The White Stripes:

If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
If you think holding hands is all in the fingers
Grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers and
Make sure to never do it with a singer
Cause they'll tell everyone in the world

But he was thinking about the girl
Yeah, but he's thinking about the girl, oh

A lot of people get confused and they bruise
Real easy when it comes to love
They start putting on their shoes and walking out
And singing "boy, I think I had enough"

Just because she makes you feel wrong
She don't mean to be mean or hurt you on purpose, boy
Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole

Just by playing a different role
Yeah, by playing a different role, oh

The boat yeah you know she's rockin' it
And the truth well you know there's no stoppin' it

The boat yeah you know she's still rockin' it
The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it

So what, somebody left you in a rut
And wants to be the one who's in control
But the feeling that you're under can really make you wonder
How the hell she could be so cold

So now you're mad, denying the truth
And it's getting in the wisdom in the back of your tooth
You need ta spit it out, in a telephone booth
While you call everyone that you know, and ask 'em

Where do you think she goes
Oh yeah, where d'ya suppose she goes, oh

The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it
And the boat well you know she's still rockin' it

The boat well you know she's still rockin' it
And the truth yeah you know there's no stoppin' it

You recognize with your back in the back?
That it's colder when she rocks the boat
But it's the cause hittin on the Cardinal Laws?
'bout the proper place to hang her coat

So to you, the truth is still hidden
And the soul plays the role of a lost little kitten but
You should know that the doctors weren't kidding
She's been singing it all along

But you were hearin' a different song
Ya you were hearin' a different song
But you were hearin' a different song

ummmm......WEEN!!!!

Not sure what I need to say, other than Ween sold out HOB! It was PACKED. Crazy-ass Ween fans, people in costume, stupid effed-up HS kids passing out and fighting....everything you'd expect. Chilled at Nick's for a bit after picking Ryan's ass up out in Brunswick. Nick wanted to leave a little early to avoid the line to get in, so we left at 8:30....and still ran into a huge line. The Euclid construction didn't help either. We were still in before the start and they started right on the nose at 9. and played for 3 friggin' hours! Including 2 encores! Setlist:

Pork Roll, Egg & Cheese
Spinal Meningitis
Happy Colored Marbles
Piss Up A Rope
Learning To Love
Take Me Away
The Grobe
Even If You Don't
Voodoo Lady
Your Party
Buckingham Green
Albino Sunburned Girl
Leave Deaner Alone
Marble Tulip Juicy Tree
Don't Get 2 Close To My Fantasy
Stroker Ace
Touch My Tooter
Object
Woman & Man
Zoloft
Wavin' My Dick In The Wind
Dr. Rock (Mighty battle axe included!)
Did You See Me
My Own Bare Hands
Booze Me Up
The Mollusk
Buenos Tardes, Amigos

Encore 1: Fiesta
Gabrielle
Papa Zit
Mr. Richard Smoker
Powder Blue
Someday

Encore 2: I'll Be Your Jonny On Th' Spot
Young At Heart Jam w/Deaner On Drums

Great. Especially the Dr. Rock when an audience member tossed Gener a Halloween battleaxe and he used it to lead the crowd in some rock sing-along action. Too bad Nick missed it (and taking a picture of it). Gener acts like (and IS) a goddamn rock star. And Dean wasn't effing around either, he had some smokin' guitar parts, and really got into playing the guitar while it was on the ground. I was so beat after this and last night that I stayed in Brunswick and drove back this morning at 5:30 (somehow traffic is still bad that early). I still wish every night was a Ween concert.

