birthday week!

GOTTA THROW out a big b-day wishes to my Bro (nathan) and sis (becky) this week.. I hope they had amazing days...
For my birthday Im getting a COLONIC and a massage! How bad ass is there..
lucky me! Nate and becky do you want to join me?

WOW Im busy

What a freeking week.. I have been so busy with work and the band stuff. I have decided to pull a Drink PBR at 3 in the afternoon Friday while working... And its been great! I think I made more money this week then ever before in my life, Hopefully I will see it before Christmas. and it feels pretty good. but not as good as this........................

Ashley Tape Fleming ROCKS!!!

Here is some footage of our little tour stint with RYAN ANDERSON and the ANCHORS.. this footage is from Ashley 3rd show ever on drums.. She did CMJ with Me last year, 1 night at the Vaud and Here she is in the great Muscatine IOWA... Go to You Tube and Search Ryan Anderson and you can see 3 other songs from this performance... Thanks to Dean at Explorationiowa.com for filming and recording..

ps I have the cutest wife in the world!

the STATE I am in..

So the other day while we were at that Movie Knocked up we hadnt eating dinner so we thought we would get some popcorn.. Now when I start eating a salty snack I like to continue eating a salty snack so I'm always excited to go to the theater where if you order a big TUB of popcorn you get a second big tub for free...

WELL so I went up to the little high school dude working behind to counter and said, "you guys still give a free refill tub if you buy the big one right" and the kid goes no the STATE OF IOWA HEALTH BOARD wont let us do that any more and I was like what? So I was a little Pe-OD cause shit its not like they lowered the price of it... ANYWAY...

Another thing shitty about Iowa right now is MITT ROMNEY... THis guy is a a douche Bag and will be just as bad a GW Bush in my Opinion.. I hope this guys 15 minutes of fame is up shortly I can stand this coverage of this joker..

So Ashley and I went to the Fair yesterday to catch a BEE GEES cover band it was pretty great actually.. They played a few of my favorite.. my favorite part was they would tell a story about a song and then I would yell out what it was or tell Ashley what is was before they started playing it and I got them all right.. WHAT a NERD.. Ashley enjoyed some Pepper Rings.. They were like onion rings but they were GREEN PEPPERS Fried...
I also enjoyed talking to Devin on the phone who thought it would have been really funny if the Dead Bee Gee also was Dead in the cover group so it was just two of them.. But Im glad he wasnt cause BARRY GIBB was the strongest link in this group.

I also found out at the Fair I have a huge fear of Hights we rode the GONDALA across the fair grounds and I was seriously about the throw up the whole time and I hadnt eaten anyting the whole day and I felt like I was going to drive heave On the butter cow.. which we never saw..

Iowa--- BOO on lack of Popcorn
BOO on Mitt Romney
BOO on hights
Yeah on Bee Gees, time with my Wife and her Fried Green Peppers

KNOCKED UP

Well this weekend had been awful interesting to say the least.. I ran sound for 2 shows on Friday and it was a really good time.. Radio Moscow's new drummer seriously blew my mind how good he was.. and he was totally cool and we talked about ZAPPA, and OTC, and all sorts of good psych pop talk..

Anyway I then met some friends from ashleys work at a LOCAL FOOD POT LUCK Picnic hosted by Wheatsfield (ashleys co-op) anyway I got into this wonderful discussion with this gentleman who used to work for PABST about Stag and other beers.. it was cool then spoke with his wife about our mutual love for the game UKER by this time I was getting a hair tippsy on EGG PLANT SANDWISHES and the Local beer they had and I told them that we call it JUKER on tour cause we have some Hank Williams Jr. cards so its Hank Williams JUKER.. anyway they thought I was total weirdo and then I told them how I was going to sneek some PBR into the Praire Moon Winery concert the next day featuing our buddy BJ Fleming..

Anyway I totally snuck in the beer and enjoyed the concert...

then Ashley must have sensed I needed to see a movie (not that she ever reads my blog) So we went to knocked up and its funny cause ashley has been having all these visions and dreams about us getting pregnut then after watching the movie she was like we dont have to have kids and stuff. she was totally over having a little bug..

Anyway I liked the film thought it was good. WAY BETTER THEY Rocky 5 which I also watched this weekend.. OH BOY did that suck! Now stoked to see Rocky Balboa though..

Finds its groovy to hide in a movie..

So I love movies.. If I could I would watch one a day in the theater.. but truth be told I havent seen a movie in the theater since CLERKS 2 came out.. THAT movie was Awsome! But I read Entertainment Weekly every week so Im up on movies I know which ones are supposed to be great.. and I figure I have the rest of my life to see them and love them or hate them...
But Come this fall there is one movie I will for sure go see in the theater... The Wes Anderson Movie.. I just love his films.. They are tender and funny and just plain kick ass.. here his new movies Trailer....

Its Safe to say!!!!

Well its safe to say that my life is getting better... Why cause I know I will never have to see the band Sufajett most likely ever again. But my dear Ashley did buy one of their t-shirts, why you may ask... cause it was black, long, and really soft (american aparel).. man I have run sound for some great bands at the Vaud but this was not my favorite... thats all Im going to say about that.. Well maybe not,, For some reason Ashley talked about this band all the way home from Des Moines and I finally said I seriuosly dont think they were worth this much conversation.. and She agreed.. But it was weird.. then I announced to her in bed that my life was getting better and she asked why and I said Cause I will never have to see that band again...

Well Im excited that my dear friend Shawn has read my blog, which is totally rad.. We got to speak on the phone yesterday and he was telling me some great stories.. Anyway he and his lovely wife Emily have a serious live bootleg tape collection... and I might get a Magnectic Fields 69 love songs show from him which excites me to no end..

So Ashley and I are doing this thing this week where we eat no snacks and try to eat all our meals together.. and its been great.. I have been making lunch for us and we have been meeting half way inbetween her work and home at a beautiful band shell park for lunch... Today I made Veggie Burgers, with organic spring lettuce, and avacodo, a hair of poppy seed dressing, organic multi grain bread toasted, and Mustard for her, Ketchup for me... and I must say... Im totally ready to open my vegan restaraunt/music venue/bar any day.. all I need is a little Capital, or I need Captitol Records to buy a 100,000 dollar Daytrotter ad from me!

This is a terrible blog but shit Keith Richards wasnt in the news today!xoox