Update 113

After the After the Deprogramming release show

Wow, what an amazing show our CD release party turned out to be. I'm not talking about our performance (though that was totally fun); I'm talking about the whole thing: the open house, the art exhibit, how great the space looked, the light show, all the bands, all the great people who came out. It was a total blast. My apologies to anyone who couldn't make it. We were giving out the CDs for free that night, so if you couldn't make it and didn't get a free one, I'm sorry. But they are available for purchase online through Rodent Records...

Rodent Records

...and if you live in San Francisco, you can pick one up at Aquarius Records on Valencia Street...

Aquarius Records

...and of course we'll always be selling them at our shows. We'll be playing in June at Hotel Utah (can't remember the date off the top of my head, but check the shows page in the coming weeks).

Thanks again to all those who came out to the show and helped make it the great party it was!

Brian

05.02.05 1:09pmpst



Update 112

Cubby CD Release Party

Your presence is requested Saturday, April 30, 2005
at the Rodent Records warehouse

The Cubby Creatures are proud to release their new CD, "After the Deprogramming," on San Francisco's Rodent Records. In addition, the Cubby Creatures are excited to release the latest issue of their zine, the Cubby Missalette, which is always FREE. To celebrate, Rodent Records will be throwing a party at their recording studio and offices, located at 590 Minnesota St.

Featuring live music by...

The Cubby Creatures (performing a full set of music at around 11PM)

and performing abbreviated sets are Rodent Records bands...

Natural Fonzie
Midnight Bombers
Chantigs (with special guests)
and Baby Birds
Art installations by China Tamblyn and Jenny Homer. Liquid light and film loops by Bill and Elton.

FREE "After the Deprogramming" CD (until we run out) to all who come. Also, get a FREE copy of the latest Cubby Missalette, #17!

Come early for the Rodent Records studio open house from 5-9PM
Music starts at 9PM

$0-5 sliding scale, all ages

at the Rodent Records warehouse
590 Minnesota St. (bet. Mariposa and 18th Streets on the northeast side of Potrero Hill, near 3rd St., accessible by the 22 and 15 buses, or the 18th St. exit off the 280).
in San Francisco
(View map)

More info about the new "After the Deprogramming CD."

04.24.05 04:12pmpst



Update 111

entry

Bored at work? Play Finger Twister. It's almost ten whole seconds of fun!

http://www.mattfacer.com/twister/

bk

03.28.05 11:05ampst



Update 110

entry

I put my earphones (excuse me, earbuds) in my ears in this morning and had them in for almost an hour before realizing there wasn't any sound coming out of them. Yipes! My slight retardation is becoming less slighter.

bk

03.15.05 03:50pmpst



Update 109

Bush's bald fetish

Speaking of fetishes, looks like Bush has got one for bald people. Have a look...

http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_juliusblog_archive.html#108300556134138351

brian

02.21.05 12:21ampst



Update 108

Sorry!

Sorry everybody for taking so long to get your posts up. I totally spaced this week. I blame it on Foibleman. That will make more sense in the future.

But I do want to say, "Thanks so much for posting to the 'discharge.' Keep 'em coming!"

Oh, and, BK, I didn't know you had a sick Jew fetish. I thought you only liked healthy ones. HAHAHAHAHA! Sorry (again) -- I couldn't help it.

brian

02.18.05 05:46pmpst



Update 107

entry

Not only do other countries have their own versions of the Academy Awards, but now there are Golden Globes derivatives. From E!online:

"ACROSS THE POND: The Chorus named Best French Film of 2004 Wednesday at the 10th Annual Lumiere Awards, France's version of the Golden Globes. The film is also up for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award."

bk

02.17.05 05:45pmpst



Update 106

j's new york second

Just got back from NYC, where I visited the Cristo gates (which looked spectacular on a cold day surrounded by thousands of path-walking celebrators of public installation), ate and drank copiously with my recently non-drinking, chemotherapy-undergoing girlfriend, Cathy (who is feeling much better), and rendezvoused with numerous old pals including the o-est of cubby gs, Jol, who seems positively immersed in his life, thanks to an ongoing move to a rather authentic Williamsburg pad complete with stern rules written in Sharpie on the entryway wall and a busy job at Neighborhoodies, which he says has not slowed down since it went crazy at Christmas.

That is a long sentence that represents my trip well.

02.16.05 03:08pmpst



Update 105

entry

Some anonymous person, wise to my sick Jew fetish, sent me a six pack of He'Brew ("the Chosen Beer") at work today. Awesome! My liver and I thank you. In return, I'll abstain from crispy bacon for one whole week.

bk

02.14.05 05:34pmpst



Update 104

entry

and a sober one at that!

"Britney won a Grammy, y'all! Life is good.

bk"

02.14.05 02:03pmpst



Update 103

i like rap music, wear hip-hop close. that doesn't mean that i'm out selling dope.

i might date another race or color; that doesn't mean i don't like my strong black brother.

so i'm a sister, buy things with cash, that really doesn't mean that all my credit's bad. [but like it so is -- bk ]

i can't change your mind, i can't change my color.

