Watching The Lighthouse and eating beans and cornbread and drinking wine while it pours outside, that's the life

Sylvie patiently watching me stack harmonies I'm probably going to delete tomorrow

A little 12 string acoustic on this rainy day

They should be putting Paul Walter Hauser in as many dramatic roles as possible, not just comic relief in dramatic movies, like a Gene Hackman style role

Thank God for Walton Goggins big ass forehead

Paul Giamatti doesn't get enough roles

Hollywood keeps taking our character actors away, Jesse Plemmons lost the weight, Michael Shannon got his hair fixed, those were ours! Let us have fat actors and guys with weird hairlines!

Wearing a cardigan, eating a sandwich, atmospheric river pounding LA, listening to Hissing of the Summer Lawns

It is not conducive to recording, neither is having a kitten sequestered in your office

The flippers are hitting my block really hard lately so I've been in construction noise hell for months

Harry Dean Mode

Found a new Byrds song to be obsessed with

Starting my wrestling stable of LA bands

I just think Permanent Records Roadhouse should let me book an early show every month

My goal next year is to form a scene out of all the socially stunted Power Pop and Indie Rock bands in LA that don't fit into any of the other scenes here

Episode 356: Wheels by Bars of Gold (2013) available now! This week was Justin’s turn to be assigned a year, and he was given 2013. He selected the post Bear vs. Shark band, Bars of Gold and their second album Wheels. Check it out at linktr.ee/punklottopod or wherever you get podcasts

Cheney got Intel that a Muslim was going to win Mayor of NYC and he bit down on the cyanide pill hidden in his molar

Dems should learn that if you give us good choices (and actually let us choose) that we will show up but you know they won't

Now LA should get a socialist mayor and get rid of our bootlicker

Been reflecting and revisiting some records, the 2020s have been a pretty good decade so far for the kinds of Rock music that I enjoy

This January the Perennial Sound returns to the West Coast! @noearbuds.bsky.social @ejrc.bsky.social @mikehuguenor.bsky.social @majorawardsband.bsky.social

I might buy a portastudio lol

I thought Deliver Me From Nowhere was pretty effective at depicting the feeling that if you don't put out THIS album you will kys

The scene in Deliver Me From Nowhere when he is driving listening to Suicide is basically me circa 2016 but it's with the Wipers "Over the Edge"

Kids think bands with a million monthly listeners AREN'T massive

If you pay for social media ads now you just get over served to Brazillian and Balkan men in their 50s who apparently click every single thing on the internet

There used to be maybe 2 places you could post about a show and everybody who needed to know saw it, now there's like 6 places you have to post and only a quarter of your followers even see it

Nothing was backlined and 2 of those bands were on a 40 date tour in one van

Shows were promoted day of with just a text post like "Ghost Rat, Obliteration, Spheres and Bilge at Tofu Castle bands at 9 ask a punk"

We used to be in bands with just a Facebook page and our personal Instagram accounts

The only proof you used to have of a show you went to was a blurry dark picture of a band playing with 2 full stacks in a house

Even a dog can shake hands

Music used to have a message. It used to tell us things like ting tang walla walla bing bang. Now it’s all about hot wet butts.

We need a New Wave

The biggest musical boons from this release are some new bopping Gary Talent bass lines, Little Steven's nagging henchman backing vocals on "Atlantic City" and Danny Federici's altar call organ padding out "Mansion On the Hill"

Half of the material is terse, insufficiently fleshed out and half of the material is full blast rockabilly that desperately needs the Big Man's horn to lift it to the heights of his River era genre excursions

Electric Nebraska has always been a myth, what is truly revelatory about the release of this material beyond the obvious that none of these versions are an improvement, is that he very nearly put out The River II

Does anybody want to start a side project with me that is just Dillinger Four?

Might buy a Les Paul just to fling it in the air over my head at the end of the next show we play

When Blake said "Pasadena '68, speed on your breakfast plate" I felt that

We used to habe a surplus of album covers that looked like this

Bolded these notes: mandolin, acoustic guitar, twangy lead guitar(hard panned), choral vocals, harmonies, tremolo guitar, big fuzzy lead guitar, tambourine, organ, horn section, hard panned backing vocals, piano(outro?) slap back memory man

Making final(final) notes before getting back into recording, late breaking idea, might lift an idea whole cloth from a Talk Talk song

One more five by five to make some money honey

Say what you will about their vapid and often misogynist lyrics, flagrant commercialism, technical limitations and shitty politics but those first 6 KISS albums are good as hell

How does one come up with the riff from TV Eye?

Found some pics of old settings, we may sneak some hard panned Pretenders guitars into the background

Found some pretty good super obscure 70s Country Rock, mastering is rough so the back half of each side gets pretty distorted, very Gram Parsons sounding, album art rules

Into a Rat and a compressor, that's a classic MA tone

I'm the Power Pop King of Los Angeles