Made it safe and sound.

Im here at my prefered home, Western Washington. Made it in around 1030am pacific time yesterday. Spent an awesome day with my Jenny. Ate Jack in the Crack then crashed out because I was freaking exausted. The plan when this ticket was bought was to use a couple hours PTO to come home early and get some sleep. I was sick as a dog a couple weeks ago and ate the last of my PTO for the year, so I had to work a full shift, come home and try to sleep for 3 hours before I take off to ICT. Of course that didnt work out quite right so I really didnt sleep till I got here. Hung out with her brother and played rock band then came home to a great dinner and an awesome bottle of wine. Great way to start a vacation, no?

The Plans for this trip is to make Jenn's birthday the best one she has ever had. Its going pretty damn well so far, came up with a cd idea for her a long time ago and finally got around to putting it together and getting it all set up. Also got some pics together from the previous trips printed out and put in pretty frames. She probably thinks that is all I have planned and you know... Im gonna let her squirm for a while on that one. I've got a few more sweet and romantic shit up my sleeve but its a suprise.

A few things we got left to do this week, Jenn's Birthday Dinner with her family tonight, Ron White on Friday night, Retirement lunchenon for Jenn's Mom Saturday afternoon, then Glow Bowling with some of her friends Sat Night. There is plenty to do around here but I may just veg today. Its raining, my favorite weather, and by god I'm going to enjoy it.

Ill try to update more later, if any of ya give a damn.




I didnt use the cocaine to get high I just like the way it smelled. - Ray Wylie Hubbard

Mixed bag of stuff on Dia De Los Muertos

It,s been quite a while since I took the time to sit down and write a little bit about whats going on in my life and music. I cant seem to decide if I want this to be purley a music blog or just a mixed bag of shit that I feel like writing about. So I guess I'll just do both.   Music is always around me, mainly by my choice since the purchase of my mp3 player. It has been an escape from the troubles with coworkers and a way for me to not have to hear the whir of that press for 3 hours after I get off work. Been turned on to a lot of new music lately, mainly from the fine folks at ninebullets.net, It Burns When I Pee and  Twang Nation talked about.  New Two Cow Garage came out last week, downloaded it for now till I can get to a record store that has it or I get a wild hair and drive 4 hours to see em play again. I cant really afford that but hey when has that stopped me?

New It Burns When I Pee podcast was put up recently is funny as hell. This time It was Just Blake and Norma Jean and still funnier than anything I hear on the radio. Not to mention great music. Its the halloween show so those are always fun.   Halloween isnt what it used to be for me since we buried dad on Halloween 5 yrs ago.  Probably part of the reason Ive been a little off as of late, thinking about things that I cant change and trying to figure out what I can change has been right up there as well. There will be alot going on in the very near future in regards to change. Hope fully all the changes in my life that I am making will work out for the best. I'm sure they will but its the waiting that makes it so damn hard. 

Speaking of waiting... I get to see the girl I love again for her birthday. I leave the 5th at about 4 in the morning to head to the ICT and then westward from there. Ill be back in Oklahoma late Sunday night or early in the morning monday. That is if I decided to get back on the planeand head back to Oklahoma come Sunday. I already dont want to come back here but hey you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. No matter how much it sucks

I will be playing the roll of her moms present.  Its going to be a great and much needed trip. I couldnt be happier to be there for her and with her. She is an awesome girl and inspires me in ways that she probably cant understand because I don't always feel like I get across how much she means to me and how great she actually is. As that Zac Brown song says:

She's got whatever it is

It blows me away

She's everything I wanted to say to a woman 

but couldn't find the words to say

She's got whatever it is

I don't know what to do

Because every time I try and tell her how I feel 

it comes out "I love you"

Thats all that I can think of right now. I think Ill get off here and play the guitar till my fingers turn numb again. WHoo hoo gotta love weekends. 

and the fun and frivality continues un abated....

It is the 13th of sept. Here is what I am doing the rest of the month.

7am 9/13/08 fly to Denver to buy a caddy and drive home for momma.

Return to Blackhell(Via pimped out caddy no less) on 9/14/08

work 3 days.... Then fly to seattle to be with the love of my life one "jinny" if you will

Fly out of ICT on the 18th at 1030am cst, 2.5 hr layover in Houston, Land at SEA 530 PST

spend the weekend, Thurs-Sun with jenny rocking out the the Rocky Point All Stars and The Texas Meat Purveyors. Different shows different nights different places.

work as much over time in the mean time to keep my head afloat.


And you little bastards wonder why Im so bitchy....

Ramblin down that dirt path....

