Hungry ?

If you are hungry and you are near Bay City, Wisconsin you should go here.

sling shot

This has to be a future Darwin award winner. Looks fun, but man...check this out.

Pitchfork Bla Bla

So the Pitchfork music festival is this weekend in Chicago and I could not be more un-interested in the lineup. I admit that I have become pretty jaded and I have a hard time paying real money for a show theses days, unless Jawbox, Afghan Whigs and Superchunk decided to play a triple bill, I would pay for that.

Sonic Youth is playing their album Daydream Nation from start to finish. Thats about the most exciting artist on the bill to me and it's not even that exciting. I would probably go see Cat Power, but just to see if she flips out and starts crying on stage. I have seen her twice, one time was amazing, one time was hilarious. She played Sasquatch a few years ago, her road crew and band looked and acted as if they never left Williamsburg. Anyway, their dipshit tour manager forgot to tell Ms. Power that she only played 4 songs and still had 30min's left of her set. She then walked back on stage and half assed a karaoke version of Smoosh's "Rad". As far as the other bands on the bill, who cares. It's gonna be fucking hot and humid and I think the last place in the world I would want to be is at the Pitchfork Festival. Well other then maybe here

4th of July

the 4th used to be my favorite. As a little kid I looked forward to it with great excitement. In my hometown, every year there was a community festival held in the park one block over from our house. They had games and rides and a band shell where teenage bands got to try their best Van Halen covers. It was awesome. Then the fireworks, I loved the fireworks. It was the perfect time for flirting with the girls. If you consider sitting on the bank of a moon lit river watching a colorful fireworks display with 10,000 other people eating cotton candy and drinking can beer, it was very romantic. It seemed that 4th of July stretched a whole week for me. As I got older that week shrunk. With baseball games and part time jobs I didn't get to participate in the "community fest" and was always rushing to get to the fireworks on time. It just wasn't the same. When I left home for college, the 4th got a new lease, because of my best friends mutual interest in the 4th. He hosted a part at his parents lake house just east of where we lived. It was amazing and so much fun. I was the boat captain cause I was the only one who could start it besides my friends Dad, it was a bit tricky. This annual party that started out with maybe a dozen close friends grew and grew in numbers, so much that I really didn't know half the people there. Driving the boat now became a job, and I didn't want it. So the 4th went back down on the list of the greatest days. Pretty much stayed that way for a few years with all the touring, the 4th just became a day you didn't get mail and most of the stores were closed. Well now I think the 4th is having it's 2nd comeback with me. We live in this little village outside of Chicago, I would not call it a suburb because that gives it the wrong connotation, nevertheless they love their 4th of July. Parades, games, rides, and teenage bands get to try out their Fall Out Boy covers ( Give me Van Halen anyday ). and of course they have Fireworks on the edge of the water. I am looking forward to it, especially the cotton candy and can beer.