summer breeze

so fuking hot in the uk town. nights have been nice. at night, smith and i have been walking from his house to mill street to get ice creams and then over to garrett's on grove. walks through the west side are always the key, especially when one is avoiding the skumbs that hang out in susan's pool. i always forget how key ukiah can be in june.

first concert in the park with pretty packed. nice change in that there wasn't a single person i went to high school with asking me what i am up to.
the usual assortment of skumbs and f-w's going off; it wasn't exactly hopping off, but it didn't entirely suk for once.

went to the new downtown brew pub. smith and i drank ice teas as we are currently on a bar ban/no drinking binge in the uk town, so i can't comment on the beer. they took the black bart bar from the palace, which is cool, and it seems to be a fairly sucker free zone, for the time being. drying out seems to be paying off for us pretty well. both of us agree that our game (the little to be had) is in top form.

wishing i could go to bfd....but the afi's play at like 4, and the shoreline is skandalously far away from here, and i have missed a lot of work lately to go off with various lifestyles...including peeping the punk-o-rama tour in chico.

the distillers cut out of their tour, so pressure point subbed for them in chico. the show went off. chico started singing bar room heroes at the murphys set their gear up, and the point crew led some seriously intense oi! chants. during the encore of "skinhead on the mbta" & "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" (ac/dc) the crowd rushed the stage. i thought the place was going to fall apart.

in other chico news, the union of the dead guys just self released an ep recorded at chico state. it's helluv good, i am backing it 110%. chico is a lot more punk than it was a year ago which is cool, although i think i would rather visit than live there.