All right children, here we go. This is gonna be a lil different than I have put up but then again I am nothing if not "different".  I am medicated and not feeling how do you say, in my lane,  so bear with your humble host for a bit, ok?

In 98/99 I met up with some great folks who inspired me to start writing publicly instead of just shit I scribbled down and never showed anyone. How they got it out of me I have no clue but I thank them and curse them to this day.  Music writing is hard for me because I have such varied tastes. Some days I want to hear some archived recording from the depression era, ok well the first great depression anyway, and the next song I want to hear some old gangsta rap. I was always made fun of for this growing up but I have come to find some folks who are just like me, they like what they like, labels be damned.  My creative zen that I bought for work has done nothing but reinforced this opinion.  Jimmie Rodgers followed by some unnamed dirty south rapper/mash up, probably a dj skrew tape, and they both talk about and I quote "Triflin women" Im not crazy... its all the songs in my head that be fuckin with me.

But looking back on childhood, especially where I actually call home, this is not some new epiphany.  I have always made mixtapes, now cds of course, stuff that I liked, stuff that I found that probably wouldn't, in some cases, shouldn't of been heard in mixed company.  I was moving boxes around teh storage shed last weekend and found my old tape boxes. There is some scary shit in there.  Some day I will have my production studio back up and working and I will be happy to podcast this shit. Till then yall be safe, watch out for the hunters, and hold that one you love, you never know when you'll lose an arm.

damn that was depressing wasn't it.  Fuck me. I was trying to make a happy blog cause I'm happy.  Oh well as Jenn and I say... Sad songs make me happy.

Greaserama 2008

I swear to god. One of these days Im going to have the money to do the shit I want. Here is another great and fun time, within driving distance of my hillbilly ass that I wont be able to attend. Damn me and my lack of fundage. Check it out:

CAR SHOW STARTS AT NOON- SAT & SUN.
NO PETS.
Movie Schedule: Saturday- Two Lane Blacktop. The Wild One. Repo Man
Sunday- The Wild One. Repo Man. Two Lane Blacktop
(in that order)

here is the band schedule:
Friday-
The Big Iron
The Tex Reys
Federation of Horsepower

Saturday-
car show starts at noon, bands will start at 1 or 2
The F-Holes ( trad. rockabilly/southern rock)
Black Tarantulas (garage rock)
Calamity Cubes (roots/blues/bluegrass)
The Tex Reys (garage rock)

Sunday-
doors open at noon, bands will start around 1 or so
Calamity Cubes
The Last Call Girls (honkytonk)
Cretin 66 (rock n MF'n roll)
The Throttlers (c*ck rock/ punk)


Here's SOME of the vendors coming this year:
Van Chase Studio
Cool Stuff
Chop Tops
Lugnut
Mid-town Bobbers
Voodoo Machine
B-Scott Studio
Midwest Scandal
Amuck
Mac's Ratz
Full Throttle Mag
Ol' Skool Rodz Mag
Hometown Hotrods Mag
Accurate Performance
Please Me Boutique
Ecoboutiquo
Two-Stroke Hardcore
Cycles n More
Van Dyne Leather
Pinstripers:
Whiskey, Blaine Scott
Food/Drink:
The Coffee break BSA Troop 60, Blvd Drive-in Concession Stand, and some BBQ guy.
Lily's Greasy Gallery open from 2 til dark Sat and Sun.

Valve cover racing- some time between 2 and 5- with test and tune on Sat and the Big Race Sunday.
Awards will be right before dusk on Sunday- either after the last band, or right before their encore. Fabulous, handmade Greaserama Awards by the Punk Rods- with bonus artistic contributions by (most likely) Kevin Broderick of Fabrications Unlimited, Boneheads C.C., Knucklebusters C.C., KC Kustoms, The Spokesmen bike club, The Eddies bike club, KC slammers (model).
All car clubs, etc. are welcome to bring & give away a pick award. Represent!

Between 1st and 2nd movies- the unofficial, impromtu muffler rapping and flame throwing contest. Someone may even make a trophy for this, too.

We will play all three movies both nights. We have reversed the order so if you always fall asleep at the drive-in, like I do, the one you missed will be playing earlier the next night. That way, if you go to an early rock n roll show somewhere Saturday Night, you can still catch the late showing of Repo Man!

Summer 08 The Return of all my favorites

The return of broken up bands continues. Slobberbone snuck on stage for 3 songs last month, Split Lip has a new album out, The Meat Purveyors are on a mini reunion tour, and now comes this news straight outta Killville.... Quoted from the militia newsletter with permission....

