Just so everyone knows, lowered sugar oatmeal should be renamed: “Increased Shittiness”.

It tastes like mushy sand.

UPDATE: Shit, I just got back from the market and I didn’t buy any oatmeal. What am I going to do for breakfast?

Holy crap, I bought one of those down comforters yesterday. I slept under it last night, man, it was like sleeping in a cloud! So awesome!

I have seen them before and coveted them for a long time, but was only just now able to afford one due to a gift certificate I got last christmas. The gift certificate was for Dillard’s department store.

Now, I’m not a frequenter of department stores, unless you count the thrift store as having departments. That’s why it’s taken me nine months to get in a Dillard’s and do something with that gift certificate. Boy am I glad I did. That bitch is COMFY.

I’ve been sleeping under the same blanket thing for three or four years. I got it when a previous drummer in my band left it in the kick drum at practice one night and never reclaimed it. It’s a twin size, and my bed is a queen, so I’m totally stoked to have a blanket with enough room to cover the whole bed.

Before that I was living with a girlfriend who had all manner of bedsheets and towels and so forth, and before that I slept in a sleeping bag on a bare mattress because I had a bad ass red sleeping bag and making the bed sucks!

I haven’t believed in top sheets either, historically, but now I’m starting to think about using one because I don’t want to dirty up my new comforter with my filthy, sinful legs. I guess that’s the point of a top sheet, right? I mean, the sheets are like underwear for your bed, aren’t they?

Someone tell me what the point of a top sheet is.

My gig this weekend went great! I opened for Matt Costa at Park Tavern. The turnout was kinda low because it was pouring rain all day, but I had a ball anyway. Turns out I had already met all those Matt Costa guys in Chicago when I was working crew at Lollapalooza.

I gave them a copy of my CD and I’ve emailed back and forth with their management about sending me a copy of theirs, so good times.

I like bartering!

My friend John Hopkins of the Zac Brown Band showed up before my gig Sunday. He heckled me about my song list.

“Did you write down all four of your songs, there?” he boomed at me, because he’s unable to do anything but boom.

Well fuck him, I played ten songs, and last I heard he only writes one song a year anyway!

Sheesh, with friends like these…

He did bring me a bourbon and water on stage, though, so I won’t order my ninjas to skin him alive.

Note to self: Hire team of ninjas.

I just got played on the radio!

I got up early this morning so I could hear Matt Jones’s show because he said he’d play my song. I just jumped in the car to go get myself a bagel and some coffee, and what do I hear on my radio but my own voice!

I called Matt to thank him for playing me and he even played the call.

It’s really neat! I can’t wait for hte show later, it’s going to be great!

Well, good news and bad news. The bad news is that Matt Costa has decided to come and be on the radio Sunday morning, so I get bumped. I don’t get to be interviewed. Matt Jones, the host, did agree to play one of my songs, though, so that’s the good news, and that’s pretty good news!

It’s not every day that indie artists get played on the big rock station in a major market, and it’s all thanks to Matt Jones and Organix X that I am getting played. Check them out on myspace.

So, listen to 99x Sunday morning from 7 till noon and hear me on the radio!

I’m going to go ahead and admit it to everyone. It’s been a secret too long and I don’t know how to contain it any more.

I like Christina Aguilera.

I mean, how can you not like her? She’s hot, and she can sing. She might be my favorite female vocalist if you count out famous historical female vocalists like Aretha Franklin or Etta James. I know they’re both still alive, I’m just saying. I’ve lost track of their recent work.

Now, I’m not saying I would buy a Christina Aguilera album. I never have. I just like seeing her and hearing her sing whenever the world offers me a free opportunity to do so. When flipping past VH1, for instance.

Christina Aguilera fans, unite!

I also am a fan of my friends Nova Milo. Just saw them play yesterday and they rocked. Check them out! Atlanta bands need all the support we can get.

Also, I miss Pop Up Video.