13.04.09

We're on the fourth day of the ND tour. We are the first band on a five band package, so we're playing to about a quarter of the amount of people that will end up at the show. This would be considered yet more of the old "paying the dues".
Chris from Coliseum did and amazing interpretive trap them song yesterday. beat box style.
Toxic Holocaust introduced me to "toxic tea". It is also referred to as "the green shit". I like it no matter what you call it.
Lots of Panera parking lots after long drives.

This is all for now. Too much driving and loading and merch selling to think. I haven't been able to find time to read a book in a week. I feel guilty.

So, yeah.

08.04.09

Tour has officialy begun.

I need to learn to stretch so that the day after the first show, my body doesn't look like the picture above.

currently reading: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

I said the next post would be moderately adequate....I think I've acheived mediocrity.

Give it a week......much more will need to be said.

01.04.09

I went to a show last night.
A very popular American black metal band played.
Everyone in the sold out crowd loved it....except me. I don't get it. I don't even WANT to get it. I am probably 99% wrong, but it seems like that genre is saturated with passionless bullshit when it's done by Americans. I know there are some good black metal bands from here....I've been taught well by someone who has given a shit before giving a shit was worth giving a shit. But, it still doesn't change the fact that it's a lot of what I don't desire out of extreme music.
This isn't even an angry rant or anything of that ilk, but more of a brisk shrug of the shoulders, since that is really all the effort I'm willing to put into something that means so little to me.

I have four days until I fly back east. I hug my dog for about eight hours a day, knowing how long it is until I see him again. I kiss my wife and tell her she's pretty. I try to get a drink with everyone that I can handle a conversation with for longer than five minutes.

I'm going to have a movie day today.
Halfway through writing this post, I realized how unimportant it is...I could have waited a week and had much more to say.

I just sold all of my paintings and climbed out of debt. A very large publishing company just signed me for a three book deal, including an autobiography.
They gave me a ridiculous signing bonus, so my wife and I are going to be fulfilling my life long dream and moving to London in August. Everything is perfect and I have more money than I've ever had in my life!
Oh, wait.....April fools.

I think I broke my nose twice on tour last fall and never fixed it, so my breathing has become gnarly. I can't wait to have it happen all over again.
I think that's about it. The next update will be....mindblowing? Well, we'll settle for moderately adequate.