The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Got to spend a good part of yesterday and some of this morning watching the Daytona 24 Hour race on Fox / Speed. Doing a lot of other "TV Watching" projects while the race was on, so I never really picked a favorite or anything, but it was fun watching...

I was rather disappointed that they cut off coverage at 8 pm MST last night, until I got a call at 7:30 this morning that our band leader at church was calling in sick and could I cover... if the race coverage had gone on all night, I imagine I'd have been in no shape to lead the band this morning Our regular drummer also called in with a sick kid, but we had another drummer (conveniently also named John) there this morning and talked him into playing. Managed to pull things together pretty well, no absolute train wrecks. There was one song where I realized during the service that I should've suggested that the drummer double time it, but other than that...

Tied for second in Mobile Home House Party, that's not too bad, I guess. A very strong field for They Control the Weather, so I won't be on the podium this week, but my cover art got used, if only because it was the only art submitted for that fight. Surely there must be a way to convert all the enthusiasm for the "Make Your Own Album" thing into more cover art submittals...



QotD: found myself in rather of a foul mood this afternoon, so just said that I was going to go upstairs and take a nap, and when I awoke a couple hours later, I was doing much better... when you find yourself in a foul mood, what seems to work to help you snap out of it?

Charles (KA)

Here.

Rainy day at Disneyland today - rode the new submarine ride.

QOTD: Not sure, but I know when I think of it The Beatles almost always work.

Roll Call: I'm at work right now, checking in on some over-the-weekend jobs. It's been a good day; I took the family to Funspot and then out to lunch, and I had time to get another Grift of Music song done.

QotD: Playing/recording always works. Every time. So far.

So The Funeral Dazies have a show coming up where we need to bring our own PA. Luckily I have one and our new lead guitarist has two powered speakers that we can use as monitors. Well, we wanted to get a feel for the equipment tied together and with this particular ensemble. We called a practice at the new guitarist's house... we had to practice outside. (Beautiful day here today) He had already discussed it with neighbors, all seemed good.

Three songs into our practice and right when we found the sweet spot mix wise... along comes Johnny Law to shut er' down. We spent the rest of the day ordering pizza and listening to music. When the sun started going down and it started to get a little chilly, we lit this outside wood stove to keep warm and continued to share stories. It was really nice.

Technically I had a run in with the law two days in a row. Remind me to tell ya'll about my run in with Hillsborough County SWAT the day before at the Gasparilla Festival.

qotd: Nothing. Your nap idea was good advice. In fact, my friend who now lives out there near you somewhere in Gilbert does that every once and a while when she is in a foul mood..and it helps her.

I'm not sure what I did today. I guess I watched some TV and laid down some loops for a song idea which won't go anywhere. It's also raining pretty bad and I also decided not to go out to a meetup with some people I only vaguely know and don't really care to know any better. Right now I'm baking some leftover mushroom polenta, and eating brie on roasted garlic bread.

[edit] Oh yeah, I also practiced guitar+vocals+loop pedal a bunch. Now I don't feel so bad.

Hey, congrats, Charles!

Puttered around the house today. All of my self-inflicted honey-do's are interesting enough to sync with my schitzy attention span on weekends, so there was good and valuable work done. Still got a ways to go on my badly late GOM. Scoring orchestral stuff is kinda involved, I'm learning

QOTD: Depends on the foul mood. On the heavier end (suicide of a dom who was a client, and my boss at the time was directly responsible for the suicide... it's a long story of madness and desperation, identity, robbery, brutality and deception) listening to the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" all the way through for a good eight hours straight helped. On the less heavy end, well, being with my wife (9 months and 3 days now), sharing her space, is the greatest fucking panacea I've ever known. I hope that's the right word, heh.

qotd: watch cartoons until you fall asleep. That worked for me a couple days ago.

QOTD: I was going to say booze, but the truth is, I tend not to drink if I'm in a foul mood. I drink when I'm happy or to celebrate my successes of the day. That's why I set my bar very low.
But thinking, I do say, "damn, I need to get drunk" to anyone in listening range, whenever I'm having a bad day. But I never do. I wonder why that is?

This rain has my mind all over the place. I'm really having strange thoughts with vivid memories of my life, like my story yesterday. Some of times that I couldn't even walk yet. I have a really uneasy feeling, kind of antsy. When I get this way, I tend to annoy the shit out of my wife, singing the wrong words to songs that rhyme with funnier words, cook a lot. Anyone want a German Chocolate cupcake or a strawberry cannoli....cannolo?

Ross wrote:Here.

Rainy day at Disneyland today - rode the new submarine ride.

QOTD: Not sure, but I know when I think of it The Beatles almost always work.

Ross, I just saw a Toyota commercial and thought you got one of your songs on TV. So I looked it up and found it here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2_SuvSg248

So, It would appear that this Pete Droge clown is stealing your style, man!

Billy's Little Trip wrote:cannolo?

YES. THANK GOD.