Wow! I'm impressed

I have two new Radiohead tracks from the new album In Rainbows. I thought "Faust Arp" was self indulgent but "15 Steps" is sooo good. So good I'm going to listen to it again. It sounds like Bjork and Thom are feeding off each other's scraps.

VHS or BETA

What a tight album. I love the guitar tones. "The Stars we Came From" sucks but the rest of the album is really good. I love the intro to "Love in my Pocket" even though the chorus sounds like a bad attempt at a beach boys arrangement without enough movement. And there's even an asian dude in the band! Listen to the album on myspace

A.R.E. Weapons

I can't stop listening to "Confusion is the SIgn Today" by brooklyn-ites A.R.E. Weapons.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

Finally got back from our tour of the East Coast with many experiences that will stay with me for a lifetime. I've got to fill orders for "Local's" slippers this weekend. Apparently the local brand slipper is big on the east coast due to its inclusion in the Urban Outfitters catalog. I will come through for sure.

Anyway, I think I can speak for the rest of the band when I say that we all had a great time. We saw a band called Lowercase Blues after a bunch of people suggested that we catch them at the Dewey Beach Music Festival. The response to our set was mixed. I don't think we played loud enough.

When we got back, I went to one of Tim's shows with Upstanding Youth and stayed in the back during most of their set. Coupled with the shows we witnessed on the east coast, that show made me think about the incentive for going to shows. I don't want to hear someone whine or showoff. I want to be entertained, lose myself in the music. As an attendee, I want to get something out of the performance.

I've been thinking of a new name to encompass the new direction I want to take with music and I think I stumbled onto it last night whilst watching Family Guy. "GLADIATOR MICE." Check out the clip. Nonsense. Like the band Fujiya and Miyagi. As the famous ancient greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “Expect the unexpected, or you won’t find it.”

Busy busy few weeks!

Busy past few weeks for me, but I'm back! Just learned that a dear friend and loyal LINUS supporter will be moving to Oregon. Thanks to our myspace page (that for the past few months has been incapable of playing our music, but has been recently fixed) we'll be able to keep in contact. Hmm, how should I list these updates... Played a great show on the North Shore, played another great show in the International Market Place (even though I was an hour late because I was waiting at the wrong bar, but thankfully the waitress was nice enough to comp the drink that I had put on the band tab that didn't exist). Does that make sense?

This past weekend Stan and I went to highway recording studio and re-recorded the high-hat part of "Hold on Hold," it sounds way better now. I also re-recorded the vocal for Sad to Say the weekend before. Although nothing can replace the old recording we did in 2005, this update should make the music video much more appealing. There's a solo on it now! Drinking a "Premium Roast Iced coffee" from McDonalds. Watched "Coming to America" last night and dreamt about eating at McDowells. Also watched "Who gets to call it Art" on DVD. Highly recommended to anyone who's about to visit the MET in New York.

We're touring in 2 weeks. We have a show tomorrow at Next Door but unfortunately we won't have the projector to show a movie in the background. I'm thinking about making videos on the tour (or at least planning them out) after I talked to stan and phil about our youtube account. All plans, action in two weeks, more recording to be done when we get back.

Removing the Ads for Good.

'Ninja' teens in Oregon not as swift as those in movies

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROGUE RIVER, Ore. -- The three teenagers in hooded black outfits were scampering over rooftops, climbing trees "just like a squirrel," and breaking into houses and cars, police said.

But they weren't quite as slick as their Japanese ninja heroes.

Earlier this summer, an officer chased one of the wannabes across a school rooftop, but the youth leaped into a nearby tree, said police Chief Ken Lewis.

Breaking branches on the way down, "he gave a yelp of pain," and then he scrambled away, Lewis said.

Last week, after months of investigation, police arrested three teens, two 15 and one 16, and seized stolen jewelry, burglary tools, a map of the city and several black ninja suits with hoods and climbing spikes.

The parents of one told police their son complained of an injury about the time of the rooftop chase, Lewis said.

"I believe that's our roof-gliding ninja," said Lewis.

Lewis said one of the three indicated they had been active for a year and a half, and the pranks escalated from flights across rooftops and petty vandalism.

Lewis said the teenagers used a stolen credit card to buy, online, costumes and equipment such as hand-climbing spikes, metal throwing stars and utility belts.

Police got their first clue to the activity seven months ago, Lewis said, when an anonymous caller referred to the ancient Japanese martial arts masters trained for covert operations and assassinations.

"He wanted to know if it was OK for his kid to dress up in a ninja costume and run around in the middle of the night and climb on top of roofs," said Lewis.

"We told him that would be both dangerous and illegal. We never heard from him again."