SATURDAY, ATHFEST

SATURDAY @ GO BAR!

a night of garage rock mayhem from
THE AGENDA!
&
THE MATT KURZ ONE

Get Your Nerd Nostalgia On, Plus Help Some Poor Kids

Starting this week and running through the next 3, the WSLA will be showing the original Star Wars trilogy every Friday (and one Saturday) at Midnight for FREE. they are also gonna be collecting unwrapped toys for needy Athens kids. so come out and watch the greatest trilogy of all time before George Lucas fucked it all up with a bunch of digital garbage in the background.

"Ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em."

Debbi: Duke, let's go do some crimes.
Duke: Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay.


this Friday the 13th, the WSLA is showing one of my favorite movies of all time (aka the movie that introduced me to Punk Rock as a kid) at CINE'. as always it's at midnight and it's free. one of the endlessly quotable movies of all time. come out and enjoy the anarchy.

original trailer


the repo code

it is always one beer too damn many

Things I learned on Halloween 09:

Yes, Slave Girl Leia costumes do rule........a lot.
Bela Lugosi is in fact dead.
Werewolves in Trader Vic's have perfect hair.
Danzig needs your skulls for something, he didn't really say what.
If you mix jagermeister and baileys it will only kill you halfway.
Noone was dressed as Michael Jackson, I'm so proud of you Athens.
I can eat a lot of reesee's.
Nobody has seen Torso before.
Flipper cover bands rule.
I still know all the words to every song on Nevermind the Bollocks.
Jumping on Mike Mills back while he's dressed like Sid Vicious can only happen in Athens on Halloween.
They're dead, they're all messed up.
Wearing a skimask, being wasted, and dancing all night can only result in one thing. Brain death.

Free Movie Friday @ CINE', Horror Style

the WSLA is gonna be showing Evil Dead 2 at CINE' this friday at Midnight for free. come out and watch Bruce Campbell being the legend that he is.

FREE MOVIE NIGHT @ CINE...again

those Commie/Hippies of the WSLA are at it again with their free midnight movie this Friday....and it's the GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME STARRING KURT RUSSELL (that isn't the Thing or Big Trouble in Little China) aka ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. come out to Cine on Friday night and watch Snake Plissken do his thing. New York is a prison, the president is being held captive by criminals, Snake is gonna kick many asses and not even bother with name taking.

choice piece of dialogue:

Bob Hauk: You go in, find the President, bring him out in less than 24 hours, and you're a free man.
Snake Plissken: Bullshit!
Bob Hauk: I'm making you an offer.
Snake Plissken: Get a new president.
Bob Hauk: Is that your answer?
Snake Plissken: I'm thinking about it.
Bob Hauk: Think hard. We're still at war. We need him alive.
Snake Plissken: I don't give a fuck about your war...or your president.

2Morrow Night Kids, I Bring Forth More Rock

show starts around 10:30 tomorrow night at the Caledonia. we're the 2nd of 3 bands. faces will be melted off by our rocking and rolling. come out, get drunk, have fun.

FREE MOVIE NIGHT @ CINE

the WSLA (athen's pseduo-political-liberal-rock n roll organization) is doing another free movie night this Friday at midnight at the Athens CINE (the downtown arthouse if you ain't in the know). last weekend they played BATTLE ROYALE (my suggestion), the Japanese teenagers on an island forced to kill one another or else their heads will explode bloody revenge classic. this weekend they follow it up with one of the single weirdest movies of all time: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN. i can't even explain this movie to you....i will just say if you like doing drugs and watching movies with crazy fucked up visuals then this is for you.

Reminders Of The Self Promotional Kind

next Wednesday in the lovely little town of Athens my band, The Agenda, will be playing a show at the Caledonia with a little group from New Jersey that i really like called Titus Andronicus. i saw them open for Ted Leo and No Age last year and they are awesome live. the best way i could describe them is that they sound like if you mixed The Pogues, Pavement, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band in a blender together. it should be a fun show, come on out...it's not like there's anything to watch of Wednesday night anyways.

Titus Andronicus

Another Shameless Reminder About This Weekend

Hey look mom, they put me on the cover of a magazine.


the FLAGPOLE wrote a nice article about the Kindercore Records/ Owl Scooters music festival this weekend. (Thurs-Sat for all the kids keeping score at home.) tons of awesome local Athens/Atlanta bands plus you might win a scooter. this is mostly gonna result in me being drunk for 4 days straight instead of just 2. such is life.

BACK 2 SCHOOL BASH 2009

Hey Athens/Atlanta/People Who Ain't Got Shit To Do This Weekend:

Kindercore Records and the new Owl Scooters are putting on a 3 day festival this weekend in Athens, GA at the Caledonia Lounge and 40 Watt from Thursday September 17th through Saturday September 19th. it'll be a 3 day party and Owl Scooters is going to be giving away 2 scooters for free to some lucky person. my band The Agenda! is playing the Thursday night show at the Caledonia. come out and get drunk and enjoy some great local music.

the lineups for each night

Thursday Sept 17th has been dubbed the ROCK NIGHT @ The Caledonia

Turf War (sloppy powerpop/punk from Augusta, GA)
GG King (Atlanta garage punkers. former members of the Carbonas)
The Matt Kurz One (one man rock and roll band of awesome)
The Agenda! (some band of assholes)
Je Suis France (Athens/Atlanta lo-fi masters of party rock)


Friday Sept 18th has been dubbed the POP NIGHT @ The Caledonia

Werewolves (Athens new indie pop young guns)
Mark Mallman
The Gold Party (Athens Brit-pop inspired Glamrockers)
Grape Soda (Athens psychedelic organ and drums pop duo)
Masters Of the Hemisphere (Athens Indie Pop legends reunited)

Saturday Sept 19th is the BIG NIGHT @ The 40 Watt

Allison Weis (Athens based singer songwriter)
Venice Is Sinking (Athens indie rockers)
Ruby Isle (dance rock trio)
The Young Sinclairs (Viriginia based 60's inspired jangle rockers)
Still Flyin' (San Fran ska/reggae tinged popsters)
Maserati (instrumental titans of rock)

ANOTHER SHAMELESS PLUG

shameless plug for my show tonight. come out tonight if you can. fun times.

it's not like you got shit else to do in Athens tonight.

