Tonight was one of the most productive nights I've had in a long time. First of all, Lance uploaded the temp site I made for Redrum. Click and show Thorn love.

Then it seems I do indeed have a new tour date editor for RAM. Her name is Lauren and she's studying audio engineering. Awesome. So that'll be updated in a few days. As far as D1 goes, I heard back from the folks at Centerline and got the KEV interview reviewed and approved. So now just waiting for Lou to tell me what to do with these suckers. Talked to Lanie, too, about doing her interview for her new label. Good times.

Spent most of the evening talking to Jesse, too. We're basically catching up on the old news...figuring out what happened to all our old friends. Then only thing of any note is one of my psycho buds stabbed one of my ex-boyfriends and ended up in an institution a few summers ago. Insane.

Talking about all that old stuff made me attempt to look up some old friends, but I've not been very successful. I've found where a few of them ended up in college, but no contact info. I even ended back at my old middle school's website to see how things were going. That one teacher who I hate more than anything is not there anymore. Maybe she died. I sure hope so.

Had a surprisingly good day at work. I ended up not having to do any sound set up for the rap group that was performing today, so B basically told me to just work on whatever I needed to and just be around in case I was needed. In the end (he was having a bit of a bad day) he came down to my office and we ended up watching Star Trek for most of the day, hahaha! We talked about a lot of things coming up, he showed me some new equipment we're going to be installing, and started working on areas of improvement for me. It was really good. Plus since today was the SGA elections we scored free lunches.

The new electronic classrooms we're setting up are going to be incredible. We're basically creating movable podiums that contain all the equipment you could need - computer, VCR/DVD, document camera, sound, etc. - and you just plug in and go. But the really cool thing is the switch - it's got software that reminds me of what you might see with a wireless router. So in the same way you might go to a webpage dedicated to your router, you can access a page through the entire school network devoted to each switch. So, theoretically, I can be sitting in the office and get a call from a teacher on the other side of campus, who says they can't figure out how to switch the imput on their projector, and I can go online and tell that switch to change imputs from my office. Rock.

I got hit on at work today again. Do I have a sign that says "Newly Dumped and Desperate" on me? Heh.

I got an email today from a girl that's interested in helping out with RAM, so that'd be cool if it works out. Good times.

Song of the Day: The Anix - "Illusion" www.the-anix.com

Night of the Douche*
A Short Story by Valdyr

Once upon on a time in an auditorium not too far from here, there was a douche. This douche one day suddenly found himself in a crap-ass talent show, though even he couldn't meet the dismal standards. But, alas, at this talent show was a hot girl running sound. And it was love at first sight.

So after intermission, the douche casually strolls right into the sound booth, and just plops down in the chair next to the hot sound girl like he owns the place.

"Uh, Can I help you?" she asks.
"No, I'm just going to sit here."
The girl raises an eyebrow. "Uh, sorry, but I've gotta be able to move around here to get to all of the equipment."
"Oh, I'll stay out of the way."
"No, really, I have to be able to get all the way over there, too."
"Oh, well, you can show me what to do and I'll help."
"No, REALLY, I had to ask my friends to leave too because I'm too busy right now."
"So do you go to school here?"
"No, I work here." She points to name card.
"So, you go to school here too?"
Obviously I'm too young to have a job she thinks. "No, I WORK here."
"So you're like, 20?"
"22."
"Are you married?"
"No."
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"Yes," she lies.
"Why is it that everyone I talk to seems to be married or have a boyfriend?" muses the douche.
Probably because you're a douche she thinks, and doesn't respond.
The douche sees her Snape desktop image and asks, "So, you're a Harry Potter fan?"
The girl turns around.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY BOOTH!"

So the douche went on to bug the girl that sang a Mariah Carey cover in a tight-ass dress, and he douched happily ever after. The end.

*"Night Of The Douche" is based on a true story. Any resemblence to any person, living or dead, is not coincidental, and I hope he somehow reads this, the douche.

