A month to prepare

I dream of someday writing a book. I think this would be a great accomplishment for irony. Since i rarely read. I'm not sure why that is either. Maybe i have an undiagnosed minor case of ADD and can't focus on it, or maybe i just never found the right book. Although a week ago i bought a Get In The Van by Henry Rollins, and I haven't put it down. I'm about 75% through the book right now and its very inspiring and at the same time, I feel like I've accomplished so little in my time in a band. Mostly I feel that i have a bunch of stories that I've gathered and want to document them. maybe I'll start updating this more with those stories from the past few years and the current stuff. Would anybody read that if I posted it?? Maybe that dream book will consist of thing and a the compiled ramblings of my notebooks filled with booking info, and to do lists. It will be a combo of Get In The Van and Kurt Cobain's Journals only way less successful.

I've wanted to tour since shortly after I picked up a guitar and realized how it makes noise. Most kids outgrow that phase but i can't seem to kick it. We had talks of doing something in the spring for like a week or so, but Peterson can't get the time off of work, so we're limited to weekends. Also as you all know we live in the northeast, and with our luck being that of a one eyed three legged cat who's been struck by lightening twice, I'm trying to be as careful as possible as to where we go. I do have 2 weekend tours in the works with bands that i am a huge fan of and friends with. January 29-31th we will be traveling across PA and NJ with the one man dance machine Team Goldie. I've unofficially dubbed it the "Dancing, Drinking, Fucking, Sleeping Tour" since I'm pretty sure I'll take part in none of these activities. Lets hope it catches on. And in February we will be traveling again across the great New York State tundra with Patrons of Sweet from Buffalo. More info on that as is develops.

In other news we're finishing recording our new disc "Flame On" and there is literally 3 more lines of singing that need to be recorded and then its done. What will happen with it in regards of pressing and releasing is anybodies guess right now. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. So my days of non-guitar selling are currently spent practicing the new tunes with The Andrea Doria gents, writing some new stuff, and booking these upcoming weekends. I've been filling my show playing addiction with my other band Stonelord. The new disc is being released this weekend. "new" being a relative term... we recorded it in June. Ahh reminds me of T.A.D.'s "Champagne Dreams on a Beer Budget" which i believed was recorded in September of '08 and released in July of '09. we're all pros.

Well, tomorrow's agenda will consist of making some phone calls for the Dancing, Drinking, Fucking, Sleeping tour... see its catching on already. doing some things for the day job, and doing merch inventory to see what new shirts and such we need to order. Days off are never days off but learning to play guitar morphed into playing guitar in bands and that mutated into pushing this dream as far as it can go.