Haha I was trying to remember if that was you or… I feel like Champkind maybe had a similar experience. And tbone.
that was an outdoor SXSW gig? Would have been 2013, that south by was a blur.
i am excited about this - https://do512.com/events/2025/5/24/driver-friendly-tickets
haven’t been on a stage really since this night 12 years ago
Driving through the busy intersection near our house this morning. A voice from the backseat -
“We passed this light yesterday. The police did not come to get mommy because they were not here.”
Crazy that they’re all gone, although I guess in a way also not. If Paul Westerburg thinks you’re going too hard you’re probably going too hard (Johnny’s Gonna Die). [edit] 75 is probably a good run for Buster
I keep meaning to go back and watch that New York Doll documentary.
On some little kid stuff - dads and donuts day at preschool. She missed a few things (crunchy carrots lol and I’ve never played a down of real football) but I’m proud of what she got right here and proud of her little signature
this is interesting.
obviously playing in a band and touring across the country in a van and doing shit like that is not "serving" but I'm often glad that I did something interesting and something that broadened my perspective a bit while I was young. At my last job I was talking to one of the sales directors and he mentioned he spent some time as a commercial fisherman when he was in his twenties and we connected a bit over having had a... I dunno, cowboy phase before settling into corporate lives. There are times when, of course I regret opportunities I missed when I was deep inside the bottle, and then related but separate I wonder "what if" about people who started with a focused direction really early. And there are also times I think about people who go off to college at 18 for career prep and go sequentially right through the steps and are in the burbs in a quarter zip and khakis with 2.5 kids in their mid twenties, and i do not at all regret fucking up and bouncing around and doing some cowboy shit for a while as I figured things out. And apart from just spice of life stuff, I do think that the broader experience and perspective is both useful and helps me enjoy life better.
Could be highly nothing - someone posted a thing on a matchless facebook group that has since been pulled down, but it looked like the source saying he had died was someone who would know him personally and the source saying he was alive was also someone close, so I'm curious if he's in bad shape. Hopefully he's OK.
He is back at bad cat -
Rumors (apparently false) are spreading that Mark Sampson died. Not sure if they’re currently false or categorically false, but man that’ll add to the already fairly baseless (comparative to later years) hype on early Matchless amps.