ok.

so, i want to make a public announcement about this because bars seem to have this thing backwards. they seem to think that if they don't post set times then people will show up at doors and wait until the band comes on.

personally, if you don't post set times then chances are that i'm not going at all - because i'm not going to show up at doors and wait around at the bar all night.

the loving touch has given me a four hour window(20:00 - 00:00) to guess when what is probably going to be an hour show is going to happen. meanwhile, there's two other things i'm planning around. there does not appear to be an opening band. i've asked for set times and received no response. so, i'm going to have to scratch the we were promised jet packs show off the list.

if they were to post set times, i'd be able to plan around the other two shows; if they don't, then i can't work that show into my plans tonight.

that said, the other venue is playing later tonight than i expected. my initial plan was to stop in hamtramck on the way to ferndale. if i can get a setlist, i may go to ferndale and then back to hamtramck. but, i'm probably not going to want to go to hamtramck for a 22:00 show at all.

right now, it seems like i'm going straight to marble, but the loving touch still has time to post setlists and fix that.

ok, so i think i've got the next week cleared out pretty well.

next friday is probably empty.

saturday is torche/baroness, as well as a marching band show in the park in the afternoon. there will be another marching band show in a different park on sunday afternoon, and then sunsquabi in the evening. so, that's a good weekend, and i might take it all in one chunk.

i'm going to hope that clearing out the week is good enough, and that i can plan to go in one day next week sometime around the middle of the week. i have the day picked out, and it works out because the show that the band is playing in detroit is sold out, i'm just iffy on buying tickets until i see the exact nature of the case i'm building. i mean, i have a pretty good idea, but i don't want to buy a ticket to toronto and then realize i missed something.

i was considering going over for the weekend just for the experience, but that's actually pretty unnecessary. it was built around the idea of the screaming females show being in london, and working around it, but it's on a sunday so it kind of doesn't actually work. if i go in early on a weekday morning, i should be able to serve everybody through the day, see a show at night, catch the early morning bus to london, file, and then be home by the next afternoon. this is a long day, no doubt, but i shouldn't need to take two or even three nights of lodgings on top of everything else, that way.

so, unless i get this done very quickly, tonight should probably be my last night out for a solid week. and, i need to get a move on it.

they probably don't do this anymore.

no, really.

i hope they thought ahead and made sure that the elo show next saturday is wheelchair accessible.

they probably won't have to ask people to turn off their cell phones, but they should ask them to make sure they change their diapers.

i should be quiet before i end up a casualty in the battle of michigan avenue. that's a different way to define "mobile devices"; it would be tiananmen square all over again.

i'm sorry. really. have fun, if you go.

i've been stumbling around detroit looking for some like-minded musicians for a while now, and it's kind of not working, so i'm going to try something else.

this is a video of me performing some guitar tracks in ottawa in 2012 at an occupy ottawa fundraiser to shut down the tar sands [think of it like an anti-keystone thing from the canadian side]. it's a little sloppy, but the bizarre syncopation is entirely intentional and actually kind of the point. this is not screwing around, it's a composition. easily deconstructible influences here include jimi hendrix, frank zappa, kurt cobain, billy corgan, efrim menuck, adam jones, jimmy page, norman westberg, renaldo/moore, steve hackett, john mclaughlin, al di meola, colin marston, jack white, omar rodriguez, carlos santana, kevin shields, mike keneally, tim smith & greg hetson....as well as debussy, rachmaninov, steve reich and philip glass. and leo brouwer.

i would like to find a drummer that is brave enough to take this on. please help if possible.

it turns out that the 19th is kind of boring, too. a few iffy things scattered around, nothing really exciting.

that's ok - another day to get the legal documents written.

i may duck out for a few minutes on saturday to a local show at villain's, but i probably won't.

i'm in on sunday and monday.

unless i hear otherwise, the tunnel closes at 20:00 all next week, meaning i'm stuck for over nights every night. and, i'll probably skip all of them....

but, there's an experimental/jazz show on tuesday north of newtown and a couple of psych-ish and/or electronic-y shows on wednesday that are long shots if the tunnel re-opens, or i get done the paperwork faster than expected. i guess i'll get these up as i look into them more closely.

so, i'm through the week and on to planning next weekend, which should be a little faster because i think it's clear. the big question is: torche/baroness or james/psychedelic-furs?

for $10, i expect my free nike shoes to be personally signed by colin kaepernick.

this is not that notable, actually, but the girls just want to have fun cover is very tainted love, and that's a hole nobody's filling. although, you'd have wanted to give them lots of space if you had asked coil to file a hole, so you want to be careful with such a request.

oddly, it seems like marble is both the cool kids club and the new goth club in town, just as leland is trying to escape from it's old reputation; as soon as goth has a moment, the goth club goes dubstep, right as it is in itself dying. grargh. but, i've been saying for years that the latter place is just badly managed.

http://virginthorns.bandcamp.com/