In other news, while I was contemplating either rolling a joint or tying a noose in the booth to presumably put me out of my misery, Steve IM's me randomly. Yeah, you remember Steve. Ex from Utah. Anyways, he's back in California. Raise any flags for anyone? Well, I give him props for at least going back on his own accord to take care of the whole being-wanted-for-parole-evasion thing, but he's having it rough. Says he misses me. I'm like, you haven't called me since I saw you back in what, October? Moving on.

At that point in my life, Roanoke had been thoroughly disgraced with this utterly disasterous talent show, and now the candidates for the SGA presidency were up speaking. This was good, because my friend Charly is running for this, and his speech was great. I really think he'll get elected, and I'll be happy for him. He's got a lot of good ideas of things he wants to do. That's really cool.

So, in other news, I have cramps that are not only the size of Montana, but also China. So I'm going to go back to drinking now.

I forgot to mention earlier, but Jason Slater has a new blog for SRC now. snakeriverconspiracy.blogspot.com. Rock.

April shortlist. Lot's of these are older songs, but they came in handy lately.
Disown - Beautifully Sickening
Disown - Guilt Trip
Fluffy Starr - DarkDarkerDarkest
Garbage - Metal Heart
Jay Gordon - Slept So Long
Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Beautiful
Lunarclick* - Good Enough
News Travels Fast - Simple Plan
Otto's Daughter - All I Ever Wanted
Otto's Daughter - Hail
Otto's Daughter - Maskenball
Otto's Daughter - Over It
Redrum - Away
The Anix & Gwen Stefani - This Game Is Serious

Oh. Guess what next month is? Not only is it artist support month at RAM, but it's my blog anniversary. So who's gonna sit with me and have a beer and do the annual perusal? Heather used to do this with me, lol. Fun times...

Song of the Day: Otto's Daughter - "All I Ever Wanted" www.ottosdaughter.com

[16:04] Mike: but when i think about it, i think the ultimate showing of love...is when you'd give up everything for that person...and then that person asks you to let them go
[16:04] me: yeah, that's true
[16:04] Mike: to give up the one thing you'd be willing to give everything for

"The world, now changing
So now we're moving faster to live
We cannot find
A way to make us strong
So run and hide
We would never find you
We would never be
We're never
Good enough to be
We will never share
Where they seem to be
Or good enough
Try to remove us
But now you're feeling
Bad we're here too
We cannot feed the pain
That we were suffering
Now but hide us
Won't you try to hide
Feelings that you're not
We're never
Good enough to be
We will never share
Where they seem to be
Or good enough
Say goodbye
Say goodbye"
- Lunarclick, "Good Enough"

So today has been a slack-happy day so far. I came in to set up for some piano recital at 1, and it's 4:15 and no one has shown up yet. So I'm gonna call B in a minute to see what he wants me to do, heh.

Bill came down for awhile and we chatted about sound stuff. Come to find out he's in a Blues band now, but has his own studio he's setting up and is looking to start a hard rock band like Tool and such. So I thought that was awesome, being that he's my boss's boss, and that perhaps that's another band to get a good scene going around here.

Then Rafe came down and we talked for awhile too about stuff, which is cool. We agreed that we're both happier here and not at the hotel, lol. It's good to see everyone so happy.

I'm feeling ok today. Was a bit shaken up this morning, but I'm doing better. Been talking to Mike a bit, and that helps, since I guess in some ways he knew Jacob better than I did.

Also, my big brother called me this morning and it was so good to hear his voice. He was at the airport on his way to Texas, then to Vegas to visit friends. He'll be back in a week or so then come and see me, so that's gonna be fun. I've missed him. We're also starting to make plans for a little vacation for me. For around $700 he can get me on a cruise with him for a week, so I'm gonna do that. Get to spend more time with him, plus go to the Bahamas for a few days. :-)

I found the Valentine's Day card he gave me while I was cleaning my room this morning.

Two things happened tonight:

1.) Bourbon is my new favorite booze.

2.) Looks like Alienhead is officially a full band.

Rock.

So yeah, I brought John out with me tonight and he did pretty well, for me just getting the tabs to him on Sunday. He picked up damn quick on the things he hadn't learned and seem to fit really well in the group. So as long as it goes well the next few times, then we'll be off on our way.