DBT

Soooo....last night was supposed to be a kind of laid back acoustic DBT show....Not so much. First, the setlist:

"When I woke up this morning I thought this was going to be one of those Dirt Underneath shows"...Patterson Hood

New Patterson song (The Righteous Path?)
Women Without Whiskey
Little Bonnie
Gravity's Gone
Puttin' People On The Moon (The HEAVIEST version I've ever seen)
I'm Eighteen (Yeah, Alice Cooper)
Marry Me
Panties In Your Purse
The Opening Act
Self Destructive Zones
Sandwiches For The Road
One Of These Days
Heathens
Tales Facing Up
Daddy's Cup
Lookout Mountain

Encore:
Let There Be Rock
Three Dimes Down
Ronnie And Neil
Buttholeville/State Trooper

So, obviously a rock show. The rock show. Kick ass rock show. It was all worth it for the Moon>18, which rocked totally hard. Then, maybe about 2/3 through the show Amy texts me to say she's hanging out with....wait for it....Dean Ween. Like from Ween. Me: "No fucking way" Amy: "He's gonna sing Van Halen at karaoke" Me: (actually I had already peed my pants at this point).
I didn't get Zip City, but that's ok State Trooper was FanFuckingtastic when Patterson starts throwing the mic stand around cuz he's drank so much whiskey. I need to listen to the recording, I hope it turned out ok.

I would have driven out to Lakewood, but I was beat by the time the show got out at 12:15. And, embarassingly, I wanted to check my email. So I went home. But that email I've been waiting for was there, so still worth it in my opinion. ;)

And still got Ween tonight. Kick ass.

Pre-DBT show partying says:

Zip City is one of the best songs of the last 10 years.

Zip City
by the Drive-By Truckers

Your Daddy was mad as hell
He was mad at me and you
As he tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me out of that ditch that we slid into
Don't know what his problem is
Why he keeps dragging you away
Don't know why I put up with this shit
When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away

Your Daddy is a deacon down at the Salem Church of Christ
And He makes good money as long as Reynolds Wrap keeps everything wrapped up tight
Your Mama's as good a wife and Mama as she can be
And your Sister's puttin' that sweet stuff on everybody in town but me
Your Brother was the first-born, got ten fingers and ten toes
And it's a damn good thing cause He needs all twenty to keep the closet door closed

Maybe it's the twenty-six mile drive from Zip City to Colbert Heights
Keeps my mind clean
Gets me through the night
Maybe you're just a destination, a place for me to go
Keeps me from having to deal with my seventeen-year-old mind all alone
Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life

You say you're tired of me taking you for granted
Waitin' up till the last minute to call you up and see what you want to do
But you're only fifteen, girl, you ain't got no secretary
And "for granted" is a mighty big word for a country girl like you
I think that's just your Daddy talking
Cause He knows that blood red carpet at the Salem Church of Christ
Ain't gonna ever see no wedding between me and you

Zip City it's a good thing that they built a wall around you
Zip up to Tennessee then zip back down to Alabama
I got 350 heads on a 305 engine
I get ten miles to the gallon
I ain't got no good intentions

Porcupine Tree

So trucked back down to HOB last night for Porcupine Tree. And it was pretty awesome. Rode the rapid by myself and caught the second half of the openers, 3. They rocked pretty loud and hard. Not too bad. PT then came out and were awesome. Reminded me more of Tool than the stuff on that old double disc I got from Nick, but I enjoyed it. They even busted out some of those old ones that I recognized! Not that I actually know any song names. Anyway, here is the setlist, not that it means a whole helluva lot to me:

What Happens Now?
Fear of a Blank Planet
Sound of Muzak
Lazarus
Nil Recurring
Anesthetize
Open Car
Dark Matter
Cheating the Polygraph
A Smart Kid
Way Out of Here
Sleep Together

Encore:
The Sky Moves Sideways (!!!!!!)
Even Less
Halo

I left most of the way through Halo so as to not miss the last train back (11:30??? come on RTA). However, when I left it was pouring rain. So that sucked. Then it was still pouring when the train dropped me off, so another fun, wet walk back to lab. Then it was still pouring when I biked home. Then it was still raining when I biked in this morning. So my pants, shoes and socks are in the warm room and I'm wearing uncomfortable sandals and gym shorts.

Oh yeah, and the cute bartender was there again and she recognized me and then mocked my love of PBR tall boys. But those tattoos freak me out.

South Park

Is the best show on TV. Seriously, you will find no better satire of ANYTHING.

ANGEL ROCKS YOUR ASS OFF!!!

Holy crap

I come in this morning to the weirdest, coolest, funniest news ever.

Some crazyass Australian dude got an ear put on his forearm. A FUCKING EAR ON HIS ARM!!!

