hey everyone,
sorry, again. i am an apologetic sob, ain’t i? i just have been lax in updates. i had such great intentions when i started my music blog (http://www.billjanovitz.blogspot.com/). actually, i see that it was updated in december. that ain’t too bad, is it? anyway, i can’t see too many people hanging on every word anyway.
i wish i could say it is because i am busy. but i have been less busy than i was all 2007, i think. but american idol started last week. plus someone sent me an invitation to join this facebook that i have heard so much about, from all the kids and such. but i see that it has hit some tipping point (btw, that’s the title of a great book by malcom gladwell) and more modern maturity folks like me have signed up. it is actually the most useful of all the “social networking” sites i have found. i never quite latched on to myspace too much. and linked-in has some professional uses, i suppose. no one has made them apparent to me yet, but i’m willing to suspend my disbelief for now.
but with facebook, one can post the music, vids, little logos that allow you to dupe yourself into feeling like you are politically, environmentally, or gastonomically aware, etc. but the event announcements thing, in fact the whole interface seems very user-friendly. so that’s where i have most recently posted upcoming bt shows that i hope many of you will attend. kevin will continue to update the bill and bt sites, but they are so web 1 or possibly 2.0 and this band is, like, very web 3.2.
i see that the shows are selling well, so i hope to see some of you out there on the cold and lonely plains. and there is a buff tom listeners group or something like that, which of course i had to join even though i don’t listen to them (only like the early stuff) when i can avoid it. of course, we will have to listen to each other prattling on (this means you, tom) for an 8-hour ride in a van to dc this friday. so we have that going for us. how much would you pay for a podcast of that. have any of you heard the troggs tape? something like that.
the downside of facebook, and perhaps the real reason for my laxity in updates and other such things such as bathing and acknowledging the existence of my children is that it has this texas holdem poker app. which has ruined me. mind you, i have achieved “big dog” status in a mere couple of weeks and am ever so close to attaining the ultimate status of “shark.” however, these achievements don’t seem to resonate with my wife, who has never really encouraged my aspirations and dreams and so i don’t expect her to all of a sudden wake up and bow down at the feet of a facebook-poker-recognized “big dog” now, january 22, 2008. further, she doesn’t even seem enthusiastic when i finally win a few hands and come out on the positive side of my bi-weekly poker group in my favorite contractor’s shop (which seems like a setting out of a tarantino bloodbath but is nothing of the sort in real life). so again why would i expect her to wake up lucid one morning and thank me for my visionary foresight?
so i recommend you sign up for the f-book as well so you can waste more of your time.
but as usual, i digress:
buffalo tom
January 25
night time
black cat
washington dc.
january 26
joe’s pub
2 shows — both night time, one earlier than the other
in the shadow of the astor place kmart
near/once home of the scrappy yet sadly soon-to-be defeated new jersey giants
new york, ny
february 1
first avenue
home to prince
and husker du
and grant hart
and the replacements
and that city that gave birth to the mighty hold steady men
minneapolis, mn
because, really, when you think about it, why go play some place warm in february? we want to keep our pale – broken-only-by-our-patches-of-psoriasis-because-we-are-so-dried-out-by-the-boston-winters – glow. let’s pick someplace more miserable than boston in the winter. yes, minn. will do. but how about tomorrow? shall we go to hawaii then?
no.
february 2
double door
one of my favorite cities in the world
chicago, we-be-illinois
i be illin’ so you keep chillin’ and like lowell george be willin’ and in facebook poker i make a killin’,
Bill-in’
