I was talking to my friend Jesse Ponkamo a while ago - he lives and attends school in Madison, WI - and I was reminded of the totally awesome band GORILLA BISCUITS (http://www.myspace.com/gorillabiscuits). They were a straight-edge (yeah!) 80s posi-core band from NYC that recently reunited to play a couple shows at CBGB’s before it closed down; their most famous album was called START TODAY - the message obviously being to, well, start today on making your life what you want it to be. I haven’t listened to them in forever, since the beginning of my senior year in high school maybe, but the message itself is an important one, especially to college students who (it seems to me) often lose sight of the rest of their lives by immersing themselves int the preparations for it.

Yesterday you were on my back just to
get my time. I guess it’s not as precious
as it seems. Because I found the time for
hangin out and talkin on the phone. What
should I expect, now that my time is free
and you’re nowhere to be found.
Next time I’ll try, for the first time in my
life. It won’t pass me by. Procrastinate it
can wait, I put it off.
LET’S START TODAY
My room’s a mess and I can’t get
dressed. I gotta be out by eight o’clock.
Deep inside I know the answer. Well
there’s no time like the present and I’d
like to hang out but who doesn’t. I’ve
made enough mistakes for this lifetime.
Now I’m here to make amends.
Next time I’ll try, for the first time in my
life. It won’t pass me by. Procrastinate it
can wait, I put it off.
START! STOP!

On a similar note, CBGB’s has recently been shut down, as some of you may have heard, to be replaced by a John Varvatos store. Frankly I think this is bullshit, and to all the people who don’t weep tears of blood at this, you can go suck a fuck…punk rock, REAL punk rock, was never about fashion, and for some rich fuck to sweep in and promise to keep the club the way it was - in order, of course, to sell more shitty pretentious hipster clothes - is like shitting all over Hilly Krystal’s face in absentia. So fuck you, John Varvatos, I hope you die.

Listening // Radiohead - In Rainbows // Brad Mehldau Trio - Live