People on ebay who have reserves are fucking morons/assholes. If you don't want your item to be sold for less than a certain price, then fucking start the bidding at whatever that price is you fucking moron.

Like this douchebag... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEBTOX:IT&item=200197822942&_trksid=p3984.cTODAY.m238.lVI

Its a great fucking amp that is supposed to have great low-end and is what they made before they were called Hiwatt. They were made famous by Pete Townsend because he got massive volume out of these babys... anyhow this fucking moron thinks he's going to get rich off of this amp. So I don't know what the reserve is but its more than $780 and nobody won it. I've seen him try to sell this thing twice and he thinks because he restored it a little that means it should be priced higher than it ever should have been sold for. Most reviews on this amp say they got the amp around $500, some payed as much as $700, but nobody wants to start an auction at $700 and they can see that there is a reserve so we know its at least $800. Too damn much, but what I'm really mad about is the reserve.

Meanwhile my Peavey 5150 is still in the shop at Mikes Music. I'm waiting to hear back on what is wrong because the standby is not coming on. It could be a real major thing like a fucked poweramp, or it could be just some wiring in the preamp somewhere that doesn't let the standby come on, which in turn keeps any sound from coming out. This guy comes in once a week they say he hadn't been in last week. He just comes in whenever he wants. Nice job huh? And he gets $35 just for looking at it. When I get my guitars worked on or set up there I get them back usually in a matter of hours or a day or two at the most, and I'm always impressed. Hopefully I will be impressed when I get my amp back or I'm gonna raise hell.

Regardless I hope to get my Peavey fixed up and get some kind of amp like a Sound City, a Hiwatt, or Laney that puts out massive low end. The Peavey has great clean, clear sounds and tones, and gets great mids and highs to allow you to hear all of the notes and little frequencies going on. I will get an AB Switch and hook my Peavey up to one 4x12 cabinet, and hook whatever other amp I get to one or two of my other 4x12s to get the low end I want. The result should be devastating. But its gonna take some time and money to get there.

peace and doom,

-S

Uninspired, grumpy, useless, pacing around, hungry, low on cash, splitting headache, worst day in a long time, even my cat doesn't want to come anywhere near me. Amp is broken, prolly will cost a few hundred to repair, no way to vent, shit to do, no motivation to do it, high gas prices, bills, bills, bills. Midterm exams, study, tuition, deadlines, obligations, late fees, drinking is through the roof, still not smoking for the most part, computer needs fixing, oil needs changed, apartment needs cleaning, need to pay up on auto repairs, need to get my resume together. Need to do taxes, need to do this, need to do that, bad luck, dispointing the world one person at a time. Nervous breakdown, scumbag, taking too long to graduate but kinda almost there, part-time, insomnia off and on, fatigue, winter time sucks, most of my family is dead. Currently tired of heavy stuff so I'm listening to motown and jazz, new tattoos that itch but I can't scratch, laying in bed but not sleeping, late to everything, hating everything, hoping for a fistfight, diet of ramen noodles and potatoes, missed the Dax Riggs show, prolly will miss others, paranoia of getting the flu, staying away from most people, grouchy, headache still hurts like hell. Misery loves company, cliché, clique, fuck this blog, fuck this day.

So now the Emissions from the Monolith fest has moved to Texas. Oh well... good ridance. The only bands I really cared that much about seeing anyways were Coffins, Indian, Middian, Graves At Sea, Blue Cheer, some bands I've seen before, and then a few bands I see all the time because they tour a lot. The rest is all a bunch of crappy stoner rock that I don't really care about one way or another. Some are good, some are mediocre, some just suck. I'd rather hear Cathedral or Saint Vitus than a fifth rate Kyuss rip-off or a someone shitty like Artimus Piledriver or all Alabama Thunderpussy after the first album (I thought the addition of Kyle Thomas from one of the best bands ever, Exhorder, would really turn this shitty band around, but his vocals these days suck. Now its a blend of two things I hate. It's shitty generic stoner rock meets cock rock/glam vocals).

So anyhow Cash and I have been throwing around the idea of doing something similar here. Only most of the stoner rock would be replaced with grindcore. It'd prolly be mostly doom because I have much more knowledge in that area and know more people in that field, but I'd like to do something that sort of picks up where Youngstown and the Templars of Doom in Indy left off... of course on a much smaller scale at first, but unlike Emissions I'd like it to get better and better. I'm just thinking aloud here so anyone chime right in and leave comments.

The ideal place to set it would be somewhere like the Southgate House, plenty of space, you can smoke inside, hotels around, things to do nearby, cool place to have it, parking is nearby, buss routes, etc.
It'd be something I'd like to do for one day  the first year... probably being the in the Fall of 2008. It'd start around noon and go until closing time which is what 2am in Kentucky? It'd have prolly something like 6 nationals if we can get ones that we know who are going to be reasonable. The rest of the bands would be from the midwest/Ohio region... but good bands!

I'd like to have several local showcaes there with booths (headshops, tattoo shops, t-shirt places, porn shops, Phils recs, Everybody's, Shake it Recs, etc)... then I'd prolly invite other labels, zines, distros, things like that. I've already talked to a few fellas about working security, and I've got a list of bands that would be ideal but I don't wanna post that yet. Prices I will try to make absolutely as cheap as possible, hopefully around $10 but I need to know more about who' playing, how much they want, who else will be involved, cost of venue, advertising, etc. Lots of things factor into that. I am also working on a name for it becaue I see that as being one of the other most important and underestimated elements of this.

If anyone has any ideas for any part of this, constructive criticism then let me know. If you want to help out, help organize, or have a band that you want to put on or suggest then I am all ears... let me know.

Jim Morrision and his weird naked indian came to me in a dream and told me I am to put on a concert in this town.