FriendBurst Blog

went to the thusday night O.M. with a dollar in my pocket and no singing voice…came home with $20 (a loan) and a bit of a voice to sing with…I’d like to think I was able to sweat this cold outta my system, more or less…nearly got into a fight over the seating arrangement (!) how fuckin’ anal is the person who is that possessive of a CHAIR? But the set of Who tunes went well–that was my reason for going, because I agreed to…to get really technical, I seem to have lost my “whammy bar” but luckily I have a spare…aside from the conflict over furniture, I had fun…other than financially, Life is Good–I think…

although I did get chastised on a different website for being insensitive to the suffering of others–specifically the victims of the tornado outbreak in the Southern U.S. I’m NOT insensitive to their situation by any means, but fairly powerless to help in ways that matter…I admit that my belief in the power of prayer is shakey, but that’s all I have…

ADDENDUM–way back in the day, a group of FRIENDS, with at least some affection for each other (unspoken of course) and similar Musical tastes would form a Band…what happened to that? A lot of my friends seem to be in bands of convenience…there seems to be a fair amount of conflict or discord…this kinda bothers me…I’m not yet actually in a band, I’m mostly a “gun for hire” kinda guy; I wanna be in a Band, but I can be extremely picky about what kind of Band I wanna be in…Theoretically I’d like to be in a band that could play damn near anything (from ABBA to Zappa) but I know that’s unrealistic…Some of my friends are in more than one band, for whatever reason…I just wanna be in one…one that works steadily, one that is popular and one that is respected by other Musicians…it’s out there somewhere…in the meantime, I’ve got a gig tonight–an open mic; it will be fun, financially satisfying, and frustrating…Life is like that sometimes, and generally for me, Life is Good…