On bass, to know him is to love him, Neil Rhodes

There's two exact reasons why today has been a good day (cue Ice Cube, wait, no, cue Sleep Out)...

1. In the mail, came my very own advance copy of Sleep Out's 'I Was Your Shroud'. Thank You Quinn. I've been really anticipating this. Now I just got it today and haven't had a whole lot of time to sit down with it but from what I've heard it's totally solid. I'd suggest a visit to this one website where you can preview some tunes for yourself. I dig 'Old Mare'.

2. Mostly every day, after I get home from class, I sit down and eat some lunch in front of the ol' teevee. About a month ago I realized that a channel was playing an hour of The Wonder Years every day. Sure, it's one of my favorite shows from the past and it's nice to take in some Kevin, Winnie and Paul while I'm stuffing my face but there's one real reason to tune in...and that is to hopefully catch that magical episode where Kevin joins a rock n' roll band called The Electric Shoes. Classic television. Today they played it, I got really happy, and I watched it along side a bowl of half-assed tortellini. The last time I saw it I was in Rick Valentin's living room while Wolfie was recording our first album (or maybe it was our first 7", don't exactly remember the occasion, but it was a while back). Some people remember where they were when JFK was shot; I remember where I was when I saw Kevin Arnold meet Larry Beeman.

Anyways, that was today.

And wouldn't you know tomorrow something might happen too? Or maybe the next day. Hard to say.