History Repeats Itself Ever So Consistently...

The house show went surprisingly well. At one point there were about 20 people there, which surprised me muchly. A bunch of people that said they were definitely gonna be there didn't show up, but a bunch of random people did. Kinda weird, but pretty cool, I suppose. Mt. Gigantic showed up at 11 and only had time for a few songs before everyone had to leave. They played for like 10 people and it was amazing. One of the best live bands I've ever seen. Hopefully they'll come back someday and be able to play a much, much longer set. I know for a fact that they made over 50 bucks, so that's good. Not sure how much Peter and Stephano made, but it's probably pretty close to that same amount. Here's a video of part of one of Peter's songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QalBVhl8E1M

After everything was all said and done with and everyone had left, my dad seemed to approve of the show. He pretty much said that I could do that whenever I needed too. Oh, and we might be getting different colored bulbs for the stage lights we have over our balcony. I think that'd be kinda neat.

I might be going to see Taking Lottie Home in Habersham this weekend. Should be fun. I feel bad, though, cause my dad asked me to go to Rome with him then because he's taking who's basically my stepsister to check out Berry College. :/

On Wednesday, Rollie and I are collaborating to play a set at YHC during the intermission of the HOT Legs Male Beauty Pageant. Should be interesting. Hopefully I can get Spiva's mic along with my cables and converters back while I'm over there.

I have 5 essays, a lab report, and a notebook due soon. I might need to get started on that...

Hopefully my CD's will get here soon. I've got like 75 bucks worth of stuff that I ordered a loooong time ago, that the place I ordered it from swears is on its way...I sure hope so.

I'm gonna start distro-ing Valiant Death stuff soon. I think I'm just gonna sell it at the wholesale price that I'll be paying for it. I don't really want to make a profit off of it.

I miss being in a band. Even if we sucked, it was still pretty fun most of the time.

We had a college thing in Lit today. Everyone knows what they want to do except for me. I'm thinking Sound Engineering and maybe Marketing, but I dunno.

My grades are awful so far this semester. Well...In 2 of my classes anyway. I have a 91 in Chemistry and a 90 in Honors Lit. I get 5% added on my grade in Honors at the end of the year, but still. It sucks.

I might move the March 24th Jon Crocker show to my house. The booking dude at Young Harris College has been being kind of a jerk, plus Jon says he likes smaller shows a lot better anyway. Turnout Saturday wasn't bad for only like 4 days of promotion, so I think with a couple weeks of it we could be in business. Maybe I could get like 30 people this time? I think it'd be fun.

The record store idea is back on. I doubt it'll ever materialize into anything, but who knows?

I'm feeling pretty down today. Not sure why. Maybe I'm just tired?

Anyway, I really need to start this homework, but before I go, here's a song by Dustin and the Furniture:


In the service of the wilderness. Everything happens in the service of the wilderness. I gave an apple to a homeless dude and felt the way things come and go, as they happen in the service of the wilderness. But don't be proud after doing something great, just understand, that it happened in the service of the wilderness. Someone stole my bike even though it was locked to the rack outside the library, but hey it happened in the service of the wilderness. As the world gets more messed up is act as the midwife in the birth of a new one, which will inevitably happen in the service of the wilderness. So don't worry or be afraid about things that'll happen anyway, just do what you can like give an apple to a homeless dude or pet a dog, and let it happen in the service of the wilderness. But if you try to make it natural it will just be a disaster so don't think at all, just watch things go as they happen in the service of the wilderness. There's no other when to view yourself as if you will discover that you came out of the mother of the world as opposed to coming into it and you will live in the service of the wilderness. Have you noticed that you're already living in the service of the wilderness? In the service of the wilderness, as the new world rises from the other side of the event we're a'risin'. There's nothing we can do, so lets take off our shoes and lets dance around the room forgetting words, forgetting truth. In the service of the wilderness well the new generation will come. No we wont be ready for it, so for now lets live good lies, acting now as good midwives. Being aware, accepting it in the service of the wilderness.

Toodles.

I Never Had A Half A Chance, So I Guess I'll Never Know What Could Have Been...

My PA finally came in and that makes me happy. It works quite well, especially for the price. Now all I need is for people to show up Saturday. I've been trying to promote it a lot, but no one seems to be really apt to come to house shows. Guess it's because of distance. I'd be happy with as few as 15, though. Hopefully all the bands' stuff will fit into my house too...It's quite tiny. We'll see, I guess.

Chemistry is such a fun class. All my classes have become pretty fun, actually. It's cool. It seems like all my teachers like me, which could work in my favor, I suppose.

Not sure why I'm posting this other than boredom. Nothing exciting has happened since my last post...

So What Is It That Makes Us Who We Are?

I have decided that I am buying a PA system. I've been needing one for awhile and I think I've finally found one that I wanna get. It's 400 bucks and is powered pretty well. I know I'll use it so I don't really mind spending the money. Now all I need is a reliable venue... :/

Speaking of needing a reliable venue, I've had to move the shows next weekend to my house. Mt. Gigantic, Matty Pop Chart, Erin Tobey, Stephano Ponce, and Chin Up! Meriwether are all playing / staying at my house on Saturday. Please, please, PLEASE come and bring as many people as possible. And if you can, donate a couple bucks. All the bands are coming from a long way away to play a crappy house show and I wanna make it as good as I can for them.

