Who's Coming

I had a good business idea this weekend that I'd like to share with everyone, before I get into this post. As you may or may not know, my wife gave birth to a baby boy two months ago and since then I've been immersed in yelling/screaming/shit/pee and...glorious, glorious breast milk. Most baby specialists say you should probably breastfeed for about six months, then switch to a mix of bottles and solid foods, such as steak and nachos.

My idea is, start a dairy food line called Nature's Breast. I'll have a barn full of grass-fed hippie women pumping breast milk 24-7. This milk will then be used to make yogurt, butter, cheese, and maybe also ice cream. You give it to your baby to wean him off the nipple, but he's still getting the benefits of the breast milk. I'm looking for venture capital, if you're interested please e-mail me at jimbromski@naturesbreast.com. Thanks.

Nature's Breast: Because The Little Bastards Deserve It

Okay, here we go:

• "They broke my sitar": The Warlocks are playing at Rock and Roll Hotel on Nov. 5. They were founded by a former member of the Brian Jonestown Massacre (not Joel) and they kind of have that spacey Velvet Underground-type sound.
• You are getting very sleepy, due to a combination of hypnosis, plus the roofie I slipped into your cocktail: Comic hypnotist Flip Orley will be in DC for like three weeks, at the Improv, starting on Nov. 6. This could be uber-funny, until Potsy blurts out his repressed memory of the man in the park with the present in his pants.
• I love the 90s: Three items here. Rock Club interviewees 1990s (the band, not the decade) will return to DC on Nov. 20 with the Hold Steady and Art Brut. 1990s (the decade, not the band) superstars Dinosaur Jr and The Lemonheads will be in town on Nov. 27 and Dec. 19, respectively. What's next, Mr Bungle? Mary's Danish? Another 90s group--Superdrag--will be at the 9:30 on Nov. 8. I only ever heard one song from these guys: "Sucked Out" (1996). It's a great song, good enough to make me want to make the effort to go to this show:
• Insert Fat Joke Here: The Nov. 14 Gossip show has been postponed.
  
• Women's Lib: Why do chicks insist on having outside interests? I don't know either. Let's fucking ask Ani DiFranco (Nov. 16).
• Pretentious Twat Alert: Local group Le Loup at the Black Cat on Dec. 10. I read a Pitchfork review of their latest--the dude who wrote it basically spent half the review giving himself a handjob because he recognized the work of art referred to by the album title ("The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly"--it's a pretty interesting piece of folk art, a la Watts Towers, put together by a mentally ill DC native, now housed in the Smithsonian). Well done sir, you're very learned.
• The Most Commercially Successful R&B Group of All-Time: No foolin', I read that on Allmusic. Marvin Gaye? The Temptations? The Commodores? Nope, Boyz II Men. Boys II Men, ABC, BBD...

Date		Band		Venue
10/20/07		Middle Distance Runner		BC
10/21/07		Trail of Dead etc etc		BC
10/23/07		Spoon		9:30
10/23/07		Yo La Tengo		Birch
10/25/07		Jens Lekman		BC
10/27/07		Broken West		RNRH
11/02/07		Band of Horses		9:30
11/03/07		The Thermals		BC
11/04/07		Black Angels		RNRH
11/05/07		Rogue Wave		BC
11/05/07		The Warlocks		RNRH
11/06/07		Menomena		BC
11/06/07		Flip Orley		Improv
11/08/07		Superdrag		9:30
11/16/07		Georgie James		BC
11/16/07		Ani DiFranco		9:30
11/17/07		Electric Six		BC
11/20/07		Hold Steady w Art Brut/1990s		9:30
11/27/07		Dinosaur Jr.		BC
12/10/07		Le Loup		BC
12/12/07		Boyz II Men		Birch
12/19/07		The Lemonheads		BC
01/12/08		The Smithereens		State
02/01/08		Blue Oyster Cult		State