getting funky and fresh

i drew this for all of you.

so today has been dedicated to cleaning. yay cleaning! the house looks all sorts of nice, and i can find things much easier. this is always a nice addition to a somewhat cluttery lifestyle (like the one i tend to lead on my own unfortunate terms). the good thing though is i keep finding massive amounts of music i forgot i had, lots of really strange and unique buttons that i had lying around, and tons of fantastic yarn! oh joy! it's like i waited for an old lady to die and took all of her weird collection of stuff! yay!!

i can't wait until the hot chip show in portland this upcoming april. i'm definitely going to see if there is anyway that it could be arranged to go to that show (and if not, the one in seattle). that would be some good times, for sure. i missed them the last time they were there! ultra bummer! i have had this horrible "missing out on really sweet bands, you dig?" problem for the last bunch of years. after living in a house venue for awhile and seeing countless bands every month, i think my brain got stuck in this mode where it was alright to not see as much music anymore. then i realized recently that it drives me crazy to not be able to catch a show every so often. there havn't been too many as of late though, with all the great venues closing up. i'm wondering whether or not this will change within the next couple of years (considering there is this uprising of weird and amazing talent around the area), however the world of house venues have been coming to a close. too many people get evicted for noise complaints, and people are picky about the lengths they will go to for a show. its sad, really. people thought that elk was too far away, often times...and it was only on 27th street (most north enders live roughly about 10-15 blocks away from there). when we attempted to do shows occasionally at the 18th street house (not the blue house across from good samaritan, but the one that i lived in over by eastman st.), it was too difficult to announce the shows for there. that, and we could only do acoustic sets since our next door neighbors had a slew of kids. it is one of those tough times in the music world around here to take the chance of losing your place in the middle of winter to support a music cause that so many either take advantage of, or really don't give a fuck about. sometimes i get this dream though of opening up a little venue in boise for all the bands that still write and ask if they can get shows booked at a venue while going through boise. it'd be great to be able to get some exposure for the great underground bands that come through, as well as the new and creative locals coming out of the woodworks. sigh...someday when i've got the money and patience for a project like that would i even consider seeing how i'd go about getting the funds and right kinds of staff to work around a project like that...and let alone trying to maintain it so that it doesn't get closed down after a couple of months for having kids sneak in liquor, or kids smoking j's right in front of a cop, or whatever. that happens so often with so many of the house venues....

outside of that long winded rant, i should probably spend tomorrow looking for a job. i've not spent nearly the time i should. its so great to get all this other stuff done though too. you can't even imagine how long i've wanted to say, "dude, i totally know where that is in the house right now." feels pretty damn smooth, brotha.