Just finished playing a very enjoyable set at the Topp Chalet in delphos. It was alot of fun, and thanks to all our guest singers as well.

Next time everyone needs to come and appreciate what were tryin to do here, which is create a small music scene in delphos, the city that never is fun.

I’m calling all bands, all songwriters, all music lovers, just get on board now. Were not in it for money, it’s for fun for us, it’s about love.

We aren’t promoters, we are co-workers, so let’s get something going here. Karaoke sucks, let’s get some real artists on display.

I wanted to take time this morning to recognize what I consider to be one of the most vitriolic businesses that has come into existence. Spherion, how art thou? What can I say about a company that has managed to so successfully commoditize labor that it has basically re-introduced slavery?

Why do I call them out? In a few words, they fucking woke me up. So here’s my Spherion experience in a nutshell: they got me a job testing mashed potatoes 84 hours a week, I worked for 3 months, then laid off.

That was december, apparently product demand has once again spiked, and they need me again, as they call me daily like a needy little girl. This is my open letter to Spherion, where I would like to impersonally say, fuck you. Now let’s add some color to this picture.

They call you daily with an automated message that doesn’t start until you say hello. That was fine. They have 2nd shift openings, great.

Did I mention they have eliminated the term ‘3rd shift’, and now prefer to do 2 12 hour shifts of wage slaves? What a benevolent company.

I had all this rage under wraps, until yesterday, when they changed their automated message to begin with, ‘it’s your lucky day’. The most untrue statement ever read by a computer automated voice. These pricks are just laughing at the unemployed now, it’s…..

Exploitive, explitive, infuriating, incendiary, offensive, crippling, saddening, punishing, It’s a broken-ankle frown sandwich. I wish this blog would take me out of their system, but I’ll have to hang up on them tomorrow too. Hope your day is luckier than mine.

I don’t know if that voodoo that you Christians do works, I don’t buy it, but keep praying for the Japanese people. if you really are a believer, send over some goddamn money, everyone knows that works, and its tax-deductible just how you like it. Just so you know, god clearly likes money too, so it must be good.

I had so many things to rant on, but I keep losing them, so lets talk about ‘angry birds’. It’s fucking genius. I just got an iPhone 4, and it is the only electronic that has changed my life in some time, I will never go without a smartphone again.

Oh yes, time to give The Strokes another ‘verbal blowjob’, because congratulations guys, you really made the album to end all post 2000 albums. It just got leaked/your website, and although I already paid an ungodly amount of money for the deluxe album/shirt/vinyl/ package, I just wanted to hear it sooner, so I got a torrent.

It opens with ‘Machu Picchu’, 10 seconds in you are hooked. This is The Strokes that you never heard before, because this time the whole band co-wrote the album. After every member except Nikolai released solo material during the hiatus, they finally decided to write together, and the result is phenomenal.

They have molded all the right parts of their core, ‘is this it’, sound with newer indie, britpop, and early velvet underground to form a musical orgasm that nobody can rightly hate. ‘Life is Simple in the Moonlight’, will move you, I didn’t think they were cross-generational until my dad said WTF is that? It sounds like Bowie.

Originally, I was going to rant about how much I hate the March Madness bullshit, but aren’t you glad I decided to gush about The Strokes instead? I believe they steal from The Cure on, ‘Two Kinds of Happiness’, but nobody cares as long as it sounds good, and will people please stop bitching about Julians Voice, its great, you just don’t like the effect on it

If you like Vampire Weekend, MGMT, The Velvet Underground, or just about anything in the 80s or 90s, this is an album for you. Also, you Christians that still waste your time praying, pray that The Strokes never break up or go on this long of a break again. If anything, its bad for the economy, so pray away!

First of all, I’m a fan. And a small part of anything I say about this band is because I have seen them twice already, I love all their albums, and their reunion was more important than any of my cousins to me.

Is This It.

Room on Fire.

First Impressions of Earth.

Angles.

I put it this way, because I don’t feel I even need to speak to the greatness of the first three, although drastically different, history will tell us that all three were of our generation’s best works. ‘Is This It’, garners the most acclaim, but they all are equally deserving in my book.

So, why am I giving The Strokes a ‘verbal blowjob’? Because they had the chance to completely fuck everything up, they(all but 1), released solo albums during the hiatus, which exemplifies how talented they all are. They bring everything to the table, and everything that middle America hates!

That last bit makes it so much sweeter, so many people can’t take the fact the five art school kids formed the new great band to rock the world. To them, I give a resounding middle finger, because The Strokes have the swagger of Oasis(Liam), and the brains(Noel), of Radiohead, and they are modern rock geniuses.

In fact, if you’ve not heard of The Strokes, I half-want to slap you. You lack the creative functions that a normal human should have, and at least you should defer to the, “I don’t get it, but I understand why the young people get it”, response. Also, Fuck You.

Rolling Stone had an article about how 2010 was a terrible year for Rock, and it was, the concerts got cancelled, there were few great albums, but 2011 is the resurrection. The only one that counts anyway, and we should revel in it!

U2, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, The Strokes, Coldplay, and countless others have finally got their shit together and recorded new material. Us rock fans have to make this Pop/Rap fad go away. Not that there aren’t great songs in the genre, but you have to realize the economics of the situation!

