Broken Bottle Blog

Well the turn out was pretty good, probably 15 to 20 people there. Not everyone that said they were coming came, so we have quite a bit of liqour left over. We also had about 1/4 of the keg left over, but had to return it. Overall it was fun, but a few dramatic things happened. I bought a firepit for the party to put on the patio, and keep everyone warm, we even cooked on it. Well after there was a roaring fire going, someone decided to put a can of beans, unopened, in the fire, ,of course it blew up and threw embers everywhere. Of course it was loud also. The first one wasn’t bad, but it was decided that another can should be put in there, despite Roger and I trying to stop it. The second one landed more horizontal in the fire and when it blew it put a hole in the mesh screen along with beans all over the wall and chair. I reacted by pouring my whole beer on Chris’ head and kicking him out of the house. I just bought that pit not four or five hours earlier, and now it’s got a hole in it. In hindsight I was out of line and I called and said I was sorry. No one should get a beer poured on their head, at least not in anger anyway. Rest of the party was good, got a nerf gun from Nicole, which still provides entertainment. A gift pack of liquor with two rocks glasses from Brian. Stayed up until seven in the morning, that’s about it. I put some photos up in the gallery. Thanks to Roger too for spending all that money to make it a real party.

Turned my cell off today, don’t feel like talking to anyone.

Alright I had an error on the blog and this post got deleted, so I’m reposting it. Despair, inc makes demotivational posters and they are hilarious. Here’s on of my favorites:

Their calendars are funny as hell, too. Great gift for someone who hates thier job.

Saturday’s my birthday and we’re having a party. If you are reading this you are invited. We’ll have a keg of beer, two kegs of homebrew (oatmeal stout, holiday spice), a margarita machine, although Roger wants to make Huricanes, so a huricane machine. Also, cooking out on the grill, hamburgers and brats or hotlinks. Poker game will probably get started at some point. About 15 people coming so far, and I told them to invite people. See ya there!

My great friend Tommy and his friends recorded a live CD and it’s for sale now.

Email from Tom:

It’s finally here: Blue Language, the two-disc live album featuring performances by me, Dan Kimbro, and John Henry.

Sorry for the spam, but this is probably the coolest thing I’ll ever do, so I’m telling everybody who’ll listen.

The album was recorded live at a one-of-a-kind performance in the Chapel at Reed College, April 2nd, 2005. If you were there, you probably remember us drunkenly and sloppily goofing around onstage, but if you weren’t there, let me tell you, this was the most sophisticated and flawless performance ever to be captured on audio recording.

This is the first ever recording of most of my songs, and Dan’s as well. John Henry’s are on other albums with his band the Jigsaw Gentlemen (www.jigsawgentlemen.com), but the songs in this recording have a very different sound as a solo performance. If you haven’t heard Dan or John before, Dan plays hilarious adult-themed bluegrass or “porn-country” songs, and John Henry plays darker, more rockin’ songs with intelligent lyrics, delivered with a golden voice. I’ve got 10 of the 28 songs, including all the old favorites, and 2 brand new songs, premiered on this recording.

The album is entirely self-produced, so sadly, we can’t just give ‘em away. We ended up with 31 tracks on 2 discs, nearly 2 hours of music, and we are selling them for $10. You out-of-Portlanders can buy them online at http://cdbaby.com/cd/tomdanjohn (or just go to cdbaby and search for our names) their handling fee and shipping will be a few bucks extra, but you can pay with a credit card, and delivery is guaranteed.

We made exactly 200 and we already dropped one and broke it. So now there’s only 199. Get ‘em while the gettin’s good.

Lemme know what you think, and please forward this e-mail to anybody else who gives a damn.

-Tom

Buy his CD here and help support him. It’s good trust me.

