Andy Gapin

I went to see Against Me! in Philly today for free. They were really awesome even though Tom was out of tune half the time. The crowd sucked, but that’s a given for their shows. The setlist focused mostly on New Wave with two or three songs each from Searching For A Former Clarity and As The Eternal Cowboy.

There was a kid with an “up the punx” patch on his jacket.

Last night’s show!

If you could choose between being able to fly or read minds, which would you choose?

This was the question that was proposed today on a message board that I read. And weirdly, it’s something that I often think about. To me the answer is a no brainer. Fly. I’ll get to the reasons why being able to fly would be awesome in a moment, but first I’ll reveal how much of a nutcase I am and why I would NOT want to be able to read minds.

Being able to read peoples’ minds would be cool as hell at first. You could really mess with people and get away with all kinds of stuff. Imagine how good you’d be at poker. You could probably make a living off it and quit your day job! And even better than that, you could instantly tell if a girl was into you or not instead of trying to decipher all the games and mind tricks. But this would get old fast. I would imagine that 95% of what you would be reading from other peoples’ minds would be utterly disturbing as all hell. There is a reason why we (well most of us) have the ability to think things without saying them.

I catch myself thinking all the time, “I REALLY hope no one around here can read minds because what I just thought about is some really weird shit.” I refuse to believe that most people aren’t like this too. I think about some really weird shit. Most of the time it’s not even intentional. I’ll just be minding my own business and then BAM! weirdo thoughts jump into my head. I’m not going to go into detail about them, but let’s just say that some are so weird that I’m embarrassed to have even thought about them even though I know no one even knows that I did.

Let’s move on to flying. If I could fly, I would have so much more free time. I’m not asking to be able to fly fast, we’ll just say like 65mph. Since the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line, you’d first have a shorter distance to travel. And second, you wouldn’t have to deal with traffic, shitty drivers, or potholes. It would be my personal heaven.

My ten mile drive to work would be reduced from a half hour down to ten minutes, giving me an extra twenty minutes of sleep every morning.

Sure, you might be saying that the elements would take their toll on you and you’d probably be right. Flying wouldn’t be for all situations. In the dead of winter or the melt your face off days of summer, a car may still be a better solution, but for most days in between it would be excellent.

Now…time to figure out how to get my fly on…

Here’s the radio playlist this week. No Against Me! for the first week since the album came out, but musically, the show was still awesome. I played two Georgie James tracks. That album is REALLY awesome. I definitely wasn’t expecting something of that level from it.

Though it was announced a long time ago, I’m still pissed that they are splitting up Death Proof and Planet Terror for the DVD release of Grindhouse. The worst part is that I’m going to go buy Death Proof today and Planet Terror next month when it comes out, then when they finally release them together, I’ll go buy that too. They’re making way too much money off of me for one flick.

What’s even worse is that NEITHER of the DVDs will include the fake trailers. These might have been the best part of the entire double feature. While Planet Terror was definitely my favorite of the two, but I liked Death Proof enough to have to own it.

My wallet hates me.

This week’s The Playlist!

I have been stressed as all hell since Thursday. There was a major crisis with my software at the radio station. Every time that I thought I had things all fixed and back up and running, I would find more and more problems or half the staff would email me with problems. I finally think that I have everything working again though. Turns out that the webhost upgraded their database server to a new version which processes things a littler differently. Had they said something about this, there would not have been so many problems.

My brain hates me anymore.

Here’s the playlist from The Playlist for tonight…

I was going to type up a review of Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween, but I decided against it. Mainly, it’s because I never got that into the Halloween series. Nothing against them, they’re just a bunch of movies that I never really got around to seeing. So I don’t think that it would be fair for me to try to compare it to the original. What I will say, though, is that on it’s own, it was a pretty intense movie and I think that Rob Zombie has a pretty good grasp on how to make a good horror flick. He has yet to let me down…unlike Eli Roth.