Mathematicians

Last night Cerissa drove us up to Philly for a Mathematicians show. I was psyched because the Mathematicians rock hard, it was $1 PBR night at that particular bar, and I was not driving home.

We showed up at 8, the scheduled start time, and there were a couple dudes hanging out in the bar in front of the stage. After talking to them for a while, we realized the show wasn't gonna go on for another 2 hours. So, we accompanied the fine gentlemen to Jim's where they got their first official Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. A couple more people show up closer to 10, and the dudes we were hanging out with (names withheld to protect their alter-egos) change into their true form - Dewey Decimal and Pete Pythagoras. I talked to Albert Gorithm IV for an extended amount of time about their tour and a possible "Live from Delaware" album. These guys rock so hard that they want to be the first (that we know of) to have a live album from the small wonder - Delaware. I'm going to try and help make that happen.

Anyway, onto the show. Over the course of a 1.5 hour set and 6 delicious $1 PBRs, I came up with the following talking points.

1. They did not play like a band that has been on tour around the continent for 40 days. Their showmanship was on a level of a band with 20 years experience; their energy was on that of a band on their first tour stop.
2. They fucking rock.
3. Upstate NY shows are more fun because people sing along//dance.
4. The Mathematicians fucking rock.
5. The musicianship, dance moves, equations, rhymes, rap stylings, algorithms, and punk rock moves of the band are on a completely new level.
6. They rock so fucking hard (and like PBR!)

Anyway, hopefully more to come on a Delaware album recording concerto. Today I'm in Cortland NY on business. I saw some funny shit on cyclingnews.com just now, namely Viacheslav Ekimov scaring the locals in Georgia. I'm pretty sure he's trying for Donald Trump's bad hair//cobra-strike-hand-thing combo.



It looks like CSC took yet another win, in this case Lars Michaelsen won the sprint for the first stage win in the aught-six Tour de Georgia. Pretty exciting shit, especially with another stage tomorrow, and the Fleche Wallonne tomorrow. The CSC lineup for FW = ass kickering: Basso, Julich, Kroon, Lüttenberger, Voigt, Sorensen, Schleck, Sastre. Holy crap.

Finally, cyclingnews had this feature on the history of the nickname "Hell of the North" for Paris-Roubaix. My main takeaway was that 1919 champion Henri Pelissier was a pussy compared to 1920 champion Paul "Tha Man" Deman. Reason? look at the pictures:

1920 Champ Demans: Brakeless Fixed Gear

1919 Wussbag Pelissier: BRAKES!!!