GWAR kicked ass as usual. Nikki and I got down there early to get some grub, we goto Dallas Cantina, it looks like an authentic tex-mex place, when we go in the waitress is handwriting the menus, I assume for the next day, and takes us to our seats. She gives us handwritten menus which has item like Lemon nade, Oranch drink, and Chik.i.n sandwich ( I swear that’s how it was spelled). So I get a burger and Nikki gets the tostadas. We head to the Gypsy Tea Room for the show, the first band was Mensura, they were allright, next was A Dozen Furies. They are a local band and seemed to have a big following, this is where it gets interesting, we were on the edge of the pit the whole night. Well, during one of A Dozen Furies last songs they say something to the fact of “I wanna see the biggest pit ever, let’s set this place off” then whole place erupts and we are in the pit. Nicole gets slammed to the ground, I try to grab her and I get slammed down, and someone picks me up. I try to get back to her but someone already pulled her out, then I get slammed down to the ground again. I could’ve stayed standing but I was trying to get back to Nicole and I was going against the grain. The mosh pit usually goes around in a sloppy circle, it always seems to be counter-clockwise, why is that? Must be an anti-establishment thing. Anyway, I get out finally and head to a predetermined point at the bar we set-up just for this type of situation. As I walk back I do the pocket check, wallet, keys, cash…..wait what’s this in my rear left pocket, a fucking knife. I acquired a freaking knife in the mosh pit, don’t know wheather it was accidental or on purpose, and I can feel it clipped on my pocket so I unclip it and stick it all the way down in my pocket. I didn’t want to pull it out for fear of security seeing it. I meet Nic at the bar and tell her and she feels around in my pocket, and we’re freaking out a little, but don’t know what to do except just leave it there. So we grab some more beer and head up front and wait for GWAR, they rocked, although didn’t seem to have as much blood or kill as many people as last time. George Bush, Michael Jackson, and Martha Stewart, were all well maimed. We had a good time, kinda a tradition for Nicole and I, that I hope keeps going. Oh, and the knife was actually a really nice Gerber knife, and no there is no blood on it.

Went to Two Rows monday, I try to go there once a week, and they have two new beers on tap. Holiday Spice and a Doppelbock which is over 7% abv. Seems like they have new beer every week. Found out the brewmaster has to use Two Row barley in every beer, there is actually a big “silo” out front filled with it.

Brewed some beer of my own last Sunday, it was a remake of a holiday beer I had to dump out. I’ll try to get the recipe up here.

Well, I’m on My space now. Haven’t quite figured out the point yet, seems to be all about getting the most friends and networking with strangers. It’s a free service though and you can blog and meet people. So far I have 8 friends, which are friends in real life, so I still don’t know what the point is, and I’ve been contacted by someone in Mesquite,Texas who thinks I’m cool, she’s a teacher and works at a bar, plus there are no pictures of her. Also, the I love T-shirts and FriscoTX singles groups want me to join them. It’s one of the hardest websites to navigate, I usually stumble upon what I’m trying to do by accident. I mean there in not even a login button for me to log in to my account. But one cool thing is you can send a bulletin out to all your friends, say about my b-day party. Roger got on it first, and in order for me to view parts of his myspace account I had to be on myspace, so that’s why I joined. Mainly all we do is post embarassing or funny pics on each others pages. I guess anyone can start a myspace group, because there are groups for everything like, Bush is a retard group or the Drunks group. There’s a kinda six degrees of separation thing going on here, but not neccessarily six degrees, every friend I have has over 20 friends, and those friends have 20 friends, so on , and so on. Tom was my first friend, he started MySpace and he’s everyone’s first friend, he has like 39 million friends, so I’m pretty sure you can link everyone to everyone else. If you’re on MySpace be my Friend.

Well, I screwed up a batch of beer last night. It wasn’t the oatmeal stout I brewed the other day, that’s still going fine. It was a holiday beer and I broke my themometer in the wort. My themometer was the floating type and it has all these little metal (I think) balls at the end, I assume to keep it upright, it broke at the tip and all those balls, plus some black stuff (glue?) went into the wort. I haven’t thrown it out yet, I went ahead and brewed it, and it’s fermenting now. So, I immediatley posted a message on the Northern Brewer homebrew forums, and almost everyone was in agreement that I should dump it. Not worth the risk to possibly poisoning your friends with lead or something, especially when it’s so easy to make more. Although one guy brought up the point that it should be food grade, and therefore safe. Kinda bummmed though, I thought the stars were in perfect alignment on this one, it was a combination of one of my previous brews and another from a book. Plus, It was gonna be ready for my birthday, although I was cutting it close, then when I get to the homebrew store he suggests different grains making it completely original recipe. Oh, and the wort tasted soooo good. I guess it happens to everyone, and this would be the first botched batch for me, but damnit why this one. It was expensive too, I spent about $40 at Central Market on spices, granted I had to buy a whole jar just to get a teaspoons worth. So at least I have enough spices to make more. Should I really dump it? I’ll wait until tomorrow and maybe make more.

P.S. GWAR tomorrow night, highlights soon.