O.k. so check it out. I just woke up. the guys are on a big plane on their way in. we are headlining the Friday night at acme underground for CMJ music marathon. We will be showcasing for 11, count them, 11 different label reps are coming in just to see us. Tovar is already here in the city meeting with them. and we are going to spend the next two days rehearsing our butts off.

If we are good and we kick ass, we have a chance. If we suck, well I guess we will just always .... be a little unknown band... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this is a big three days for us coming up.

Wish us luck.

Last screening: cat Stevens Majikat concert from 1976. really really good. but man what happened to the Cat? He went Muslim on us and it doesn’t look like he is turning back anytime soon.

In this movie what the bleep do we know? this man comments that the most audacious thing we can do spiritually is to define this amazingly grand and powerful concept of God in our own image, as so many of mankind’s current antiquated religions still do. hey man you don't have to tell me that. I've been thinking that since I was a little kid. I just never understood that whole lets box God in our own image thing that most people are so willing to do. I always just assumed that everyone me was crazy or worse that maybe it was just me. like I was an alien from a more enlightened planet or something.

there is this funny vision I have sometimes of what life must seem like for the humans when you are an alien who wakes up one day and realizes that they're all playing football with these sticks of dynamite. And you ask them ‘hey aren't you all worried that you're playing ball with this dynamite?’ and they're all like ‘oh no we’re not worried because the dynamite is our friend and its perfectly safe and we love the dynamite...’ and you're like ‘well on my planet dynamite is dangerous and it could explode at any minute and kill you all. and the humans are like ‘well we are safe with the dynamite.’ ‘well how do you know this?’ ‘because it is written in our holy books. Everyone knows it. that's just the way it is.’ And then you look at what they refer to as their holy books and its just all this crazy writing through the years all hodgepodge and collected over years and years with not a lot of sense. Some good some bad and a lot of confusing contradictions and non sequitors. You read how sometimes dynamite is a great thing and how people have loved the game of tossing it about for centuries, and other times dynamite is very dangerous and whole towns have been destroyed by it and yet the humans still persist in playing with it.. You can try to talk sense into them but they still continue to play with the dynamite and one day a big group of them blows up from the dynamite and then you question them about that and they reply that ‘it was the will of the dynamite. That's just the way it is. the dynamite knows what is best.’

You feel sad for them and you realize that you may not be able to help them because this whole dynamite throwing game is just really big in their lives. they're just going to keep playing with the dynamite and writing books about the dynamite and when bad things happen because of the dynamite they are just going to find a way to rationalize it. somehow, for some reason, they are addicted to it and will find any rational to justify the game, good or bad. If you really are an alien you may just want to head back to your own planet and leave the humans to their own devices till they smarten up a bit. But if you are from here on planet earth you have to find a way to deal with it. hope no one throws you any live sticks of dynamite with a big smile and tells you it can save your soul or something. just stay away from large open fields I guess.

But its not so bad anymore. People are coming around now. real spirituality is starting to slowly replace mans old dogma. I mean, we are at the place now where as a species we are trying to find a balance between the impractical and illogical dogma of mans old religions and the mysterious but innate spirituality that we all feel called to inside. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting there. God’s speed to all of us.

Current spin: raspberries first two albums. Really great old power pop on these records.