well a week from now i'll be up in freezing cold chicago seeing hey mercedes and faraquet play. i'm pretty stoked about this. i haven't seen faraquet in about a year and a half…maybe more, and their new album rocks like there's no tomorrow. so i will combat the bitter cold with rock, and all will be good.

it's looking like i'm starting to convert one of my little cousins over to the ol' indie rock. he was quite taken with faraquet (geez…i can't stop talking about these guys!) when i played him the new cd on thanksgiving. i gave him the url for transmission3000, so hopefully he's out there expanding his horizons. and he's a really good guitar player, too….so selfish intentions are taking over…

matt will be home sometime this afternoon or evening. this is a good thing. i'm looking forward to seeing our little matty.

it looks like paul beat me to updating this morning. how the puffin keeps coming out on top, i'll never know. he's a tenacious bastard, if anything. but i'll be calling him in a bit to go get some grub, anyway… we drank last night, so it's a saturday ritual for paul and i to go out and forage for food.

mmmm…grub.