Oh livejournal, how I have neglected you! I never posted about the Reduction Agents show on Nov 17th when the band were sold wholesale priced beers at the bar and it all ended in tears, literally. Not the band you would normally expect to stage-dive onto their drumkit and generally throw equipment around as if they could afford it. James was so frustrated with how things had gone that he ended the show by kicking in the skin on the floor tom and tossing it over the heads of the audience. Ryan, who was the source of many of the problems, crawled off-stage and fell heavily on the concrete floor. The next day brought rising bruises, a headache, and a sober assessment of the hundreds of dollars of damage done to the drumkit.

Now James Milne is in Australia playing as Lawrence Arabia, supporting Okervill River so we had James Sneak on the drums when we played last night. James Duncan (Punches) helped with our sound - too many people called James! The show was so hot that we just had to give way to the sweat and jump around anyway.

Last Monday was the Random House Xmas party. I had big plans to scope out the guys who wrote "Plenty More Fish in the CBD." It's hard to even know where to start with that book, but it is for real, not just a joke. You wouldn't believe it. Have a look at Olivia's piece on it and see what I mean. Or look at their website"(!). As a fellow author with the same publisher, I think I'd best leave off making any comment...

Tze Ming also pointed out to me this blog about how to make a hip mix-tape.