Hey Everyone!

There is someone hard-core jack hammering outside of our office. It is 9AM in the freakin' morning...and I think I am about to pull a Black Mamba...since I already hear about as well as Pete Townsend...Did I mention that I finally got to see, "Kill Bill," with Acopolis on Monday, yet?!
I will never look at red Kool-Aid the same way again.***IN THIS ISSUE OF THE 380 WEEKLY:

I. Going for Adds THIS WEEK at Space Radio!
II. The required CMJ Marathon smack.
III. The illustrious CD descriptions.
IV. Upcoming Space initiatives.
V. Diary of a Texas Girl lost in the Midwest.Begin transmission:

***GOING FOR ADDS THIS WEEK AT SPACE RADIO***
October 20th & 21st:
RACHEL STAMP, Oceans of Venus, Captiva Records
BURGESS SHALE, It's Never Enough, Is it?, Skeptical Records

***THE REQUIRED CMJ MARATHON SMACK***
YES, I WILL BE AT CMJ THIS YEAR! (5th times the charm so I hear.) I won't be able to go into the City until Wednesday afternoon, since I have to work here and get loose ends tied up...so everyone have fun at Downtime on Tuesday night for me! I'll be making the usual suspect party rounds the rest of the week, and seeing KILLING JOKE, BLACK BOX RECORDER, EMOK, and THE WEAKERTHANS for sure...I am playing it by ear from there on! (If you want to meet my cat...err my friend Jason in person, he should be at the Weakerthans show with me!) I'll also be at COLLEGE DAY PANELS! (Get up early and learn something...CMJ College Day is for the hard-core peeps--be that kid! :)
LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING TO CMJ AND WE CAN EXCHANGE CELL DIGITS!!
Also, one of our bands, CHEATING KAY is playing ACME UNDERGROUND on THURSDAY NIGHT AT 1AM! I will also be at that show...CHOMSKY and JOANIE LOVES TROTSKY are playing before them, so it should be fun. (I have some cool laminates for the Cheating Kay show, for the lanyard-hanger obsessed MDs out there!) Curt of CHEATING KAY is also an amazing graphic designer, and was the guy who did our new wicked Space 380 Website.***THE CD DESCRIPTIONS***

RACHEL STAMP, Oceans of Venus:
This is the third full-length release from the UK rockers, RACHEL STAMP! I have been completely raving about this release for three-weeks now! It is a really great CD that blends the retro-rock elements of bands like CHEAP TRICK with modern day AFI-like keyboard elements--with the added bonus that the keyboardist really is an uber hot chick--which is pretty cool since the mostly male band has a very, "New York Dolls" look! (RACHEL STAMP will be touring the States in November, so let me know if you want to be hooked up with tickets!) My favorite track hands down is # 12, VICTORY, but if you like-a the dirty rock, BLACK CHERRY is your tune.

* BURGESS SHALE, It's Never Enough, Is it?:
"One of the most exciting CDs of late, elements of Residents, Bong Water, Magma Women, with singing like Dorothy Moskowitz and Barbara Hudson of the United States of America and Ultimate Spinach respectively. Lyrics on par with a Jell-O Biafra inspired mix of musical lyricism and commentary intelligent enough not to use profanity. Music that drones along, (in a good way,) while compelling lyrics spurs you forward. Usually commentary of this biting nature is accompanied by ugly music-not so here."

--The Professor
"Babes in Quicksand"
Tues. at 2PM on WOWL, 91.7 FM
* (Special thanks to the lovely Nick, and The Professor from OWL RADIO for that great description! You can listen to them stream live at: http://www.fau.edu/wowl/ )***UPCOMING SPACE INITIATIVES***
These releases are coming in the mail to you SOON from Space 380!
GEBRAUCHE-MUSIK, Precursor, D.A.D.
LOU DOG, 61 Old Depot, Betty Jane Records
ANAYA, S.T., Search Informatica
VELVET FREEZE, Wearwithal, Independent

***DIARY OF A TEXAS GIRL LOST IN THE MIDWEST***

For this week's early pre-CMJ diary, here's a tale of two disasters: THE SPRINT INCIDENT, and an encore print performance of--if you talked to me this week--THE GRASSHOPPER INCIDENT...yeah I know guys...it's been a slow week, but this "GI" is pretty funny! In fact it is so funny I think I'll just skip the SPRINT story all-together, and just say, "yes I will have a FUNCTIONING cell phone for CMJ!"

This week I am just stoked that I get to go see KILL HANNAH tonight with Mike from KGLX! (Mike rules, and has this awesome electronic project, and very cool hair!) I've had this mondo crush on Mat Devine of KILL HANNAH forever...well since "AMERICAN JETSET" came out in '99 and way before they got signed to Atlantic--in fact the poster from "American Jetset" hung over my desk at my office back at KTXT when I was MD, and was in my "Top-10" that year...so we're gonna get all glammed-up and go hang with the guys! (Technically my birthday is at midnight, so that makes it all the better!)
So moving along now, without further delay here's, "THE GRASSHOPPER INCIDENT, AKA: THE BLENDER FROM HELL!"

See, on Sunday night my cat...err my friend Jason decided he wanted to make grasshoppers! (For those of you who don't know a grasshopper is, basically a chocolate-mint liquor milkshake. My mom use to drink them when I was a kid, and even if I did drink, you couldn't pay me to drink one of those suckers.) So before he could make the grasshoppers we had to venture to the store to get a blender...where upon arrival we found the extra special "$10 Liqudora." (We decided to forgo getting the Gold Standard of College-life, the $25 Osterizer, so we could also get the $18 toaster oven...since I am now officially collecting sub-standard kitchen appliances.)

So, then Jason dumps in his mixture of death into the good ol' Liquidora, turns it on, and then reaches into the cupboard for a glass. (this all took place in about 10 seconds.) Upon which the blender basically explodes all over my kitchenette! More or less it looked like Kermit the Frog died, or you took a gooey chalk mint-colored paint ball the size of your head and threw it at my poor little white eat-in-kitchen. Then we noticed that the instructions said in bold print: "DO NOT LEAVE LIQUIDORA UNATTENDED, WHILE IN USE," when they really should have read, "DON'T F**KING LET GO OF LIQUIDORA, WHEN IN USE!" (We realized that the blade was soldered to the part that screws into the blender jug, and so when you turn it on it actually unscrews itself, and then pleasantly gyrates grasshoppers all over you unassuming kitchen.)

To make things a little worse Jason then tried to use a fork to "directionate" (Yeah I couldn't think of a better fake word, OK.) the rest of the barely savable amount of green goop kicking it on the kitchen counter into a glass. I was like, "YOU CAN'T DRINK THAT--YOU'LL DIE!" Since I had just coincidently cleaned the kitchen and disinfected the counters! So anyhow I finally convinced Jason to make a new batch, even though he was bitching that he had already used all the heavy cream in grasshopper incident disaster. So instead he had the uber brilliant idea of mixing them with milk and box-wine. So the fluffy part made the blush all cloudy with a green tint, and the rest of the fluffy mixture floated to the top!
Yicky...

...So in the sprit of the Halloween season, we named the new drink a "Floating Grasshopper Eyeball."
Transmission out.

--9A---

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