portland a couple weeks after I had the dream, that was exactly how it went.
So when I go back there it is interesting to realize that this wasn't just a case of early adult boredom and angxt cured by a fresh environment. I honestly feel like shit when I'm back there to visit. I love my Dad, and I need to visit with him from time to time, but being there is like being in an absolute fucking prison (with the exception of my aunt and uncles summer home on the chain of lakes in Waupaca, that is an island in the stream of a chain of lakes. Huh?).
I don't think I ever want to go back there. Mabes I just dont ever want to leave Portland (?)

"ASPIRATIONS" pt.17

I love those Gossip dudes, don't misunderstand me. They are all hilarious, interesting and generous people. But I also recognize that there are only so many "hipsters" in the world, and once you get to a certain level of fame, your crowd starts to change. And it's usually not for the better. I would definitely love to not have to scramble to find a job every time we come back from tour, tour on a bus every time, have someone take care of me like a man baby, get more than 20 people at our shows, and a lot of other perks that come with a high level of fame. But when it starts to look like they were passing out free tickets at the Cheesecake Factory to fill up the audience at the Jimmy Kimmel Show, it makes me wonder what I'm shooting for...

The world needs a new heart

They don't make them like they used to. Also, I think Roger Fisher is one of my all time favorite rock drummers. Totes underrated.

Confusing pics from my life #11

Why am I doing this instead of getting THE MOST INCREDIBLE BREAKFAST WRAP EVER at the food carts on Mississippi? At the egg cart. This is what happens in your thirties. Talk a little less about art, a little more about food...

Mike have you seen this?

Jeremy McIntosh (27), aka MAC, deliberately crashed his car "repeatedly" into a Detroit, Michigan lingerie store, Intimate Ideas, because he said they had refused to hire him. The damage to the store was estimated at $3,000. When Jeremy was arrested he was wearing "facial makeup, lipstick, blue Capri pants, red flip-flops, a flowery blouse and a matching flowery women’s bra." He also claimed he was homeless, and had nowhere to go, so he asked to be taken to jail

uuuuuuhhhh, excuse me?

the look on the female newscasters face is the best...

TIME CAPSULE

Confusing pics from my life #10

god the found photos site rules

I could look at it for hours, and I do! This guy apparently sifts through thousands of peoples personal pic files via filesharing programs that these random people are probably using to steal music and movies etc. so the demographic tends to be younger, a lot of eastern euro's into music. very strange window...

fixed my links! GOD HELP US LINK

Neutral Milk Hotel in a basement

Pretty incredible to even imagine them performing in a basement, especially after that album has become so engrained. You have to hand it to him for making such an incredible record and then just calling it quits...

Totes miss you Kars!

 

Can't believe I didn't see you last time you were in town. This is a good picture of us, you can't even tell we were blind drunk when it was taken! French Fries!

Wait for it...

Confusing pics from my life #9

this website rules

Probably bad news. Check it

I really should do more Yoga I think it would be really good for my ... oh, um, nevermind

Dinner and the main coarse

actually pulled off "punk-funk". We played with them last night and hopefully will again soon...

I don't know why...

I suddenly enjoy pot again

God help me I don't want to get old

Because this is basically what life will be like...

whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com

Mostly just supremely depressing but...

Maurizio Cattelan

I got pretty into this mainly installation based artist back around 1997 when he seemed to be getting a lot of attention and showing more. I just came across something about him and it reminded me of his work. He did an outdoor installation for the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee when I lived there that was basically a couple of fake homeless people(although very life-like) squatting out in a corner of a building on campus that immediately got stolen by some Wisconsin college students shortly before I got the hell out of that place.

BACK PAIN

It's ruling my life right now. It's all I do. Limp around or go to doctors to try and fix my back pain that has now turned into leg and knee pain. but I have learned a lot of helpful tips from many websites and opinionated people in person:

1. Don't get depressed or stressed out about the fact that you can't live your life like a normal, healthy person or about the fact that you are in constant pain because stress and depression only make your back pain worse.