It was funny, because Derek's a bit stressed with some situations he's in right now, se he was rocking a flask with some bourbon, and once I got my hands on that it was difficult to get them off. It was like, Bacardi Superior but 5 times better. Made me sing pretty damn good, too. Haha, fun times.

I can't wait to play live.

Afterwards me and John went to Macados and had a few drinks and talked over the whole band thing, so I think this is gonna work out really well. Then all of us are gonna hit up Awful's on Saturday and shoot some pool and chill. Good times.

I feel better now having had a few drinks and getting a lot of frustration out of my system tonight. But I think it's gonna be a week or two before I'm really back to normal. There are good days like yesterday, and there are bad days like today. I'll get over it.

I got an email back from J and it looks like the website is a go now. Should be up next week. *crosses fingers* Her music rocks.

Song of the Day: Fluffy Starr - "DarkDarkerDarkest" www.fluffystarr.com

I woke up out of a nightmare crying this morning. Every once in a while I would have these terrible dreams about me and Jacob breaking up, and I had another one of those last night. Now I'm even more angry. Not just at him, but at myself, because subconciously I knew things were wrong and I just ignored it. I knew he wasn't in it for the long haul, I knew I shouldn't have been so trusting, and it's all my own damn fault. I'm so angry I'm sick to my stomach.

I've been to hell and back at night, and I'll never doubt that, but I can choose to ignore something so obvious in front of me? Gah.

I'm so glad I have band practice tonight because I'm going to explode, in the best sense possible.

Song of the Day: Jay Gordon - "Slept So Long" www.punkstatikparanoia.com

Joe sent me this link orginally with the lines "I Love You", but Plat improved upon it and put my name in it. Made my day:

Laura inspires sexiness, eh?

Good night. Fluffy called a little while to see how I was doing, and it was nice to talk to her. She says recording is going well, and that makes me happy. I can't wait for their album.

In my free time I became even more of an HP tool and created a new fake profile. I don't even have to say anymore, do I? But it's pretty. So go add me. Clicky clicky.

Had a pretty decent day; B just had me work on cleaning up the office and organizing, then later I started building our new amp rack. It's pretty sweet - 6 feet tall and on castors. Good stuff. Horribly difficult to build - the instructions were in English, but like, written by someone who obviously didn't speak English. Like "bolt,left or right likescrew." Seriously, not a sentence, not even in subject-verb order, and missing spaces like that. The instruction manual was also not in chronological order. Very strange.

While I was working on the amp rack, Charly came in and just chilled out with me for awhile. He's one of those people that are real easy going and will just sit with anyone and talk. He worked on this last show and did a great job, so it was good to see him again. It was nice, too, to have someone there to keep me company, especially right now. He invited me to hang out and go to karaoke tonight, but I'm still pretty tired, so I'm gonna stay in. But it'd be cool to hang out with them later on.

So far I'm doing pretty good with the whole social life thing I promised myself.

Got an email from Nick today, too; maybe John ran into him and told him I was having a rough time right now, I dunno, but it was nice to hear from him, too. So I definately feel like I've got some good friends that can help pull me out of this funk right now.

Jacob finally wrote a bit about all this today too. It's hard to do, to put things in writing. But it's best for both of us, and I really hope that he can do the things he needs to do now that he doesn't need to worry about making me happy or whatever. I guess sometimes having a boy/girlfriend is helpful when you're making changes, but other times its better to be on your own and work through things. I just hope that he has a lot of friends too right now that can surround him the way mine seem to be. So, all our friends in B-burg, take care of my boy. :-)

I also have to say that I have never fully appreciated Otto's Daughter's last album, "Void Of Course" until now. I'm seriously going to send J money so she can get the next one out, because music is so important when you're going through tough times.

Edit: Forgot to mention, but it looks like I may have just scored another band website for some very awesome people. Would be a great addition to my portfolio, and these guys are awesome and deserve it. So I'll write more about that when it's finalized. Also, it looks like my radio interview will be sometime next week, so I'll post when you can listen online to people ask me about my cool website.

