Sam's lament

(Hammer No More the Fingers photo from MySpace)

Because I'm still fighting a nasty cold, I'm missing not one, but THREE good shows tonight. I actually had tickets to see Mark Kozelek tonight at the Attucks. No. Can. Do. But there were several other great choices -- Hot Lava up in Williamsburg, Little Trooper at the Norfolk Taphouse.

Since there's no live music in my present, I'll look forward to the future.

The Mas Y Mas boys sent me this message a few weeks ago:

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It's been a moment since we've played the area, but we're going to be
putting a show on with two great out-of-towners on WEDNESDAY, NOV 12 @ The
Taphouse, starting around 10. Who are we playing with, you ask? What, is
Mas Y Mas not enough? Socialist. Anyways,

ROYAL BANGS are coming back to town (myspace.com/royalbangs), I'm pretty
sure you were at that show, but they're pretty great live, one of those
bands that sounds like their recordings. We don't know how to do that.

HAMMER NO MORE THE FINGERS (myspace.com/hnmtf) make it really hard to make
a good flyer (thanks for the name, guys), but I've included one of the
five different prints we've done for the show; they're a great three-piece
from NC that we've been trying to bring down for a while, and are another
one of those bands that are all about high quality recording- they just
completed a record with J. Robbins from Inner Ear Studios (? I DONT KNOW
SOMETHING ABOUT D.C. HERE ?!?!) which I'm sure won't make a difference at
all. Oops, not supposed to say what you really think this time of year, it
could get you in trouble.

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I'm happy to see that Mas Y Mas is playing with Hammer No More the Fingers -- because my old band The Floating Children played with those guys in Chapel Hill, N.C. earlier this year at the farewell to Schoolkids Records show.