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Payback is a bitch.

Seriously, sometimes I should just leave well enough alone. Unfortunately, I am one of those curious types, kind of like a cat or a kid, and somehow things manage to get in my head, and I actually follow through.

Today I got on this weird trip. I think it all had to do with a Sloan song coming on my playlist, which made me think of my old CDs and bands I used to listen to. I recall that Sloan had a record label called Murderecords that a bunch of bands I enjoyed were on. So I figured I'd look to see if they had a website, which they did, but it hadn't been updated since 2001. Meh. There was an e-mail address, so I sent an e-mail as they had a catalogue page which listed a couple CDs I've been looking for, but unfortunately it got returned. Boo.

So then I got to thinking about other bands I listened to and hung out with quite a bit. The Killjoys were one of them, I was actually good friends with their bass player up until I don't even know what happened and he kind of severed contact with me. I think it might have been due to the fact that he was getting himself in a serious relationship and either he didn't feel comfortable continuing a friendship with me (even though I was married, whatever) or his new girlfriend wasn't overly comfortable with it. Either way, I suppose I don't hold a grudge. I know if it were me I'd been none to keen on the idea, but in a way it still kind of hurts because him and I were quite close. Regardless, I figured I'd look to see what their drummer Gene was up to. I remember my friends and I would always have a good time with him when we hung out. Anyway, it appears that he has a new band called Junior Achiever where he is now the singer/guitar player. According to their MySpace site they sound like Weezer, Green Day, American Hi-Fi and Teenage Fanclub. A number of bands I quite enjoy as well, and from what little bit I'd heard of their stuff it sounds pretty awesome. So yeah, glad to see that he's doing well.

So the finding of Gene and seeing what he was up to, lead me to go through some of my old e-mails in one of my old hotmail accounts. I was thinking of something my old friend said once and I wasn't sure if it was in a letter, or e-mail or what. Of course I totally forgot what I was doing when I got sidetracked. I found an e-mail from this creeptacular guy I used to know. We were friends, I knew him through an old friend and also because of an ex-boyfriend who was in a band, as Mr Creep-orama was also in a band and wrote a column for Maximum Rock N Roll or better known to the "cool kids" as MRR. So being a glutton for punishment I opened one of the e-mails and it had a link to his band's site, so of course I clicked on it to see what was going on with them. Weeeeeeell, they're still together and are on a little West Coast tour. In fact they will be coming through Seattle April 8th. I am so tempted to go and kick him in the fuckin nuts, I am not kidding. Reason being, his sorry ass paid for me to visit him in NYC (which I thought was ok being that he knew people I did and that we were friends and I was a student and didn't have a lot of cash and we'd talked about my going to NYC forever), and when I got there came to find out that the whole reason he paid for me to go there was because him and his girlfriend were trying to get me to have a threesome with them. That and the fact he would never leave me the fuck alone, he didn't even want me to walk to the bloody 7-11 down the street from his place by myself. It was sooooo annoying. I was in NYC for christ sake, and barely over 19 years old, I wanted to hang out and have fun and do fun NYC things like visit the stock exchange and stuff. I am glad I had the chance to visit NYC, but the circumstances under which I went pretty much made it suck. I couldn't really enjoy myself with him and his girlfriend hanging all over me the entire time. So yeah, wouldn't it be hilarious for me to go and suckerpunch him or something? Half of me wants to do it. Seriously. He just totally deserves it.

Anyway, that's my fun and excitement for the day. I feel kind of bizarre about the whole thing, but really I'm just kind of laughing about it.

posted by Erin - Thursday, February 23, 2006