Just when things where starting to happen again in Killville, Angry goes and gets himself sick. Last week Angry was checked into the hospital with a huge appendix.
I'm sure there's a medical term for that, but either way it sucks. Doctor says Angry's going to be there for a while before they can cut em up and get that thing out, so he's more angry then usual.

If ya want to send Angry some whiskey, bullets or just a card
send em to:

Angry Johnny
PO box 1164
Easthampton MA 01027

or just send em an email at:
angry@getangry.com

Like I was saying, things are starting to happen again in Killville.
A couple of shows have been booked in early September. however, we might have to move those shows due to the huge appendix.

The Killbillies line up this time around features Angry johnny, Sal Vega, Goatus t Ovenrude and the return of Slabs Theilman on the splinter bass.

I will update ya all about any future killbillies dates when we know what up with Angry's guts.

Update... Angry is out of the hospital but will need to go back to get the guts ripped out.

Here is a self portrait done by Angry as is posted over at Killville. Click on the pic to go there as well. Great site, great art, and still the scariest mother fucker in Americana to date.

New Symptons... Its burning bad doc.

I done went and bought me one of them new fangled mp3 players for work and loaded it up with past episodes of It burns when I pee. 10 hrs of making oil drilling bits has never passed so quickly. I Highly recommend listening while you work if you have a blue collar job or a door on your office for you white collar pukes. You may get some sideways look and some talk behind your back but aint you already used to that?

The new episode should be posted 8.15.08 and I believe IBWIP.com will finally have some content as well. check it out bitches.
update: 8.14.08 IBWIP.com is now live and full of pretty pictures

Twang Aint Just A Guy Thang

Episode 18 of It Burns When I Pee

Release Date: Aug. 15th 2008

at Section86.com and IBWIP.com

After listenting to last months episode I went and got inspired to start writing and post to grit to go again. Juft for the hell of it... I thought it would be fun to interview the evil master mind Blake Clayton. Heres the standard 5 in 15 hayride militia quickie interview that I emailed Blake recently. Blake's answers in bold.


1. Why? why the Name, why alt.country(what ever you want to call this music)

When I was deciding to start doing a podcast, It Burns When I Pee just popped into my head. Even before I knew what the show was going to be about. With thousands of podcast's all over the inter-net I thought that this name would stand out. I see now that naming the show It Burns When I Pee was just a hit of how the show would end up being like (the adult humor) that was never originally intended to be part of the show content. As for why alt-country, I felt like there needed to be a show that promoted all the great music that is out there that people don't get the chance to hear. Personally, I never knew about bands like Spilt Lip Rayfield, The Meat Purveyors, and so on, until I started posting on hank3.com a few years back. I am so passionate about what we play on the show. I am hoping that even if two people hear a song by an artist and go check them out and buy a CD or something… then we did what we are hoping to do.

2. Where you come from/where do you go? (where did you grow up where do you see yourself in regards to music in say 5 yrs)

I was born and raised in Central Illinois. As for where do I see myself, the show, in 5 years… I would really like to see IBWIP be a "power house" where artists and fans come to check out great independent music. I hope that the show can find a full time sponsor and we can start to do a lot more interesting stuff. I'd like to see us do some video stuff, and have an interactive message board and such. I just want to see the show be a "house hold name" among the underground/alt music seen.


3. When is the next record, show, movie etc coming out?

We do one show a month. We have the release date schedule on our myspace page (www.myspace.com/itburnswhenipee86) . We are hoping to start doing some bonus releases soon, but have nothing definite yet. We have the IBWIP Auction coming up on September 19^th through October 3^rd. We are super excited about the auction and are getting some really great donations to auction off.


4. What do you listen to on the road?

I listen to all kinds of stuff. We get a lot of bands that send us CD's and music files and we listen to all of them. If your asking for favorite bands I would have to say, Split Lip Rayfield, The Meat Purveyors, Hank 3, and I have been listening to The Big Jugs a lot lately too. There are too many bands to list for sure. The musical genrue as a whole is just outstanding and there are so many bands/artists that I am discovering while doing the show.

5 Who would you rather... Mother Maybell or The fat dixie chick. Splain

I must say that I am a fan of The Dixie Chicks. I think the "fat" Dixie, Natalie is a hot ass gal. She has an amazing voice and I would have to slap her in the face with all 3 inches I got. Seriously though, The Dixie Chicks have stood up for themselves both against their 1^st label and have stood up for what they believe in. That is what the whole premises of the show is, pissing on the porch of Corporate Nashville. So the answer to the question is simple… I would take Natalie to Get Your Hank On Studio, click record, and put the hurtin on that hottie.

I will write more about IBWIP, The New Meat Purveyors and hopefully the New Split LIp Rayfield album soon as life stops getting in the damn way.....