As of Oct 2, I'm off the sight. It's way too 'Myspacey' now and the changes they made don't work right with my browser. It's a clusterfuck when you're using linux and I don't have the patience to sort it all out when every other page on the internet works fine. I'd rather they had put the dirtier pictures back in instead goofing it all up. SG has definately jumped the shark in my book and I would have quit earlier if I hadn't paid for a big block of membership time right before they made their changes.

I really like all the people I've met through here though, and I hope to keep in touch. It's been a long while since I've read your journals, what with the completely fucked up fonts and all, but I'm going to try and catch up on what everyone's been up to before my membership runs out.

It took a while, but i have finally got a gig to play. This one is at coffee time on 21st ave, about a block north of cinema 21. It's easy to spot because they pretty much fill the sidewalk with people. It's going to be on June 16th (friday) at 8PM.

Well, I'm eating cutie pies and not quite ready to go to bed yet. So i might as well update.

In the next couple of days i should find out when my first gig is. You guys can't go to this one though because it's the funeral service for the kid who owned the coffee shop that was going to play at. They found his body two days before the show and three days after he disappeared. 20 years old and a really nice guy. I've been practicing really hard for the service and i've been learning leonard cohen's If It Be Your Will. I think that i'll have it down in time.

I've just about spent all of my tax returns on musical gear (a tube amp, a mixer, a vocal mic, a humbucker, a monitor and an acoustic preamp eq) and i think that i might have enough money left over to get a bugle. Ya, a bugle - just an idea i've had for a while that may have reached ripeness. But we'll see, I may be hard up for a source of income soon.

I did a recording session a while back and i just got the final mix back. I did it so i could get a more realistic idea of how bad my singing is. I can hear a lot of room for improvement. A whole mess of room. I was told today about my singing that "It's quirky, but it works. Like Johnny Cash's voice." and i made them take it back. Nobody talks shit about St Cash in front of me. Ya know who i secretly wish i could sing like? Buddy Holly. What about you?

Anyway, I gave a copy of the CD to 'Coffee Time' down the street because a couple of the people working there asked me to play a show but the owner wanted to hear a demo CD first. If that pans out, i'll let you folks know. And if it goes well, then i think that i'll be emboldened to play the PSU park block lunch concert soon. Until then, if you'd like me to email you some *.ogg's (the mp3s of linux!) let me know.

I'm pretty sure the show is off.
I don't know what to say except that it's a sad thing.
Not the show but the situation.
That and not to come.

Mystery!

The owner of the coffee shop i am/was going to play in has mysteriously vanished. I was looking at their myspace page for a clue as to why they've been closed for the last three days and i saw that Missing Persons had posted a comment asking for information. Appearently he just vanished and his coffee shop sits closed. I hope everything works out alright for him, but i don't know if they'll be open on saturday. I'm going to check it out further tomorrow morning and decide whether to call it off, move it or what.

My girlfriend and i have become a threesome:



Nuthin' but curvy, curvy tubes

6 days until the show.
I'm kinda really nervous + kinda really excited; but i gotta admit that it's pretty much small potatoes as far as gigs go. Nothing to be so worked up about, right?

I've already reconciled myself to making a complete embarrassing ass of myself anyway. That way, even if it's as bad a performance as the last time i got up on stage, i'll be pleasantly surprised.

Would you like to hear me slap my guitar while i croak out my doughnut hole? If so, go to the Coffee Dugout at 3pm next saturday (the 15th, you got two more days to finish your taxes!). I don't know how to describe my music beyond thunky and off-key, but hey, it's free.

let's see if i can write this before my computer crashes again. I've recently updated to the new version of ubuntu, but now my computer seems extra seizey.

you know those moments where you sit in front of your keyboard wondering why you're typing out your thoughts into cyberspace? I'm having one right now. i just don't know what i should talk about.

how about a ramble?

i guess the big thing in my life lately has been playing music. That non profit i volunteer at recently held a concert where the kids in their different rock band classes got to perform. It was tres cool. Each of the bands did like six songs to a packed house. They were all pretty good and the audience seemed to genuinely like the show, even if it was mostly comprised of relatives of the performers. They were recording it too, so everybody gets to have a CD of the acts. I thought it was a really cool way to end the term for the bands.

I think i might be having my first not-an-open-mic performance in a week or so. Girls working in a coffee shop on my walk to work got me to play and sing for them. They said they liked it a lot and talked me into setting up one of those coffee shop acoustic thingies. I couldn 't resist, they told me i was cute and cool. How could an attention whore say no?

um, ya. ramble, ramble, out.

"I keep coming around because I miss you. I wish i could just hate you and be done with it, but i don't have it in me."

If a DJ is hitting on you by asking "What could I play to cheer you up?" because he sees that you're alone and scowling; then don't say "Personal Jesus" because you will hear the gayest notjohnnycashsingingit-dance-mix personal jesus ever and it will not cheer you up.

My parked car got smacked by a hit and run driver. It's been in the shop since thursday with mostly cosmetic damage. Between the deductable, the phone tag and being a pedestrian; i must say that the whole experiance has sucked moose cock. I meant to call the shop and find out what the deal is, but it slipped my mind until too late. I think that when i get it back that i'll do a roadtrip after i get some new front tires. I've been thinking about the desert lately but i suppose that will change by then. Maybe i just need somewhere to go and something to see or do.

I'm pretty tired. I've been walking everywhere lately. Not just because of the car, but also because it helps to clear the head. I think that once my paycheck gets straightened out that i'll get my mits on a bottle of absynthe and fog it back up a little. Until then...