Song of the Day: Otto's Daughter - "Hail" www.ottosdaughter.com

I criticized myself for "living in a dream" but as it turned out, my reality was the lie and my dream was right on target. Last night was...interesting. Sometimes it's scary how much I know about people, people that I'm only aquainted with, when I was completely mistaken by the person who was closest to me. It's hard to look back now over these past 10 months and figure out if a happy memory really is happy, or if it's all faked too. But no matter now I guess, things have already taken an unusual turn.

Hung out with John all evening. He picked up the songs really well, then showed me a lot of the things he'd come up with. Really cool stuff. His guitar work was more hard rock leaning to metal, but his keys were totally gothed out. Birthday Massacre style. It was awesome. So I really hope this works out.

Afterwards we sat and talked and had some drinks. We talked about relationships a bit, and I guess there's some comfort in listening to other people's problems instead of worrying about your own. I was able to say a lot of the things I was feeling, and felt vindicated.

On the whole, this band is gonna be great for me at least. Derek just uploaded our first song...it's not the best so far, but it will be soon. And there's more on the way, as we'll really get going tomorrow.

And I guess now I have more feul for the fire.

So after a more extensive discussion, me and Jacob basically came to the conclusion that our lifestyles and expectations are a bit too different now. No hard feelings. We had a good time, and it's best for both of us to head on.

In other and "oh my god!" news, I got an email from a very cool radio station asking me to do a phone interview with them soon. So that is awesome! I will post the pertinent info as it gets set up.

Now, I'm heading over to John's to work on some songs before practice on Tuesday. I'm glad I'm able to have more of a social life in Roanoke now. :-)

I'll just get the damn song lyrics out of my system now and get over it.

"Don’t you bring me down
Kick me when I’m down
Put me away again
Every now and then
Your bottle spinning my fate
As I hold my breath
And you say you don’t want any part of this now
Where did it go so wrong
I guess I’m finally finding out
It’s got me tripping now
The little things, everywhere I go
It’s such a shame
Why you held on, so long
Why don’t you confuse me a little more?
Confuse me
And I never thought that you
Who would believe that I wasn’t good enough?
Those things I never thought you’d do
You got the best of me
You got the best of me, when you said you didn’t love me anymore
And I know, this will be the last time
You’ve got me, running in circles like a freak
So why do you try, to kick me when I’m down
I’m down, all the way down
Put me away again
Every now and then
Your bottle spinning my fate
While I hold my breath
Don’t sweat the lies that you say I control
Confuse me a little more
(Confuse me)
And I never thought that you
Who would believe that I wasn’t good enough?
Those things I never thought you’d do
You got the best of me
You and all your secrets don’t need me
You got the best of me, when you said you didn’t love me anymore
And I know, this will be the last time
You’ve got me, running in circles like a freak
So why do you try to, kick me when I’m down
I’m down
So when you say you’ve let me go, let me go
‘Cause you didn’t care about this, sorry you
I guess you’ll be all right
Now that you’ve got things to go your way
How could you be like this?
This it the last time but you don’t hear me though
You got the best of me, when you said you didn’t love me anymore
And I know, this will be the last time
You’ve got me, running in circles like a freak
So why do you try to, kick me when I’m down
I don’t understand the way
That you’re thinking, thinking, Andrea
Who could believe that I wasn’t good enough?
Who could believe that I wasn’t good enough?
Confuse me a little more
Who would believe that I wasn’t good enough?
Who could believe that I wasn’t good enough?"
- Orgy, "Pure"

"you could love this
it's just a little word
you take it out on occasion when it's necessary
we could believe this and lead our hearts astray
still there are some that say
it doesn't matter anyway
so stay down if you fall
or find it so unnecessary
to think big or walk tall
you understand me but to the contrary
we could annul this
such a dirty world
you leave me now
for an invasion that's more than temporary
if we could live here and play the part today
still there'd be some who'd say
nothing matters anyway
so stay down if you fall
I find it so unnecessary
to think thin and talk small
true understanding never seemed to carry
another blow to the head
we could learn to play dead
and fill in the blank
we could achieve bliss if we start today
or we could play dead and learn to take it instead
another blow to the head
and you can fill in the blank
I find it so unnecessary to fill in the blank
the answer's always temporary
fill in the blank
up close, beauty is far from scary
can't fill in the blank"
- Jimmie's Chicken Shack "Fill In The Blank"