If you say to your boyfriend, “That’s too much for a Concert, aren’t we going to Cancun?”, Not only do I want to punch you in the face(and I don’t support violence against women), but what an ignorant statement. Have you ever had Dave Grohl throw sweat on your face? Obviously you haven’t, and its much better than date nite.

Have you ever actually noticed that Thom Yorke has a lazy eye? Does it matter? He writes the best songs on the planet, FUCK YOU.

Have you ever gotten a semi-homosexual glance from Brandon Boyd? No, you haven’t, and it’s awesome, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Has the Swedish band The Hives, ever made you wish you would have learned guitar at 12? NO, GO CLEAN THE DOG.

Has your gay uncle ever brought up, in family conversation that he saw Michael Stipe in Greenwich Village? THIS IS TOTALLY NOT LIKE A, I HAVE A BLACK FRIEND REFERENCE

Live music is something that many people just do not understand, and I hate that they don’t understand it, because I don’t understand them. There is no set cost to a life-experience. People spend ungodly(And I’m not sure about the existence of “GOD”) amounts of money on a wedding, but can’t take in in the ass from ticketmaster for 69$?

Well now I’m ramblin’ again, this is gonna be a good year, whether you casual music fans like it or not. But we’re gonna have something to rub it in your face at the end, we won’t be talking about dinner parties. It will be all about how many times we got spit on, punched, pushed, thrown, rode on, crowds that shared our same passion. Take that, Sex.

It’s a funny topic. And Bill Maher has had several comments on the state of men in the world, in relation to porn, that are disturbing. Mentioning that many men in America, have left their wives unsatisfied because of their preference of porn. And also, that there is a movement in Japan, where men have become immune to the temptations of women.

Porn is not a termite to the foundation of society, it is an industry that has existed for a long time, that through technology, has evolved into something that many people enjoy. It does not promote anything, it gives people what they want in a safe way.

Another part of the internet’s evolution is that people don’t like to talk about, is that we figured out a lot more about the sexual part of the male and female brain. Preferences, fetishes, colors, positions, ethnic preference, and I could go on for days, but its not a negative thing, people just learned more about themselves, and that’s good.

I have read a lot about all of the issues involved in this debate, and I enjoy the political banter that comes with it, Charles Sheen would know what I was talking about.

It seems in this country, that every political scandal goes one of two ways: The politician dissapears, or the politician has a christian enough constituency to get re-elected. The liberals in scandals tend to step down, and avoid the mess, the conservatives change the rhetoric.

This brings me to Newt Gingrich.

That’s a punch line in some regions.

I might consider being more objective, but nobody reads my blog, so I will say it like this: The Republican party is a reality show, funded by people who have a lust for an America that does not exist, and every major corporation in the country. The Democrats are bad too, but seriously…let me explain.

When Democratic supporters get let down by their candidates, its because, they weren’t progressive enough. When Republican supporters get let down their candidates, blame is split between two different parties, the richest people in the country, who avoid all taxes illegally, and the guy that just beat his wife because the cowboys lost, and they raised the price of Milwaukee’s Best.

So the next scandal: The NFL Lockout.

If you are a human being in the United States, and you support the owners, something is wrong with you. Basically what you are saying is, if Mark Cuban’s group of gladiators beats Jerry Jones’ group of gladiators, and they all die, I’m cool with it, as long as Mark Cuban owns my team.

The players are not overpaid, they are compensated exactly based on their ability, like many conservatives would love! They deserve health benefits when they have reached a tenure in the league, and they provide what everyone in this country with a pulse wants, NFL games.

Even if you don’t care about the NFL, your bills are lower because it exists. Employment is higher because it exists. I’ll bet Obama’s ratings are even effected by how well the Bears do, and I’m not angry with that. The NFL is our nation’s game, and if a group of 32 people that contains so many slime balls, keep us from having it, that’s a travesty.

We have it great here in America, they don’t have it so great in the Middle East/North Africa. They’re pist, and they’re showing it, maybe that’s what we should do?

What if there were massive rallies in every NFL city, saying, get a FUCKING deal done!?

I think it would work, the only people talking about anything relating to an NFL labor deal are the guests who are posturing on ESPN radio. This affects all of us, it might sound stupid to the non-sports fan, but its an economic concern as well. The deal needs to get done, compromises have to be made, and that’s the end of it.

It may seem like the two topics aren’t related, but for single men in this country, believe me, they are like friends with benefits. We need both of them, and without saying something derogatory about women, you could all learn from this, we will let our guard down a little, but please, accept the porn and football.

I used to love the movie, ‘Saving Private Ryan’, I would watch it every time I was bored. I was infatuated with World War II history, and this was the movie that made it truly mainstream, other than ‘The Longest Day’, but nobody knows that movie anymore.

So I am doing two tests, because, again, I am bored. I just got a new Panasonic 42′ Viera TV,  and I want to see what this looks like on it, and also if I still like Saving Private Ryan, because so many movies that I loved, when I was younger, have dissapointed me after I grew up and learned more.

So, I am hoping, that when I watch ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for the first time in many years, on my grand new TV, that I will not hate it like I hate Star Wars. Lets see how this goes….PLAY.

Nevermind. The first scene reminds me how brilliant this thing is, even though I don’t like Tom Hanks. A masterpiece.

I can’t say anything bad about the movie, and thankfully, my TV. But the dialogue is so different when you are older, and imagining the situations of war that they are encountering doesn’t hit you after you grow up. The movie is so well written, and the humanity of it, it should have won best picture twice.