15-April-2006

JT Whitney's, Madison, Wisconsin

Granted, we played until Easter rang in at midnight to a select group of sinners at JT Whitney’s—formerly a school of martial arts and black eyes but now a microbrewery with the last remaining Sky Shark arcade machine in the corner (and by the way don’t waste your quarters, it’s out of order).

But keep this in mind, ye who may caste stones at our negligence to celebrate this holiday with massive amounts of sugar and chocolate, as per the common man’s norm. Easter is about overcoming adversity and delivering with chutzpah, or to quote the scripture: “Christ is risen from the dead, Trampling down death by death, And upon those in the tombs, Bestowing life!” And yes, there may not have been any Easter baskets, only a couple resurrections when some drunk guys passed out and woke up at the bar to get taxis to go home, and sadly no Cadbury Easter eggs (and thank God there were no Peeps, I hate those things), but in these important items stead there was an abundance psychedelic guitar soloing, animalistic drum soloing, and bludgeoning bass quakes, and I think this is an overcoming of adversity and delivering…with feeshaw chutzpah.

Amen.