Here something to wet your pants over...Creed has reunited once again
for a summer tour and new record. Just like Limp Bizkit, the crap
bands are mounting a comeback.
I have no opinion of the Flaming
Lips Song Do You Realize being the Oklahoma rock theme state song.
Never cared much for the Flaming Lips then or now. She Don't Use Jelly
killed it for me. I'm sure there's a better Leon Russell song that
could have been used or The Tractors but my vote still goes for Dwight
Twilley's I'm on Fire.
If Jason Aldean is country so is The
Flaming Lips. I know some of y'all out there like Jason's stuff but to
me it sounds too cliche and too rock for country. Of course they gotta
stick a loud steel guitar or fiddle to call it country. Those who asked
me to, no I have no intentions of reviewing Jason's latest record.
Unless you like to see me bash it. Which again I have no intention to.
The
next time some weather asshole says on TV that we need more rain I'm
going down there personally and smack them upside the head.
It
could have been worse, we got about an inch and half of rain, places to
the west of here got around 4 to 5 inches (round Waterloo) but this area
got the tornado instead. Around 5, there was one that rip around
Alburnett and Central City, causing a bit of damage to Flying Squirrel
area around Pinicon Ridge Park. Too close for comfort. Over three
years ago, there was a tornado that made a mess out of the Shaw Rd area
outside of Anamosa but lifted enough to miss the Wally World. And the
Iowa City Tornado that happened the same day. But this is the reason
why I hate springtime here. Stalled Stationary fronts, endless trains
of rainstorms, flooded basements, misery. So far this spring the storms
have not been as bad as the ones last year, one after another of heavy
rain and more ulcers and cusswords. We have had three weekends of
clouds or rain or snow or tornados this year but none of the monsoons,
although this weekend was the wettest since the first week of march.
But we were never in a drought as those idiot weathermen were saying.
It's fucking springtime dumbasses, the rainy season is in full effect.
Fuck off on the need rain whine. We don't need anymore for about two
more weeks.
If your gay or lesbian, you can now get married
here. And nothing more that I want to see less is two fat lesbos
talking it up on the news. Just like anything when it comes to smoking,
the newscast has to show people smoking, now we get to see lesbos
talking bout how happy they are and good for them but this is the kind
of shit that should be regulated to the web and not on the 6 oclock
news. Why is it that if you want to see tornado pictures you have to go
to the web but have to look at lesbians on TV? No wonder why the news
sucks, too many minites going for Kaplan University snake oil
commericals and junk news and not enough of the important things.
Band
news, I showed up in a fowl mood, having to deal with the turtle and
hare traffic. You know that, the turtle is the fuck for brains going 10
miles an hour and the hare is the asshole behind you going twenty miles
faster. I think Russ finally got the fact that Brandi isn't going to
be a part of our supergroup (not that she ever was), and finally got to
sing out Dead Flowers but kept fucking up on the final last lines of
both verses. This is not like singing for the TEs whereas you fuck up
on the words you get to rewind and start again. They said it sounded
pretty good but next time I need to remember to bring the freaking words
so I don't have to guess. Don't know how singers do this, but then
again they have more brain cells than I do. And more patience. Each
week we do have some sense of direction but it is a week by week basis
for me. Working nights may still prohibit me from doing this fulltime
but the guys know that. Everybody seems to have a lot of tolerance for
me it seems. Even the faithful readers of Crabb.
I'm getting
behind in responding to emails to my friends and I hope to get around
that in the coming days. Like Brooksie who used to do a rival top ten
till she got promoted in her job and doesn't have much time for it
anymore. or Diggy who talk about maybe spending some time out where
he's at and maybe jam out there. We'll have to see, only have so many
vacation days and not enough time to do what I want. But it is
tempting.
As I write this, I see our very first tulip popping
up for the first time this year. Perhaps the tulips are getting
smarter. Last year they popped up the first week of April and got
buried in snowfall the next day and washed away the next weekend.
Hopefully the rain is over....probaly till thursday when another
stationary front decides to call this home and the next battlefield of
tornados and thunderstorms.
And that's not what we want.
