For your multimedia amusement, here's a clip of the Purrs song "Boys" recorded at Monty's Krown (875 Monroe Ave.) on February 2, 2002. They'll be playing tonight and I almost forgot to put this up ... well, I did but remembered in the morning to do it. Oh yeah, the clip is in QuickTime format and I'm using version 5.

What else ... I went to see Mooney Suzuki, The Priests, and The Datsuns play at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) last Thursday. They were all really good although I'm not personally a fan of the Priests because I think the lead singer tends to live the rock star lifestyle too much. But anyway, the fun part was that the Datsuns were from New Zealand and I talked with Christian from the group for a while. He said that they toured the U.S. starting in Texas and when they got up north, it was the first time they'd seen falling snow. I thought I would help New Zealand-U.S. relations and give them an ice scraper as a souvenir. They were pretty amused. By the way, Mooney Suzuki is a really good rock group too and they did a great set to wrap up the night.

Tuesday was fun too ... Anne and I caught the comedy improv troupe Some Assembly Required at The Club at Water Street (204 N. Water St.) They're pretty good, but their show tends to start really good and go downhill from there. I think they get too interested in learning new things on stage than on keeping the audience entertained. Maybe that's their point.

After that, I headed to The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) to see Bardo Pond, an experimental/art band from Philadelphia, Fursaxa, another experimenta/art band ... this time from ... uhh ... Philly as well along with the experimenta/noise band Finkbeiner from around here. Now, I expected to see Joe Tunis who runs Carbon Records, the recording company for Finkbeiner ... someone I know from RIT. For my own amusement, I brought a copy of the CD I burned from the 1992 RIoT Bands Tape which included a couple songs from _fieldfresh_ who were Joe's band back then and I thought it would be funny to have them play those tracks between bands. The story is indeed short and doesn't need to be shortened more: Nick played the songs and Joe was amused. I ended up leaving the CD's for them to play between bands and such. Oh yeah, the bands were pretty good too ... if you like seeing bands who are more interested in learning new things on stage than on keeping the audience entertained.

• Clockstoppers - Some kid gets hold of a device that speeds the user up so it appears that everyone else stopped and fails to use it for perverted whims.
• Death to Smoochy - Danny DeVito wrote a story about how much he hates Barney, five years after everyone else stopped caring.
• Panic Room - A couple crooks break into a house but are surprised to find one room that they can't get into and it keeps setting traps for them.
• The Rookie - Some guy working as a high school baseball coach pitches real good like, and starts gambling with the students in his team.