Well I guess I deserve a Ph.D. too, and not for my actual work. And so do the the guys from Futurama. 'Cuz if there's ever a Lucy Liu-bot, I'm marrying it/her. Hot.

Top ten Hot/Smart girls in Hollywood. I didn't even need to get past #10, I just went with her. But Jodie Foster? Maybe 20-30 years ago.

Congrats to Al Gore for winning the Nobel Prize (Peace? I guess.) If only for his Futurama appearances. Also, I watched Manbearpig last night. I might have peed my pants a little.

My name is Earl

consistently has the best music of any show, ever.

South Park

Crab People might be the best thing ever. Fucking ever.

Also, the new episode (last night) which I just finished tonight is awesome, if only for the ending. Heath was right, totally worth everything for the end.

(R) debate number 6 or something? Whatever.

Time again for the Romney robt to shine! Guiliani might mention 9/11! Duncan Hunter will be OK except for his idiotic war support!

9:05 Did Chris Matthews totally indirectly ask "what is money?"

9:07 Ron Paul sounds like a total nerd. Philosophising in this debate isn't going to win.

9:09 Uh, McCain, I think he's heard of this "Adam Smith" character.

9:14 Duncan Hunter is not smiley-faced anymore and also he apparently hates China.

9:16 Fred Thompson licks his lips/roof of his mouth waaaaaay too much

9:16 Sam Brownback is still in the race???? He's that creepy, nerdy, super-religious kid.

9:19 I'm embarassed to admit that I kind of liked Tom Tancredo, now he sounds like a weirdo.

9:21 Seriously, if you tear of Romney's face you'll find a robo-skull underneath. However, Guiliani is a dumb bully.

9:22 "hey man, it's cool." "no, it's not."

9:25 is Thompson gunning for the VP??

9:26 Hunter hates China and the free market. And so, ladies and gentlemen, I hate him.

9:29 Why does Tancredo hate illegal immigration? That weirds me out I guess.

9"30 Mitt Romney also hates the Chinese, just a little more subtley (is that a word?)

9"34 HUX0R-B = D0 N0T WANT. later, Duncan Hunter, STFU n00B!!!!

9:40 Sigh, Tancredo. Also, stop stuttering.

9"41 Second AS reference baby! But still not RP? :(

9:55 RP totally Constitutionally BITCHSLAPS robo-Romney

(Here's an aside, when will South Park cover Guiliani's fetishization of 9/11)

10:06 Dammit, McCain, stop loving the war so much. Sometimes you sound reasonable about stuff.

10:06 Ethanol question = teh best yet.

10:18 Tancredo sounds likes the Brain from Animaniacs.

10:28 REPUBLICANS HATE UNIONS!!! DISCUSS!!!

10:31 Fred Thompson: "I'm so folksy!"

There are 20 mins left and the best I can come out with is McCain-Paul? Crap. I don't care about staying awake anymore.

Mule

Hit up the Mule @ HOB alone last night, as I am wont to do. I was treated to an AWESOME first set, which isn't to say the the second set was bad, just not as awesome. Just a regular rockin' second set. With a 32-20 blues encore, which was pretty bluesrocktastic. The second set opener, Out of the Rain was really good too. Also, saw Rod there. You know, the Ashland physics prof. Who liked his students. The female ones. A lot. Ah, Brett, you only followed the example given I suppose. And it was cool to watch the Indians win during setbreak. Anyway, here's the setlist with particularly rockin' stuff in bold for future reference:

Set 1:
Streamline Woman
Bad Man Walking
About To Rage
Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home*
3 String George
No Need To Suffer
Temporary Saint
Lively Up Yourself
Find The Cost Of Freedom8 with Grace Potter
Ohio* with Grace Potter & Scott Tournet

Set 2:
Out Of The Rain
Gameface->
Mountain Jam->
Gameface
Beautifully Broken
Like Flies
Drums
Slow Happy Boys
Unring The Bell Shakedown Street Tease
Blind Man In The Dark

Encore:
32/20 Blues

*1st Time Played

Next up: Porcupine Tree 10/22 HOB, DBT 10/24 Beachland, Ween 10/25 HOB

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