The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy blogger

Hi, so firstly, many MANY apologies to The Unholy Trinity for my failure to post their triumphant sweep of last weeks game. They made it happen and can cure cancer and always have a shiny golden glow around them and smell quite good too.

There Adam, ya happy?

Also, thanks to Justin Martin of PBR for sponsoring us and bringing us lots of great PBR and PBR products for prizes, mucho gracias!

Tonight, the Forms record release is at Cakeshop. Why should you go? Well, there will be open bar, and a free CD with admission and the best reason to go is that The Forms are playing, and they will rip your head open and stuff a metric assload of rock into it, sew it back up, powder your bum, and send you away humming the best music in the world, thats why. Oh, and theres an open bar. Doors are at 8pm, see you there!

Also, the Jones Street Boys are playing at Bowery Ballroom. Not going to make that because I'll be having my head ripped open and stuffed with Forms rock, but if you like great Blue-Grass pop music, you're in for a treat!

Last nights winners were:

ROUND 1: THE CHERRY FLAVORED SCHMOOS

ROUND 2: THE SCHMOOS AGAIN!

ROUND 3: THE UNHOLY TRINITY, UPSETTING A SCHMOOS SWEEP.

I'm pretty sure we'll have a very special guest host next week, will let you know more later.

Brooklyn invaded Manhattan last night

Hello dear readers,..all two of you. Last night was the usual blast at Pianos. I wasn't actually thinking of making it because I was going to go see The National at Highline last night, but decided to be true to my own night and I'm glad I did. My Brooklyn peeps from Gowanus Yacht Club in Carroll Gardens came out to represent and a lot of other people I'd never seen at trivia before. Nice!

Since the Unholy Trinity and The Schmoos took the night off to support the National boys, the playing field was pretty level. Except for the Cinderella story that lie in wait in the far corner who swept the night. Oh, also Alex Forms and Jen Gothamist brought the singer from Ghostland Observatory who told me he had a blast at trivia, later at Darkroom. Nice kid. Check them out on Conan tonight. Jesus, I went to 7 bars last night. Shit,...thats fucked up, Donnie!

Last nights winners were:

Sweeping the night- BOINKING YOUR SISTER

Nice job guys, thank you and drive thru.

Guns and Poses

Well, thats what we used to call 'em anyway. Why did people freak out about this band so much? Was it the top hat? The bad boy image? Honestly, just about every rock band I've ever met worth their salt has had a drug problem/girl trouble/dysfunction, etc. What made those guys so special? My opinoion question last night was most annoying voice in metal and the answer was Axl Rose. Now, I got alot of huffing and puffing over that one (except Alex Tween from The Forms, because he's smart like me) and I gotta take issue with that. What the fuck was so great about that guy? I swear he wore that bandana to keep his ego from spilling out, WHY I have no idea because he couldn't really sing that well. Ripped his moves off from Davy Jones from the Monkees (dude, get a REAL idol, please..) and had a half way decent band behind him. Anyway, for my money, I thought David Lee Roth was much more entertaining, even if he wasn't that great of a singer, I have a feeling he'd tell Axl to stop whinning (literally and figurativly) and try and cheer up.

Don't even get me started on Chinese Democracy. 'Yes Axl, we all wait with baited breath for that turd to drop.' Eeesh..

So I got lazy and forgot to post last weeks' winners so here they are first:

ROUND 1- THE UNHOLY DUO

ROUND 2- KA-KA-KA-KA-KOW

ROUND 3- THE CHERRY FLAVORED SCHMOOS

Last NIGHTS' winners were:

ROUND 1- THE CHERRY FLAVORED SCHMOOS

ROUND 2- THE CHERRY FLAVORED SCHMOOS

ROUND 3- THE UNHOLY DUO

Stalk ya later!

Weird

I had a dream last night that I was at a sex club auditioning for a job. Only because attached to the sex club was an amazing studio I could record in for free if I was employed there. The lady running the place was a real ball buster too. I ended up not taking the job in my dream. Come out to trivia tonight and make sure I'm ok...

If theres a hipster heaven, they're going to have a hell of a band OR My night in hell.

So, I went to see Interpol Friday night at Madison Sq. Garden. Typically I hate to see shows there as the sound is usually all over the place although, ironically, the best sounding show ever was Radiohead at MSG in 2001, but I digress. I missed the Liars, not that I cared much, not a fan of their bizarre cacophony. Caught an underwhelming Cat Power set with her band, the Dirty Delta Blues band. The only dirty thing a saw was their hair but maybe I was too far away. I dunno.. Then the black clad boys joined the fray from behind a 50ft tall scrim that was supposed to come down much earlier than it did.

A friend saw something poetic in that. I thought about it some more and they were right.

I mean, their brand of Kraut influenced rock has always been delivered from behind some veil of insecurity and snotty apathy. Not to say I don't enjoy some snotty apathy, I do, but when it finally went down and we could see them better, those kids seemed to be having a good time up there. I swore I even saw Carlos crack a smile, or what would pass for one, a couple of times. There also seems to be a new love for groove and what some might call a more pedestrian sense of melody in that you find yourself humming along more than usual. I like that. Good for them. Maybe they're cheering up in their, uhh, mid to upper 20's??

Speaking of hipsters, Thurston Moore put out a solo record today. It's supposed to be good, lemme know what you think.

LAST NIGHTS WINNERS WERE:

1. THE UNHOLY FLAVORED SCHMOOS
2. CMG- New comers, nice guys!
3. THE UNHOLY FLAVORED SCHMOOS

OH, btw, whoever asked about that country rock book I'm reading, it's called 'Are You Ready For The Country' and I can't remember who the author is but I'll look around for it and let you know.

Thats all for now dear readers, stalk ya later!

Heah's ya beah!!

I've been thinking about country music alot lately, been reading a book on the connection of it to rock, and I'm becoming much more interested in it. There was a time when I'd rather listen to hipsters talk about how much better the Elephant 6 collective used to be as opposed to today or how awesome MisShapes this week (seriously, if you ever hear me speaking about either one, hang me without benefit of trial and dump my sad ass in the Hudson) than country music, but old school stuff s not so bad. And screw you if you don't like the Eagles. I do. You know, rocks' beloved Bob Dylan was through, done, put a fork in Bob he's over. That is until Jonny Cash insisted he come to Nashville and be on his weekly TV show,...and play electric. Folkies actually wretched in the streets, but the rest of the country forgave Bob, liked the new direction and thus an icon was born. So, the couple of you who hate on country music, be a bit more open minded like all NYers are supposed to be. Oh, yeah and one more thing, all you NYC'ers who slag on the South about how dumb we are, and backwards, et al, just remember, blues and country came from the South, no country, no rock. No backward-ass rednecks, no Elephant 6 collective,...er, wait, Elephant 6 is from Athens GA!! There you have it.

Ugh,..I'm not making any sense am I?? Heres the winners from last night:

THE CHERRY FLAVORED SCHMOOS SWEPT THE NIGHT, WINNING ALL 3 ROUNDS.

Go buy the new Forms record, it's awesome! Stay tuned for Hipster Olympics!!

No trivia tonight!

Sorry if you showed up anyway. Next week we're back so come out!!!