Piss Along You Bird

I'm listening to the new 7" from Bob Pollard, #1 in the monthly Happy Jack Rock Records series of singles. Rud Fins/Piss Along You Bird. This single must represent the same kind of excitement from the mid-sixties to place the tone arm down and hear Pete Townsend chords and Daltrey vocals raging from this small round disc. Its back to basics Bob and I can't wait to here the rest as they come every 30 days for 12 months!

Speaking of Pollard, he announced the simultaneous release of 2 albums on Merge records Oct 9. One pop, one punk. The dude's a dude.

Lotsa news......Adrian graduated from high school and promptly spent 2 weeks hiking/railing/hosteling in England and Scotland. He and two of his Eagle Scout pals had a great time. He's back, bussing tables til he heads off to be a Sycamore at ISU in August.

Katie's synchro season had many hilights, 1st place at zones in Lawrence KS and 1st in regionals in Ann Arbor MI. The National Age Group Synchro meet was held in Oxford OH at Miami University last week. Her routine placed 13th in the country!! Second year in a row at 13th, as they tried to break the top 10. It was a a great year for her and she's already looking forward to next season. (which starts in 60 days!!) Now its off to Koriyama Japan on Sunday for 12 days. She is so excited to be travelling to Japan and working in a summer camp. Reminds me of my trip to Paris when I was her age. Ok...I went to Paris, IL to the honeybee festival. Not really the same.

Shows: I saw Jad Fair at Radio Radio on June 1. What an honor to see this rock n roll legend. The set was very strange. Just Jad singing a capella with this guy Lumberob providing beatbox accompaniment on stage. He also did some strange dancing and played a small guitar while Jad and he serenaded the crowd, in the crowd. Very strange and wonderful.

I also scored a Wilco ticket at the last minute for their June 15 show at the Murat Theater. Another great show. The new songs/CD are great and Tweedy and Nels Cline really showed off their guitar chops. A nice evening with them and the boys.