ah well. it was a losing effort. i wouldn't mind so much if some of the finalists didn't consist of cheesy ads like the following. it makes me question the entire concept of democracy. i guess there's a reason why the "people's choice awards" isn't as relevant as the Academy Awards. note to self: next time use cute children and cheesy film techniques to maximize the tugging of heart strings. i actually like the second one. not because its a decent piece of work, but because it just makes me laugh. though im pretty sure that wasn't the intention.

sorry, had to say that.

we have a show coming up THIS Friday at Judo Chop in Little Tokyo at the 2nd St Jazz Bar.

the cover is $7. we go on at 830 PM. it's Friday, so dont worry about going all the way home -- just drop by after work with your briefcase and patent leather shoes, throw back some boilermakers and rock out.

below is the nifty flyer that Allen designed. i think those are the old tubes that i swapped out from my old bass amp earlier this year. thats what we're all about: reuse, recycle (for band pix) before we dump everything into the storm drain. Monolidic advocates sustainable resources.

other bands on the line-up:
SOULFISH
THEE OUT MODS
THE HOLOGRAMS
GHOST TOWNE

come on by.

i hated our high school marching band growing up. even though they are/were easily the best high school marching band in California (only losing state once in the past fifteen years) and brought some notoriety to the school (something to distract observers from noticing the gang violence and almost 50% drop out rate), the noise from their nightly practices disrupted my studies. you could hear the band practices up to five miles away.

we've been spending the last couple weeks working on our timing. we finally started practicing with a metronome and have seen decent improvement. i recently ran into clips of our high school marching band from the year i graduated. i don't understand how they keep time with so much going on. it's hard enough keeping time with three other members of a rock band in a small room. i can't imagine keeping time with 140+ other marching band members on a football field.

two members of Monolidic (Allen, David) are one of the few in Los Angeles that will get one their bikes almost daily to run errands or go to work. Dave's got an awesome foldable (for easy storage and carry) bike and i've got a bike of the fixed gear variety. LA is actually quite bikable if you only need to stay within your own neighborhood. the streets are a lot less treacherous than many cities in that they are a lot less dense and are of a flat terrain. i mean, imagine riding through some of these hazards:

so no excuses, get those sprockets turning!

the thing you do have to really watch for are drivers who are under the false impression that bikers don't have equal rights to the road. LA driver's don't expect to see bikes on the road and drive as such. don't be surprised to hear the horn and be thrown the middle finger of some SUV driver.

and now onto my favorite bike themed music videos of all-time (the last one is not suitable for younger audiences):

here's a poster for a Korean movie called Jenny, Juno. it's about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and then decides to have the kid. sound familiar? yeah, except this was made in 2005.

when Diablo Cody, who wrote 2007's Juno, was asked about the blatant similarities between the two movies (i mean how common is the name 'Juno' in English anyway??), she said it was pure coincidence. uh ok.

i'm sure you're aware that polaroid has ended production on their instant film. these are the only (and last) polaroids of monolidic ever taken.

so like every other middle-class pseudo intellectual in the US, i was at my computer at 9:55am attempting to buy radiohead tickets. as usual, my trigger fingers were cocked on CTRL+R ready to refresh the browser. finally 10:00am rolls around and i see a page that looks just like the old, "We couldn't find tickets that matched your request." page so i immediately go into auto refresh mode. i press CTRL+R over and over for about 5 seconds when it finally dawns on me that this imposter error page ACTUALLY reads, "Your wait time is: x minutes. If you refresh you will lose your place in line." with the number x increasing each time i refresh. by the time those words sink in i have already refreshed probably 10 times. i leave the page alone for 9 minutes only to get the "We couldn't find tickets that matched your request." page. and by now both shows are are sold out. ticketmaster is a bitch.