forgive me for it has been six weeks since i last updated this page though i have posted several blog entries over at the sissybar that was detailing the cleveland lottery league ten week extravaganza. i have never taken more photos that i have in those couple months and was in full documentary mode to the point that in nearly drove me crazy, luckily i have this built in shutoff button that automatically engages just before i fall into a nervous breakdown.
the shutdown is hard to describe, i don’t actually shutdown and i’m still taking a lot of photos, working a 40 hour swing-shift day job, riding bikes, pretending i have a video camera & nursing a torn plantar fascia from playing softball. the shutdown has been concentrating its affect on my desire to edit many of the photos i have recently taken and sometimes i have to force myself to even look at said photos so i may ‘fire myself up’ to the point that i want to upload them and share them with others.
i have been forcing myself much but i always lose desire after just editing just a couple photos.

anyway, i’ll have a couple new entries soon and then everything will be on its way to getting back to ‘normal’.

march 21, 2008 @ MOCA.

i arrived after my late shift and drove through a snowstorm but made it to MOCA just in time to see P&L setup while a odd film of an asian woman giving birth in her living room.

parts & labor had a new look with two new members joe wong [drums] & sarah lipstate [guitar] since their last visit in cleveland and performed some new material as well.

my shots are here.

march 20, 2008 at pat’s in the flats.

part 1 of a 3 piece ‘trip-tic’ weekend that had parts & labor, pterodactyl at MOCA the following evening & ‘extra life’ at the beachland on sunday.

my shots of this night are here.

march 14, 2008 @ the matinée

this was the first night of the matinée of cleveland, there is another in akron and it appeared that they bussed half of their patrons in for this opening [people dressed “to the nines” & designer eye glasses kinda gave them up].
not that all those akrononians is a bad thing but it gave the place a “college campus” vibe, something else cleveland doesn’t have.

i arrived early into ‘the very knees’ set and left towards the end of the ‘black girls’ set which was actually well dressed white guys. a couple other bands performed prior but i have no clue whom.

a stranger from the ‘free times’ bought me a beer and a cute girl offered to buy me a beer so that was nice, unfortunately my memory fails me of the gentleman from the FT’s name but i’m going with mark. if this is not your name and you’re reading this, please correct me below & gracias.

all in all this is a nice club, time will tell if it can live up to the reputation of other live venue bars in town.

here are the photos.

march 9, 2008

as i was coming home from work late friday night i was listening to a baseball game from florida where they said it was 86 degrees yet that was not what i was seeing out my window.
luckily i had off on saturday because i would of never made it to work and the buses were all stuck in snow on professor avenue.

i’m just about done with the winter but i shot some pics i shot while walking around the hood during the blizzard this day.

the photos are here.

february 2, 2008 @ asterisk gallery.

synopsis: start with 170 willing participants. choose teams [bands] by pulling number out of a hopper, go five rounds until all teams are chosen without having a band member that you were in a band before with.
next part of this process will give the 33 new bands 6+ weeks to write songs, practice/rehearse and the last process will be to perform live at the top clubs in cleveland.

much fun to be had an much anticipation for the development of the league. my blog about the league is here, you can also check these out: lottery-league blog, lottery-league myspace.

my photos are here.

january 26th, 2008 @ the beachland.

bands performing from cleveland: homostupids, the deathers, brian straw, sun god, the black swans & pink reason. from columbus: times new viking, sword heaven, the unholy two & necropolis.

many thanks to michael pultz of radio dystopia for putting this all together & drawing 200+ people on a snowy january night.

my photos from this event are here.