Well, I hardly update here anymore, but I wanted to write a few words about Brent Kimble. As you can imagine San Francisco can be a difficult town for a new band to get a break in; musicians can have pretty big egos and there is little incentive to be nice to people you've never heard of. Over the past several weeks Brent and I exchanged a lot of emails about setting up shows; though he barely knew me or my band, he was so friendly and enthusiastic. For a little while it looked like we might have been playing with Hood and I tried to get Continental on the bill with us before we were confirmed; as it turns out, Continental wound up getting the slot and we didn't; then, in the end, when they got kicked off as well, we had a pretty good laugh about it. I was really looking forward to hanging out with Brent this Wednesday at the Continental/Charles Atlas show and he was going to come by our show on Thursday. That I'll never have this chance now is deeply sad. Brent's passing last week from a heart condition is a huge loss to the spirit of the SF music community which has already suffered a lot over the past few months. Charles Atlas and Brian 'n' Chris will be playing the final booked Continental show as scheduled. This show will be a memorial for Brent. If you ever had any interaction with him come down and share your memories, March 9th, at 12 Galaxies on Mission in San Francisco.