02.05.05 10:24amcst



Update 102

chicago: i love it here, and i cry thinking that this operatic trip will likely, finally break my tap, letting in NYC et al, et l'autres qui sont next in line.

like, me, i'm headed out east soon? seems it so. here in chicago it snows and they have Dunkin' Donuts right next the Subway's. but the beautiful boys in chi town are harsh, mean -- not caring about questions like, "where do you work? come from?" "cock size", etc. -- and what i want to ask is all, "How can I impress you, fatty? Marry me, el gordo!"

alas. oy. alloy.

anyway, I'm at Judah's: he's passed out cold in a puddle of his own body filth from the drink; i'm listening to ms. crow's "mississippi" ("a day too loooonnmg", you know? you know. u no.) his place is amazing and i got in trouble three times already for my lack of crumb-sweeping tenacity. Sheesh. and tori amos is up my colon with 'little earthquakes' and 'space dog'. i heart her and her vaginal blood and assault. she's a wisp of a woman, god bless. love her. not ashlee love, but close.... sigh. sad.

love it here, but should i chicken satay or should i gough?

xo,

bk

02.05.05 10:12amcst



Update 101

Writing on wall of the bathroom at Rodent rehearsal space...

first person wrote: "Destroy all rational thought"

second person wrote: "Now what?"

brian

1.31.05 08:22pmpst



Update 100

Not in the Christmas spirit? Well, have a listen to the Cubby Christmas song, if you haven't already.

brian

12.20.04 08:07ampst



Update 99

A young friend of mine sent this e-mail message to me today, and I almost peed in my panties from laughing.

"[I]s it gross that i found an older man attractive while we were swimming at the Y yesterday? He even had crows feet around his eyes."

bk

12.14.04 12:33pmpst



Update 98

For some reason I received Lindsay Lohan's new CD "Speak" in the mail yesterday, and for some reason I need to listen to it at least ten times today.

bk

12.14.04 12:08pmpst



Update 97

required reading for fags:
http://www.thestranger.com/2004-06-24/ex8.html

bk

12.06.04 3:41pmpst



Update 96

When the fuck is the next Cubby album coming out?

12.05.04 9:18amest



Update 95

Addendum to Update 94

bk, i just can't get you out of my head.

i was inspired just now to research a recent defriendstering, and when i identified the culprit i did a little investigating and found that he's actually disappeared from friendsterland altogether.

that's one possibility i forgot to mention to you--the mysterious altogether disappearance from friendster. sometimes it really isn't about you at all, as hard and distasteful as that is to swallow.

(helpful hint: you can determine whether a defriendstering is general or personal by looking at the friend fortresses of the missing friendster's friends to see if he/she is still present there. if not, then it's NOT about you...although maybe that's something you'd prefer not to know.)

i'd have preferred to keep my recent disappearee in the "personal" file, because now that i've discovered it's an altogether disappearance i'm a bit worried about the poor fellow. eerily, the last photo i saw of him on Friendster he was sporting what appeared to be a ks legion on his face. who does that on friendster? and who still has ks?

and who still uses friendster anyway? i keep hearing that people don't use it anymore, but that probably just means it's huge in the red states.

--jdp

11.30.04 2:01pmest



Update 94

Response to Update 92

i totally know the feeling, bk. been there. friendster definitely needs to come up with a better tracking & identification system for that shit, 'cause i've wasted hours scrolling back & forth through my fortress of friends to find that one secret hater-traitor, all to no avail.

i've heard that sometimes it's a glitch in the program that causes the friend-counting discrepancies. so you can tell yourself that, but i've found that does little to soothe the unparalleled ego sting of a defriendstering incident.

if you do ever figure out who struck you from his/her book of names, i'd recommend balls-out-aggressive confrontation. i did that once and the guilty party claimed that he had no idea how it happened and was petitioning for reinstatement within 6 hours.

i think passive-aggressive behavior is for capital-l losers. that's my conclusion, having lived at both extremes and at most of the points on the continuum. as a passive-aggressor i lived in a swamp of self-made impotence & fear. but once i went to the aggressive side, i found myself empowered; the passive-aggressors lost their power over me, and i felt like the master of my destiny, the hero of my life, and in the end, isn't that what Norelle's all about?

-jdp

11.29.04 10:50pmest



Update 93

O my God! Use Thou me again, alway. For ever! For ever!...
O my God! Thou art my little pet tortoise!
Yet Thou sustainest the World-Elephant.
I creep under They carapace, like a lover in the bed
of his beautiful; I creep in, and sit in Thine heart,
as cubby and cozy as may be.
Thou shelterest me, that I hear not the trumpeting of that World-Elephant.

-Aleister Crowley

submitted by brian

12.01.04 8:25pmpst

Update 92

What do you do when someone de-Friendsters you, other than going bat-shit crazy? It's driving me up a goddamn yellow-wallpapered wall. And what do you do when you can't even figure out who said person was? Well, whoever scratched me off their list, let me just say to you that that was fucking passive-aggressive. And, secretly, I admire you for it.

bk

PS, Norelle rocks, ass-face bitches!

11.24.04 05:28ampst

Update 91

We can't win an election, but we sure do a nice job of apologizing.

www.sorryeverybody.com

11.18.04 11:29ampst

Update 90

Heh:

www.hopeinamerica.com

bk

11.17.04 10:05pmpst