I was there

This came out a couple months ago, but I didn't know it existed until this weekend when Martin Cendreda and I dropped off our respective spouses and babies at their weekly "Mommy & Me" session, then grabbed some coffee and did some browsing at Amoeba. Is that what they call a "man date"?

Back to the subject, the final Rocket from the Crypt release features the San Diego band's final show preserved in CD and DVD formats. If you're from SoCal and are familiar with indie punk 'n' roll, you know about the group (associated with Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Night Marchers, etc.) and its infamous Halloween shows at Horton Plaza. You probably attended at least one. I went three or four times, and only once did I not wear a costume. If you didn't dress up, you felt like a lurker.

For the 2005 performance--which everyone knew would be the group's last--my brother, sister-in-law, and I dressed up in Zankou Chicken T-shirts with paper hats. There were a lot of S.D. locals that were clueless, but those who ventured into L.A. (and those who came from L.A.) really dug our costumes, which I was really proud of. An unintentional bonus is that it will be easy to spot us in those yellow shirts on the DVD. Time to start looking...

(Some random trivia. Way back, I was in the crowd in L7's "Fast and Frightening" video. How can that not be on Youtube?)