The Avalanches

Let me tell you this, minna mi mamacita, when I was in high school, there was this short lived local craze with the beads.......the necklaces and braclets you make with the tiny craft-shop beads and fishing line.......how fucking corny was this, guys giving BEADS to girls while trying to act all hard and street.......this Patrick kid was making them and selling them for five bucks each......i bought one off him and then decided i would cut his grass a little bit, get my own money......so i began taking orders, about 20 people.......that weekend I go to the craft shop and pick up the shit, sit down and get to making.......it was IMPOSSIBLE......the beads were so tiny, the fishing line would bend and wobble, and making a single one took an hour......fuck it, right?......but by then I had already spent all the money on pot and porn so I had to bullshit at school until people forgot about it.....mortifying.

Since then, whenever I think of entrepreneuring, I get scared......I'm just the type of guy to let everyone down with anything involving logistics.....like when I drive by a sign that says BRIDGE RESTORATION IN PROGRESS or a big modern building being made, I imagine myself somehow being contracted to do something like that BY MYSELF and leaving it till the last minute.......i don't even own a screwdriver.....I'd call up my mom, sobbing...."MAAMAAAAAA......I FUCKED UP...."........still, she'd show up in her sneakers that night with a tupperware box of pasta and some neon construction paper and say, "we can still do it, don't give up!".....just like all those other times......but I'd say, "Mom, not this time.......supplies for this, we can't buy at 7-11 at midnight"

I get the same feeling when I watch that surgery footage.....because I can also imagine myself somehow bullshitting my way into a position where I am performing surgery, actually beginning the procedure rather than admitting I'm a fraud and losing face, blood pouring everywhere, me having absolutely no clue how to close the guy back up......"ummmm.....scotch tape!"

I still love the avalanches, because how are they to know my esoteric phobias?

-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), May 9th, 2002.

Fuck the Avalanches, let's talk blood, failure and death. :-)

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), May 9th, 2002.

It's funny, this confluence - I did call my Mom last week.

Try putting it in all lower case.

this better be worth it.

it's 'brains'

an email from Modular:
"It's with much sadness that we have to let you know that the tour formerly known as the Modular World Domination Tour [r.i.p.] will not be happening this month. Many apologies to all who had planned to come out and see us in LA, New York and London, but due to unforseen circumstances we've had to pull the entire thing.
We're bummed about it, the bands are bummed about it, and it's quite possible that many of you are too.
We do, however, hope to have something similar in the pipeline for either late this year or early next.
When things come to fruitition, be sure we'll let you know."

No idea how true that is, though.

"M A R C H > U P D A T E
NEW ALBUM -
exploration into sampled inner space continues, and is sounding damn exciting from all reports. the band would like to thank everyone for their patience and ongoing support. "sorry its not done sooner but theres no point in putting out an insane half finished mess" is the general feeling in the camp. recording is proceeding much quicker than with the first album believe it or not - its just that no one was waiting on that one.

AVALANCHES IN ROCK SHOCK -
the guys have also been busy re - editing most of bon jovis seminal 'slippery when wet' album (excluding wanted dead or alive and without love which are shit) and will be airing these once in a lifetime versions during their melb and sydney laneway dj sets - so get down there for a once only 80's rock extravaganza."

Very wise people.

Word is that they turned in a complete album of dark and introspective noodling, were told "no-one wants to hear this" and have gone back to write a new record full of party jams (though they reckon they'll sample the unreleased one for it).

:(

http://www.theavalanches.com/

Bobby, tone and daz crank out a blistering big tent festival set, its stupid heavy metal good fun.

not sure what to think of all this.

brains (teazer) is...interesting