Went to Kings Saturday to catch Eric’s new band The BQ’s. Good
stuff, and Eric has more stage presence than anyone I know.

Headed to my parents place Sunday to visit, eat, and blow up
lots of lame legal fireworks. I’d make a trip to SC to pick
up the good stuff, but apparently cops in SC were monitoring
NC folks buying fireworks in SC and threatening to prosecute
them under anti-terrorism laws if they took them into NC.
On the Fourth of July. Yay irony!

Bought a ton of cds off of amazon, that _finally_ started
arriving. No more “free” shipping for me. In my attempt
to find electronica that I actually like, picked up the
latest Squarepusher. Not bad, kind of slow in spots but
tracks like “steinbolt” make up for it. Picked up
a The Mars Volta cd. Best way to describe it is “indy rock Tool”.
The jury is still out. Picked up the Battles ep, which
is excellent, to no surprise.

Maybe 40% though ripping my cd collection at this point.