We Will, We Will, Do Our Best to Rock You

So here I am, trying to avoid getting sucked in to watching the Oscar pre-game show. Walking down the red carpet and what not. It's harder this year because there are more interesting movies nominated than usual, and if I were to catch an interview with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhall, any of the rest of the cast of Brokeback Mountain, Nicole Kidman of course, or Rachel Weisz, I would actually be interested in that. It still isn't worth the requisite time in front o' the tube.

What else can I say. The band I am in played its first show in its present incarnation last Friday as 'Cassette.' We were formerly called 'Delmar', but since added a new member (from the illustrious science-folktion duo 'Secondhandpants') so it warrented a new name. We played at an art show and it turned out well. We bleached the outline of a cassette tape onto each of our shirts so we smelled like swimming pools and our throats burned but overall the scale was tipped slightly to the side of "success." I don't think there is any way to hear the one song we have recorded out in internetland, though you can and, dare I say, should, check out the Secondhandpants (esp. Space Robot Blues).

Well, we play Ultimate tonight at 9:30 so I'll take it easy until then, after which I will be too wound up to sleep and will have trouble getting up tomorrow morning.

Looking forward this week to: Akron/Family show at the Albert on Thursday.