I had an amazing weekend in DC. Checked out a new hipster hang out spot called Rock & Roll Hotel in NE, went to the infamous drag brunch at Perry's, walked around the Adam's Morgan Day festival, watched reruns of Felicity (did I just type that?), played a show at Blackcat, met lots of new friends, and got to hang out with some friends I hadn't seen in a long time. DC kids represent. You guys are so much cooler than I could ever express in an email.

I do have to say though, the worse part of the whole trip was coming back to NY at 2am on the china town bus after the blackcat show. I've done this many times before, and usually have no trouble getting a nice 5 hour nap on the bus. This trip however had 2 major obstacles keeping me from this. The first was the fact that driver was fucking crazy and made the trip in a mere 3 hours (I've done it in as little as 3 & 1/2, never, ever in 3). Normally I'd be pretty psyched about such a speedy trip, but it’s a bit difficult to be excited when your stuck on a bus going 100 mph at 2am. The other, more direct problem was the fucking crazy homeless guy sitting behind me who insisted on shouting gibberish the entire trip. The guy would see something out the window (a passing car, a street light, a sign, the moon, etc) and start banging on the window and yelling "GA-GA-DA-BA" and shit like that. I don't think there was any actual language spewing from his mouth, I think he was just fucking crazy. What solidified this notion was the point when this fucker had somehow found a broom on the bus and started trying to wake me up and hand it to me for some reason. When I didn’t respond he tried to poke me with it. Finally I grabbed the broom from him and threw it at the back of the bus. This made the guy giggle like a 5 year old just happy to find a playmate. A tiny part of me felt guilty in that brief moment until reality set back in and I realized it was 4am and this giggly mother fucker needed to shut the fuck up. Looking back on it now, the whole thing was kind of funny and I sort of wished I had gotten his number or something so I could send him to Dave Hyland's house with a broom the next time he gives me shit in a reply.

No band info, cuz that was a long story (sorry). Ok, ok real quick; they're from Springfield, Missouri. These tracks were originally released on a Springfield label called Generic Equivalent Records in 2005. Polyvinyl just re-mastered them and re-released the album (Broom) this year.

Enjoy:

http://www.insound.com/mp3r/01Pangea.mp3

http://www.insound.com/mp3r/06HouseFire.mp3

http://www.insound.com/mp3r/02IAmWarm+Powerful.mp3

-mark