Rustbucket news, sore throats and cops...

Last Friday, Rustbucket was back at "The 6 House" in South Boston, playing to a large crowd of fans, friends and stragglers. Like always, we'd like to thank everyone for coming out and dancing to our music. We tried to get in as much music as possible, as we always do, into our 4-hour time span, almost playing until 2 am.

This Friday, come check us out back at "14 Union" in Plymouth.

On another note, Rustbucket has a new practice pad. Thanks to our friends David, Andy, Stephan and The Argonaut, we are now practicing closer to home in Quincy, across the street from a Buddhist monastery and, worse, below the neighbors of this duplex. Needless to say, we'll see how long we last. We tend to make a lot of noise.

That's all I got for now, boys and girls. My creative energies aren't really blooming tonight. I have a sore throat from smoking too many cigarettes and generally living a life that keeps my immune system battle-ready, so I'm drinking a cup of green tea with some milk. And I'd like to consume some more vitamin C but we're out of orange juice. Total bummer, dudes.

Also, I knocked out the power in my apartment after turning on a light in my kitchen that continuously blows out a fuse. So we tried to fix it with the breakers, but this time it didn't work.
So we called our landlord.
Our landlord's a cop. Nice guy. But he's got one of those "cop knocks," meaning three loud, ear-piercing knocks that makes you feel guilty of something even if all you're doing is reading a book. You hear the knock and you think you're reading something illegal, so you want to hide the book immediately or light it on fire to dispose of the evidence.
Turns out you're not doing anything guilty and are just another victim of the "cop knock," a systematic approach to cops invading high school parties and drug dealers' apartments.
Anyways, turns out that the breakers didn't work because the light where the wiring is fucked had the switch in the on position. Thus, when we were trying to turn on the breakers again, the switch that would knock out the power simply would knock it out again immediately. Electricity 101, people.

There ya go. Problem fixed. And now I'm done with my tea and will probably make another one.

Till next time. Stay tuned.

-Matthew Drum Drum