after some hard-nosed negotiating with godaddy.com, i got the domain back for $10.84.

dead milkmen were sweet at riot fest the other weekend btw.

this past weekend we played shows at the rhizome in rock island, il on october 16th & at music @t the mall in keokuk, iowa on october 17th. we slept on floors, drove through corn fields, and got a brief taste of what real life touring bands go through. after keokuk, we drove through the night to rockford, illinois, slept on c-french's floor, and laid down some sick ass vocals for the new version of "sundays" that's coming out on joie de vivre's new record "the north end."

i'm broke and will be in search of a cheaper, probably free domain. fuck off.

Do you know who it is?

in the category section listed above, "Blogging" is a selection. So, our new direction as a band is to keep a blog about blogging.

http://tpaty.com/ it is revised and better than fucking ever. if only myspace wasn't letting me send messages and post replies to people, everything would be ok. specifically listening to the song "milwaukee skyrocket" chris broach...is that that dudes's name? fucking love it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeHIjt79e6Q

a cockumentary of the recording of our debut full length, mind your p's & q's

the best part is that they liken "hey usa" to "america, fuck yeah," which is our 'get pumped' jam, we play it on the way to shows, and sing it when we take breaks during practice. they nailed us.

written by andy downing:

The Please & Thank Yous

Despite the polite name, the Please & Thank Yous are far from goody two-shoes. Just check the local quartet's "The Blow Reilly Factor" (streaming at myspace.com/tpaty), where frontman Geoffrey Schott delivers a hilarious screed that could've earned the crew a mention on the Fox News commentator's "Pinheads and Patriots" segment (sample lyric: "I couldn't even get through the introduction of your book").

Further evidence of the group's offbeat sense of humor can be found by glancing at its MySpace site (Jeremy Upton's contributions are listed as "guitar, aimless banter, stage presence"). But the jokes would mean little if the music didn't work. Fortunately, it does, particularly on the Smoking-Popes-meets-Randy-Newman crunch of "Hey U.S.A.," a clean-cut cousin to "Team America: World Police's" unprintable theme song.

north korea realized that once the nhl and nba seasons ended, there wasn't really a whole lot to keep us distracted over here. given the large amount of political videos michael jackson has made, who's to say he and kim jung il didn't come to a consensus that the time was right for him to go? surely they both knew that our media would eat it up for weeks on end.
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time spent blabbing  time spent blabbing   time devoted to     time devoted to
  about michael              about other       what r. kelly calls    talking about kim
       jackson            unimportant bullshit       "real talk"         jung il's inferiority
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i don't participate in anti-semite sentiment, but this gave me a chance to sustain a good laugh. i can't use wingidngs here to represent symbols so if you watch a lot of tv you'll have to dust of that old imagination of yours and put it to work for once!


  [cross]                                   [star of david]
jesus saves                               moses invests

so far belleville has been the farthest we've ever travelled to play a show, and it was totally fucking worth it. our experience summed up (as if a simple list of +'s and-'s could do our trip justice...pch):

+ meeting all sorts of awesome kids, some of whom will live by us by august
+ john from trenchfoot's list of music he likes on his myspace
+ sean from suburban epidemic giving us gas money!!!! <3333333333333333
+ best ratio of guys to girls at a show we've ever scene
+ sick lineup
+ BOXES OF FREE RECORDS FOR THE TAKING AFTER THE SHOW!!! (wtf? so sweet)
+ best zine name ever: "my favorite band is lamb of god" -- "it's true!"
+ geoff's first trip to waffle house after the show (delish, lolz)
+ laughing our asses off the entire way there, and back
+ getting enough monetary compensation to get us home <3
+ bahston accents
+ 90 degree weather

- tryin to sleep on the way home, from 1-5am
- geoff skipping class and sleeping all the next day

+/- still being soaked in sweat when we got home


as you can see the pluses clearly outweigh the minuses, so we're already talking about setting up another time to head down there and play a couple of other places on the way.

thanks to
erik the operator of itr
the dudes in trenchfoot
"                 " yr not kablamo
o pioneers!!!
girl in the pink shirt taking pictures (didn't catch yr name...post a comment below!)
all who stuck around to see us play and danced and sweated with us!
anyone who gave us change in exchange for buttons.
sean from suburban epidemic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO2jlJObr94

these are some of the most ironic lyrics i've ever read, by a band called 'lake county kids'...head over to their myspace to hear more of the same of what you may have heard 3-5 years ago coming out of lake county, or rather, staying in lake county.

THE SCENE IS FUCKING DEAD!

They think they know what music is

Not a song is unique from the last they played

It makes me sick to see what its come to

I can’t believe I’m actually listening to this shit

                                YOU ALL SOUND THE SAME!

i think about this all the time...but in regards to the lake county "hardcore", i can't really imagine who else they'd be yelling at. check out the dial for a self-explanation of how different this band really is