Lil’ Bitch scored guest list spots for us at the Mission of Burma show at the Paradise! It was really good! I’ve seen MoB like 5 times before, and other shows might have been better, but this one was really good. The audience was really into it, though they were an average age of about 45.

Maybe it was because I spent last night listening to massive guitar noises, but I’ve been in the mood to listen to nothing but Audioslave’s first album today. I have no idea why; maybe I just feel like singing, and that’s a good album to sing along with. In fact, Chris Cornell is my favorite dude to sing along with out of everyone. Ok, the top 3 albums I like to sing along with are: Temple of the Dog, The Andrews Sisters [some collection I have, I think it's the Best of or the Greatest hits or something], and Mother Love Bone. So, I don’t hate all guitar bands. In fact, I’m going to make a list of all the guitar bands I don’t hate, because I love making lists:

1. Mission of Burma
2. Audioslave
3. Queens of the Stone Age
4. the Mars Volta
5. … And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (even though their name is dumb)
6. System of a Down

Those are the current ones, anyway. I like Bad Brains and Nirvana of course, and lots of other defunct bands… Those above are the ones that could be labelled RAWK! by people. You might see jocks and meatheads at their shows, thus putting them in the realm of modern day Cock Rock, sort of. At least System of a Down is– they’re totally prog rock. They have really nice melodies, though, and I dig the excessive use of harmony, as well. They’re also political, which is cool. Ya gotta hand it to those Armenians. They’ve got everything!

Today Our House was having $1 burgers & free wings. The only catch was that you had to watch football. Luckily, Biatch is way into the football, so we played Connect Four during commercials (I’m just as bad at it as I was in 4th grade. In fact, I think I’ve gotten worse) and ate cheap food. Of course, during the course of the evening, I remembered that I had band practice. DUH! So I ran home and was still early-ish. We wrote a new song! I think this is the first new song we’ve written in a year (at least since Matt kid #2 was born, and I think he’s over a year old now). We’ve made a pact (sort of) to practice more often. Also, to settle the name debate, we’re now called The Consumption. So, Phoenix band The Consumers, you have your name back (even though more than half of you are dead now).

If you want to start your own rock band, go here– it’s kinda fun.

I looked at an apartment yesterday that was AWESOME! It is huge and cheap! It’s in north Cambridge, which I’m not wild about (I like this side of the river and I have massive hatred towards the People’s Republic of Cambridge), but I won’t have to have any stinky housemates, and that’s the key. I’ve been looking at apartment listings, and I really don’t want to have to move into a tiny room in a skanky dump with 5 drunken college students… that seems to be what’s out there now, since everyone’s leases aren’t up until September.

Anyway, this apartment is in the basement of a house. It’s 2 giant rooms + a bathroom. The rent is cheaper than this place, and includes all utilities (including the innernets!) The only drawback is that it doesn’t have a kitchen (just a microwave and a fridge), but that’s not a big deal. I have a toaster and a deep fryer– I can just eat toasted and deep fried things from now on! The landlady said she’d tell me today whether or not I could take the place; there was one person who had dibs over me, and she was going to let the landlady know today if she was going to take the place. I haven’t heard anything from anyone, and I emailed the landlady and everything. I’m kinda going nuts waiting! Oh yeah, there’s FREE LAUNDRY in the house, too! There’s also a ton of storage space. I really really really hope I get it! It’s nearish to Porter Square, so I’ll be able to take the Red Line to work, instead of the stupid stinky Green Line. Yay!