I’d call it a writer’s block if I was much of a writer, so I’ll call it a brain freeze, that has left me at a loss for posting. A busy 5 day weekend with the holiday and everything else that’s going on, so maybe that’s what’s left me high and dry. The wife and I were pretty short on funds so we kept our gifts fairly simple. I got her one of those lotion, body spray gift packs while she got me this CD on ebay. Been wanting to post something but of all the stuff I have uploaded and ready to go, there was nothing I felt like writting about. Now I’m not really a “new” metal fan and I guess these guys might fall into that category, but I dig these guys. They kind of remind me of the band Snot, which you can find here, http://mustard-relics.com/2008/01/09/snot-get-some/ and here, http://mustard-relics.com/2008/03/15/snot-alive/ in the sense that they are a rockin metal with a sort of a hardcore edge. There’s not too much out there on them which may make them a little more underground than most, but there was nothing I could find in the way of torrents or on the blogs. They did do an album before this one on a small label called “Your Loss Your Cost”, so if any of you Soulseek types wanted to help me out I would appreciate it. As everyone seems to have nowadays, even broken up bands, there is a myspace here, http://www.myspace.com/lungbrush. A little more mainstream than usual but I think you’ll dig these two tunes. If anyone’s interested I’d be happy to upload the whole thing. In case I don’t do another post before the new year, I wanted to say that I hope 2008 was good for yall but that 2009 is 10 times better. Later…
Urban Tribes
I Quit
The wife and the grandkids before a little Christmas eve feasting. Being the one taking the pictures, you rarely get to see my ugly mug, but that’s okay because those are three beautiful little ladies and on these kinds of holidays I am all about mountains of food. Made my world famous (the very small part I occupy) pea salad that Kim really digs, but in my insecurity I must have asked her 5 times if it was any good. Tomorrow we work at the group home and have an even bigger feast there with about 20 people with disabilities coming over to gain some weight. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m already “thick” and this time of year I just get thicker.
Christmas came early for me a few days ago when my old junior high school buddy and one of the most brutal drummers I’ve heard, Bob, sent me a big old box of music from his label, 
In my last post, two of my bros hinted at my hippyness, so on this one I wanted to leave no doubt as to where my passion lies in music. This is my 67th post in the hardcore category, but it’s one I’ve been wanting to post for a while. This is the first release from Todd Congeliere’s, 
My bro jeff had mentioned in the comments on my Melt Banana post that he had a bootleg of one of their shows up in Humboldt. The recording not only included them but his anvil heavy old band, the Hitch, along with two other bands I never heard of. I told him I was really interested in that and being the stud he always has been, he ripped it and got it to me right away. Let me tell you, I was not disappointed. This must have been one hell of a show because from beginning to end, every tune by every band shreds. Jeff used to have this on his Multiply account but the link isn’t any good anymore, so you get it like it was the first time. I was going to make four posts out of the show, one for each band. Listening to it though it just fit together so well as it was. I didn’t mess with the labeling too much even though I recognized a lot of the tunes, because I just wasn’t too sure of myself. I did a Melt Banana post not too long ago here, 
