I'm seeing Cloud Cult tonight at The Roxy in LA. I tried to listen to their new album, "Light Chasers", but I just haven't been in a Cloud Cult kind of mood. As far as I can tell the album sounds like Cloud Cult, which is to lightly backhand them for making an album that sounds like their last two albums. I mean no offense, but I like it when bands evolve and develop into new directions.

I guess I should say: when I am listening to a new album by a band I love, the last thing I want is for it to sound familiar. When I start to feel like I've heard this before, it just makes me wonder why should I bother investing the time into falling in love with this record, when I'm already in love with and enjoy the other ones?

You're on notice, bands that I have written about. Let's see those next albums take you in a new exciting direction. Stick with your main characteristics, your little quirks that make you awesome, but branch out. If you normally sound like Grizzly Bear, make yourself sound like Bear In Heaven. If you normally sound like No Doubt, make yourself sound like some other band with the word No or Doubt in their name, like, Doubting Thomas, or... I really can't think of any other bands that have "No" in the name. That's it, I'm naming my band No. "We are No!"

If you see someone tonight at the Cloud Cult show who looks like this, but less blocky, say hello. I always say this, never expecting anyone to say hello, but maybe someday someone will take a wild guess and say hello to me and I'll be like "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU? WEBSITE? I DON'T EVEN OWN A COMPUTER, WEIRDO DIPSHIT. What the fuck are THOSE? Capris? You're man. Men don't wear capris. Mary Tyler Moore does. Go the fuck home and take those off right now, you're embarrassing yourself so thoroughly that I feel embarrassed just to be standing next to you. It's just sad. Really, it's one thing to have no respect for yourself, but everyone else? We have to look at you."