Hello all,

Shows upcoming:

Farewell Luke, Polipnick
This man never stops shredding, ever! Now he's going to pull an all night session with every band he's played with in Lincoln, before he moves away!

Friday, June 5, 2009 at 9:00pm

Box Awesome
815 O St.
Lincoln, NE


8 bands, two stages, Luke marathon!
Box Awesome
9pm - 1am
only $5!
This will be total insanity. Every single band I have played with while living in Lincoln, alternating upstairs and downstairs in the venue that I book the first Friday music series at for over three years.
(featuring)...

The Golden Age
Electric Soul Method
Volcano Insurance
Flamethrower Double Trio
the Mighty Vitamins
Man's Last Great Invention
Shelf Life/Giraffe
Executive Steel Band

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So there you go. Lots of music. My arms will fall off after this, but what better way to bid Nebraska adieu! I hope to see some friendly faces out to these events.

Thanks! (Luke)


The Unit Breed @ Box Awesome

Thursday, June 11, 2009
9:00pm
Box Awesome
815 O St.
Lincoln, NE

The Unit Breed
Man's Last Great Invention
Prussia
Yuppies

Attention.
Duffy's Tavern
Wed. June 24th 9pm

Poetry and Music:

Shelf Life and Man's Last Great Invention provide atmosphere for Tim Scahill, Solace Taylor, Bill Foster, and Joe Younglove.

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All hail the healing power of minimalist hiss 'n drone



none. goes nowhere yet

'none' eh? 43: Perhaps we should re-title "None Too Long" or "None without Narcotics": read a recent review of 'none' from Vital Weekly.

Hello All,

I will be returning to Nebraska soon and I am very excited about some Man's Last shows coming up!

If we are still alive one week after elections:

Tuesday November 11th 9pm
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The New Monarchs





Gooses





Man's Last Great Invention


Tues Nov 11
@ Box Awesome 9pm $5

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Friday, November 21st 7pm



Ghastly City Sleep





Snakehead (Chris, I can't find anything about this group... do your best!)

Ghost Towns




Man's Last Great Invention


Friday November 21st 7pm
@ The Ghost House
2430 P St., Lincoln, Nebraska 68503
$5

but, quickly and seriously...

Here is recent recording. You all, if interested and available should feel free to take it, chew it, spit it out and feed it to your young. If you don't have young, make something out of the mangled mess and post it.

Quickly, very quickly, I want to say "blather lather slathered in bits of supine gazing. Yes, it's right, i guess it's always been." You'll notice that the word "been" was said by me like a Brit, with an overt attention to saying it the "right" way (ie. not American). You'll notice that I am now crazy and cannot say this quickly at all nor with any consistency in the use of the parts of any real form of communication. So, with that in mind I:

would like to quickly mention:

that we are playing a show.

I am crazy, driving back to Lincoln to:

perfom with

Joy Wants Eternity (of Seattle, WA.), a great Explosions in the Sky-esque group with talent beyond my ears. Esau of Lincoln was going to be playing. We need a third band. If you are a band, come play, or disband and come play. Play on our set or play your own. If you know about this show, tell half of the people you want to tell. If you don't want to tell anyone, tell half of them not to come. Somehow, we will still end up playing sounds. Somehow I will still get all of my classwork finished. Take a look at this picture and remember that the show is at Box Awesome on Oct 4th Saturday while, of course, looking at this picture:
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Perhaps the best time I will have had in Minneapolis/St.Paul was tonight as I saw, coincidentally, Themes perform their last show as a Minnesota band. If you know Themes (yeah, Box Awesome!), you know that they are constantly on tour. Coming to the Twin Cities, I was more than delighted to see that they would be playing at the 7th Street Entry and could not miss the chance to reverse the roles for a change. I drove around the block quite a few times, looking for somewhere to park in this city as a huge mass of Hanson fans waited to get into First Avenue in the unusually warm late September night. Upon my third time around, at the stop light I saw Jacy, stared at him a little, waiting for recognition as well as a green light. You know, great surprise... point, holy shit what are you doing here?, GREEN LIGHT. I finally found a spot a few blocks away (although with how many times I went around that block and how much gas I probably wasted, it might as well have been several blocks away) and eventually met up with Jacy, Kelsey and Hannah from A Whisper in the Noise (now playing violin with Themes) at O'Donovan's patio.

Later, as I watched them perform many new and great familiar older songs, I began to feel nostalgia for a stage and environment that was familiar to me. Themes has been through Lincoln so many times and were always straightforward and kind. Their warmth and passion for their creations is apparent as they seem the same people, very comfortable in their own skin, at home and elsewhere. The point is, without getting too gushy, that these people (among many other greats who have traveled as musicians through Nebraska and, even more importantly, Box Awesome) are really good people and I enjoy my time with them. I began to feel even more at home in a new city. Seeing them in their own environment was a great sight, especially being that this was their last show before going on tour with Minus the Bear, recording new material and making an eventual move to Portland. They will be back here Oct 15th at the Varsity Theater in Dinkytown and I am sure that we will see them again soon back home, hopefully very soon.

side note: Mogwai's Martin Bulloch has a pacemaker with problems?

I am alive in St. Paul, but bill duke of the dead crashed and so my internet blogging abilities have been very limited until recently when, thankfully, Elisabeth brought my PC from Lincoln. I don't have the energy to type much as I was up until 2:30am typing up work for class, trying to catch up from not having a word processor available all week when I should have been doing the work. So, here are a few pictures. Some are related, some are not. You decide. Also, you should come and visit the Twin Cities if only for the reason that you can ride your bicycle safely ANYWHERE and without assholes yelling at you because they think that you are in their way. Anyhow, I miss you all. Enjoy the images. I'll be taking more soon. That was another problem. I could take any more pictures during the last two weeks. I had nowhere to unload those filling up my memory cards! I'm back on the e-smack, people!

Geeze, I almost forgot about the MLGI related things:

1) Oct 4 show somewhere with Joy Wants Eternity and Gooses(?)
2) Nov 11 at the box awesome
3) at some point I will post pictures of the Sojourn, He Join Us album concept for everyone who hasn't seen it in person.