shawn avery

tonight... playing a show with the spots at the avon theatre... or what was the avon theatre... doing some heavy listening of the new midlake cd. it grows on you. very unique band. its a concept record that basically journals the trials and errors, hopes and fears of a fictional (maybe?) 19th century settler. i wanna quit smoking . still thinking about the jeff tweedy show. he's a great talent. i can't wait to see wilco again. this morning it was 20 degrees. it may snow tonight. hopefully the temp will be decent at the midlake show on saturday. i wanna get out of town... maybe nashville or atl. jessi-co mentioned the same thing yesterday. got some new furniture. now i want a new laptop. my apt looks like post-katrina nola. almost. doing some mild renovating. i wish today was friday. apts w/ hardwoods are hard to heat. i need window treatments. i swear i'm not gay.

here's what clint wrote : I don't think Wilco will ever accomplish this goal, but I would love for more people to listen to music as a sole activity. I think it's a really transformative way that that art can touch you. Aside from live music, which I think is really important to being human...to be a part of a crowd experiencing music...recorded music is like literature when you allow yourself to sit and listen. I mean, you know. That's all you did when you were growing up; that's all you needed to do. You found friends that could sit and be quiet and not fucking ruin it; those were your friends, you know? If somebody couldn't do that, you couldn't hang out with them. I don't care how cool they were; they weren't cool. - Jeff Tweedy Jeff Tweedy is the shiz. He makes great points. It's becoming harder and harder to do two things: Listen to and engage music as an activity in itself. Listen to records as a whole piece of art. The advent of the ipod ...

EVH on letterman...

new photo galleries from fotomachen and dani. i had these ladies come out to the show and shoot some photographs. GREAT stuff. click on the photos above to see the larger versions. fotomachen's gallery dani's gallery

up until today its been really warm. almost spooky. still renovating my apt somewhat. some structural things got fixed last week... have a lot of prints and whatnot to hang. had a lazy weekend, really moody for some of it. saturday night i got way ahead of myself. one of those intense highland park gatherings we have from time to time. on sunday i played the raindrop festival for shane hulsey. we hadn't rehearsed since our show at workplay on 12/21, but somehow we played the show almost flawlessly. i guess once you know the songs, you are good to go. duquette's girlfriend, morgan, posted several photos from the festival which you can view by clicking here . here's the line-up. i played with duqutte johnston's band which this time consisted of... jody / brad : guitar greg slamen: bass me: drums duquette carol : vocals great energy and a packed house. here's a memorial film for shane : this was the line-up for the festival: 2:30-3:00 Ashley Hulsey 3:15-3:45 Josephin...

so the weather is finally getting cold again. and i can't breathe. and my mood has been up and down for a month. however. .. i'm still witty. today for instance i said... " girls who don't masturbate aren't girls ." my good friend sarah leah wrote this in an email today: best overheard banter in the ER waiting room today : "Thems spiders that bit me, they's a new kind. Done came over from Iraq with the troops. Iraqi spiders." "didja ever hear the like?" crap. I love my job. then i responded: " does that mean he now has iraqni-phobia ?" yeah. i'm a fucking idiot. but i'm an idiot with a new flat panel tv and a teeth whitening kit.

so... i decided it wouldn't be prudent to go to nyc for new year's this year, although i REALLY wanted to. last year i was in los angeles and it was a blast... see last year's post... so this year my BGFF and i, jessi-co, decided to throw a party... SOMEWHERE . after talking to venues and people with lofts and whatnot, we got into a discussion with jessica's friend rebecca... one thing led to another and rebecca set us up with the powers that be at bottletree... fast forward a few weeks later... we have promos, a street team of sorts, a band, dj, photographers both roaming and set up at a sexy lookin' booth... champagne, suprizes, video and a THEME. the 80's... it was without a doubt, one of, if not the best NYE parties in birmingham... and for that matter... probably the entire state. special thanks to nathan (both of them) sarah leah miller, the performers, bottletree and my momz for coming out to party with us for a few hours. over 200 bham patrons were deva...