my church's fate is in the hands of a total douche.

for those of you that dont know, the crew presents has been putting a lot of work into the beetle (building a stage and tearing out walls and buying speakers and moving lights and many other things), trying to make it into a legit venue. we want to tear out another wall and build a bar in order to sell concessions and alcohol so the beetle will be of more interest to college students.

unfortunately, the landlord is a total. fucking. asshole... homeboy has a bunch of properties that are fucked big time, and guess what? the beetle is the only building he owns with any worth. so he is trying to sell it for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than its worth in order to put that money into the other shit he owns that is in trouble. this dude WILL NOT FIX THE DAMNED LEAKING ROOF. every time it snows or rains its like water world in that fucker. we have to take out trash can lids and pans and all sorts of ridiculous shit. he would not replace the fucked up doorknob which has led to many thefts of sound equipment leading us to do it ourselves. homeboy doesnt pay his trash bill. he fought this stage building thing kicking and screaming. he doesnt realize that the building is only worth something because of ely and myself and atlas.

oh yeah, and our lease is month to month, so he can kick us out any time he feels like it.

oh yeah, and he just raised the rent $400.

this is a church that averages around 70 people per sunday. out of those 70, how many of those people do you think tithes? out of that small percentage, how much money do you think they can give? this is a church of teachers, artists, students, and hippies.

peace.