Mortified Beyond Belief

Last weekend I was at guitar center, and I found this light-weight double neck (acoustic on top, electric 6 string on the bottom) for only $199 used. The color is a tobacco burst finish.

Tomorrow I will be performing (singing and playing guitar) with a new power trio I have been working with. We are playing at the first Official Whateverfest after party! We should be starting around 10:30/11. Friday May 6th 1111 Beaufait Doors at 9, Music at 10 (5 dollars without wristband) Shady Groves / Mruzek / Cosmic Light Shapes / Rah The Son / Cass Ketchum / AB Broaden https://www.facebook.com/events/1041367732597069/ This show will be in a warehouse. We hope to put on a good show! It should be loud! 

Some people may be aware that a group I perform in, the Ill Itches, will be having a record release this Friday at the Marble bar here in Detroit. The band has done several interviews where the interviewer emails the band questions and we each answer them. In one such interview, all of my answers were omitted, and I heard from the other band members the music journalist got mad because I didn't take the interview seriously enough. I feel like I am in high school again. Here is a link to the interview as published: Ill Itches DeepCutz Interview. It was partly this incident with this interview that inspired me to start writing my own blog again. I really meant no ill-will with my answers to these questions. I just felt like the questions were "leading questions". You know what I'm talking about, questions where the interviewer is really looking for a specific response from the subject. I know the interviewer wanted me to get all sentimental and retrospective ab...

Hello people, This week I found out that Prince died. I was is disbelief for a while. It was a bummer. Everyone else has said something eloquent, so I don't feel the need to. Most people that know me very well know me from the past as someone who really idolized prince, especially as a child. I attempted to imitate the way he was able to go into the studio, play every instrument, and produce all of his own music. He was definitely my hero for much of my life. I also lost someone who was a really good friend a couple months ago. He was a huge fan of Prince, and had given me a ton of Princes early bootleg recordings. My friend was also a multi instrumentalist that spent hours practicing to get better and had such a high standard for quality. He wasn't merely an attention seeker. He was only 27. So although this news of Prince dying is bad, it is no where near as tragic as my friend passing away at such a young age. I feel a little better knowing that my friend is in good co...

The last two weeks were very busy for the band. We played PJ's just last night, recorded a radio show, and released a new song. Koji has a 2nd child on its way that is due any day now. He had to miss our last two outings. I missed his bass a lot, especially last night. I think being a band is being willing to prove yourselves as survivors, playing shows any way, by any means. Sometimes we can't all make the shows. It it painful to be less than perfect though. So.... this is why the band is going to be rehearsing harder and more intense than ever before to get up to the standards of quality that I imagine in my mind. I consider the show last night to be a huge failure on my part, for reasons I would probably be better off not saying!!!!!!! I was still finishing my birthday celebratiion from the day before, but that really is no exscuse... because in all honesty that is not the first time it happened. I am not going to drink anymore. Even though I sometimes enjoy it a lot-- I...

Hello people, I am a bad person, here I am sitting here. Getting drunk off of ONE 40, almost out of beer. I had financial sense at the checkout today. At midnight I will be one year older. One year deader. Nothing has really changed too much since my last birthday. The world sucks a dildo. I hate everyone. I am a bad person. I watched a stupid movie called "The Vow" today, it sucked so bad I didn't even finish it. I hate it that I am not a good looking person, like Channing Tatum. I hate that guy. I hate Justin Timberlake, he is in such good shape. What a depressing revelation. No one even commented on my activia diary. You dirty dildo cocksuckers. If I was a hot chick, all I would have to do is type 3 words, and I would get 28 comments or whatever--- but that doesn't even matter! What the frick am I doing talking about stuff that doesn't even exist! I wish I was sexier, but since I quit smoking, I am fatter and I haven't cut my hair in over a year! Oh wel...

Hello people. Today has been like many other days in the past, I have experienced something that is very common. People on craigslist posting misleading or ripp off ads for musical instruments! Check this next posting out: Fender Stratocaster with Amp, Case, and Strap - $475 (Carleton) 475 dollars. Now there really isn't anyway this could be that great of deal, even if it was what it said it was. A  used Fender strat made in mexico will usually cost between 200-300 dollars used, but that doesn't mean that people don't try to get more for them, which I will elaborate on later! So its not taking it for granted that you can usually find a great amp in the 175 dollar price range. Here is a picture of what the guy is selling: This is a squire! I am getting so tired of people listing squires as fenders. The amp is a beginner amp made by crate, it is 10 watts. I highly doubt that this guitar/amp combo could have even cost 300 brand new , let alone 475 dollars used ! I hate i...