Quick post...gotta work!

Show on Saturday went well.  We got a free $100 bar tab and were payed $100!  Johnnyork is on the rise!  We messed up our set a little, but we recovered well.  I'm worried b/c we have so many shows coming up, and not much chance to rehearse, so our set is stuck at it's short length.  We need to lengthen it soon.  I've got some tunes I'm working on, and Cnote is too.  Hopefully we can just get solo versions out to each other to learn by ear and easily slide into the mix. 

If not, then looks like we're playing greenday and nirvana covers alongside our own material

Took rizm to UAG yesterday, then hit up Olive Garden and Best Buy.  Lethal combo.  We sat in Best Buy for an hour playing this 2-player XMEN game on XBox.  They had this crazy delicious setup on a hude widescreen plasma TV (DUDE the GAME was in widescreen!) and wireless controllers....oh man it was sweet.  We rented and watched Private Ryan after, and it looked (and sounded) pretty slick with the newly-improved setup I've now got.

On a sad note, I found out a friend has left Uof I, kinda suddenly, and I'm really sad.  I didn't know they were leaving and didn't get to say goodbye.  I had just started getting to know them, and then <poof>...it makes me shudder to think what will happen when my closer friends leave too.

Oh man...there are some people in my life that, when they go, I don't know what's going to happen.  I don't even want to think about it.

Anyway I could write a whole post about this but I know better.  In any case, my little friend, I hope you're doing ok wherever you've ended up.  I'll miss ya, and all the rock n' roll we never got to bust out

I should probably try to cheer up.  Thinking of people leaving always destroys me.  I've got a whole day's worth of sad and olden-days music queued up.

Ciao

Currently Listening Amiyumi By Puffy

Currently Listening Give Up By The Postal Service

Currently Listening Star By Belly

Currently Listening King By Belly

You ever have one of those situations where, because of temporary schedule-lineups, you end up spending a lot of time with someone for a few days, but, then, once scheduling goes back to normal or gets really hectic, you don't see them at all for awhile?  You get kinda bummed, because you got used to being around that person, and then you start to miss them like you'd miss an old friend.

Over the last few months, a large part of my personal life shut down as I tried to alter my path bit by bit.  I stopped dating (or trying to date ), I stopped going out as much, and, believe it or not, when I do go out, I've at least tried to reduce my amount of 'celebration.'  I've tried to curb my destructive emotions like anger, jealously, anxiety, lust...and it's been a hard ride.  I developed two worlds that started to exist too separately.  The last month or two has been about trying to reconsile that a bit. 

At this point it doesn't really matter.  Most of my "crazy" friends are tied down pretty tight or have graduated; virtually no one is single (save me and studly-Sam Skully).  So, it's not like there's much that I've been missing out on.  The times of hard days and wild nights have long since ended - it's a marvel I was able to get everyone over even once a week for the Podcast (which, in my dreams, I still desire to start up again...).

So, when you spend like 4 or 5 days hanging out closely with the kind of friend you thought you'd never have again, someone up for early-night korean, mid-night beers, late-night movie, and late-late-night biscuits, someone who kind of wakes up stuff you thought you'd long given up and lost, then yeah, you miss the hell out of them.  You even start to question some of the things you wanted to change about yourself...but then you quickly retreat and feel guilty for ever considering such a thing.  But, slowly, you creep back out.  And endless cycle of indecision and risk...hugs and cheers.

Anyway, yeah...this post is kinda going nowhere.  I guess I just wanted to put that out there.  You all can throw it back if you don't like it.

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Show tonight in Effingham, 9PM.  We're supposed to check in by 7.  I'll be driving my mom to O'Hare, trying to get her there by 3 and be back on the road again by 3:30.  I doubt I'll make it there by 7, but the rest of the boys should.  I'm a little nervous about my amp...it's tempermental.  I resoldered some of my guitar connections so those are right as rain, but that amp has always been trouble.  If i had a spare hour, I might even consider going out and buying one.  but, I don't have a spare hour.  My best hope is that Meister brings his clean Vox, and the diamond (lil smokie) has his red distortion petal and I can make do with that.  I definitely need to get a new amp.

Oh, by the way, we have another show, Feb 11, in Momexico!  At the River Bar or some junky place like that, where Meister and I saw 10-min-vsion et all a few weeks ago.

Willis, sorry for missing your party tonight.  I'll dedicate a song to you.

I am also unoriginal.

Ciao

Currently Listening You Could Have It So Much Better By Franz Ferdinand

Currently Listening Apologies to the Queen Mary By Wolf Parade

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions and a freaking sesame seed bun.  WHERE-T-F are my Sesame Seeds?!  I can't eat this!  It's an abomination...

Heh I'm feeling more and more like a diva every day.  I gotta buy a nice feather boa and some strawberry bubblebath.

work sucks.  but that's SOP.  My mom got in late last night.  We stayed up watching Firefly.  Going out to eat tonight, maybe Indian buffet, then probably staying in and hanging out.  Driving to Chicago tomorrow to teach, then back by 6 for a UAG seminar, then more hanging out w/ my mom.  Saturday, driving up to O'Hare to drop my mom off, then all the way down to Effingham for our show.  Phew.

Packed times.  I could use a vacation.

MTV2 sent us the following email:

Hey Guys,

My name is Teddie and I work at MTV2. We have a feature ! called the local concert calendar. Basically, between shows and at commercials, we list what concerts (artist, venue and date) will be coming to different local areas during the next few weeks. Your band fits the MTV2 sound and your show on Feb. 4th in Urbana, IL will be placed on the concert calendar before the date of the show. Also, if you could send me a list of upcoming tour dates, that'd be awesome. I could see if you fit into other markets and I could throw you up on the calendar again. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at  *********  (Tues, Thurs of Fri between 11am - 5:30 pm eastern time), or send me a message on mysapce.

-Teddie ******

Pretty cool, huh

Ciao 

Currently Listening Apologies to the Queen Mary By Wolf Parade