I invited myself to a BBQ the other day. Since my "wife" wants to work a "job," I was stuck with "my kid." So I strapped "my kid" in his carrier and we walked over to the BBQ. "My kid" was sweet and quiet and pleasant and friendly and cheerful. Then I walked in the door and he tried to make me look bad by being a big ole baby. Whaaa this and whaaa that.
I'm "that guy" now.
"screaming kid guy at the BBQ guy"
So I left "my kid" at the damn BBQ--if he's going to be a jerk, that's what's up.

Post-Timequake Apathy

Hello! and Ting-A-Ling!


Things are unstable in the Sleepeater camp. Some peeps are wallowing down in the despair known as Verm Town, and other peeps are wallowing down in the despair known as the bottle. Jack Lazer soldiers on with his solo project, "Jack Lazr and The Dark." The first single has been leaked to the internet by a sneaky janitor with hacker skills. I'm not at liberty to give away the location, but two clicks from here will get you there. The track is called "1 point 21" and was engineered by the reclusive DJ Luke Warm. If you find it, you win the prize.

Ting-A-Ling

someone's filling out their favorite onesie!


On a local message board, on a thread completely unrelated to us, this un-provoked verbal assault was found:

"you know, you assholes are the whole reason the Sioux Falls musicl scene isn't as popular as it should be. There are a lot of excellent groups in the Sioux Falls area, but because of you fuckers, you shoot down anyone who doesn't sound like you're favorite faggy bands such as Blink 182, or fucking Sleepeater??? Give me a fucking break! S------ and G--------- could kick the shit out of fucking Sleepeater 7 days a week in any contest in any day. Just admit it, you assholes are HIPPIES!!!! And the worst kind, hippies with opinions. Word of advice, stay in you're parents basement, keep eating pizza, and go back to high school and pay attention in music class because you all need schooling. Why dont you guys start praising these bands that go out of their way to try and make a difference and do something that makes them happy, instead of being losers like you, and sitting at home and doing nothing but bringing everything down. Get a fucking life and grow up, or fuck off!!!!!!!!"

Whoa. I really hate contests. And this wasn't even about the contest. Ouch, dude. Like, we have feelings, too, and stuff. Are you calling us hippies? Like, below the belt, dude.

We played at the fair last week and thanks to all our friends and fans for coming out! You ROCK!! Fair people, they rock too, just to something else...that came out no less than 25 years ago. Lots of hostility and criticism over our musical stylings were given out without invitation. People wanted to tell us that we would get a better crowd if we would just play some ACDC, Bob Seger, John Cougar, Johnny Cash, and, of course, "Freebird."
One guy cornered lukewarm and gave him a heads-up that we need to "tone it down."
But there was gold at the end of the rainbow, and it was good.
The lord is on our side. Same as the U.S.
The lord has chosen us to lead the peeps. Same as G.W.
We don't need approval, history will show our righteousness.

"Armies of the dead survivors
Armies of the hungry ones.
Only ones, lonely ones
ripped up like shredded wheat"

Losers

And we lost.

Miles took the news pretty hard.

AIC decided to have not one but two bands open for them, and neither of those two were us.
Oh the pain. It hurts. Inside.

But Alice...dudes...?

Sources say AIC's management researched the bands to see what big names they had opened for and what kind of crowds they draw...but, whatever. we play tomorrow night instead for about 6 hours.

"If you're not in first, you're last." --Ricky Bobby
I don't like comedies in theatres. It's never funny enough to make it worth the money. But with some free tix, my bro and I caught Talladega Nights last night. As usual, the commercials for the movie gave away every funny part in the movie. What a waste. It was even worse than I imagined. I was hoping for a severe mocking of the Nascar community, but no. Cheesy in a bad way. Wait for the DVD.

Can you smell that?
I'm burning my Alice records:(