Hey Athens, Next Friday Get Your Face Rocked

Friday Aug 14th @ The Caledonia. The Agenda and The Dumps. come for the garage rock and the falling on the ground and silliness. stay for the brutal metal onslaught. for the 10 people in America who ever liked The Agenda, you will be happy to know we've actually written new songs and will be debuting them at said show. should be a fun night, come out and get your rock on.

i know Auburn started practice. i'm sorry i haven't been blogging about football. i promise my profanity laced rants and stupid attempts at humor will return soon.

Hey Athens, If You Ain't Doin' Nothing Saturday Night Come Down to Go Bar.

i'm DJing Saturday night after the band Music Hates You plays. i'll be playing nothing by 70s & early 80s hardrock (Bon Scott era AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Rainbow, Hawkwind, lots and lots of Thin Lizzy, and probably some Sabbath). come out, get drunk, and pump your fists to the best riffage of all time. should be fun.

Positive Vibes Friday: Bye Bye Buddy System

this Saturday, my friends (and one of the more fun and entertaining Athens bands) the Buddy System is calling it quits. sad sad sad. the cartoon rockers are gonna bring their animation-pop one last time on Saturday night @ The Caledonia, so come out and have some cartoon style fun. and hey you might get to see me do "Party Hard" with them again too.

Positive Vibes Friday: I Want To Rock Yr Face Off!!!

...and so it has come to this. this weekend as my old band THE AGENDA! is about to play our first live show together in five years during the KINDERCORE records showcase (our old record label) on Saturday Night as part of Athfest 2009. we're the opening act of a 5 band bill...which is def for the best as the longer we waited to play the more wasted we'd all be. there are few things i have ever enjoyed more in my life than playing live music in front of humans and i fully intend to lose my fucking shit and possibly break a bone (i've got broken ribs from my old antics) or throw out my back (BEING OLD IS STUPID). and let's be honest, who doesn't like a little blood on the dancefloor at a rockshow? if you don't know, my band is pretty much just loud, energetic, ridiculous garage punk, heavily influenced by bands like The MC5, The Ramones, The Stooges, Mudhoney, and the Kinks all mashed into one big dumb ball of punk noise....but trying to describe it is kinda pointless when you can just listen for yourself.

Start The Panic - Agenda!

for a visual representation of the typical Agenda show i give you this:

anyways if you are planning on attending Athfest this year and you're in the mood for some dumb as hell garage rock then come out to CINE' and see us play. we're scheduled to start at 10:15 and our set will be over in less than 30 minutes. and hey the FLAGPOLE has us listed as one of their bands "Not to Miss" during Athfest 09...and when has the Flagpole ever steered you wrong? but i must warn you, the link features a picture of a 24 year old JR Suicide with a terrible haircut that makes me look like the lost Hanson Brother.

once the Agenda has destroyed our equipment and left a trail of chaos in our wake you should stick around and catch a few of the other bands as well. Grape Soda will be playing their spacey dub-rock, The Young Sinclairs (who fucking rule) will become your new favorite band with their 60's/Byrds influenced pop, and then cartoon rockers the Buddy System will close out the night with their completely fun mix of animation and pop...

plus i'm performing a super-secret song with them at the end of the night that should turn Cine' into a riot. the words: Party, Hard, & Andrew WK are my hints for you.

so anyways Athens, GA...i wanna see you there on Saturday Night.

Negative Vibes Friday: The Roof, The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire

the Georgia Theater is burning down...or should say has burned down. now where are the hippie jam bands going to play?

my band was actually supposed to be playing a festival there in September, but looks like that isn't happening anymore.

Hey Athens

my old band THE AGENDA! is playing our first show in 5 years in a few weeks. we're the opening band of the Kindercore Records Showcase @ CINE' (that's the arthouse theater downtown) during Athfest 09 on June 23rd. the show is supposed to start at 10.

i think all of that info is correct.

anyways if you love things that are dumb/simple/drunk then come out an enjoy some old dudes trying to recapture their youth and playing loud obnoxious garage rock like it's still the year 2002. if anything the potential train wreck is worth it...also you get to see me roll around on the floor and jump off shit like a maniac and possibly hurt myself, all for the love of rock n' roll.

It's like riding a bike

The Agenda...now older, fatter, balder, and with beards.

so after 5 years of inactivity, my old band THE AGENDA is calling it a comeback...or at least an attempt at a comeback and entering into the whole rock n roll circus, again. we had our first band practice together in over 5 years and i suddenly remember that singing is actually kinda difficult, especially when you haven't done it in a long ass time. right now my voice is somewhere between sorority girl and throat cancer survivor after two hours of doing my best Iggy Pop and Mark Arm impressions. also trying to remember lyrics to songs you wrote when you were 23 and 24 is like way hard when you are 30 and havent heard any of them in half a decade. and they only have like 12 wors per song...short term memory loss is a motherfucker! regardless it's good to be back with a band again as i've definitely gotten bored and old in the last several years.

anyways we are playing Athfest at the end of this month and then possibly an out of town show or two before another show here in September. so if you are in the Classic City and wanna watch me roll around on stage and act like a 16 year old then come out to Athfest and enjoy the trainwreck of awesomeness that will be Agenda Reunion 09!

thank god i have something to do until football season starts.