Man, things are getting exciting! It’s starting to make me appreciate this more. As much as I “say” that this is not supposed to be a chronology, it often makes me think about what’s going on. I actually have to think about what has happened since I wrote you last. If I ever do go back and read any of these, I’ll have a pretty good representation of what was going on, what was on my mind. I imagine it may be fun, someday. I used to journal a lot when I was in the Navy. I thought it’d be a good way to give me something to do, and basically do what I’m writing to you about now. I’ve been out for 24 years! I usually only journaled when I was on deployment. My last deployment was 30 years ago! I still have never read what I wrote. I know where they are, I have them. But I have never looked at them. I suppose I will someday. But if it hasn’t happened in 30 years!? I’m not sure what insight I could get from them. It’s weird to think that I might read these again. I’m not even sure if I have another 30 years. Before I started using the program I’m using now, I wrote all of these on Myspace. I printed them all out before it went down. So, I have years of those too, that I’ll probably never read again. That’s a lot of information. Well, if you can call it that. Who knows, I may get an itch one day. When I was trying to put my book together, I went back over all the iterations I had done as I put them into digital form. From my first draft to my latest draft is a span of 13 years. Unfortunately, my first draft is now 25 years old. I need to get back at it. But, when I was re-reading it, I could sense the newness of the idea. A lot of the sentiment was the same, but I could feel it’s incompleteness.
I guess I’d
probably feel the same way if I listened to my first few recordings, which I almost
never do. As I write this, I find myself wondering: “Then what the hell am I
saving all of this for?” I’ve got boxes of tapes, boxes of notebooks, boxes of
printed pages, for what!? If I’m not going to look at them, it sure is taking
up a lot of space. I’ll probably look. Someday. I don’t know if I’ll still have
a cassette player by then! I thought about digitizing it, but again, for what?
That’d be a time-consuming process, just to hear a bunch of “junk.” Plus, I
already took on a project like that, and I’m still working on it! Which actually
just gave me a little boost. I am working on it! I’ve only got 15 discs left to
go. It’s weird how often I feel that I’m not doing anything, then I get
reminded that I am. It’s just weird because it seems these days that I’m
pivoting a lot. I find myself working on what’s important at the time. Some things
get pushed. I finally worked on one of my games yesterday, and it felt like
forever since I had. Plus, I usually listen to one of the Jams Discs while I’m
playing, a 2 birds kind of thing, so it’s been a minute. But, luckily, it’s
because I’ve been busy with other stuff. That’s the exciting part! I’m learning
all these new songs for the cow-punk band. It’s coming along rather nicely. Our
first gig was supposed to be on the 27th, but we got a new gig offer
for the 20th, so our debut got moved up by a week. I’ve only been
with them for 5 weeks! This is crazy. We’re going from 0 to 25 minutes in 6
weeks! I can’t believe it. Especially since the Calvins take a year and a half
to write 1 song. One 2-minute song. So, this pace is a little bit different. I
like it. It’s a little scary, but we’re doing it.
Tomorrow the Calvins
are playing the Jim Rao Fan Club Show. I’m not exactly sure who that is. I
tried looking him up online, but it wasn’t that helpful. Maybe, hopefully, I’ll
find out tomorrow. Word on the street is that he might be there! People seem pretty
excited. I’m pretty excited! It’s at the Casbah, which is awesome! And, in case
you don’t know, it’s one of the biggest punk rock shows of the year. Getting on
the bill is a big deal! We’re second out of 18 bands. I hope some people get
there early. This is killer. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to stay for
the whole 10 hours. That’s a lot. Plus, with our habit, that’s expensive!
Luckily most of the bands I’m looking forward to seeing play near the beginning.
One of them is right after us. There are 2 stages, we start at 3:30 and the
band I want to see starts at 4! We’re only playing 25 minutes. Just enough time
to put my bass in the case and get to the other stage. This is going to be
nuts! I hope we get to see some fresh faces. I’m not bragging, but usually,
when people see us for the first time, we get their attention. I like it. It’s
getting a little weird trying to advertise for all of these shows coming up.
The promoter for the show on the 27th wants us to start advertising,
but I want people to come tomorrow! So, I’m waiting. I hope it’s not a big
deal. But then, the cow-punk band is playing on the 20th, and the 27th.
There’s no way not to overlap that. Tickets for the 20th are $30!
Why would people spend that when they can see us a week later, for free, during
the day, with their kids? Although the band we’re playing with on the 20th
is awesome. They probably should come check it out. I know I’m glad I’ve heard
of them. They’re great!
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