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Is that what I'm listening to - the new Julie Doiron. I don't even know the title it was sent to me and I listen to it a lot but really don't know a thing about it. I know it's with Eric's Trip.

Who's blacker than Jay Cleary?

Oh right the mongrel. Should have seen that coming. It's just of all places the Cameron House seems to see random famous musician stragglers passing through town.

Dead man walking.

I hadn't noticed the Hearst being illiterate thing. He is an endearing character though. As soon as you get into the Wire you'll be hooked that's for sure.

YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME. RIK FUCKING RUBIN WAS AT THE KITTENS SHOW!!! Is this for real? Sorry I forgot to email the guy about taping Brad. Glad it worked out. Please do suggest them for the Golden bill that would be a good match. I like that you got the humour part without overlooking the musicianship.

Pelosi playing the Deadhead card again.

Do Make Say Think inspires me the most on that list.

I got a tip that there is a myspace set up as 'small is beautiful' which is the hip hop tracks that Jaime from Islands/Unicorn is working on. I don't have a myspace or forgot the password etc. Someone track it down if interested. I don't believe this is public knowledge whatsoever.

One interesting thing about Deadwood and Carnivale is that the Hearst's play into both. George Hearst is of course a character on Deadwood, William Randolph is alluded to and mentioned in the second season of Carnivale. It's fascinating how George's gold load defined the California and nation of it's time and William Randolph's media empire defined his own. Of course Orson Welle's Citizen Kane is a thinly veiled retelling of William Randolph Hearst's life and has been retold in film a few times since.

Arrested Development I've plowed through too and a couple seasons of Rescue Me. I tried to rent Rome the other day but it was out. I think that would really interest me. I didn't actually like Carnivale that much - the lame ass Miles sounding monotonous creepy trumpet sort of blew a lot the show for me actually. And the character's weren't nearly as engaging as other HBO shows - then again they're freaks.

Seriously with the right negotiating and an in depth knowledge of the industry I would think you could stretch a $2M buck pretty damn far. I'd want to have Van Halen or Clapton/Cale on the bill for that kind of money.

Isn't a bear like parlance in the gay community for like the pitcher? You're my bear bitch.

2.0 M programming budget. Fuck I'd spend that a touch better.

A ticket rolled up inside that's amazing.

Don't get me wrong jaimoe I watch the best of TV: The Wire, Deadwood, Carnivale, Curb Your Enthusiasm...

Yeah Aaron, the blow with me, the blow with me.

I'm still glad this Sagan guy owns Bill's vault not Clear Channel.

I live in Guelph. I assure you - you could not turn Crackheads into stoners with the right herb. Crack sort of has it's own thing going. Also people do not administer $10 blowjobs for the 'right pot'. I believe this research but doesn't that read like some sort of NORML pamphlet. Where'd that come from?

Why do I get the sense this is going to blow hard. I sort of hope I don't end up here but likely will. I mean Rider's into it, it's gotta blow.

I've always liked the group but I'd like to see this DVD.

I can't remember how this all works but he and his protege (the Hall and Oates guy) worked in Turkey as well. Or gained their musical educations there, can't recall.

Cool. I must have seen the solo 'band' shots or something. Maybe Andy was in there but I didn't see them. Cool that Serge and Dale and Matt are playing together again. Serge was also great in Al Tuck's No Action.

Salil and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt played at Hillside together this year with a tabla player Ramkuran. I got to talk to Salil for a while actually. Great guy really takes after his father, I think he plays the Mohan too - self-styled instrument of his fathers. Something like 10,000 pounds of pressure in a mohan.

This was my fifth Phish show I want to say. Life changing would be the understatement of the century. I should sit down and write something more comprehensive about the whole experience at some point. We were at Great Woods (last Gamehenge) the week before which had some really dark moments both nights. '95 from what I gather at Sugarbush was just pandemonium- hence not playing in Vermont again til Coventry if I'm not mistaken (besides I guess private things or family affairs). The scene was quite idyllic in '94 though- rolling tiered grass lots, frisbee, casual environment. My buddy Matty Webb checks his watch and says 'oh shit' we should dose thinking it's 6:00 then realizes just afterward that it was in fact 3:00. So we were really gooned really early. We ended up walking up the ski hill between the runs along a creek which was really odd because every few hundred metres you'd run into some gooned crew that were tripping in the creek. We went into the venue early and I'll always remember this white cap frat boy looking guy with his Geraldo looking dad and their blanket all spread out like they were going to keep that spot all night. Geraldo was clapping along to Stash and whatnot. I remember thinking when night fell and people started flooding in from the skihill - what happened to Geraldo. Phish looked really ill when they took the stage for second set. Like smacky ill. We were really close up and tripping hard and we were actually sort of worried they were going to blow it. The combo of the red lights, the Twin Peaks vibe (which they must have been into at the time) and the smackiness made that Antelope>Catapult>Antelope ('no wedding' in light of upcoming nuptuals came off dark rather than spirited) one of the darkest things I've ever seen them do. Everyone head faked on the Halley's fakeout (it was the night of the Shumacher-Levy comet sic). I call this the last old school Phish show and in a lot of ways it is. The setlist is very classic. They didn't go into some of the directions they were going even as of that fall (or even the weekend before at Great Woods). In that era the highlights of the jams always seemed to be when Paige would go up to the Moog above his grand piano and play the ultra funky riffs (see Contact and AC/DC Bag in that show). It's also perfect as a two set show. Nothing could have been better. I guess I don't have to get around to writing something longer at some point. One thing I vividly recall was that we were tripping balls - like really tripping balls- before the show and people were filling in and we were lying on the grass and staring at the clouds and just laughing like demonic hyenas and thinking everyone thought we were bats and were going to get hauled out. Then Salt Peanuts by Dizzy Gillespie came on and we lost it. We thought 'Salt Peanuts, Salt Peanuts' was perhaps the funniest thing we had ever heard in our life!