2. Acupuncture good, chiropractor bad: I'm not sure if I actually believe this, but I've heard it so many times I'm not able to form my own opinion about it.

3. Do THE exercises, but don't exercise. Doctors orders.

4. Older women with no arms and an exo-spine are at greater risk for back problems then younger women with no arms and an exo-spine (see above)

5. "It's all connected" will become your favorite catch-all explaination for why strange pains on other parts of your body come with the back pain. Of course it should feel like someone took a sledgehammer to the bottom of my feet and broke my toes and all my shoes feel 2 sizes too small and I cant bend my knees because I have a "pinched nerve" in my upper back (the awake-magazine-looking chiro-propaganda pamphlets I received at my first chiropractor visit informed me that Pinched nerves are actually very rare and from herein I should refer to my discomfort as "sublaxation")

more later

My 201th post!

again, what I said before..

My 200th post!

I guess I need to start looking at the merc blog more regularily again...

I told you I wasn't worried Tim...

1976 swine flu ad campain to demonstrate how long swine flu can keep in your grandmother's freezer before she thaws out a steak and goes down to mexico for vaca aww fuck it

Chinese Karaoke

The bright side of the economy

1. Really cheap stuff - If you are actually in the position to be buying anything right now, from a flat screen TV to a house, this is a good time for you. If you are not in that position and you find yourself on the side of having to sell all your "valuables" for next to nothing, now is a good time to realize your material things don't have much of a bearing on your happiness(until you find out how much some of those records were worth 5 years later).

2.Pontiac takes a shit - Unless you are a lesbian or one of the 15 people that bought a G6, or you are trying to find parts for your Fiero/Lamborghini kit you won't find this news that hard to take. Most people are going to be more surprised to find out this company was still in business.

3.Customer service - Have you noticed hoe nice people have been at stores lately? Sure, working at Home Depot or Target may not be the most fulfilling existence, but a little reality check that they actually have a steady income and people more "qualified" than them are waiting in line for their shitty job tends to light a spark under some grumpy bottoms. It's nice to not be treated like dogshit when I'm out at a mediocre restaurant, not have to wonder around for hours looking for 'liquid nails', and basically know that I'm not the bain of a persons existence that I'm giving money to.

Anyone care to chime in? I've got more on the way...

russian madness pt.2

I dont have much internets, so ill make it quick. my laptop broke so i have no pictures for the blog.it is crazy here. in true Panther form we werent in town 8 hours before we found ourselves paying off cops , well the girl we were with that jumped the rope that was around Lenins grave in the red square at 3am. oh and BTW forget every exaggeration i have told in my whole life, I have never seen so many unbelievably attractive girls in my life. more when home

Best/worst band names seen/heard so far this tour

Gnome Sins
Bogus Jail
You fuck my wife and I like that
The ass guys
Eat Me Clown
Black Haircut
I have no mouth and I must scream
Three In One Gentleman Suit
The Samuel Jackson Five

I gotta take a dump you chump

Berlin and Prauge were great. The shows were totally out of control, who knew? Awesome dudes, very pretty ladies, etc. Look at my shitty pictures.

shit from my life fuck you im drunk fruck

cold blooded old times

The drive from Dundingen Switzerland to Rome Italy really took me back to the good ol’ days of touring in the US, but now with a more European backdrop. I won’t bore you with every detail, but it did involve another trip to the Russian embassy, a snow-made dead end in the Swiss alps that put us back 40 miles, a 3 and a half hour traffic jam with some of the most chaotic automobile clusterfucks I have ever seen with nary a traffic cop in sight followed by an additional 3 hours of blasting through skinny Italian mountain highway with maniac drivers all around us while Charlie and Martin take turns arguing with the promoter of the club in Rome about whether or not we will even be able to play once we get there (we weren’t). 15 fucking hours in the van so we could stay in this prison cell of a hotel room. We did drive past the coliseum in the morning. Big whoop.
The next day we drove to Pescara to play there and hang out with our euro bookers who turned out to be awesome dudes. They treated us very well and the show was a blast. Needless to say we got shitbombed.