"You’ve been my golden best friend
Now with post-demise at hand
Can’t go to you for consolation
Cause we’re off limits during this transition
This grief overwhelms me
It burns in my stomach
And I can’t stop bumping into things
I thought we’d be simple together
I thought we’d be happy together
Thought we’d be limitless together
I thought we’d be precious together
But I was sadly mistaken
You’ve been my soulmate and mentor
I remembered you the moment I met you
With you I knew god’s face was handsome
With you I suffered an expansion
This loss is numbing me
It pierces my chest
And I can’t stop dropping everything
I thought we’d be sexy together
Thought we’d be evolving together
I thought we’d have children together
I thought we’d be family together
But I was sadly mistaken
If I had a bill for all the philosophies I shared
If I had a penny for all the possibilities I presented
If I had a dime for every hand thrown up in the air
My wealth would render this no less severe
I thought we’d be genius together
I thought we’d be healing together
I thought we’d be growing together
Thought we’d be adventurous together
But I was sadly mistaken
Thought we’d be exploring together
Thought we’d be inspired together
I thought we’d be flying together
Thought we’d be on fire together
But I was sadly mistaken"
- Alanis "Simple Together"

Song of the Day: Orgy - "Pure" www.punkstatikparanoia.com

Well, some of you might think hell has frozen over, but me and Jacob broke up. I might go into more later, but I think now I'm just gonna take a good shower. At least fate was kind; big brother just got home this weekend, so it was nice having someone to talk to on the phone on the ride home.

Welcome home, she said to me
Let's hide away before they see.
I need so much to be alone with you. I do, I do...
Come with me, she took my hand
Please help me try to understand.
So pointless when my heart has turned to stone, I know, I know..

I wish I didn't need you now.
I wish I didn't need you now.

I wish we could, she whispered near
Go someplace far away from here.
While hoping that small voice would disappear
that said, welcome to the end.

Song of the Day: Celldweller - "Welcome To The End" www.celldweller.com

Had a very cool (and non-music related) thing happen today, haha! I got an email from my former Astrophysics professor asking his past students if we still had any of our old photometric data from projects we did on BL Cam. Apparently there's a group of astronomers doing a big research project on it, and are looking for information. Anything we could provide gets us credit in the paper. So guess who's name is gonna be on a big physics presentation? Heh, heh, allllllllllllriiiiiiiiiiiight.

So while I'm bummed out about missing the concert tomorrow, I realize that I really need the time to relax. I'm burned out! With work and the what, five? interviews I did in the last week, I need some time to sleep. I'm getting really excited about next month though, being our one year anniversary and all. I've already lined up the first 3 articles: interviews with a very awesome fansite and a radio dj that you all know pretty well, haha, and also a feature on today's mp3 sites. I feel kinda bad about that feature, because I'm pretty much slamming them all. I guess I was spoiled with mp3.com along with everyone else.

So I'm starting work now on my next two big projects for RAM: the compilation and t-shirts. Adam is gonna make me a new t-shirt design, so that will rock. I want to get them done in time for Ozzfest for when me, Corrie, Sarah, and Carly go do some promoting. That's gonna be awesome. The guy that runs the t-shirt place that I'm going to be using (the one that Jacob used for the Tripleside t-shirts, which are awesome) is also, apparently, one of the dudes that's setting up this punk rock prom thing we're going to. So that's cool. I've got a killer outfit for that next week. AND it will be the second time I've worn a dress this year. What's the world coming to?

I've been reading over my friends' journals and realizing in a lot of ways mine is pretty boring compared to Corrie's movie reviews and Champe's Chilean expeditions. Maybe I should start putting CD reviews in here? How about I few excerpts from my latest reviews off of RAM?

Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Rating: 3/5 (Acceptable)
"Now, there’s nothing wrong with a band evolving and changing, but it seems that in a lot of cases, the longer a band is around, the softer they become. The self-titled release and 2.0 were, in my opinion, the highlights of this band’s career. Beautiful Garbage had it’s points, but on the whole was a disappointment to me. This fourth release, Bleed Like Me, has picked up more steam from where Beautiful Garbage left off, but still doesn’t quite close the gap of reaching the initial two albums’ glory."

Disown - Requiem Of One
Rating: 5/5 (Excellent)
"I’m totally impressed with the amount of depth of the music and lyrical content. Every time I listen I hear something new or understand something more. It’s in some ways a conceptual album, taking motifs and themes of religion and relaying more universal truths most expressively through Jae Rohrer’s wonderfully enchanting voice."

Celldweller - The Beta Cessions
Rating: 4/5 (Very Good)
"The band has joked in the past about Switchback being the most expensive song ever recorded, with countless versions and mixes having been created over the years. It was amazing to hear all of the different paths that Celldweller took this song down before arriving at the current album version. In the same way, there were previous versions of other album favorites, including “Stay With Me”, “Under My Feet”, “So Sorry To Say”, and “Afraid This Time”. Many artists would have left off years ago with these versions, but Klayton is clearly a man determined for nothing but absolute and total perfection, continuously chipping away and revolutionizing his music."

Jay-Z & Linkin Park - Collesion Course
Rating: 4/5 (Very Good)
"I was not disappointed! I’m very impressed with what these guys were able to do with merging their musical styles together to create six very memorable songs. I don’t think I’m the only one either; when I was driving through Blacksburg last week on the way to Jacob’s radio show, we passed two other people jamming out to this album."

Song of the Day: The Anix vs. Gwen Stafani - "This Game Is Serious" www.the-anix.com

Well, there's good news and bad news. Good news is my Samplers showed up a day early, and they're great! Everything is perfect. Well, almost everything. Got an email from Carlo a few minutes ago, and unfortunately they had to cancel their show this weekend! Jeff has been sick, so it's understandable, and I hope he gets better soon. So...now to find new homes for all my promo gear. I'm sending Sarah a lot of it, so hit her up at shows up in NoVA and MD in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I guess the peeps going to the HITL cd release party in C-ville are gonna get lucky. :-) I tried to coerce a few people to take a random road trip to Ohio to see Disown, since I was so geared up for a concert, but I don't think that's gonna pan out.

I just read on the IMDB that two of the guys in the "Wierd Sisters" for Harry Potter 4 are from Radiohead. That's pretty cool. I thought getting TBM to be that band would've been awesome though.

Me and Jacob are going to some Punk Rock Prom thing here in town next weekend. Hey, any excuse to get dressed up, in a goth way, eh?

Wow.

This is the future of music.

I'm sitting here in my pajamas and listening to Jarflys do a show up in Naptown. Not a recording, LIVE. There's an awesome fan who brought in a streaming server, and the band and venue is letting him broadcast the show over the internet. This is killer.

Eh, sometimes I live a fairytale, and then one day I just have to wake up and get back with the current programming. Maybe this is why I have dreams about tornados and, lately, earthquakes? My life is by all accounts and comparison quiet and happy, but there's a mess of want and growth swirling around in me, desperate to get out.

"Haunting images of your face
And the sleepless nights I can't escape
And I lay there...and I wait here
As you plead your case to me
And you need me...and you breathe me
As you pledge your love for me

Change your ways
For now, you're living in a dream
Change your ways
For now, you're holding me down

Was it out of curiosity?
Plunged my world into disparity
And I lay there...and I wait here
As you plead your case to me
And you need me...and you breathe me
As you pledge your love for me

Change your ways
For now, you're living in a dream
Change your ways
For now, you're holding me down
Change your ways
For now, you're living in a dream
Change your ways
For now, you're holding me down"

Song of the Day: Disown - "Beautifully Sickening" www.disown.cc

AAAAARRRGGGHHH

I hate being left in charge without knowing what's going on, lmao. Ah well. Had issues kicking off the video conference this morning, but it's ok now. I don't have another room set until Wednesday, so it's all good.

