music couldnt get any better. half of tsar were in the wonderfuls. half were in mons pubis. and half were in the brothers steve.

the best band of iv changed every night. one night it was a bunch of heroin taking punkers from downtown santa barbara called bad neighbor. one night it was the all girl even punker Pre Marital Sex. one night it was keith browns glitterbug. one night it was the sean white band. one night it was grateful dead-esqe electric blue.

a metal band that year was flown to florida to compete in mtvs battle of the bands. their name was indica.

but the next year indica had been forgotten because isla vista’s ugly kid joe had actually broken through and had a top 40 hit on mtv, the spunky i hate everything about you.

people speculated as to who would be next to get signed and be huge.

because the pixies had a minor hit with “here comes your man”, locals immediately pointed to pop punkers rogue cheddar. a working man’s camper van beethoven.

rogue cheddar’s bass player, and axe wielder, was a fella named tom, who is now better known as tomdog, buzznet’s #2 most active user (second only to buzznet founder, mc brown, who used to play rogue cheddar tunes on kcsb-fm where brown was music director).

at blogtime, with 11,506 buzznet comments posted, tomdog is only 1,100 comments from being topdog.

rogue cheddar was the thirsty thursday house band for quite awhile. thirsty thursday was the weekly keg that my hippie friends hosted nearly every thursday for the four years that i was at ucsb. bring a buck and your own cup was the environmentally conscious motto of the long-running party hosted by jesus rob, toms next door neighbor when they lived on sabado tarde.

at first rogue cheddar was very bad.

they were the sort of band where youd get your beer and walk into the house and pick up on girls with the closing line of, “come with me, i live very very far away.”

and then seemingly overnight rogue cheddar not only had it together but they had original songs, a band groove, a tightness, a style, and a feel.

it was truly bizzare.

they were still playing thirsty thursdays but now they were releasing 7″ singles. i still have one.

they ended up playing on my radio show.

soon they had a tape out.

but then, as was the case of lots of great rock dreams, the singer fell in love and the band sorta fizzled into the overstuffed manila folder in the sky labeled “the woulda-beens”.

today tom turns thirtyblahblah years old.

when he was here in LA last he brought me over some rum, he gave me some good advice about my bicycle, and we even took a nice ride along sunset and downtown in the cuban girl’s honda element.

a few days later he created a buzznet account, and the internet hasnt been the same ever since.

beth m. + hey red + meesh is back

is now available.

speaking of the finest town in the universe i enjoyed the Details article in this month’s issue and liked how on one hand they praised the students for being intelligent and the campus to be littered with nobel prize winners, and at the same time berated the students for being the wild party animals that college kids can be. but mostly i liked the cool pictures. sweet job, Details.

bill quick, the daily pundit, seems perturbed that i would assume that warbloggers would happily cover all aspects of this second bush war, including the cries from the dissentors, like sean penn. instead of admitting that he too missed a good chance to rise above the madding crowd by publishing the entire penn creed (and then making fun of it), quick invites me to bite him.

consider yourself bitten, old chap.

mere minutes after Rush Limbaugh ripped into NYT Maureen Dowd after she calls the president a “boy” ten times in her column on sunday, republican bath house towel boy drudge quoted the diminishing limbaugh generously as if the talk show host’s words had been handed to drudge personally.

msnbc’s “blogspotting”, edited by Will Femia asks its readers if Little Green Footballs is hateful. pardon me, will, but you’re msnbc’s expert on blogs, why dont you tell us? btw, LGF is far from hateful, they just know who their enemy is and they dont let up. relentless is the word, will, fearless is another word, bro. ruthless, sharp, pointed, popular, and seething are some other words that you could use. but hateful is bogus and reactionary and you should take it off your page.

charles johnson could easilly be confused for a hippie who lost his hackey sack. hes a computer expert who knows way too much about the saudis than i feel comfortable asking him about. he has found a nitche and filled it wonderfully. msnbc only wish they had the nads to turn LGF into their 7th pro weblog.

nay has a new layout.

jim treacher makes a funny

the rally monkey is for real.

the hosemonster interviews meesh, and she claims to “know” me. it’s in a blog, so it must be true.

instapundit still hasnt bothered with sean penn, instead focusing on things like doonesbury. say it aint so, glenn.

on your site today is where Janice and I got our life guarding certification before we headed up to Susanville for a crazy summer of life guarding in a small town.

I love that pool and that particular view of Santa Barbara.

Thank you for putting it on your site.

I love you Tony and the next time I am there I will watch IVTV with you.

I haven’t until now because I love that place and while most of it was good some of it makes me sad.

But, I’ve been really stupid about it and for that I’m sorry I’ve been sort of mean about it.

It’s hump day.

Enjoy

🙂

p.s. when are you going to start movie nights? i want to come.

i promise to bring lots of yummy microwave popcorn.

What are you doing for the Super Bowl?

I think Katie is having a party at her pad. Please go.

Your friends will be there.

Besides it will be a fun game even if it will be a blowout.

i’ve been into football this season and i would like to watch it.

i have $5.00 in our office pool. NEVER, ever have I ever put my name in a grid

with the hope of winning some money in every quarter of a football game.

Anyhow, stay warm and toasty.

xoxoxoxoxo