The Blots a Charlotte, NC based indie-rock band are ISO a new drummer.
We are about to take a brief hiatus as
Henry's wife is about to have a baby in the coming month. However, we would like to get started auditioning new drummers to practice, gig (in the fall) and record if all goes well.
The Band: basically guitar/guitar/bass/drums with singing trading off between whoever has written the song. So, so far three singer/songwriters. We're open to the fourth memeber writing and singing if the tune works and you can play drums doing it. Click on
The Blots link to get a sample of our songs and influences.
Requirements: Must be a drummer... although enthusiasm and ability to work with the band and make scheduled appearances trumps experience. We all have families and ft jobs. Currently we'd like to play a show a month in town and possibly travel in the Southeast for other gigs. We even have a drum kit set up in the practice/recording space. Just comment on this blog or on
The Blots myspace site if you are interested.
Thanks,
Eric/Eric/Henry
find us a drummer
more on the sad shooting of the wrong suspect in london
Apparently he was illegally working in the UK and probably ran from the unmarked police officers fearing being nabbed for immigration violations. I am just guessing here. It's really sad when something like the tube bombings occur. Everyone is in a heightened state of frenzy. Police stop a man in a transit area and they have reason to believe he's a bomber. I can sort of see why they would shoot him 5 times at close range if they suspected he was going to blow himself up. Wow, that's just really unfortunate. This is one of the victories of the terrorists. They make us suspect all of our neighbors. They get us fighting with ourselves. Obviously one of there goals is to get things like the attacks that occurred against middle eastern looking people in the US after the World Trade Ctr/Pentagon attacks. The way they figure it, this makes us look more racist, hateful and xenophobic. Plus it scares the crap out of people who might be Sikh, or Indian, or Arabic or whatever.
These people have already shown they like this country enough to live here. It's kind of bin Laden's way of punishing them for not living out some imaginary good-old-days in their native or ancestral lands. It reminds me of how a lot of Americans pretend there was a golden age of America before life became so 'complicated.' There never was a 'Happy Days' or 'Andy Griffith' America. If your life resembled that it is because you just weren't paying attention to what was really going on.
Charles de Menezes
EDIT, OOPS!!
Apparently their police force is competing with LAPD for...well...
Read for yourself:
A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was a Brazilian electrician unconnected to the incidents.
Hey man, (NOT SO)nice shot
Reuters: "We can confirm that just after 10 a.m. armed officers entered Stockwell Tube station. A man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot. London Ambulance Service attended the scene. He was pronounced dead at the scene," police said.
I guess it is too bad he died before being persuaded to rat out his scumbag compatriots. Where DO the brits send their illegal combatants? Scotland?
Still, who knew they were packin'? I reckon after the last bout of bombings the Barney Fife gloves are off. Apparently they fired 5 rounds into the suspect. Crikey I hope they got the right guy. If it happened here in Charlotte I think we'd have heard of 4 innocent bystanders and a CMPD officer getting hit by a coworker's bullets...
make my day, punk
Reuters:
"An Italian young man ... said a man was carrying a rucksack (that) suddenly exploded, a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack, and the man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong and ... everyone rushed off the carriage."
Apparently Tony Blair is going to react by remaining calm.
london's burning, only not with boredom
this quote
from
BlondeSense:
What was Giuliani doing in London last week anyway?
Got me to thinking. With all of the comparisons of the recent UK bombings and The Blitz...
Is
Rudolph Giuliani not the new
Tyrone Slothrop?
WikiPedia says: The main narrative thread (in as far as there is one) concerns a possibly promiscuous US army lieutenant named Tyrone Slothrop. (At certain points in the book, Pynchon leads the reader to doubt the very existence of the women Slothrop claims to sleep with.) In "Beyond The Zero", some of the other characters and organisations of the book note that each of Slothrop's sexual encounters in London precedes a V-2 rocket hit in the same place by several days.
See it rise, watch it fall...
gravity's wingnut.
Slate reports that:
Relying on an "American official," the New York Times says police have ID'd a possible "ringleader" in the London bombings.
Ok...is this the same motherf...er that said there were WMD in Iraq?..Yellow Cake Uranium in the break room?...that we didn't need to worry about people flying planes into buildings? Inquiring minds want to know. Also:
The reportedly non-Anglo, non-Pakistani British citizen was caught on video with the four attackers as they boarded a commuter train to London. Newsday has a similar report: "They know who No. 5 is," a "U.S. official" told the paper. But Newsday cautions, "British authorities do not believe he was the mastermind of the plot."
Excuse me jack-asses. After the
Downing Street Memo, nobody believes you (UK or US) are able to tell the truth. I'd rather trust my bartender for reliable "intelligence." At least that cat doesn't say, "nukular."
This just off the RSS reader
Charlotte.com is reporting the bombmaker might have been an NC State Student.Damn us and our wonderful University system in North Carolina.
bomb maker
..couldn't have said it better myself...
Dr Mr. President GTFO
soundbitten
MORE AMERICANS WANT BUSH IMPEACHED THAN WANTED CLINTON IMPEACHEDAnd, in a sign of continuing polarization, more than two-in-five voters (42%) say they would favor impeachment proceedings if it is found the President misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq. - Zogby
bang the drum harder
Open Mic Monday
was a smash success last night.
Taylor has really done a great job getting folks out to
SKNet Cafe. Poo poo on
Jerkalope Jacks' lame open mic. Those assholes wouldn't even turn off their stupid jukebox while we were playing. SKNet went as far as to buy a new soundboard. They rock!
open mic mondays
A Red White and Blue July the Third
Liberal Media = Liberally Saturated with Ditto Headed Conservatives
Dr Denn sends this one my way via the gmail and I share the wealth...
The mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals.
I was informed of this fact by Rush Limbaugh. And Thomas Sowell. And Ann Coulter. And Rich Lowry. And Bill O'Reilly. And William Safire. And Robert Novak. And William F. Buckley, Jr. And George Will.
And John Gibson. And Michelle Malkin. And David Brooks. And Tony Snow. And Tony Blankely. And Fred Barnes. And Britt Hume. And Larry Kudlow. And Sean Hannity. And David Horowitz. And William Kristol. And Hugh Hewitt.
And Oliver North. And Joe Scarborough. And Pat Buchanan. And John McLaughlin. And Cal Thomas. And Joe Klein. And James Kilpatrick. And Tucker Carlson. And Deroy Murdock. And Michael Savage. And Charles Krauthammer. And Stephen Moore. And Alan Keyes.
And Gary Bauer. And Mort Kondracke. And Andrew Sullivan. And Nicholas von Hoffman. And Neil Cavuto. And Matt Drudge. And Mike Rosen. And Dave Kopel. And John Caldara.
Read on:
DenverPost.com - OPINION.
