Saw R. Wednesday night. We went over to the Angel Lounge on Houston. We sat, laughed, drank, shared a cheese plate and watched the snowflakes dance through the air. All in all a lovely night.

Thursday it was so cold that I couldn't even concentrate on work, spent most of my time in the living room trying to warm up. Silly me for having a home office in my bedroom. It felt like icicles were swinging from my ceiling. Ugh.

Do have more music news........

Pennywise are hitting the road again. They're kicking off a national tour starting 1/21 in Atlanta. Here are the rest of the dates:

Date City Venue

Wed 1/21 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
Thurs 1/22 Jacksonville, FL Plush
Fri 1/23 Boynton Beach, FL Ovation
Sat 1/24 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Landing
Sun 1/25 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
Wed 1/28 Norfolk, VA The NorVa
Thurs 1/29 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
Fri 1/30 Worcester, MA The Palladium
Sat 1/31 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
Wed 2/18 Washington, DC 930 Club
Thurs 2/19 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
Fri 2/20 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
Sat 2/21 Pittsburgh, PA Club Laga
Sun 2/22 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre
Wed 2/25 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
Thurs 2/26 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo's
Fri 2/27 Chicago, IL House of Blues
Sat 2/28 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
Sun 2/29 Minneapolis, MN The Quest

Dialated People's third CD Neighborhood Watch (Capitol Records) hits the stores April 6.
Track Listing:
Marathon
Neighborhood Watch
Tryin' to Breathe
Caffeine
Who's Who
Poisonous (featuring Devin The Dude)
Reach Us
Big Business
Love and War
1580 (Skit)
World on Wheels
Closed Session (feat. Defari, Phil Da Agony, Planet Asia)
This Way (feat. Kanye West)
DJ Babu in Deep Concentration

Danger Mouse (I love that name) new CD The Grey Album (Waxploitation) is out. They're combined the vocal content of Jay-Z's Black album added new beats and production using The Beatles White Album as the source material.

Aerosmith is headlining the Superbowl pre-game show, Feb 1 at the Relaint Stadium in Houston. Well that should be fun. Personally, I've been a bit cranky towards Steve Tyler ever since he stole my seat at a concert. He and his crew took over an entire row and I spent the rest of the evening standing. Oh joy.

Melissa Manchester (anyone remember "Don't Cry Out Loud) is releasing a new CD
When I Look Down That Road (Koch Record) March 9. Keb Mo and Beth Nielsen Chapman guest on the CD. She's also planning a tour after that. Hmmm...me? No comment.


Yes has a documentary premiering January 26th and to kick off that they're going to be performing a live acoustic show that will be then simulcast to all the theaters screening the doc that night.

YESSPEAK will be presented at the following locations on January 26th:

ATLANTA REGAL HOLLYWOOD 24
3265 N.E. Expressway Access - Chamblee, GA

BOSTON REGAL SOLOMON POND 15
591 Donald J. Lynch Blvd- Marlborough, MA

BUFFALO REGAL TRANSIT CENTER 18
6707 Transit Road - Williamsville, NY

CHICAGO REGAL LINCOLNSHIRE 20
300 Parkway Drive - Lincolnshire, IL

CLEVELAND REGAL SEVERANCE TOWN CENTER STADIUM 14
3492 Mayfield Road - Cleveland Heights, OH

DALLAS UA GALAXY STADIUM 10
11801 McCree Road - Dallas, TX

DENVER UA PAVILIONS 15
500 16th Street - Denver, CO

DETROIT UA COMMERCE STADIUM 14
3033 Springvale Drive - Walled Lake, MI

NEW HAVEN REGAL BRANFORD 12
325 E. Main Street - Branford, CT

HOUSTON EDWARDS HOUSTON MARQ*E 23
7620 Katy Freeway - Houston, TX

INDIANAPOLIS UA CIRCLE CENTER 9
49 W. Maryland Street - Indianapolis, IN

LAS VEGAS REGAL VILLAGE SQUARE 18
9400 W. Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, NV

LOS ANGELES EDWARDS IRVINE SPECTRUM 21
65 Fortune Drive- Irvine, CA

MINNEAPOLIS REGAL BROOKLYN CENTER STADIUM 20
6420 Camden Avenue North - Minneapolis, MN

