| | Good day to you all. It has been truly forever since I have posted
something on here, and to be honest, I haven't really been keeping up
with everyone else's either. Sorry. Things have been crazy.
I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday. I know that mine was somewhat
restful. I lost about a week of it to the band (I will get to that
later) but other than that the break was extremely lazy. I ended up
with a whole bunch of new bass equipment, even more clothes, a few CDs
and DVDs along with a host of other little fun toys and gagets. I
received a copy of Clerks 2 which was more than worth it's weight in
gold. I saw the flick in the theatre, and thought it was pretty good.
Not amazing but not average. Pretty good. I threw it on my list for my
extended family. It is an easy buy, ya know? I got it on Christmas eve
and went home and watched the whole feature itself along with a 90
documentary which was very insightful. Like with many Kevin Smith
movies, I had to see it a couple times before I could fully appreciate
it. And now, I have seen it many times and love it. But the most
embarassing part was on Chrstmas Eve. I waited for my mom and brother
to go to bed and my dad was asleep on the couch. Now, my dad usually
sleeps like a rock so figured, what the hey, I will start the movie. I
got about 2/3 of the way through it without a stir from the old man. I
had to cover my mouth to hold in my laughter on certain parts (The
Pillow Pants and the Lord of the Rings scenes in particular) but along
comes the great Donkey scene. At one of the more, ehm, explict parts, I
hear a voice behind me say, "What the hell are you watching?" Ugh. I
think that if he had not seen Jay and Silent Bob he might thought I was
watching a different kind of movie.
The band is kicking well. But we had hit a snag sometime in mid
December. See, we wanted to do a small tour thoughout Ohio and Indiana
and we recruited a "friend" named Jon to help us book some of the
harder to book days (Monday-Thursday). Now Jon is the guy who claimed
to own a record label that was just purchased by Columbia. We saw some
contracts, we saw a little money, we heard a lot of promises so we
worked with him a little bit. As time went on, things got more and more
shady.
Finally, the second day of the tour, we were playing in this irish pub.
After a huge amount of confusion, we were told we could play for 20
along with our friends, a band called Goodnight Wednesday. We were put
off by the entire situation, so we quietly went through our 5 songs so
GNW could come on and play. They were almost finished with their very
first song when the owner ran up to them screaming and swearing. "NO!
NO! NO! GET OUT! Pay them their money and leave!" We got kicked out of
a bar, and not in that normal college kid/ Ben Faiella way. 10 minutes
later we find out that the show the next day in Indiana was cancelled,
another show Jon booked. Suspecting foulplay, we called up the Bowling
Green Church of the Nazarene (another one of the shows booked by Jon)
the next day and they told us that Jon had contacted them and they
emphaticly said "No." So that was the final straw. The next day we sat
down with him and David just ripped him a new one. But now we don't
have to worry about that crap anymore. We are no worse for the wear and
are much more skeptical in general. Generally a win-win.
But things are going well. We actually have most of January off until
the 27th when we play at the Grove City Naz. If anyone is home you
should definately come. Tree....nudge nudge.
Well, I have killed enough time for now. I need to get some food, then it is a four hour block of class. God help me.
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