I'm SO mean.

Sorry about last night. I know I got a little out of hand. I understand that when I make a hard trivia round, some of you that are less knowledgeable than some will not enjoy it as much. I acknowledge that some of you were listening to Mariah Carey instead of The Pixies or The Replacements in the late 80's. I will acquiesce that you probably listened to Boys II Men maybe less so than say, Pavement or Afghan Whigs in the 90's. I'll even concede that you might know who these bands are, but just not THAT much about them and well, this might suck for you a little bit, and what are YOU Mr. Trivia host going to do to comfort and allow me to cheaply drink myself into oblivion because my friend at work told me I'd be awesome at this?

Nothing. Man up. This is music trivia, not music common knowledge. It's called 'Smart'ass for a reason. Thus the competitive part. End of rant.

Last nights winners were:

ROUND 1: Team Win (one girl, never seen her before, 100 points out of a possible 110)
ROUND 2: The Cherry Flavored Schmoo's
ROUND 3: The Shitty The Band

Thanks to all that came out last night! Look for a story about us in Time Out this week or next!

Or this one...

First game of the year

Happy new year! Mondays game was a scream. I got a few compliments on my djing skeels, which is always a good feeling. Played alot of B sides and rare things that are from bands you would recognize normally, but not the songs playing. Like for example, "The Diary of Horace Wimp" off ELO's Discovery album. It's like Mr. Blue Sky pt. 2, awesome tune. I love deep tracks, there really is no better feeling than to discover a song on a record thats like, the 8th track on the album, might not have this MONSTER chorus that would have made it a hit, but YOU like it better than anything in the world. It's the same thrill you get when you find a new band no one knows about or a rare record find. Good stuff!

So, we're going to be in Time Out NY next week. They're doing a piece on trivia games around the city. Thats a great thing, I wish I could play more. I need to find a good game somewhere besides my own. Got to support the scene, dude! We trivia host gotta look out for each other! We're so underappreciated.

I also wanted to adress something my Time Out interviewer said about how either the Unholy Trinity or The Cherry Flavored Schmoos always won the games. Well, no, they don't always win. They DO win alot because they are good, very good, but there are certainly times when some completely new teams will show up and run thangs. It's always very cool.

That said, this weeks winners were:

ROUND 1: THE UNHOLY TRINITY
ROUND 2: THE CHERRY FLAVORED SCHMOO'S
ROUND 3: THE UNHOLY TRINITY

Yeah,...

Soberly

Ya gotta wonder, would Janis Joplin REALLY have gone onto great things if she hadn't crawled into that bottle of Southern Comfort? Would Kurt Cobain actually have gone onto write better and bigger records? Or would he have ended up like Gibby Haynes, living in Red Hook, bumbling around the streets with his dog mumbling to himself about glory days gone by, sober?

Can a rockstar be clean and be a rockstar? And did they peak early on regardless of their vices? Now theres a REAL opinion question for you dear reader. I'm not so sure.

While the drop and the drug will sap some of their creative spark, some thrive upon them and can't create without. Guess we'll never know, because they're dead, and we're still here, wondering.

Ehh, sorry for the bummer, just typing out loud...

LAST NIGHTS WINNERS WERE:

THE CHERRY FLAVOURED SCHMOOS, SWEPT THE NIGHT.

Apologies to The Unholy Trinity, who have been kicking ass for the last couple of weeks.

Thursday night, The Jones Street Boys and Goes Cube will appear at Union Hall in Park Slope and it's going to rock like the proverbial hurricane and you should go!

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!