Wild On Waverly and Two for You

Wild on Waverly is this weekend. I will not be racing because I am working. I rode out there yesterday and did some trail work. The Fisher blew a tire after one lap. I had trouble trying to get the tube out so I just gave up. The new reroutes are still soft. I hope that we people will be riding it this week to stamp it down. Anyway, I hope to help get the trails ready for this weekend.

Here are a couple songs written and recorded around 1999. The band featured me on bass/vocals, Will Wishon on guitar and vocals, and Jason Anderson on drums. I hate all the names we had, so I won't share them with you. We had a brief reunion a few years later but Will had some personal issues to deal with and bowed out. Jason got married and moved away. As for me, I got addicted to the dirt cycling

The first one is Young Ones. I think this has to do with Will's proclivity to younger girls rather than older girls( that would outsmart him):

http://www.mediafire.com/?cudm9tdwmyy

This next song, Test Prosedure was written my me. It was based on a riff by Fugazi. Lyrically, it like something off of their album Red Medicine. Anyway, it's about how you put up more barriers for each new relationship. I always feel reluctant starting something new after how bad the last one went.

http://www.mediafire.com/?0iua30xlmxw

PJ Harvey

Now that I've learned how to post videos, I'll post another. This a live version of the song "Dress" by PJ Harvey (from Dry). I think I first heard about her from Drew Wilson in the early 90s, Drew is a maniac and I think he used to tape hours of MTV. This lady can rawk, groove, and quiet it down. I have always thought of her as particularly unique because she wasn't girl-power or I'm-a-slut-listen-to-me type rocker chic. Her voice has a sexual quality to it and her song lyrics can go from deeply personal to textured ambiguity. After high school, my girlfriend at the time broke up with me and I'd list to her album Rid of Me over and over. It was a bad idea because it brought Check her out

Cold Slither

My friend Jason S. used to joke about starting a rock band called Cold Slither after the forementioned Zartan and the Vipers of G.I. Joe fame. Pretty funny stuff.

This is a test. Here's Lo Yo Yo Stuff by Captain Beefheart:

http://www.mediafire.com/?149djh9p9gh

Please respond if the link isn't working.

Detroit at the Nachbar

Matt and I went to go see a band from Detroit called I Crime. They were playing at the Nachbar in Germantown . I Crime is a power trio featuring a guy and gal on giters with a drummer. Is there a shortage of bassists in Detroit. The two sang with great harmonies. The drummer was talented and I stared at him as I often do a great drummers. Watching him made me thing of my kit rotting away in various pieces all over the city. Matt was more focused on the chick's guitar. It was some type of hallowbody pawn-shop type guitar.

Matt and I were hammerin down the Newcastles and my energy was directed at shooting the shit. I was getting loaded and so we started people watching. The next band had already come on and I only saw them during trips to the bathroom. Sorry guys.

BANG! the alarm went of at 8AM today. I had forgotten why I had set it. I had to do trail work today at Waverly Chris, Eric, Mike (mostly Mike) and I put in two bridges in the new section of the park. I hope to go out there tomorrow and post some pics. The race is a week away and we hope to have this section of the park finished by then. The Metro Parks guys: Eric and Larry were very helpful and did most of the cutting and digging. The used the dingo to carve most of the sections. Go check it out!!

From a hanger to a glass bottle

Today I picked up my Fisher from Scheller's. I had an issue that stemed from putting on a new rear derailler hanger. When I was on the middle chainring, every gear would slip when some serious torque was applied to it. Since I asked every armchair mechanic I could find, the problem was never solved til I took it to my friend at Scheller's. Thanks.



Recently I downloaded a song from another music blog but didn't really get around to "listening" to it till now. The track was from Ethiopiques Vol 3, Temeles by Alemayehu Eshete/Hirut Beqele. To me it sounds like some down home funk with someone singing in (Asian) Indian. Anywise, I downloaded all the tracks on that album by Alemayehu Eshete and they kick ass. Ethiopian music sounds nothing like the click-clacking of the bushmen from The Gods Must Be Crazy!

Time to kick it off!!!

I'm not sure what this blog is going to be about. It'll bitch and moan about things I think are stupid. I'll also talk tunes and bikes but I'm a piker at both. When I learn more about this, I'll try to make something really cool out of this. Give it some time.....

If you can guess what movie this pic is from, you are allowed to read this blog