The show was kick ass!! We even had a fairly good sized crowd for a small private party. There was even this one guy that heard us all the way from town. I think the name was Bill…

Bill: “Uh.. yeah… I like, uh… was sitting on my porch, and heard you guys playin’. Thought I’d come and see what was going on”

The crowd was into a few of our new songs, which was probably due to the new robust set list (I’ll have to post it later). I think we even had a few small dance groups going.

My new amp kicked ass, we had a decent stage area, lots of room, good lighting, etc. We really only had a couple real sour spots, but we’re turning that into a positive!! Next Practice: Weeding out the ‘crowd killers’ and start working on more popular stuff.

One would think that this should be priority #1 with any band, but for us… it’s not a job. Thus, we’re quite accustomed to playing whatever the hell we want. But there’s been some good rock coming out lately that’s very agreeable to our tastes AND the crowd loves it (we had some in the set list). But now I’ve gotta dig for more new rock that people like AND play without sounding like asshats.

To top things off, we had one bar owner show up and said we could play at their place… for a few bucks. Shyaaay.. right. Jame’s and I are quite accustomed to how these small town bars work.. it’s stupid. They wanna chew you down on the price, but when we show up the place is packed well beyond fire code regulations, bar tenders running their asses off, people falling down piss-drunk, and the till doesn’t stay shut for longer than 30 seconds. Yet we’ll hear the same old story.. “Uh.. yeah, it LOOKS busy, but nobody’s drinking”… whatever asshole.

We were thinking of asking $500. That would cover a hard rock band AND karaoke. We’d run the karaoke between breaks, and the length of the breaks would be determined by how many people wanna sing.

Hmmm… makes me wonder though. If we do the karaoke at the same time, I wonder if we can have free reign to toss out the crap songs that people wanna do. Don’t get me wrong, there’s always room for a good slow country song, but the crowd dies just about as fast as when we pull out some old Metallica hahaha.

The family got together this weekend in Nebraska for a graduation/wedding reception. When Rita (Erin’s Aunt) was calling around for room rates, she found that all the hotels had jacked up their prices for the season already. The Holiday Inn EXPRESS was charging $140!!! Completely outrageous for a lousy hole in the wall.

So she dug a little deeper and found this awesome Bed and Breakfast in Plattsmouth, which happens to be the same small town we were going to anyways. It was more affordable than the hotels, and we ate some rather interesting breakfast’s in the morning… not sure what any of it was called, but it tasted great (Mark probably wouldn’t have eaten though hahah).

The house was filled with all this antique furniture, pictures, etc. It was built in 1905 for $25,000; and sold for $10,000. I wonder how the owner got the price knocked down?

Interesting fact: Reading an article about the place (found in the dinning room), it mentioned that the house was built with a four stall garage, with an underground stall for the Milk Cow.

I took some pictures, but they didn’t turn out nearly as good as the ones on their website, check it out…. Plattsmouth Bed and Breakfast Parmele House

I got a package in the mail today from Mark….

EPIC FUCKING WIN!!!

My nights will be booked for the next few weeks, and maybe Erin will get into it (better than that damn Charmed show).

I don’t have any money to boost for a present nearly as cool as that, but I can at least post some T&A for ya…

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The Jeep is finally going down hill, fast. I’ve got so many problems with it, that I can never remember them all when I’m telling someone.

So… introducing my new hotness…

At work the other day, we all had a meeting in the conference room and were shown this movie. Personally, I was kind of disgusted on multiple levels.

First of all, my gut is screaming ‘BULLSHIT’. I feel the PR minions at work here, trying to sell some load of crap to boost company morale. Not necessarily the company that “I” work for, but the company that published this pile of crap.

Second, there was really no mention of ‘Johnny’ after words. If he actually exists, do you think he got a raise for dramatically boosting sales? I highly doubt it.

Finally, with a little checking later, I caught a hint that there IS a company pawning this movie off for $995 a piece to employment firms.

The bottom line - The grocery store reaped the profits from someone else’s idea, and Johnny’s still a retard. Capitalism at it’s finest.

Hmmm… Will I go to hell for that?