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breed specific legislation
 Breed specific legislation is exactly what sounds like...regulation of your right to own or, in many cases, not own a dog based solely on the breed or "type" of dog, not your responsibility as an owner."
There are thousands of breeds of dogs, however, you have to be a good dog guardian to have one. If masters of good dogs don't stand up, people will start to blame the breed of dog instead of irresponsible dog owners for the dog's crime. In fact, never once has any breed of dog owned by reliable owners attacked or killed anything. If a dog kills something, there's no one to blame but the dog's owner. It is all about responsibly. I realize there are those in the world who feel that the government should remove responsibility from people by banning specific breeds of dogs. This sort of totalitarian thinking could be the end of free society as we know it. One day it is dogs, the next day it is guns, then it's freedom of speech followed by mandatory Christianity. Dog owners shirking their responsibilities and raising and or harboring vicious dogs should be punished rather than the breed of dog. There are no bad dogs, just bad dog owners.
Pit Bull Rescue Center
Dog Watch
Dog Play - Dedicated to Fighting BSL
written by: eric
edited on: April 03, 2008 |
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Another One!
We got another request to play a benefit for people in a far off land. You know, these people have the very best of intentions but really... fixing the world starts at home. There are millions of homeless people right here in the US. There are millions living below poverty, and there are thousands living in a state of meaningless despair right next door. Let's heal our own wounds first. I realize that it isn't trendy and hip to help people in your own country, but c'mon. In other news, we've got two new songs which have been and utter pain in the ass to write but I believe they're worth it.
written by: Eric
posted on: March 31, 2008 |
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Spring.. birdies... creeks... baseball!
Spring is pretty much here eh? My prediction is that we'll get a big snowstorm somewhere in the area of April 1st. Great times are afoot here, the river is rising, aftergrass is writing, and the birds are singing. There's a lot of audio inspiration listening to these guys. Behind our rehearsal space there's a bird-crowded canyon with a creek running through it. Trying to translate this music to rock/pop music is an interesting venture, but fun nonetheless. It's also almost baseball season. We'll be reviving the idea of playing some games of hardball, anyone out there who'd like to join us, please drop us a line. While a softball team sounds fun, those big goofy soft balls and short field make it just silly. I've never understood softball... I mean what's the point? It's sort of the last stand for blatant sexism... you know... girls play softball and boys play baseball... I think that's a crock, the girls I know can chuck a baseball pretty damn hard. I'm all for the total elimination of softball as a sport and the open ridicule of all its proponents.
written by: eric
posted on: March 27, 2008 |
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People who go to concerts and ask to play...
Over the years, we've had several people approach the stage and ask if they could sit in. During the show... One guy would always come to our most crowded shows at the highest energy point of the show and ask to play the drums. I didn't even know the guy. He always made these shrugging faces like "c'mon man, you're harshin me"... I guess I'm the jerk... Sorry man, when someone is grinding their teeth with their eyes wide open at midnight I probably don't want them touching my drums. Rappers came up from time to time, and we learned our lesson there real quick. Never trust a rapper you don't know or they might come up on the stage and spit some things you don't want anything to do with. (Incest bestiality anyone?)
While we have invited many special guests up to play, we always at least have some discussion of what we're going to do, and we have always heard the person sing/rap/drum/pluck/blow before. It kinda makes you feel like an asshole when some drunk guy sloshes up to the stage and says "let me play ______" or the dreaded "let me come up and spit some rhymes" and you have to say "dude, no" for fear that they really suck or even worse. Then you think "what if they are good?" but the simple matter is.. do you want to share the stage with the kind of person who walks up to a band playing a show and asks to sit in? I mean... who does that kind of thing? Someone whose ego far out stretches their manners... I guess now it sounds like we're the jerks, but... oh well. If you would like to join us on the stage sometime, please just drop us a note on the contact form, and come on over and jam with us at a rehearsal, we'll get to know each other, we'll have some drinks, we'll talk, we'll jam. Then we'll be happy to invite you as a special guest...
Cheerswritten by: obeloinkment wrigglesworth
posted on: March 25, 2008 |
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Our guitarist has more balls than your guitarist...
 We're very proud of our guitarist, Jesse Mattice, who competed in the last Gelande jump at purgatory over the weekend. In case you're not familiar with Gelande jumping, it is a nutty sport akin to ski jumping, however the jumpers jump in regular alpine gear rather than those fruity jumping skis. Jesse added about 20 feet per jump (after reluctantly donning the aerodynamic skin suit) to reach 195 feet by his last jump. These guys are going 60 when they hit the jump and closer to 80 by the time they land... balls out kids, balls out. It was nice to see purg sponsor a cool event like this... It has seemed lately that they're much more concerned with developing every shred of land they have rather than making the mountain cool for the people riding it.
