the daily dub

John McCain just named his VP pick. And, man, is it a doosy.

Here’s the rundown:

• Former mayor of an Alaskan town of 1000 people – no foreign policy experience.
• She (yes, she) wants to overturn Roe v. Wade – the supreme court case that said that women have the right to choose. How can anyone, let alone a woman, think that they can decide what all other women can and cannot do with their own bodies.
• Her husband works for British Petroleum.  Good one, there…
• She wants to fight against calling Polar Bears an endangered species.
• Sarah Palin is under investigation by the Alaska state legislature.  Wow!
• And, to top it off, she wants to teach Creationism in school … as in the Bible.  Don’t get me wrong, I was raised religious, but intelligent people know that they are allegories, and not to be taken strictly literally.  Also, has any Republican ever heard of a little term I like to call Separation of Church and State?  I’m pretty sure it’s in this little-heard-of-by-republicans document called the Constitution of The United States.  Read it, bitches.

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A full .zip file of the show: Live at Caffe Trieste – June 28, 2008.

I’m finally, yes finally mixing down the June 28th show.

Yea, it has taken me a god damn long time to get to it.  Actually, it was basically mixed already, I just never got around to sound checking and mixing it down to mp3s.

A couple quick first impressions:

• Noodling between songs is no bueno – we need to cut that shit out.
• Also, our set needs to flow more (which leads to a shorter overall time)
• Following that, we need more song, preferably more originals.
• Given more originals, and a slightly more professional appearance (see point 1), I’d be 100% down to do a coffee shop tour of San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California, and/or across the states.
• And also: we handled a broken string in the middle of a song, twice! and we handled it well.  Rock on.
• A sparkly, clean mix (such as I got by using an 8 channel audio interface) necessitates a clean performance (which we didn’t exactly have) since you can way more easily hear all the mistakes… Next time, we’ll have a lot more rehearsals.

Anyway, expect mp3s of the show by tomorrow.

Cheers!

There’s really nothing worse than coffee that is just too sweet. Sorry, Starbucks, you can keep all your carmel, vanilla, chocomochiato crap. Give me black coffee with cream and I’m set.