Whew. I’m at a crossroad with the DVD right now. Waiting on some footage, plus I’ve done most of all I can for Sandwich today… so I’m feeling like messing with some new features on Rawrb.com here. I figure I’ll finish adding the photo album and then add a “reviews” section like I attempted to do on Psychostick and have done on Pluh.com.

I thought that initially having a reviews section would be cool for the band to review stuff or whatever, but I’m like the only guy that does that kind of stuff. Jake cruises myspace, Jimmy is on a computer twice a year, Alex watches bad movies, and Jarsh has pretty much had his fill of reviewing stuff on Pluh.com. He, much like myself, doesn’t just like to write a review. We like to carve a masterpiece of humor at the expense of the thing/person/whatever that we’re reviewing. We did that for several years on Pluh.com and lost interest to review stuff after awhile. Hell, at one point we had a record label contact and send us some bands to review. Trik Turner and The Color Red. Yeah. The Color Red was pretty good, but Trik Turner’s tough guy rap/rock thing came out right when that genre was dying and I was extremely burnt out on it. I didn’t review either of them.

At that point I decided I just can’t review music. I’m very particular and have a hard time opening up to something new. My friends will often introduce bands to me and they almost have to force me to hear it for me to show interest! It’s a flaw, I know. Part of it is because I’m IN a band and know what really goes on behind the scenes. There’s just so much out there that it’s the equivalent of drinking from a firehose.

It also makes me feel a bit hypocritical. I want people to discover Psychostick, but I don’t discover new bands. Weird huh? I’ll get a message on myspace every now and then from someone who wants me to hear their band. 49 times out of 50, I just don’t. It’s almost a knee-jerk reaction now. I feel bad about it too, but what do I do if I don’t like the band? Tell them they suck? That hurts Psychostick’s reputation! It’s not fair really. So I just don’t listen. What a jerk I am, huh?

For example, there was a local band here in Phoenix that Jarsh reviewed on Pluh.com a long time ago. They were a weird, somewhat popular local band that got all the good opening slots for all the big acts that came through. They had more of an image than a musical act which we didn’t really enjoy, so Jarsh spoke him mind on the interweb.

One night after a show singer approaches me and Josh after a particular show and starts asking us about the bad review Josh put up. It was a very awkward situation and we were caught off guard, so we copped out, “Yeah I don’t know who that Gawkman fellow is but we’ll have a chat with him.” Heh. We COULD have given in to the confrontation but it was such a weird deal to have someone call you out on your bad review on their band FROM A WEBSITE in person. It’s not easy to take a bad review on your band and this guy was really upset (I won’t mention the choice words Jarsh used to describe their image), but at that point we decided not to review bands any longer since we were a band and it could hurt the progress of our band. All those review were taken down.

Anyway, I will review just about anything else. A movie, a video game, a restaurant – just for the hell of it. I used to review chicks, but… heh, who wants to keep putting hot chicks on a pedistal? Not me. Let Maxim and Stuff Magazine do that. They can also keep giving out that “dating advice” from chicks to guys all night and day. Damn near every piece of advice you read from that mag on dating is way off. Asking a lady for dating advice? Hmm. I don’t mean any offense to the ladies because they mean well, but I’ve never received a piece of advice from a lady that’s worked really well for me. Our two genders are pretty much two different universes. You know, square peg in a round hole? Yeah. Heterosexual women generally do not date women like a man dates women, so they cannot understand the male perspective! It’s not because they’re unintelligent, it’s just that we think differently. So guys, if you want good advice on dating women just ask a dude who dates a lot of women. They’re doing something right.

That also goes for anything else you want. Wanna be filthy rich? Get advice from a rich person. Want to sell a million records? Get advice from those who know how.

Subject change galore. I’m gonna go program stuff now. Yay!