So Easy

Hola. Just cranking out a post before I settle in to watch some TV with the missus. Last night, I met up with Bobby D to catch the Eagles of Death Metal at the House of Blues. We had a few over at Boston BeerWorks before catching the end of opener Rival Schools' set. They played half-decent alt-rock, but the place came alive once the headliners hit the stage to the strains of Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night." Frontman Jesse Hughes is quite the preener, but he backs it up. The band ripped through a 90-minute set of tunes from their first three albums, 98% of them uptempo blooze-rockers. Drummer Joey Castillo (of Queens of the Stone Age) sat in again for QOTSA frontman/EoDM studio drummer Josh Homme, who is no doubt preparing for his gig with Them Crooked Vultures, the side project he has with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones of Led Zep that's playing Lollapalooza in Chicago this weekend and releasing an album in October (which should be terrific, given the personnel). Castillo was a beast on drums, pounding so hard that he broke several sticks. The show was just a lot of fun, and Bob and I enjoyed drinking Sam Summers and making fun of the guy nearby who was wearing a "Kaka" soccer jersey (in tribute to the Brazilian soccer star). We were shouting out "Ka-kaaaaaaawwwwww!!!!" throughout the last several songs while dancing around foolishly and the poor dude had no clue. Senor Breitling and I did the same thing at the Bloc Party show we saw a few years back, yelling out the name of opening band Mew repeatedly. Ah, good times.

So it turns out we're leaving for Hilton Head a little earlier than originally planned, at 7 or 8 p.m. Friday instead of midnight because Deb's mom got the day off from work. Which is cool because we'll get there a little earlier. And in mapping out the trip, we discovered that it's longer than we thought: it's supposedly 16 hours to Charleston and another hour or two after that to Hilton Head. Hey, what's two more hours in the car, right?

As I noted in the previous post, I hit my three-year anniversary of CompCon Monday night. Didn't even realize it until near the end of the show. A lot of podcasts come and go, so I'm glad I've been able to keep it going and keep in interesting (to me, at least). Another new development that I hinted at a few weeks back is that I've got some sponsorship deals through Mevio for the show. Still have to send back the paperwork on the first one, but it'll involve me doing minimal hype during each episode and mention promo codes for folks to hopefully buy some merch. At the very least, I hope to get a few bucks out of it. It certainly won't change what I do or how I do it, and the show will continue to be free for as long as I do it. More details as I get them, but the next show (coming around the 17th after we get back from HH) will be the first to feature a sponsor.

I had a fairly awful 5-mile run today due to the heat and some stomach issues, but I feel better now and hopefully will feel fine tomorrow night when I run the Beverly Homecoming 5K. I'm also hoping for the weather to cool down a little, because it's super-muggy right now.

I also need to crank out next week's running column tomorrow night, since I won't be around and won't have a regular computer to work on while I'm on vacation. I already know what I'm writing about, so it shouldn't take too long to get it done.