i won at bingo again last night and so did mah friend. we both picked a succulent plant for our prize. i got drunk and kept breaking open the bulbs that fell to the soil cause it smelled like freshly cut grass and I frickin’ love that scent. we left our table for a sec and when we came pack there was an abandoned tray full of cupcake cones on the table that smelled like they wanted to be eaten. so we helped ourselves.

after bingo this band with the unfortunate name of Battlehooch came on and they had this cap’n beefheart & magic band thing going on with the skronking and that je ne sais quoi off-kilter swagger. they were ridiculous and like 2 hippie looking jock rock dudes had no shirts on which made me really want to roll my eyes, but i lived with it because they were obviously having fun. there was also all this gear on stage, including a theremin, drums, bass, guitar, laptop, keyboards, LOTS of pedals and crap with knobs on em and a bunch of reeds. The dude who played the reed instruments looked like he could be one of the level bosses in that bad Bruce Lee movie Game of Death. At one point he was playing both the alto saxomophone and a clarinet AT THE SAME TIME. Although I heard some of their tracks online today and am not really feeling it, I have to say they had a lot of crazy energy on stage and I feel stupid for not bringing my camera.

Speaking of dudes with no shirts on…

….because I am feeling sentimental and I used to have the biggest crush on Shock G when I was 11-14ish. shock = underrated on the keys and easy on the eyes and i am not mad at that at all. hello oakland. seeing digital underground at kmel summer jam when i was a kid was one of my most memorable and fun concert experiences ever.