Got some VERY good news in the email a few minutes ago regarding RAM. Gonna make some MOOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEY. Alllllllriiiiiiiiiiiight. Got some good interviews coming up soon too. This is apparently the month of interviews. Got three with D1, and then at least another three with RAM. Gonna be fun though...lots of neat people. One of my D1 interviews is today, with K-E-V. So that should be fun.

Other than that, not much going on. We struck the show last night and that went well, then I headed over to band practice with our new drummer. It went really well - this guy was awesome, so it looks like that's set up. So now to just get our lead guitarist and we'll be on our way.

Oh, I forgot to mention this last week. I got the best fortune cookie ever:

"You look pretty."

I kid you not, it was sooooooo funny! Ahh, good times.

So here I am at work, up at 7 for the first time in months, heh. Gonna work on some more RAM stuff today I think, and do some paperwork here.

Band photo:


Things went about how things go usually in a studio. Lots of time setting levels, etc. But we got the bass and vocals recorded. Derek's gonna work on the guitars this week as well as mastering. (Drums and keys are programmed.) So...hopefully...we'll have a demo in about a week.

We're gonna be completely reorganizing the space though; we had some problems with EQ'ing, and in general it's hard to get everyone in there. So we're gonna take everything down and rebuild the system as well as put up more sound proofing. Derek just called earlier and we may have a drummer! So that would be awesome.

Work was good today. Got a lot done. Put up big shelving units around the shop. Lost a lot of my office space, but fortunately not all of it! LOL.

New hair, inspired by my "big sis":



Rock. Just in time for band photos tomorrow.

Just got home from band practice a bit ago. Things were good and bad...guess how things go, right? We're making progress, getting things worked out. Got a lot of cool things coming up for the future with that. First of all, on Tuesday, we're gonna record a demo or two for the myspace profile. "Heh" definately, and perhaps also bits and peices from some of the covers we do so that we can maybe have a 'cover sampler' to put out so people can see what we're like. We're also gonna start working on getting to some open mic nights soon. So we're starting the intense task of figuring out how we're gonna do programming and such. Taking band photos this Tuesday, too, wheee! So look for some updates with that soon.

More shows coming up soon, in regards to other bands. Got an email from Heretics in the Lab today about their CD release party, which is gonna be in Charlottesville of all places...I was like, damn, that's the closest show to me ever. (Still two hours away - I hate being in Virginia.) It looks like the Baltimore show of the DSA tour got cancelled. (Apparently that venue sucks. They did this to 51 Peg, too.) BUT, there is now a date in North Carolina, and on Friday too, so that ends up being better. It's like an hour closer, and since that week may be blacked-out for work, I can actually GO to that show. I'm sad, though, because I've heard rumors that In Winter is playing the DSA show in Cleveland, and that perhaps Disown will be there too? If so, damn, I have to go! But it's on Monday. Argh.

In other news, if you've emailed me lately and gotten no response, it's quite possible that it didn't go through. I'm switching to make my RAM account my primary addy since it seems to be the most stable at the moment, so if you're using my LH, D1, or VT account, use the RAM instead. Or my work email, for that matter.

Let's see. Oh yeah, the show has been going great. We opened Friday and it was great. Afterwards, the cast invited me to go out to Macados with them, and that was a lot of fun. Ted has a great group of people, as always, in his show. We chilled out there for awhile, then a few of us went back to one of the guys' houses and played some pong. Apparently, I'm the queen of pong. I remember playing last, like, a year ago and sucking horribly, but I only lost maybe two games the other night in the course of three hours. I guess being a Hokie and all, even the worst VT players still rock in a community college town, eh? Hehehehe.

The guys' who house we were at was the boyfriend of one of the actresses, and during the course of being teamed up with him for pong, we talked about music and such, and he hooked me up with his band's demo. Really good stuff. Looks like we have at least one band to play with here in town now.

Then Saturday my boy came to see the show! That was really sweet and made me happy. I had my first review for work, too, and that went well. I like my new job a lot. It's hard, but it's what I want to do, so it's good. After all that, me and Jacob spent the rest of the weekend being cute and cuddling. This week I'm gonna hang out on his radio show Tuesday, and then he's gonna help me go shopping for some music stuff. I need some extra XLR cable and I'd like to get my own mic. I absolutely love the mic I found at work, but B says he needs it back (we're putting all our antique mics on display) so I gotta give it up. I'd like to test out one of the reproduction mics and see how those work. Should probably get my own 58 just to have it. Me and Derek have been talking about vocal processors and such...that's gonna have to happen eventually, too. I guess we'll see how that goes. Need...more...money...

