The Emperor does wear clothes

Indeed, the Emperor has new clothes, and they apparently consist of a Ludicra shirt. I didn't know that old coot was so cool. I bet Darth is more into NSBM and Burzum, though. He's racist against the sand people.

The Ludicra show last Saturday was real neat. I like the Hazmat, and I think everyone had a swell time. Rebel's Advocate and Born/Dead both really kicked a lot of butt. Ludicra was stoked to play our first all-ages show in years. I have bruises on my head for accidentally head banging some folks in the noggin'... sorry about that. It was so packed it felt like we were stuck between Scylla and Charybdis, or a rock and a hard place, or the heat and the kitchen, or Former Representative Mark Foley and any given Evangelical minister from Denver.

It was a good show to be the last on I play in 2006. Good feelings, especially of the fermented grape sort. It was a uniquely unified crowd I thought, with complete madness going on, but no big fights or anything, despite some people having other people's foot stuck in their mouths during the crowd walking.

Our good friend Dan, who provided the video footage on the Ludicra s/t EP was good enough to film some of it, and he's already posted it here. If you weren't there, check out what you missed, and if you were, check out your own headbanging and be self conscious that it wasn't hard enough. Wait... maybe just I do that.

After the show I stopped by Bill from Strung Up's new punk rock store / apartment, and some weird girl took pictures of me next to their awesome old antique oven. Give me those pictures, girl! I'm Amish, and you've stolen MY SOUL!

real end of tour

Ever been to Bourbon St. in Concord? That venue sucks balls! Luckily, we had a good show there with the tour. I was so sick the day after coming home from Portland, I had to have a shot of whiskey to keep me going before the show. Medicinal! 

The very lastest show was one which we didn't even know about until we'd hit Denver, in Orangevale. The club, which I'd never been to, turned out to be quite swell with a very punchy and hilarious sound guy. Raul had to work, but we managed to make it to the club just in time. Punctual!

Like many of the shows on this tour, we had to go on at a time earlier than was posted by the club on their website. Hypocritical! 

All of the other bands on the tour were quite nice. Animosity and Dead to Fall are swell folks, and gave us lots of shout outs on stage. We were friends with Dead to Fall's Jon from a tour a couple years back, and now I feel like we're friends with the guys in Animosity, too. Congenial! 

That's all the playing for Impaled for awhile while we head back to the jam space and continue honing our new material for a new full length recording. Topical!

Back home

Boise sure was interesting. Lots of kids and fun, and they were actually in the building when we started. We couldn't find a place to stay so we drove on into Seattle at the end of the night. What a drive! Good times, though.

We played in Seattle and got to see some friends and meet weird people at Pike's Place Market. Good times.

Then it was onto Portland the next day. We had a good show at the same place, the Hawthorne Theater, that we'd played so many times. Good times.

Finally, we drove home, and besides a traffic jam, it was all good times! GOOD FUCKING TIMES!

December 1

It's all about the law of diminishing returns. Our returns for what we do diminish. I think. Actually, I'm not sure what the law of diminishing returns refers to, but it makes it sound like I could have made it on Wall St. instead of been in a band. I could have, but I don't have to prove it to you. I know.