she's a man, baby!

now playing: janis ian, "in the winter"

i sat down last night and read through what i had created in an effort to write a 50,000 word novel in the space of a month, and realized that - i actually have a pretty good draft here. i also saw the many errors of my ways, and i think i've come up with some ideas to make it much better than it would've turned out, had i stuck with the original formula...i definitely need to tighten up my timeline, though. my once-steadfast memory has become a little cloudy as time has passed and things that were once so significant to me have been relegated to footnote status. they're important in the context of the story, though, so that involves revisiting with a little more detail than i was willing or able to get into for brevitys' sake.

in an odd, sadistic way, though, the whole nanowrimo process was a lot of fun. i'd definitely do it again next year...especially now that i have 12 months' notice, as opposed to a week and a half.

this weekend, stone road returns to what was once my favorite place to play, but i find i have mixed feelings about the place these days. they "grape streeted" the place, essentially...reworked the inside of the building to a huge extent, and the bands now play in the back room instead of up front, and the sound suffers somewhat from the very live quality of the hardwood back there. if the place is full, we'll be fine. we had a huge crowd the last time we played there, and that helped quite a bit, both with the sound of the room and with the energy...our first set was pretty painful, but we overcame.

also, this room will live forever in my memory as the only place (so far) that i've been flashed. how can ya not love a place like this, man?

and let's not even get into the lesbian dirty dancers....i just don't want to talk about it right now.

we have two - no, three gigs between now and the end of the year, and then we're going into some pretty intense rehearsals. i'm actually looking forward to that. the potential we have, in terms of what we can do, is only somewhat tapped at this point. when we start working more seriously on some tighter material, we're gonna be unstoppable.

and, of course, having said that word, I just had matt dillon's character in singles, sitting at the table with the guys in pearl jam..."this band is loved in italy, and in belgium...."


gonna post some pics soon of the home studio - the initial sense of being overwhelmed with possibilities is giving way to some sense of logic, in terms of how to best go about getting everything set up optimally, and the blakester is coming over tomorrow night to take a look around and drop off some tapes, as well as to set up his laptop for hard disk recording.

in other news....i'm not often provoked to this extent, but i sure would enjoy kicking this teacher's ass. no, seriously. i'd be smilin' while i jumped up and down on her spine...or at least the place in her back where her spine should be. and if you're reading this, you know me well enough to know how rare that is.

and after i'm done with her, i might just take on jayda's she-male math teacher from last year...although the idea of taking on someone who looks like a DNA mixup of mrs. doubtfire and fat bastard in austin powers is a little intimidating...

that should clear out my aggression backlog for the foreseeable future.