Speaking of which, since I'm planning on moving out next month, I need a second job to help keep the income flowing. I'm thinking something small and fun. Don't need too many hours. Maybe working at the Roanoke TREX, or perhaps something else to suit my nocturnal hours. I wonder if I'd be any good at bartending? Maybe I can do something with one of the local venues sound and/or light-wise. Yeah...

Ok, I've rambled enough. Night.

Song of the Day: Otto's Daughter - "Over It" www.ottosdaughter.com

I'm really fucking frustrated. I'm tired of being the one to do EVERYTHING.

"I had a brief golden-ticket moment after spying a box of Wild Turkey. Alas, the box was empty (“oompa-loompa-doompity-doo, we’re going to hide the bourbon from you”)"
- Colonel Noseworthy, 4/6/05

So yeah, the Maynard thing was an April Fool's day joke. Kinda figured it had to be when I went back and saw that they always do something dramatic every year.

Dress went just fine tonight. It's my little freshman's birthday today, so I gotta take him out this weekend sometime. Any excuse for a drink, eh? Eh??

So work is going well. This lighting design was really easy this time around. Got to do my Lance Darcy impersonation and program some long fade cues to go with the passage of time. Good stuff! It's actually a good show. If anyone wants to come see it, we open Friday, and run this weekend and next.

Music stuff is going well too. Working on a new interview for D1. Didn't realize how much I missed getting those simple, one-liner emails from Lou, lol! Nice to be back with the family again. RAM is going well...I'm in the middle of getting the free sampler pressed now.

Probably gonna hang out with Lance at the end of the month. Gonna do a Family Guy marathon one weekend. Gotta hang out with him before he jets of to L.A. or Mexico, whichever comes first, hahaha. Thorn seems to be doing well in L.A. He's got a new project, Blood Circuit, that sounds good, and says he'll have a cd out this summer. That'd be awesome.

Song of the Day: Fluffy Starr - "Sampler II" www.fluffystarr.com

Interesting things need to not happen around April Fool's day.

In regards to my last post, indeed, the fan politics with the Anix was not a joke. I was pretty shocked by it. I have no idea what happened, but I never thought I'd see the former street team head turn on them. Crazy times indeed.

However, at least the pope had the good sense to die after the 1st, right? But seriously, I think for the most part that was handled really well. He said that he didn't want his death to be a sad time, and more power to him. He knew where he was going.

You know, I remember watching some documentary a few years ago, talking about non-biblical prophecies in relation to the Bible, and how quite a few had been interpreted to say that John Paul II was going to be the last pope before the end of time. You know, I don't worry about the Rapture too much...if it happens, it happens...I'm in a better place, and if you get left behind, well, now you know what happened.

But the thing that makes me actually wonder about the end times is Maynard James Keenan. Yeah, from Tool and APC. He's followed in Head's footsteps and found Jesus. Seriously. How is it that two major hard rock / industrial figures get saved within a few weeks of each other? Clicky clicky.

But it's all around April Fool's, so what can I say?

Song of the Day: Fluffy Starr - "NV" www.fluffystarr.com

Mat & Annie's beef with The Anix; true, or a really fucking elaborate April Fool's joke gone wrong? You tell me, because I have no clue. If you're on the OMB, the Legion, or JK's board, you're probably watching the drama too. Crazy times.

Dry tech went really well...I was out in like two hours. Tomorrow should be fun in a way; I start packing in preparation to move out next month. So looking forward to that. Also got my tax refund in the mail today, and that was cool.

Mankind Is Obsolete returned the love and put up a nice little note about RAM and the review I did for them on their website. I'm getting ready to put up some more reviews and interviews. I'm glad I have more time to do this these days.

Tomorrow is me and Jacob's 9 month anniversary. Cute!