Chasing Tornadoes

Scary weather here today. I think I'll go for another run. Better to see the tornadoes. And/or the floods. Really not the best Michigan May I've ever seen.

This is just too weird.

At the Sloan show the other night, a nice girl came up to us and and told us about a cool local band. They are called Venkman, and it turns out they're pretty good. I downloaded three songs and have been listening to them on non-stop repeat for the last hour. Good stuff.

Years ago, back when I lived in Chicago, I knew a guy called Jason Dumbledinger. And this guy had the honor of having Wesley Willis write a song about him, called, of course, "Jason Dumbledinger." Wes may be with us no longer, but now you can have your very own Wes song (lyrics only). Check it out at the bottom of this page.

Here's mine, BTW:

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Andy Price

by Wesley Willis

You are my special Andy Price.
You can really rock your ass off.
You are the Andy Price king.
Right on brother.

ANDY PRICE!!!
ANDY PRICE!!!
ANDY PRICE!!!
ANDY PRICE!!!

Andy Price is excellent.
You can really rock it out.
You really whoop the horse's ass.
You really whoop Saddam Hussein's ass.

ANDY PRICE!!!
ANDY PRICE!!!
ANDY PRICE!!!
ANDY PRICE!!!

You really whoop a llama's ass.
You can really rock your ass off.
You are the andy price king.
I like you a lot in the long run.

Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.

The heartbeat of America - that's today's Chevrolet.

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Oh fuck YEAH! THAT is COOL!

Go with God.

Andy P. (the Andy Price king)

The Man on the Moon?

This morning I read that Andy Kaufman had resurfaced, having faked his own death 20 years ago. But this is not a Yahoo news story. It just looks like one.

And this blog doesn't prove anything.

As always, Snopes is the voice of reason. Still, I'm disappointed. I really wanted it to be true. And I wish I hadn't told people about it today, including my history prof. Geez, I'm a tool. :)

Hello Grand Rapids!

So I saw Sloan last night in GR. And I'll wager that the only reason that Sloan booked this particular gig was because of their 2002 visit to the old Intersection. What a night that was! So Sloan must be asking themselves, "Where were you, Grand Rapids?" Good question. But despite the anemic turnout, the guys took advantage of the new Intersection's amenities and really put on a great show for the faithful. And that's who DID show up: the faithful. Those who were there seemed to be die-hards, and they were treated to a spectacular gig, man. Much tighter than the Bowling Green show two weeks back. They are on top of their game right now.

Also, the opening band, The Kicks, were terrific. Love em.

Since it was an early show (that ran an hour late), we were back in the fertile land of Mount Pleasant by 11:45PM. And since we had such a good time (and Allan was a bit ripped), we continued on to the Bird for several rounds of tasty Coronas (the beer of the month). Closing that place down we called it a night with one last playing of "Backstabbin'" on the ride home.

SLOOOO-OOOOAN!

PS: Pictures to follow.

SLOOOO-OOOOAN!

Today is the Grand Rapids Sloan show. My love affair...er, so to speak, with these boys goes back twelve years. Yet this will only be my fourth time seeing them live. Reports from other shows on this tour sound promising, so tonight should be good. In fact, if it rocks sufficiently, there is talk of going to Sunday's Detroit show at St. Andy's. SLOOOO-OOOOAN!

In other news: I am in week one of a three week class, and it's keeping me pretty busy, so don't expect a lot of blogging from yers truly until early June. I don't think much is going to happen between now and then anyway. Things seem to have settled down. :)

God save the queen,

AP

[insert enigmatic or prescient title here]

It's the last day of break, before my three-week summer class begins. I'm kind of looking forward to it, but even more than that, I look forward to getting it over with so I can spend the rest of the summer napping out on the deck, in between novels. It's a really nice day. I dreamt last night/this morning that D and I went up north and visited my dad at the summer house. Maybe I should get up there for real. Ah, well, that's not gonna happen for three more weeks now. :)

D and I are going through some intense stuff. I miss her and worry about her a lot. I just want to hug her and make it all better. But we're taking a break, so to speak. Hopefully it will end soon.

In other news, I recently watched this film. Really engrossing stuff. I want to watch it again already. Go figure.

Also, I really want one of these. Unfortunately, I just bought a new car 11 months ago, and it still only has 4900 miles on it. So a new car looks to be down the road a few more miles. :(