what's good

1) sitting in the chair at 7th street barber shop listening to george jones singing "he stopped loving her today" while i get my ears lowered.

2) stopping by wreck west for lu's happy hour and talking to cary blackwell, tad gaither, and michael contreras.

3) stumbling upon autocratopolis, the 2005 ceedee by local metallers urizen, who have a name inspahrd by william blake, a definitely ungeneric keyboard-driven sound (the band's helmed by the gtrist thomas drinnen and his brother daniel playeth keys), a 1984-ish dystopian album concept that's illustrated by the nifty fumetti (photo novel) in the cd booklet (all graphixxx by the drinnens), and a drummer (julio escamilla) who's twice been voted "fastest foot in dallas" -- his double bass-pedal escapades have to be heard to be believed). they be's at the ridglea theater on camp bowie on june 2nd and 10th. so there.

4) listening to flower travellin' band's satori and thinking about how nice it is to still be able to find new-to-me music that rips, nearly four decades after i got obsessed with this stuff.