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Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Be gentle it's my first time

Rose and I went to a Rainer's game about a weeks ago. I've got to say apart from the way you get gouged at the concession stands you will look long and hard before you find a more wholesome slab of American fun.

Although the game didn't do a huge amount for me I really liked the family atmosphere and the whole event, but I think the fireworks at the end will probably leave every dog in a 2 mile radius with a nervous condition like a Vietnam vet.

PW played in Olympia the next day which was a fun little gig played to a select bunch of family and friends. The band before us was definitely of the 'There has never been a band better than Slayer' variety, but in comparison to a lot of the crap on the local scene they weren't too obnoxious.

Rose and I went to Point Defiance zoo on Saturday only to be barraged by what seemed liked hordes of lower spotted rug monkeys. Unfortunately Rose told me it was probably illegal for me to toss them into the shark exhibit.

We even overheard a conversation which us non-kid having people have always suspected. A guy hit another parent in the ankle with his stroller. He apologized and the other guy said 'Oh don't worry I do that all the time'. My fears have been confirmed, there is a mad parent conspiracy where they are going out of their way to kneecap people with strollers.

I've been of sick from work for the last 2 days with a bad back. To be honest with my work/band I'm surprised it took me this long to screw it up. It's a lot better then it was yesterday but I'm still getting the occasional twang from it. I was thinking of calling my parents but to be honest with amount of stress they usually induce my back would probably twang so much I would sound like a country song.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2003

If it wasn't for my horse I wouldn't have spent that year in college

Has anybody ever said something so dumb to you that you can't get it out of your head? It just rolls around between your ears and everytime you have a spare minute it pops up.

I have a friend. Lets call him Fred Flintstone for the sake of confidentiality. He and his whole family are work shy. Recently while discussing his work shy sister and her boyfriend he was bitching that her boyfriend, let's call him Rockstar, wasn't going to work enough and had to remember he needed to support his girlfriends kids as well. Now this was a fair enough point but he then started going on about how his sister gets $X a month from her ex-husband and she spends every penny on the kids. Well there are 2 thing to remember here:
1) She doesn't work for the money her ex-husband does
2) It's child support, that's what your meant to spend it on
I pointed out that if she got off her ass they could probably be pretty comfortable to which he replied that she needed to be home to watch the kids. My logic that a lot of mothers work full of part time seemed to be lost to him.

So I'll stop ranting now. Here is a quick joke.
Q) How can you tell somebody works for the largest chip manfacturer in the world
A) Easy, all their work is being sent to other countries
Hee hee hee

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Monday, August 04, 2003

I'd forget my blog if my ass wasn't screwed on, or something similar

My wife who will remain nameless for internet security reasons mentioned that I hadn't posted in a couple of weeks. Once the sound of wind rushing through am empty space finished I was like "oh yeah, that thing"

So since I last posted my band played the Funky Monkey 2003 Rock Off. Now I won't go into the turbo rant mode but suffice to say we didn't qualify. It's not that we lost that I have a problem with, it's who we lost to. Again mentioning no names but it rhymes with Conduit. In 10 years I have been playing in bands I have never played so hard, I actually had sweat pouring into my eyes so hard that I couldn't see for 2 songs and one of the judges only gave us a 5.8 for energy. There is no pleasing some people.

Conduit only managed to give it a white guys overbite on stage and still were scored higher than us. Pass me a bucket so I can be sick.

PW played again on Saturday to a small selection of family friends and drunks. We actually played a lot better than the previous night ironically enough. Unfortunately tempers and attitudes were running a little high causing a few verbal skirmishes between the promoter, bar owner and other bands...in fact pretty much everybody.

Sunday was spent in blissful Twin Peaks watching mode, which was just as well as my brains were pretty much destroyed from the previous 2 nights of thrashing around. My significant other used the basset hound mop to get up all the drooling. But a fortunate side effect is I have sudden appreciation for most of Fox’s current program lineup “When sex change operations go bad” etc etc

I've decided I'm going to buy my Asian boss a t-shirt with the words "If you can read this the bitch is out doing my handiwork". I find it's good to be happy with your lot in life, it makes all the other crap far more bearable.

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