other pursuits

So, it's been a while since an update (again), but I swear it's for good reasons. Firstly, I've been worried that that fatal copper-ray disease (from looking at computers too much) that Willem Defoe's character comes down with in Speed 2: Cruise Control might be real -- and I don't look good with leeches, people.

Secondly, I've been starting up a band with some friends of mine. Not the Flagellants. There might be one or two more singles from them, though ;);)

So yeah, a band. Sorry, I'm still reeling from those winky faces, I can't believe I wrote those. Yeah, we have a band. Electric Warlords. Well, not really, more like Acoustic Amateurs, but we ahve high hopes. That's all a band ever needed, or so I thought I'd been told but probably haven't been.

It's actually working out really well though. My good buddy DK is a phenomenal guitarist and songwriter, and his buddy (and mine now too), Dave, plays the keys like he came out of the womb on a glissando. We've been recently supported by the bass master (not the fishing game) Jeff, lord of the Thumper. I call his bass the Thumper. He doesn't know this and I haven't told anyone else either. We also might have an awesome dual pianos thing going with their friend, Eric, whose solos have left craters in my thought process.

Now we need a drummer. Of course. Everyone needs a drummer. DK says we should get a percussionist instead, but I don't know what that means. Except that they play less-traditional things than drum kits, I suppose.

Also, a band name. We're all super inspired by the Band (well, I think everyone is, anyway), and their name is no different from their music: perfect. (Let's ignore the fact that they didn't want to be called that, and didn't even come UP with the name). Something simple, evocative of the music, not pretentious, and not taken already. Yeesh. Come on, I just solved perpetual motion here, people. Don't give me another toughie.

Gigs and other news to follow shortly, if all works out well.