I'm a tard.

DallasAliceAfter releasing a stunning live debut, Louisville twang-rock favoritesDallas Alice sleazed their way back into our hearts withSocial!, a raucous first studio album. This record shoots out ofthe gate with the pop! of an opening beer and the dirty, knowing laughof your favorite cousin at Easter-time:Well, I ain't red dirtand I ain't white trashI'm Midwest and a little bit leftof the middle classHow to describe a Dallas Allice set? Imagine the longest bourbon-boozynight in the dankest bar in town with your best friend from back homewho's bearing a break-up, the frustration of a dead-end job and theghosts of his tragic forefathers, all at once. Imagine he can tell thebest stories of your youth using nothing but a guitar and a Camel Red,you know the one about Joey's potato gun and you skinny dipping in thelake? Then picture the rest of your guys leaning over his shouldergiving him a "yeah yeah" chorus every time he makes the point you'vebeen trying to make your whole life.Then you all take a shot!Well, I might laugh at a dirty jokeHang out with simple folkAnd in my Catholic junior highWell that's where I learned to drink and smokeDallas Alice hits coal mines and dead granddaddies, creepy preachersand county sluts, pissed-off girlfriends and white trash pride,clocking in Social! at just under an hour. This album spans DocMartens and Dingos, Chuck Taylors and bare feet, pickup trucks andjacked-up Cadillacs, train tracks and small towns, all tinged with sexand bourbon and death, just as it should be.Tattooed, lately-mustachioed Sean Hopkins (lead vocals, acousticguitar) brings a southern-Illinoise existential nowheresville aestheticto these bar-room stompers, while Justin "The Colonel" Hughes bangs outthe rhythm guitar and all the heart, folks, all the fuckingheart. Don't underestimate bassist Nate Thumas' expertise orunbridled joy - his backing vocals tell the whole story. NickReifsteck's lead guitar proves he owns the most talented fingers in theMidsouth, and drummer Matt Nofsinger keeps them all in line. What moredo you want? Go get the damn album already!Switching moods, I can't say enough good things about Follow the Train's full-lengthdebut, A Breath of Sigh (Darla). If you were one of the smartset, you might have caught them at SXSW last year or this past March,but if you're like me, you have to learn to be content with yourpedestrian life and get your meager kicks whenever you can.A Breath of Sigh sounds a little something like this: you'relying in the soft soft grass of a rolling field, covered in a blanketmade of My Little Pony fur and painful truth, the sun warming your faceand a wind washing over you that smells like a time in your life whenyou were both very, very happy and heartbroken at the same time. Youwant to stay in that spot forever, but you also want to move on to thenext great adventure.Follow the Train's sound honors the Flaming Lips, REM and the lushinterior landscape of lead vocalist and songwriter Dennis Sheridan'sanxious, expansive mind.Do yourself a favor and pick up these records right this second. Youcan order A Breath of Sigh through iTunes or the Darlawebsite, and Dallas Alice will send you a Social! night orday through theirwebsite.Do it do it do it..!">

DallasAliceAfter releasing a stunning live debut, Louisville twang-rock favoritesDallas Alice sleazed their way back into our hearts withSocial!, a raucous first studio album. This record shoots out ofthe gate with the pop! of an opening beer and the dirty, knowing laughof your favorite cousin at Easter-time:Well, I ain't red dirtand I ain't white trashI'm Midwest and a little bit leftof the middle classHow to describe a Dallas Allice set? Imagine the longest bourbon-boozynight in the dankest bar in town with your best friend from back homewho's bearing a break-up, the frustration of a dead-end job and theghosts of his tragic forefathers, all at once. Imagine he can tell thebest stories of your youth using nothing but a guitar and a Camel Red,you know the one about Joey's potato gun and you skinny dipping in thelake? Then picture the rest of your guys leaning over his shouldergiving him a "yeah yeah" chorus every time he makes the point you'vebeen trying to make your whole life.Then you all take a shot!Well, I might laugh at a dirty jokeHang out with simple folkAnd in my Catholic junior highWell that's where I learned to drink and smokeDallas Alice hits coal mines and dead granddaddies, creepy preachersand county sluts, pissed-off girlfriends and white trash pride,clocking in Social! at just under an hour. This album spans DocMartens and Dingos, Chuck Taylors and bare feet, pickup trucks andjacked-up Cadillacs, train tracks and small towns, all tinged with sexand bourbon and death, just as it should be.Tattooed, lately-mustachioed Sean Hopkins (lead vocals, acousticguitar) brings a southern-Illinoise existential nowheresville aestheticto these bar-room stompers, while Justin "The Colonel" Hughes bangs outthe rhythm guitar and all the heart, folks, all the fuckingheart. Don't underestimate bassist Nate Thumas' expertise orunbridled joy - his backing vocals tell the whole story. NickReifsteck's lead guitar proves he owns the most talented fingers in theMidsouth, and drummer Matt Nofsinger keeps them all in line. What moredo you want? Go get the damn album already!Switching moods, I can't say enough good things about Follow the Train's full-lengthdebut, A Breath of Sigh (Darla). If you were one of the smartset, you might have caught them at SXSW last year or this past March,but if you're like me, you have to learn to be content with yourpedestrian life and get your meager kicks whenever you can.A Breath of Sigh sounds a little something like this: you'relying in the soft soft grass of a rolling field, covered in a blanketmade of My Little Pony fur and painful truth, the sun warming your faceand a wind washing over you that smells like a time in your life whenyou were both very, very happy and heartbroken at the same time. Youwant to stay in that spot forever, but you also want to move on to thenext great adventure.Follow the Train's sound honors the Flaming Lips, REM and the lushinterior landscape of lead vocalist and songwriter Dennis Sheridan'sanxious, expansive mind.Do yourself a favor and pick up these records right this second. Youcan order A Breath of Sigh through iTunes or the Darlawebsite, and Dallas Alice will send you a Social! night orday through theirwebsite.Do it do it do it..!">

almost 10 years

Open Letter to God

crying in the wild night of doubt

Passed

Happy Birthday

Today

i think i just wrote a love letter to a house

sorry scromp...

highlighting my mistakes

A Leaf On The Wind

I need a new bumper sticker (and a car to put it on)

Michigan JerryQuest 2008 - travelblog(ue)

I?m back?sorta

in other news:

mashed up rock

whoa here she comes...

Moving

I guess they've learned nothing.

I do

Tired but at peace

Church

LOTR, Reading, School and more