| sometimes i get the feeling that i won't be on this planet
for very long...i really like it here. i'm quite attached to it
i hope i'm wrong.
all i really wanna say is you're the reason i wanna stay.
i loved you before i met you,and i met you just in time 'cause there was nothing left. |
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| Last week I started a new job. It's a great job. I'm happy that I have it. The learning curve is steep, but that doesn't bother me. The people are really kind and that helps as it is so rare to find people who are so kind to strangers.
Last Friday I left work early. Zach and I (along with Manny) drove down to Massanutten resort to play in an acoustic challenge. It's how they find bands to book there. We played...made our connections, ate dinner and then drove back home. 7 hours of driving in about 10+ hours. That was tough. Especially after a day of work. But I'm not really complaining. One of the highlights though was getting to see my good friend Lauren who lives not far from there. She's an amazing encouragement to me...it had been too long since we'd seen each other.
Saturday marked a first in my life and a first in the life of the band. We drove up to Baltimore where we had our first stint on the radio. We were in studio at WLOY at Loyola College. We played 2 songs live as well as did a short interview. We were flying pretty high after that. The folks there at WLOY were great, and Michelle was a gracious host.
After that we hopped right back in the car and went straight down to our show at the Germantown Borders. We got down there later than expected, but by that time it was old hat...traffic had kept us from getting anywhere on time the whole weekend.
There were only a handful of people at Borders. Not just where we were playing, but the whole store too. Amidst monitor and vocal problems we pressed on and had a great time...mistakes and all. The people who WERE there were so kind to us and stuck it out til the end. And other than Manny (our graphics and visual guy) and our manager Ken there wasn't a familiar face there.
After the show we packed up and I went home to crash. So little sleep. haha.
But it was good...again, I'm NOT complaining! All that busyness was a welcome thing.
It's good to feel like you are accomplishing things. And it is good to go out and connect with people if only for a moment in the middle of a song. As bold as people are nowadays it surprises me how shy people are if you've just been behind a microphone singing...suddenly they don't want to interrupt you...Of course if not for them we wouldn't be there in the first place. So i say that to say this...INTERRUPT! Come and talk. Zach and I welcome it. We're not here to dominate the conversation with our music.
Let's start a new project...where we talk and we listen...where we care and we show it...where we take the time to really connect in the moments that we end up in the same places. I mean, who knows if it will ever happen again? |
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| ack. ack. ack. ack.
those aren't bad...they just are.
so, i've not been here much lately due to my intense job search. It keeps me busy for hours a day. It really is a full time job trying to penetrate a job market that is...seemingly unresponsive. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh goodness.
but there is some nice news. Zach and I have been working hard on the upcoming album. And it's sounding really really good. But, we would LOVE to be able to find musicians who are willing to commit to helping us out (with the possibility of joining the band). Why is that so hard to find? Reliability seems to be a dwindling thing. I don't get it.
So we're looking at August for the album release...we think that's realistic.
Til then we're plugging away at open mics, acoustic shows, a few full band shows here and there (with fill in musicians). Then we'll see what happens.
ooooooooooh joy. haha
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| still job hunting. getting a little...desparate. haha. looking at all sorts of things.
somethings gotta come down the pipeline, right?
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| Finishing the hat.
How you have to finish the hat.
How you watch the rest of the world from a window while you finish the hat.
Mapping out a sky...what you feel like planning a sky.
What you feel when voices that come through the window
go until they distance and die...until there's nothing but sky.
And how you're always turning back
Too late from the grass or the stick pr the dog or the light.
How the kind of man who's willing to wait's not the kind that you want to find waiting to return you to the night, dizzy from the height.
Coming from the hat.
Studying the hat.
Entering the world of the hat.
Reaching through the world of the hat like a window. Back to this one from that.
Studying a face.
Stepping back to look at a face,
leaves a little space in the way like a window.
But to see--
It's the only way to see. And when the lover that you wanted goes you can say to yourself,
"Well, I give what I give."
But the lover who won't wait for you knows that however you live, there's a part of you always standing by, mapping out a sky.
Finishing the hat.
Starting on a hat.
Finishing the hat.
Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat.
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