NEW YORK REGAL (formerly UA) UNION SQUARE STADIUM 14
850 Broadway - New York, NY

OKLAHOMA CITY REGAL CROSSROADS MALL STADIUM 16
1211 E. I-240 - Oklahoma City, OK

PHILADELPHIA UA RIVERVIEW PLAZA 17
1400 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd - Philadelphia, PA

PHOENIX UA PAVILIONS 11
9090 E. Indian Bend - Scottsdale, AZ

PORTLAND, OR REGAL LLOYD CENTER STADIUM 10 CINEMA
1510 NE Multnomah Street. - Portland, OR

SACRAMENTO REGAL NATOMAS MARKETPLACE 16
3561 Truxel Road - Sacramento, CA

SAN DIEGO EDWARDS MIRA MESA STADIUM 18
10733 Westview Parkway - San Diego, CA

SAN FRANCISCO UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10
6330 Christie Ave - Emeryville, CA

SAN FRANCISCO REGAL HACIENDA CROSSINGS 20
5000 Dublin Blvd. - Dublin, CA

SEATTLE REGAL AUBURN STADIUM 17
1101 Super Mall Way - Auburn, WA

WEST PALM BEACH REGAL ROYAL PALM BEACH STADIUM 18
1003 State Road 7- Royal Palm Beach, FL

WASHINGTON D.C. REGAL BALLSTON COMMON STADIUM 12
671 N. Glebe Road - Arlington, VA

Alanis Morrisette's new release "So-Called Chaos" (Maverick Records)
hits the stores April 13. The first single and video is "Everything" Gee I vaguely remember her getting slimed when I was a kid

If you're in NYC on a Thursday night and looking for an Industry night, check out Mickey's Blue Room 171 Avenue C between 10th and 11th Streets. They've always have a very good Happy hour with drafts, well drinks, and selected bottles priced at $3 each. You'll find writers, musicians, music people and civilians hanging out and drinking on those Industry nights. Got a question about Industry night? email Dina at
dina@wildfirepublicity.com I can vouch for her, she's a great person.

Love Me Destroyer is touring with Digger, Stereotyperider, Lawrence Arms, and more! Here are the dates:

1/16/04• Denver, CO ­ Cervantes W/ Black Black Ocean, The Affairs, Red Cloud
1/22/04• Grand Junction, CO ­ Whiskey River
1/23/04• Phoenix, AZ ­ Nita¹s Hideaway W/ Stereotyperider
1/24/04• Albuquerque, NM ­ The Launchpad W/ Stereotyperider
1/27/04• Ft. Collins, CO ­ The Starlight W/ The Lawrence Arms, The Ghost
1/28/04• Lawrence, KS ­ The Bottleneck w/ Straight Outta Junior High
1/29/04• Wichita, KS ­ America¹s Pub w/ Straight Outta Junior High
1/30/04• Pearland, TX ­ Perry¹s Landmark W/ Digger
1/31/04• San Antonio, TX ­ TBA W/ Digger
2/1/04• Austin, TX - Emo¹s W/ Digger
2/3/04• El Paso, TX ­ Moontime Pizza W/ Digger
2/4/04• Tucson, AZ ­ Skrappy¹s W/ Digger, Stereotyperider
2/5/04• Las Vegas, NV ­ Double Down Saloon w/ Stereotyperider

Laymen Terms has a new EP coming out on Suburban Home Records on February 24th. You can check out their MP3 from their title track "3 Days In" on the Suburban Home Records website so that you may download it now for FREE

for the MP3 or more info on the bands that call Suburban Home Records their own, check out their website www.suburbanhomerecords.com

That's all for music news. My friend Michael is a fantastic photographer, I've been telling him that he ought to be shooting for Vogue etc., for a year now. Anyway, he's just been written up in Retail AD World about his work and has stuff in two mags. So he's celebrating with a biiig party at Lobby tonight. The last party of his that I went to, I ended up slightly snockered (the details are somewhere in this blog) this time I have promised myself that I will noy be crawling over any banquette tops like last time. You can check out michael's work at www.michaelcreagh.com or you can see his work at http://portfolios.models.com/Michael_Creagh/ or at www.lemonademag.com

Anyway, I'm praying that it will warm up a bit, I'd really like to go out at night instead of huddling in my apartment listening to the howling wind.