Demon Sweat

Crossing the Equator

Yeah, that's my left earlobe. Nice hole, huh?

Some years ago (ten exactly now that I think about it), I went and got this hole punched in my ear. It was a vain decision, I'll admit. I'm still not sure as to why I did this.

There is a great story as to why earrings are always worn through the left ear for men. It goes back to the days of sailing ships. Merchant seamen used to wear the earring in the left ear to signify that they had crossed the equator.

At the time of the piercing I had not been aware of this information. I think I was more caught up in the moment of finally being liberated from my boring childhood and oppressive parents (I think their motto was "Keep the rules strict, but the actual parenting lite).

Now that I am looking back upon it, I was crossing a personal equator and the symbolism was perfect. It was, and is a memorial of my personal freedom. I had removed the earring after wearing it after several months due to infections (I'm a dirty boy), but I still have the hole as a gentle reminder of my journey across that threshold.

It also reminds me that I will keep crossing similiar equators, thresholds, and barriers as life moves on, as I have done the past decade.

Goodbye Rodney

Especial Girl

I've got this really special "friend" who happens to hail from Sydney, Australia. I won't go into too much detail about her out of respect for her privacy, just know that she's dope and all that.

Well, she emailed me some pics and I thought I'd share two of my favorites...

Ween, Conduit - 10/04/2004

Ween Conduit Pictures and Setlist

Pone Tony from the forum took really good pictures of the event last night.

And this is the actual setlist:

1. Exactly Where I'm At
2. She Wanted to Leave
3. Spinal Meningitis
4. Happy Colored Marbles
5. She's Your Baby
6. Take Me Away
7. The Grobe
8. Zoloft
9. Transdermal Celebration
10. Falling Out
11. Buckingham Green
12. Captain
13. Final Alarm
14. The Argus
15. Goin' Gets Tough from the Getgo
16. Bananas & Blow
17. Fat Lenny
18. Stroker Ace
19. Chocolate Town
20. Tried & True
21. I Don't Want It
22. Roses Are Free
23. The Mollusk
24. Stay Forever
25. Demon Sweat
26. Touch My Tooter
27. Captain Fantasy
28. Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)
29. What a Fool Believes [Doobie Brothers]
30. Pandy Fackler
31. You Fucked Up
32. Homo Rainbow
33. Buenas Tardes Amigo
Encore:
34. Puerto Rican Power
35. The Stallion (Part 5)
36. I'll Be Your Jonny on the Spot
37. Puffy Cloud
38. Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
39. Fancy Pants
40. Dr. Rock

40 songs. 3 hours and 5 minutes.

Latest Dates

I don't think I've posted these dates that were added to the tour, but here goes:

3-Nov The Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, OK
4-Nov Liberty Hall Lawrence, KS
5-Nov Sokol Auditorium Omaha, NE
7-Nov Val Air Ballroom Des Moines, IA
8-Nov Orpheum Theater Madison, WI
9-Nov Bogart's Cincinnati, OH
10-Nov Axis Bloomington, IN

I've already got my tix to the Bloomington show, but will not be hitting any of the others due to work issues. I look forward to seeing you all there.

Changes

As you can see, I've changed my service from blogger to typepad.

We shall see if I keep this or not.

The Youngs

Whitepony from the forum heads a band called the Youngs. She's a real cool chick and you should definitely check out some of the mp3 downloads at Mimicry Records site.

Order their CD, too. Got it?

Jascha Ephraim Debut Album

I got my copy of the Jascha Ephraim CD he's selling off his website. It's an amazing disc, with around 13 tracks of music interrupted sporadically by what appears to be evil tapings of his youth. Well, it sounds evil to me, but the songs rule!

Go to his website, if you haven't already and pick up a copy of this release. You'll kick yourself for not getting it when he's made it big.

Tour Starts

The warm up show has been confirmed at the Conduit in Trenton, for Sunday, Oct 3rd at 9pm. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow through www.ticketweb.com

A Word from Major Brown

Hey there, thank you for visiting the not-updated-very-often webpages at ween.com As evidenced by the dates above, Ween will be going out on a short west coast tour in early October followed by a tour of the heartland beginning in Boulder on Halloween and continuing for two weeks thereafter. These shows are selling out very quickly so be sure and visit the tourdates portion of this site for ticket info. In other Ween news, we are still working on our peer to peer application (see below), it is just a lot more involved (and expensive) than we anticipated. I predict that it is going to dramatically change the ease of which our fans can trade live and unreleased Ween immediately upon it's release. So basically what I'm saying is that it will be worth waiting for. We have slowly started to prepare to begin thinking about talking about working on the new album and are very excited by the prospect of the talks. More news on this as it develops. We've basically written and recorded a few songs and are moving forward on the record at our typically slow pace. And lastly, we are preparing the next Chocodog cd for release, it will be ready "just in time for xmas" as has been the case with the other Chocodog cds. That's about all I have time for right now