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22Jul/100

The night the lights went out in Philadelphia

Here's a post I stole directly from my band's website: The Codes. I am a lazy piece of shit sometimes.

If you missed our last show at North Star Bar, you missed a good one. Shit got a little crazy. A few bands played before us including Penrose and A Million Years. They were incredible.

By the time we hit the stage it was already 1am. The crowd was good and drunk by then. Lots of hooting and hollering. Good energy in the room.

Halfway through the set, in the middle of one of our songs, the stage lights went black. We later found out that someone spilled a beer on the lighting board. They were OUT. No bringing them back. So we just kept playing. It was completely pitch black in there. The only lights were the sporadic flashes from cameras in the crowd. We played several more songs in complete darkness - including an encore.

Here's the song we were playing when the lights died - they go out at 4:00. Check it out.

The Codes
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17Jul/103

A list of my phobias

I'm not a superhero... yet. You never know. It could happen. One day I just might strap on a mask and run into a bank trying to thwart a robbery attempt. And if no robbery is happening at that point, maybe I'll get arrested. And once I'm in jail, maybe I'll be violently assaulted by hardened criminals. Wait, I'm getting off track here. What I'm trying to say is, a superhero's life is unpredictable and full of excitement.

And if I ever do decide to become a superhero, I will surely be the best ever. Compared to me, Superman will look like a weirdo in blue tights and greasy hair with an ugly woman posing as his girlfriend. Which is what he is. But still.

So with all my greatness, I don't think it's fair to the evildoers of the world. I'll need to take a handicap, like in golf, or racquetball, or rheumatoid arthritis. My handicap is this: I'm going to reveal a full list of my phobias. My arch-nemesis can use this to try to destroy me. They won't win because I'm so awesome, but they can try.

  1. Heights
    Fortunately I can't fly. I'll be a very grounded superhero. Like a vigilante homeless person on PCP. Any time I climb a ladder taller than 3 steps I start crying. Then I fall into a fetal position on the ground and cover my face. After about ten minutes I'll come out of it and slowly pull myself together. That's plenty of time for my nemesis to strike. But good luck trying, dipshit! I'm still a badass!
  2. Spiders
    The little ones. Not the big furry ones. I can see the big furry ones and I can run from them. I worry about the little ones though. They could crawl into my ear canal while I'm sleeping and have sex in there and lay eggs and create entire colonies and take over my brain and turn me into a spider-zombie. Not in a cool way like Spiderman. In a shitty way. Like a zombie that shoots webs out of its ass and eats bugs.
  3. Pubic hair
    The kind that are attached to a woman's body and trimmed and clean are fine. It's when a pube strand escapes from its host and lands on a urinal or a bathroom floor. That's fucking nasty. Once, I saw a pubic hair on my plate at a restaurant. Maybe it was stuck to the waiter's hand after a piss. Or maybe the cook put it there to fuck with me because he could tell I'm such a tough guy. Who knows. The mystery alone put me into a deep sleep. I passed out right there at the table and woke up 4 hours later face down in my plate, with spaghetti in my eyes and nose. I nearly died! I can't believe everyone just left me there sleeping in my food. With a pube right next to my face!
  4. Feces
    Poop makes me vomit. Every time I drop logs, I have to flush immediately, before I catch a glimpse or a whiff. If I happen to smell the faint odor of a shit or a fart, I collapse in violent convulsions. It's a lot like epilepsy without the shaking. My nemesis would have a clear advantage in a fistfight with me if he were to smear human poo all over his hands before throwing the first punch. A poop punch. I just puked in my lap thinking about it.

So there you have it, folks. I'm laying all my cards on the table. One day I'll buy myself a badass superhero costume and hit the streets. And my enemies will already know my secrets. But it ain't gonna help, fuckers! Cuz I'm the bees knees and I'll take you out with a single eye-poke.

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8Jun/103

Meat is so versatile

Meat is the only food you can mold into different shapes to create totally unique meals. Take a giant pile of raw meat, shape it into little spheres, cook that shit, and you have meatballs. Mush the meat into a long thick roll, cook it, and you have meatloaf. The same goes for chicken nuggets and fish sticks.

You can't do that shit with bread. Breadballs? Nope. Breadloaf? Hardly - bread is naturally in loaf form. How about corn? Cornballs? That's a fucking insult, not a food. Orangesquares, avacadotriangles, cabbagetrapezoids? Ridiculous.

Though I am a little confused. People form meat into all kinds of shapes and cook it, but they don't always name it after the shape they created. No one calls hot dogs "meatsticks". And you wouldn't refer to a hamburger as a "meatcircle" or a "meatdisc". I think you should. It's so much more descriptive. Next time you're at the ballpark watching a game, make sure to order a meatstick and a meatcircle. They'll appreciate your clarity.

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8Jun/100

The Codes on YouTube

Here are a couple of videos of my band. I'm the guy playing drums.


The Codes - Won't Be The Same


The Codes - Get Away

If you're in Philly on Saturday July 10, you can check us out at North Star Bar. It's one of the best venues in Philadelphia and we're headlining! Get tickets here. Do it now! Well, you know, if you feel like it.

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27May/102

Finally some positive feedback

Just got the best feedback ever. Three simple words from Lexi:

you are awesome.

I tend to agree. I'm sort of a badass. But not everyone is with me on that. Usually the kind of things I get from the Feedback form are similar to this little gem from a dude named Stan:

I lv gal suckin dick bcs it makes a man lv her more.so if any gal wnt2suck mail me.or cal me [Phone # omitted]

And then of course there are the random business propositions. Most are offers to increase my search engine traffic for a small fee. Others are people asking that I link to their blog because it's "snarky" and they think I'm into that. But every once in a while I get very specific requests for financial guidance, like this one from Bill:

I found the page about there being no albino porn. You state that there's money to be made. I recently dated a super sexy African American albino woman and I've taken over 1200 naked pictures of her. How could I make money with them?

This seems completely ridiculous. Porn is free. So that's going to get in the way. You could start a fetish site that charges a fee, but if you have zero knowledge of online business and you are trying to shill pictures of an ex-girlfriend (probably without her consent), you're starting down the wrong path. Try this instead: get a regular job. Finish school. Forget your dreams of breaking into the porn biz. You're not cut out for it, man.

On another note: You should probably start stalking me on Facebook. It's where I spend most of my online time these days. Here's the page for my band:
http://www.facebook.com/thecodesband

Later, nerds.

-J

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