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So I guess I've gotten used to posting more on LJ while I've had my blog private; I've imported a few entries from there to here just to keep everything together. As you can see below, I had a "spill my guts" post a few weeks ago to try to tie some things up in my head and get on to the next chapter.

In any case, a lot of things have happened...

March 30th - I met Kathie Lee Gifford. She's the playwright for a show at Signature, so she dropped in while we were reloading color scrollers that morning. We had no idea who she was until our ME mentioned to us later that she saw us talking to her.
March 31st - I hit up the Bella Morte show at Jaxx to see In Tenebris and Rites of Ash open. Hung out with some friends, got Vincent Knaus in to get some kick ass pictures, and then headed over to Midnight.
April 1st - The Caustic / Boole / Gothsickles / Apologizers show. I got really drunk and won a giant vibrator signed by all the bands at the end of the night. For safe keeping I kept it sticking out of my front pocket as I walked around the club. MindCage still won't let me live that one down, lol.
April 5th - I got taken on as a portrait model for Corcoran. I feel special because I have a faculty parking pass.

April 6th - Scott takes me up to Ascension at Baltimore, which rocks. I met a guy up there, but never caught his name. I noticed him watching me the whole night, but he never came over before he left. It was pretty cute nevertheless.
April 7th - Disown's show at Midnight was cancelled due to Jae getting sick. Very disappointing, but we'll get them back down here soon. On the flip side, I end up with a last minute DJ spot instead.

April 11th - VNV Nation instore signing at Strangeland. Getting the band together was a bit of a clusterfuck as their tour manager got deathly ill with the flu. But in the end all was well; I ended up driving Mark from VNV and Gio from And One around that afternoon. All the guys were cool, but Mark especially rocked. The instore signing went absurdly well; we had close to 80 people in the store for the one hour period.
April 12th - VNV Nation show. Kit had an extra VIP pass so I spent most of the show drinking in the VIP lounge balcony on the second floor. Good show. Afterwards, we all did our good promoting thing; lots of promoters ended up helping each other out by handing out everyone's flyers together. From this, I'm tentatively starting a joint flyering project where we either combine our flyers ahead of time, or get some big nice ones made that include everyone's info on them.

April 13th - Armageddon Dildos / Inertia / Red This Ever / dharmata 101 show. Good show, but I was very very tired...
April 14th-18th - Theatre Sans Fil at Alden. I got to be a "puppet ninja" on ground crew. It was a cool show, just a bit stressful. Nice people though. Note to self: dry ice machines suck.
April 16th - Virginia Tech Massacre. Marius texts me around 11am to let me know what happened. It takes me about three days to track down my friends and professors to see if anyone I knew had been hurt or killed. Fortunately, no one I knew was directly affected. For the first time in my life, I really felt like a Hokie. That asshole Fred Phelps announced that he would be protesting at the slain students' funerals, but I learned later that they had cancelled all protests in exchange for airtime on a national radio broadcast.
April 18th - DTX7 comes into town. Me, Marius, and Niko hang out for the evening. Marius makes dinner. Marius makes very good dinner.

April 19th - DTX7 / Cynergy 67 / RAM promo photoshoot w/ Vincent Knaus. The pictures come out great! We've got plenty of images to use in our press packs. That night, we hit up Chronos to do a little pre-show promotion for Friday.
April 20th - Worms of the Earth / DTX7 / Caduceus Virus show @ SLR. The show goes well, but with a smaller crowd than I had hoped for. And...I need to get a reverb unit for my PA system. I also finally got my Coffin Case merch in the mail - the day after I really needed it.

Upcoming events:
April 26th - Mason Day @ GMU. Strangeland is vending, so we're giving away 500+ goodie bags on campus. It's gonna rock.
April 27th - I DJ @ BOUND along side of DJ Solaries. Rock!
May 4th - Park calls w/ Shakespeare start. For me, that signifies that summer is officially here!
May 5th - I guest DJ @ Midnight again, with The Cassandra Syndrome playing.
May 13th - Darklocks photoshoot, part II!
May 18th - Cyanotic tour comes into town.
May 19th - Lee & Molly's wedding, whoo!

So staying busy. Still kinda broke. Kinda down too about some things that happened last month, but I'm moving on...