AIN'T IT FUN WHEN YR TAKIN CARE OF NUMBER ONE

 Hey all! 

Took a couple month break from booking because this summer is about to be fucking insane for me gig-wise. really trying to cut back on booking shows I think in general. I'm playing ten shows this summer in june/july in  tacoma/seattle +  recording the hidden driver LP + going on an 11 day tour in august/september. I do this to myself but to be honest its going to be a LOT. 

have been feeling p bad and generally melancholic recently but at the end of the day can't really complain considering my position in the imperial core. idk man. shit is very very bad worldwide right now - like israel is about to blow up greta thunberg for daring to deliver food to starving people. and people from liberal parties across europe and america cheer this on. pigs are rounding up people all over the country. my belief that most people are good has really gone through the fucking ringer these past few months to the point that I'm not really even sure if I believe that at all anymore. so it goes? but it shouldn't?

listening to a lot of music from cleveland ohio these days thanks to Aaron Lange's excellent book "ain't it fun" which is a graphic esoteric and musical history of cleveland centered around peter laughner from Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. highly recommend - it's edgy in a p classic white guy alt comics way but I grew up reading my dad's issues of RAW and Amy and Jordan so I'm not really phased by it. Some Ohio standouts: Damnation (of adam blessing), Tin Huey, Pere Ubu, and John Bassette, to name a few.

Re-read Slaughterhouse Five and started Breakfast of Champions in an attempt to get myself reading more - I finished Ursula K Le Guin's The Dispossessed late last month and thought it was excellent if a slow start. 

Was trying to start dating again but I don't know any single people really and the apps make me horribly depressed so putting a pause on that. one of these days love will find me (cue daniel johnston) although truthfully i am starting to doubt the likelihood of this happening in tacoma washington. it's okay.

any way - that's not why yr here. Collective Groan is throwing these shows this summer:

7/12: a porchfest miracle with starbird and dunce on my front lawn in tacoma. 

7/24: star 99 (san jose) / supercrush / sons of ferdinand / hidden driver @ manifesto coffee

7/31 jousting (pdx) / bobby soxxer / ket cat / 14g @ headquarters

8/7: Grolixes (pdx) / Wendell @ new frontier lounge, more tba