Dave Donges of the Batten Revue

Dave Donges of the Batten Revue, originally uploaded by RumAli.

The Batten Revue rode again this past weekend at Darling Hall. We finally properly returned the favor to our friends in Madison, WI, members of the Wisconsin Pop Explosion. For the past four years, they've helped build our name in their hometown. We've been trying to do the same for them in Milwaukee, but it has been hard.

Anyway, the show was really great and I was properly jacked on the right amount of alcohol. I've always known that there was an optimum amount of inebriation, but I've never really figured how much it would take for me in a performance. Tonight, for the record, I had two beers before the show.

I needed it. My most recent ex-girlfriend was in the audience with her new boyfriend, dancing. That's tough. So it's a great thing "Everybody Knows" by the Dave Clark Five is in our set.

"Everybody knows you will never be mine!
Everybody knows, I'm just wasting my time!

I want to forget you as fast as I can, but everytime I see you the hurting begins again!"

Every song, it seems, became a paeon to our shortened relationship. Even the one about how polluted Lake Michigan is.