• I accidentally stayed in the Cha Cha basement too long on Friday. Rookie mistake, I know. At one point, I found myself alone at a bigger table—my friends were all either in the bathroom or waiting in the bar line. I looked up from my Very Important Drunk Intsgramming™ just in time for some knucklehead to sit down across from me and try to commandeer the table ("Are your friends really here? I don't see them"). Before I could punch him in the face, the topic of music somehow came up, and he confessed that his favorite band of all time was Pink Floyd, favorite song "Wish You Were Here." Not knowing what to do with this information, I decided to re-comandeer the situation and motor-mouthed him on "allllllll the bands he should listen to," and why. By the time my friends came back, Pink Floyd guy said, "I have to get out of here, excuse me," and literally ran away from the table.

• In more important news:

• All weekend I kept thinking about the show Gazebos and Smiling played at Chop Suey's Dragon Lounge last Wednesday. I had never seen Smiling, fronted by Stickers drummer Troy Ayala, but they were so loud and good! As I walked up to the venue, Smiling were already playing, so I stopped in the parking lot across the street to admire the crowd thrashing around and take in the sheer volume. Just at that moment, a drumstick broke through one of the high glass windows and landed in the street. Whooooa.

• On Friday, Yacht played with Portland band White Fang at Neumos. A friend went inside, came right back out, and reported that in that amount of time, she "already saw Funkle's penis onstage." Funkle is a person in White Fang, I think, but I'm not going to verify that.

• Friends who were at the 2014 Music Genius nominee show at Hollow Earth Radio in the Central District, featuring live performances by always amazing Erik Blood and crazy talented Industrial Revelation, made up a new game. It's called "Who is your fav member of Industrial Revelation?" Maybe they should make playing cards with stats? You do realize that Erik Blood and Industrial Revelation are performing again at the Moore on October 18, backed by the Seattle Rock Orchestra, right? And that tickets are free? Follow that link to get yourself set up.

• After having a salt emergency that could only be fixed with a plate of dried cooked stringbean from Seven Stars Pepper in the International District on Saturday, I went to the Seattle Pinball Museum (also in the ID) and tried to play almost every game in there. Have you been? Buy a pass and you get to play all the games for free! It's pretty incredible—they have over 30 machines, all arranged in chronological order, starting in the 1930s. I'm partial to the Addam's Family game, but the Metallica one was pretty hilarious. The Rolling Stones machine features the Stones circa, like, now (ewwwww), and I stared at the artwork on the Guns N' Roses game so long I actually thought about trying to contact the artist to explain himself. (I can't include a photo without getting sued, but I have three words for you: bandana-era Axl.)

• Okay, I have to come clean about something. When I was stoned at the Grocery Outlet, there was one more thing I found there. I just didn't want everyone to buy them all, so I kept quiet. It's JUICY FRUIT GUM IN BUBBLEGUM FORMAT. Like, in the big chubby block shapes! Since I was a kid, I've felt weird about jamming 20 sticks of Juicy Fruit in my mouth at a time, but that's the the only way that gum is satifsying. But now, rejoice, you CAN get the feeling of jamming all that gum in your mouth, but with one socially-accpetable gum cube.