CHOCOLATEPANDABEARUNICORNFACTORY

uhm what?
this discovery just might have made my night.
but I'll get to that later...

so some decent shows have happened in the past month...


I was originally going to do a whole thing on how Judgement Day is one of the most unrecognized great talents in the bay area.. but the more i thought about it.. the more i was uncertain I could claim that... I think more.. they simply don't fall into the normal circle where I find myself...
or maybe that its just 'cause they are so beyond the bay scene, I mean hell Anton and Lewis appeared on Conan a couple weeks ago...
So i find myself here, which is nowhere. I got some insight into the band, but specifically Anton at their show at Gilman a little while ago... I'll hopefully post some clips eventually...
So unable to claim them unrecognized, but certain of their greatness, where do i go?

Judgement Day, and neither they nor I spelled it wrong... its just how cool they are.
One thing that is safe to say is that these two brothers are born musicians.


On a side note... I have this .. thing.. where I refuse to kill spiders... you know how normally if you see one crawling on your wall you'll take a shoe to it or something.. I wont. I'll find something to capture them in and release them outside... who am i to decide what lives and what dies just for petty comfort.
Well last night one happened along my wall.. and while attempting to catch it, it fell onto my bed.. now along with my "thing" about not killing them I also have this fear of bugs, spiders specifically, jumping at me or crawling on me.. and so of course.. there was no way in hell I would be sleeping in my bed after that.. so I wandered into my sisters room and stole her bed (she's not at home) and I was not taunted by another spider that night..
now currently laying on my bed writing this.. that same spider has graced me with its presence, and is currently crawling along my ceiling making its way over to my Nor Cal Compilation 2005 poster, also on my ceiling.. and I am faced with the issue of what to do.. however seeing as how it isn't near my bed and runs no risk of dropping on me... I'll leave it be for now..
I mean.. again, who am I to kill it. what did it do to me?.. if anything it was kind enough to eat that moth that, unfortunately for the moth, happened into my room and upon said spider.. In fact, I think I will name the spider Max.
And running further with this tangent... when i was I think fourteen, actually when I turned 14 exactly... my boyfriend of the time gave me a present.. SLC Punk on DVD and a bug wand thing.
It was a mini vacuum that sucked the bug up into a tube for you to later release.. To this day I believe it to be the best birthday present I ever received. And although that seems the most absurd random present to be given ever, it was relevant at the time.. but thats another story... ironically involving the naming of spiders that were in my room.. like Max.. but i have been given some pretty strange gifts... my uncle gave me a rolling pin one year... I got a mini vacuum for Christmas once too...
Uhhoh ... while writing this pointless shit that gives some insight into just how odd I am.. I have lost sight of Max... I think he may have crawled into the hole in my ceiling..

So back to the brilliance of Judgement Day...
There is somthing captivating about them, the passion, the intensity of the music...
All I can say is that I will be forever hooked.

Let's see.. other than that Gilman show... by the way I really do love the Gilman.. of my favorite venues it ranks about... 3rd or 4th

I was at the Fillmore last week.. The Matches, Scissors For Lefty, Brilliant Red Lights.
it was pretty cool.. did some filming of the Matches set for the band.. got snuck in the back entrance.. all that fun stuff... I had a really good time.. and enjoyed the show..
but what i enjoyed more was that I got to talk to Dave Smallen whom I haven't seen in a little while.. there was talk of sex and sleeping in sex tainted beds... I also learned he used to work in the kitchen, which then brought up the famous nachos (which were backstage for everyone)..
which lead to a statement/phrase he made, that for some reason, I was charmed by: Memory Casserole
Dave explained how he just couldn't stop eating them... it brought back great memories..
and it made me think about how such simple things can be such great catalysts for our memories. How say a person can hear some random song, and remember another time when that song had been playing, and they can remember the weight of the air, the vibe of the time, the emotions they felt, the people they were with, the conversations they had. Music stimulates, it captures moments in time. From the vapid songs, to the deep involved ones..
I hear this one spice girls song and it works for two moments for me.. back when I was like 9 on my way to a camping trip.. my dad and like four of my friends blasting it in my old suburban (now recently totaled) I can feel the wind in my hair, the lightness of the moment.. the pure bliss.. and then i remember the time when I worked at a special needs camp and had to dress up like Ginger and lip sync on stage to a bunch of the campers.. the embarrassment, the nervousness, the excitement, the goofiness, the one camper who had the biggest crush on me..
and remembering those events.. reminds me of others and on and on...

I'm in a rambling mood tonight.. I couldn't sleep..
Okay so.. on Friday I went to the Goodbye Panda show at bottom of the hill.. this band Felix Dukes opened.... and I loved them... I haven't found many new bands recently that I liked.. I haven't been exposed to as many as I used to be back in the icast days and close post icast days
I'd learn of like 3 new great bands a week.. now I'm lucky if i hear of one in a month..
but these guys I liked... They could possibly be a sign of where the sound is headed.. but that could also be in many different directions.. they had their own thing going on... it just seemed... right. they have a show coming up at hotel utah that people should check out.
Now Panda.. it was not a actual goodbye to the band but rather a goodbye to their name show... and the results... I'm still a little wary of... so.. the name...from Panda to... Dizzy Balloon.
I mean if they dig it and can rock it. that's all that matters right? but it just doesn't sit right with me... maybe it will grow on me... I mean in type/writing its not bad.. but saying it aloud... it just sounds off.. its not.. aesthetically pleasing to me I guess..
at the show there were also a sort of EPs available... With I'm Just Me, Crazy Jane, and a revamped Chinatown..
so... changes to Chinatown... I didn't dig all that much either... but who am I to say what works and what doesn't... but really boys, "come on come on its going round, look to your left, look to your right" what the hell is that shit? "look at the sky look at the ground"
who knows maybe I'm just not diggin' changes in general right now... but I think these guys are just so much better than what they have put out.. they can do so much more with what they have. Maybe I have interpreted their goal with music and their band entirely wrong, maybe I don't know a thing about their style, who they are as a musical entity.
I just see it all going down hill.. and it worries me.. because when I first saw them they were just dripping with potential.. and they were getting there.. and now, I don't know.
I guess we'll see how things go..

oh and as for the title of this post...
for those of you who got the street to nowhere 7" and actually listened to it..
the hidden track.. I believe on side B ... is titled CHOCOLATEPANDABEARUNICORNFACTORY and yes the caps and lack of spacing are required.
oh Dave Smallen is a silly boy.
now that its nearing 5 am and sunrise... I really should go to sleep... I've been staying up till about 5 quite a bit recently.. yet haven't put in the effort to go watch the sun actually rise.. i see the glimpse as it comes over Mt. Diablo and then I give in and pass out.
but I will do it, and I will do it soon... perhaps Saturday morning... we shall see.

Yours Truly,
Paige

man, I really do use the word "which" quite a bit...
and fuck the grammar and spelling errors. err.. it adds character? haha