Usually bands have stuff about themselves on their home page, & we had stuff about ourselves up for a while in the beginning, but ever since the war started its all been anti-war stuff. I realised its been almost a year since I updated this page & obviously, its too late now for any of that, & now that it is too late everyone can see the war was wrong & its a disaster. We can only hope that next time the government tries to tell us we need to invade country so & so & its imperative for our nation & for humanity as a whole that we do so & our mega-funded high tech military machine will certainly sweep in & win a decisive victory etc. etc., we call them on their bullshit & strongly, vehemently oppose, rather than throw a "support our troops sticker" on our SUV & get behind the fucking president on it. Ask the Vietnamese or the many businesses partnering up with the Vietnamese how imperative it was to stop the communists in that country in those days, & you will see everyone can now clearly see it was not at all imperitive, & the mass destruction & death was a sorry waste. It was bullshit, same as Iraq. So maybe next time we'll resist before its too late. Now hopefully Iraq will do as well as Vietnam has after we pull out, having destroyed & killed til we are too tired to carry on, as we did in 'Nam. Though I feel it is a responsibility in this case, its also a little bit of a cop out to speak about outside issues on a band site instead of actually discussing the state of the band, so here's the current take on Quasi. We havent been too active since coming back from the Touch & Go anniversary show. I got a big stack of xeroxed articles written about that show in the mail from T&G, & I flipped through it. I couldnt help but notice that Quasi was not really even mentioned in the entire stack of articles, except in one paragraph from the Illinois Entertainer blog, which read "Fawned over because of drummer Janet Weiss, who until recently split time with Sleater-Kinney, the real impresario is her ex-husband/Elliott Smith's Heatmiser bandmate Sam Coomes. Not so much a performer as someone who must think "Im the guy on stage now," Quasi's set was easily the weekend's worst and merely an excuse for Coomes to bang tunelessly on his keyboard. Obnoxiously louder than just about every other band that played, it wasnt until he came forward with a guitar & "7 years gone" that his inclusion began to make the least bit of sense." Actually, we were pretty happy with our set. Normally I pretty much shrug, toss these things into the garbage & forget them- easy enough after having been in bands making records etc. for over 20 years & seen 100's of these critics come & go, & no one remembers a word they wrote. But the fact that it was the sole entry in a large stack of reviews has to give some pause. Granted, we were playing a shitty slot early on a rainy Sunday, but that says something in itself, since we were deemed only to merit such a slot by the festivals organisers. Im starting to get the feeling people dont like atonal piano banging! & after practicing all those years to get the atonal piano banging just right. Oh well. Our last record was easily one of our best, but few could be bothered to notice that. So probably the logical thing to do at this point would be to call it a day - our time in the sun is over & our little audience has evaporated. But of course that is not our way, so now we begin to work on new material & discuss how to record the next album & I feel confident we can again create a fine record perhaps our finest which may or may not achieve the slightest notice. If that is our fate I can live with that. That said, its better when people listen to & dig your thing. I still think that if more people listened to the last Quasi record, more would like it. But maybe Im deluded. Either way, we say fuck it & push forward. Meanwhile Janet & I have other things going (she's been playing with Malkmus & the Jicks, did some stuff with Bright Eyes, working with John Doe, & I've done work lately with Pink Mountain & played a couple shows with Jandek, for instance), so we're busy enough. OK, there you are. See you next time.