There's some video of the event on the Herald Website as well as an article & photo HERE
Check out Eric this afternoon guest DJing on www.KDUR.org and then c'mon down for some cold ones with us at the illustrious Summit at 9pm. written by: eric
edited on: March 19, 2008 |
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Save the Children... HERE
 I recently received an email asking if we'd like to play a show to raise money for Children of Uganda. Uganda is a small country on the edge of Lake Victoria in south central Africa. Through the 1970s and 80s civil unrest and very bad leadership killed hundreds of thousands. HIV/AIDS is a serious problem there as well. That being said, the country also possesses fertile soil, abundant rainfall, and a good amount of mineral wealth. The email informed me that a group of Durangans were traveling to Uganda soon to spend some time with the orphans. This got me thinking... How much does a plane ticket to Uganda cost? Further thinking lead to: How many homeless are there in the United States? How many living below the poverty line on the Navajo reservation? The average price of a ticket from Durango to Entebbe, Uganda: $2300. Let's say 10 people go. $23,000 to take 10 people to Uganda to spend time with the orphans. While this is of doubtless benefit to said orphans, how far would that money go spent on the Navajo Poverty Relief Fund? How about the Manna Soup Kitchen? I'm not sure if it is just trendy to want to help people in far off, difficult to pronounce lands, or if these people have a genuine need to travel in order to help people. 32% of the children in our own nation's capital live far below the poverty line and do not receive adequate health care or food. I have sympathy for the plight of Ugandans but firmly believe we must heal our own poverty issues before worrying about those halfway around the world. Many of Uganda's problems stem from being a former colony of the United Kingdom, so let the Brits help out... they started the problem. Before we spend our money being jetset, let's think long and hard about the poverty and hopelessness that exists much closer to home. By the way, we are hereby offering to play a show to benefit the Durango Soup Kitchen, or Navajo Relief Fund.
written by: eric
edited on: March 19, 2008 |
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Salida & The End...
 We made our way to Salida saturday in the snow. I'd never been to downtown Salida, so it was all a surprise to me. The bar where we played, the Victoria, was awesome. Located in a circa 1900 Building, the Vic is a pretty standard colorado style bar. The stage is in a great spot, and the owners of the place were wonderful. We loaded in, soundchecked, and then went upstairs to check out our accommodations, which were the entire upper floor of the building which was a hotel at one point. The words "old haunted hotel" don't really cut it here, it was amazingly eerie yet really cool. We each had a nice room and a large common area where we got to play some music and drink quite a bit of PBR. The show went well, although it was hard work to win over the crowd, who wasn't really going bonkers until the second set. After the show we partied a bit with the bar staff and then went upstairs, bringing 1/2 of the PA which we used to blast pink floyd's Ummagumma through the halls, creating a horror movie-like atmosphere in which we hunted for ghosts. We didn't find any. I have this feeling that by the time I went to sleep there could of been a ghost hovering over my bed shouting BOOOOOOOO! and I would have been snoring in the ghost's face. We woke up with 4 alarm screaming head-splitting hangovers and headed to Monarch, where the skiing was amazing. What a cool place. A few long hikes let us sweat out our hangovers and the steeps were deep. Monarch was really a nice exclamation point at the end of the ski tour.
Also in the news, Josh Arnold, who has sat in with us with his blusey voice, has stepped up to this position in a full time way, and we're stoked. Look forward to new material, and some gutsy vocals coming soon.
This was a great time, in fact, I think it was the only time I've ever toured with a band and ended up in the black when we got back. The experience brought us closer together as friends, made us tighter as a band, and helped us get things off our chest... I can't wait to get back on the road again in July.
written by: eric
edited on: March 10, 2008 |
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denver colorado
Wow
posted the next morning
time flies when you're having fun. It's a fresh 4:20 am (no really!) in denver. We opened for Yamn tonight at Dulcinea's and it was a hoot. Gogol Bordello was playing at the filmore next door so it was a busy night. Unfortunately an opening gig of this nature means that when the big show next door gets out you're done, but hell, it was still a hoot. Yamn was killer and also nice enough to let us crash at their place. The acoustic jam session has been going for the past 2 hours and is likely to contine until morning. Another fun night on the skizzy tour, here we come salida.written by: eric
edited on: March 08, 2008 |
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Bowling...
We went bowling last night. Part of the Yuppiefication of Durango meant getting rid of the bowling alley so those undesirable people of character and blue collars wouldn't have a meeting place to drink beer without granola in it and listen to Molly Hatchet. This was the first step in breaking their morale to make damn sure that soon everyone in town will have a pricey SUV, a dog on a leash who is taking doggie anti depressants, and a crappy nouveau riche attitude. The loss of Durango's bowling alley did something inexplicably bad to the town, happening around the same time as the change from "Purgatory" to "Durango Mountain Realty" the same time the high dollar condo boom happened, and shortly before we got a starbucks. Would someone please please please open a bowling alley? Invite those long time residents back who drive a beat up old jeep, smoke filterless cigarettes and have no idea what a 401k is. I hereby say this: We will play the grand opening of the new bowling alley for absolutely free. I mean, we of course want some free games and shoe rentals but... free. So... we bowled last night, we drank white russians and cheap beer, we watched drunky mcmullet down in lane 12 bowl like an angel with strike after strike. We watched lane after lane of just good ol regular people have a great time. No obnoxious rich kids with "Native" stickers on their car (Hey kid, if I don't see you livin in a teepee, you're not a native) No status junkies talking about how good they ski... just good ol people. We played game after game, and even traded a CD for a pitcher of beer (hey, that's what touring is for right, spreading the word?) We used salty language and crude sexual humor to weave a curtain of profanity and alcohol that was simply beautiful. Going on to Denver to open for Yamn tonight, our thoughts will be with sweet Durango and its lack of a bowling alley. written by: eric
posted on: March 07, 2008 |
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On the radio, saturday night
The folks at the Victoria Tavern in Salida suggested we stop by KHEN, the local free range radio station on our way in, so check them out at www.khen.org and you can stream online. We're going to pop in there sometime between 7 and 8 or so, so tune in.
Cheers
written by: eric
posted on: March 07, 2008 |
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