i surrender!
or
why am i even doing this?


sometimes i hate my band, especially when things start to get too complicated and everyone begins to lose focus on what we originally set out to do. and i hate worrying about that. i hate worrying that we are going to suck all the time. i hate moody bitch-ass drummers. i hate feeling that all the songs i write suck (and what i record sucks). i hate trying to impress anyone. i hate worrying about what color artwork is supopsed to look like. i hate recording. i hate mixing. arghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i saw this on william gibson's blog and took it
GEORGE ORWELL'S SIX RULES

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

"If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of
the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance
of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own
habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless
phrase...into the dustbin where it belongs

i need coffee. i'm serious. i really really need it. really.

hp + dr. evil = anything is possible



this is some weird shit

because we're bo oh ord



how can i be so busy during the weekend and so bored at my job. i can't continue this project i'm working on until a part comes in. i should just cut our early today, go home (and avoid the rioting going on up the street from my apartment) finish up the book i'm currently reading and start the new book i just got in the post today.

most of the frenchmen tour dates for up north fell through (except portland). i guess i need to find another excuse to visit seattle. i've never been up there, and i thought it'd be a nice place to spend time while it's cooking in sacramento.

DOPE SHOW ALERT:

tonight at the colonial theater

-!!!
-OUT HUD
-THE FEELING

on fire...


a while ago i told you a story about people getting pissed off about not a getting an ugley HP golf shirt (then i came to my senses). well this week milton reared his ugley head.

in the mean time, i got a fuckin'sweet PDA to play with (and i got to make someone at work who tried to get me in touble look like a fool)
SUCKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEENER NEEENER NEEEEEEEEEE NERRRRRRRR!!!! I GOT A POCKET PC AND YOU DIDN'T!!!!!!!!! loser.

i didn't want the drive to end...



niki scored a copy of the new clientele album a whole 3 days before it comes out in the UK (i have no idea when it will come out in the US, probably next tuesday). i haven't finished listening to it (on my drive to work), but what i heard blew my mind. i love when a band i like actually meets my expectations. i can't wait for the drive home.

americans. ain't we great?

i'm mc escher and i like to draw...here's my face in a trippy ball



fun filled weekend!
friday:
saw drew from the mosquitoes play a solo set at the charles atlas cafe.
went to amy's in SF for band practice and actually practiced!
saturday
woke up and played GTA vice city for the first time. it seems like a difficult game to get into, but once you get sucked in, i'm sure you can never put it down.
went to a party in grass valley where charles busted his "mc escher rap".
sunday
went swimming in the yuba river.
visited niki's dad and family for f-day. he made some kick arse potatoes.
watched a documentary on ants.
had official frenchmen band practice. it seems like charles is coming down with carpal tunnel syndrome (probably from playing drums incorrectly all his life) i wonder if having proper drums lessons would help him.

what the...? wha happened"



imagine this exact same car in this exact same color...except there is no antennae.

then you will know what my car looks like because some bitch stole mine.

what the hell?

it's a lame sacramento band thang










how come every lame band in sacramento takes their band photo from this angle?



ok so i thought i'd find more pictures like these. just grab an A&K and you'll know what i'm talking about (and if you don't know what an A&K is, then you'll never know)

ha.

teeni santini found them and is getting a free pizza from zeldas pizza in sacramento california courtesy of leon peon. zelda's pizza..."it's the best pizza a man can have"

REEBOK - CLASSIC NYLON (TEAM NAVY/PLATINUM) - MEN'S ATHLETIC SHOE SIZE 14 PLEEEZ!



if anyone can tell me where i can find these in a size 14, i will buy you a pizza. i'm serious!

look...new teeth


well actually, i didn't get new teeth, just one of my chiped front teeth fixed.

look out GQ, there's a new man on the scene!

us programmers...we are funny people


Hi everyone,

I got the evil Zone Devil under control and everything should work again.
Please unload/reload the FC driver (Linux)
or (for Windows) go to My Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager and select upper left Menu -> Reload/Refresh.

If that doesn't work reboot the box.

If that doesn't work give me a call/email.

If that doesn't work, well, I would say BAD LUCK FOR YOU :-)

Cheers,
Matthias