In other news, Dave still has my recording stuff and it's getting on my nerves. I need it not only for recording but for shows. I wouldn't mind so bad if he were actually using it. Yargh.

I wanna get a sitar. They're in quarter steps, giving them more of an Eastern sound. Western music is played primarily in half steps. It'd be cool just to hear how it sounds in comparison to Western instruments.

We have a snow day tomorrow. Woohoo. Hopefully we won't have to make it up later.

In other other news, I got Jon Crocker's 2 latest albums in the mail Saturday. "The Family Album" and "Edison-Free Sediment, Vol. III." They're amazing. Some of Jon's best work yet. "The Family Album" is 13 songs for and about his family. A lot of the songs are really deep and touching. I almost cried listening to one of them. "Edison-Free Sediment, Vol. III" is the last in a series of albums Jon made without the use of your typical instruments (guitar, bass, drums). Instead, he used folk instruments such as mandolin, banjo, pot&pan percussion, and various other goodies. Really good stuff. One of my favorite songs from "The Family Album" is at the end of this post. Jon's coming back on March 24th and (hopefully) playing at YHC. He's staying the night at Trey's and the next day is playing a "quiet time" set, consisting on some of his quieter songs, such as "I Just Can't Say No." imadethismistake and On the Strings Of are playing too. I'm excited.





Out of water and out of food and we've been walking since the day began. Racing darkness, it does no good when you're lost...don't have a map. But he said, "Well these mountains, well they are my home and I know every trail, 'cause I've been down them all. So don't be scared...So what if there are bears out there? I'll get us back even if it's dark. No it's not like i don't know, no it's not like i don't know where I'm gonna go."

He was dying. Mother got so scared and she said, "Baby, aren't you worried about your soul?" And he said, "Well I've been Catholic and I have been a Jew and I've been Atheist...one of those should work. We're all so certain that what we know is true and who am I to say that it's not? Oh it's not like I don't know, no it's not like I don't know where I'm gonna go."

Open Your Heart...

What a weekend.

Friday after school I went over to Trey's house and we decided to go see Taking Lottie Home at Swayze's. Johnny skipped work to go too. Oh man, it was fun. We just hung out with TLH pretty much the whole time. It was grand. I was over there all of today and most of yesterday too. Fun, fun, fun.

Sounds boring, but it was most certainly an adventure.

I don't wanna go to school tomorrow. I've been doing fairly well, but I grow tired of the same old crap, day after day after day. I have no idea what I'm gonna do with my life. All I know is that I'm ready to be out of high school.

I'm listening to Josh Chambers' radio show, "Dirty Thoughts of a Dirty Peasant." It hasn't really been as interesting as I expected. None of the statements have really been profound so far...Just general statements about society problems...

...but I digress.

I'm going to bed. Hopefully all the stuff I've ordered will arrive shortly.

I'm At the Bottom of the Ocean...I'm In the Stomach of A Whale...

I got two surprises Friday night. One pleasant, one not so much.

The pleasant first. There were a ton of people at the show. Lots of new faces, which is great. Maybe they'll come to shows in the future. I guess a month of promoting payed off.

The not-so-pleasant? We ended up getting kicked out about 1 1/2 hour before the show would've normally been over. Why, you may ask? Rollie booked the wrong date. foreverdown ended up playing 4 songs, Josh Fletcher played 2 (and wasted 15 minutes tuning), and Taking Lottie Home only got to play one. As they went into their second and final song, the guy in charge of the Student Center grabbed the mic, said the show was over, and made everyone leave. I felt (and still feel) awful, not only for the bands, but for the people that came to watch. Some folks drove for over an hour to see Taking Lottie Home and ended up getting only one song.

Some good came out of it though. I can now book the Student Center directly instead of having to go through Rollie, which is great. I pretty much have a venue at my disposal now.

After the show, Taking Lottie Home went back to Trey's house to stay that night. We shared lots of great stories. I got to know them all a lot better. Really cool guys. We're all gonna hang out in Habersham sometime soon.

Oh, and to make up for the short show, I've got something really awesome in the works on Friday, April 20th. foreverdown(?), Taking Lottie Home, We Are Only Fiction(?), and In the Long Run. YHC. Booked by me. On the right date.

You're Just Five Feet From Standing...How Could You Give Up Now?

Snow day. Much like the last one, but there's actually snow this time. I'm glad. I didn't rewrite my essay that was originally due today. Rumor has it, we're getting tomorrow off too.

I'm worried about show attendance tomorrow. It should be an awesome show, but it just so happens to be on the night of our biggest basketball game of the year. Argh. Maybe the snow will force the game to be canceled? Haha, I wish.

I don't know why I'm typing this. I guess as a way to pass the time, and to have an excuse for procrastinating on my essay, albeit a crappy one.

I'm ordering the Madeline / Dead Bird repress tomorrow. It has cool new artwork. Random fact.

Hopefully some of the other CD's I've ordered recently will come tomorrow too.

Eh, that's all for now, I suppose. See you tomorrow. Hopefully not at school, but at the show.