yesterday bruno_boy and i went up to baltimore so i could get my hair cut at the beatnik barbershop (yes, that’s the owner outside the shop with a shotgun), and afterwards we went over to fells point to poke around soundgarden and go see producer_chris at johnhr11‘s bar “bad decisions”.

sometimes when i go to soundgarden, i’ll find cds that i just have to buy because of the album cover. for example, i had to buy this album…

…because the guy on the front looks a bit like whammywah, and after some photoshopping not only does he look just like him, but the guy on the album is even saying one of his phrases:

anyway, so when we were in soundgarden, i found this album:

i thought at first it was the who, but then i saw the name and realized it wasn’t. i mean, it’s an easy mistake to make:

but not only that, upon closer inspection, that’s not big ben, that’s the bromo seltzer tower here in baltimore! i couldn’t not buy that album! i can’t figure out if they’re a local band or not. i mean, it’s got the bromo seltzer tower on there, but the label is in brooklyn, nyc. then again, track 7 is “hampden soliloquy”, so who knows.