is it just me?

I went to see Bob Schneider at a small club this weekend. If you have never heard Bob Schneider, I recommend him. He sings good songs, and it was a very entertaining live show. But this post is about the opener, someone named Steve Poltz. Have you heard of him? Well, he's kind of funny. In a super stoned kind of way. He plays with a guy that I am pretty sure he calls Stinky. Stinky plays the cardboard box. I am not kidding. It's a box standing on one end, which he plays with whisks and sticks and other things. My question is: how stoned were you when you figured out that a cardboard box could be an instrument? To give credit where due, the result is not bad. Some of their songs are very funny, but some they make up as they go along which makes you feel like they should be playing at your cousin's bar mitzvah (though the content is clearly not appropriate for young men), not opening at a bonafide club. The other thing was that they looked a little old for their act. But they were having a great time, so perhaps you really are as young as you feel.

They had one song which was called Handjob on a Church Bus. It was a singalong. "I got a handjob (handjob) on a church bus (church bus)." Probably the catchiest tune ever written about being molested by a priest.

My one complaint about the show was that there were a lot of people talking. Now, I am not saying you can't talk at all during the show. But these were people having loud conversations that had nothing to do with the music. This woman sitting at a table near us talked to her friends basically the entire time. I felt like saying: you do not need to pay $15 each to talk to each other with good music in the background. You can talk to each other for free at any bar in town. So, if all you want to do is talk to your friends, don't go to shows and be noisy. The end.

For anyone who ended up here because I used the word handjob, boy do I have the site for you! There is a blog found at everythingiswrongwithme.blogspot.com (which is a mirror of www.jasonmulgrew.com) which has more talk of handjobs than a person could ever want. Now, the recent posts are not so great. There are several posts about how often he's going to post. But there are some gems on there. You should go look at choice cuts which is only one jasonmulgrew.com. Now he's trying to get famous and wants a lot of people to read his stuff. Getting famous is notorious for ruining quality (see any college band that makes it big), and it is possible that the whole thing will get too self conscious and lame, but he's a funny guy. His blog made me want to have my own. Check it out.