No sleep till...Bellevue?
Yesterday seemed like the longest day ever. ever, people!
I managed to fake my way though the better part of my workday but, when I literally fell asleep at my desk I decided that the time for keeping up appearances was through. Thankfully, my boss is awesome and let me bail on the remaining 2 hours of my workday. Unfortunately this 2 hour window left me little time to do anything but run back to my apartment, change clothes, eat a cheeseburger, and run back into Bellevue to meet the rest of The Four Colour Process at The Ground Zero Teen center.
Even though I live 20 minutes away I always get a little nostalgic being back in Bellevue. It just seems like the ghosts of my teenage years speak the loudest when I'm on their turf.
The Show itself was a good time and the energetic dance response from the kids in the front was a nice change from the usual "indier-than-thou" statue impressions that greet most bands in the greater Seattle area. Coretta Scott, the headliner from Spokane ran into some van trouble stranding their lead singer Josh at the GZ without a band to play with. In a show of true rock and roll "good sportsmanship" Josh decided to give the kids an acoustic performance of several songs from his solo writings and I was left rather impressed by the depth and effectiveness of his set. I would have told him this myself but penetrating the phalanx of 14 year old indie girls that surrounded him seemed like it would take more strength than my exhausted body had left. Really the only down side about last night was when a marauding band of jocks drove by in someones fathers Audi and shot a crowd of us with paintballs. Now my leg has a welt and there is a green paint splotch on my favorite jeans. Devin and I grabed rocks to break the cars windsheild if they made a return pass but, sadly, we were not given the chance to retaliate. probably for the best really.
Overall, last night felt like an all ages show should: a common effort by a bunch of kids to play and enjoy good local music without all the scene bullshit that has left some of us a little jaded.
After the show was over I bowed out of the general plans to go back to the hill and hit the egg room after party. As much as I wanted to stay up until 7am and wake up feeling like an angry rhinoceros had "had his way with me" I felt that the smart move for me would be to go home and catch up on all the sleep I'd missed the night before.
Upon getting home my Wife called me from Bourbon street in New Orleans and my desire to be with her was so bad that my heart started to feel like a tin can in a trash compacter. (ooooh so EMO)It was at this moment that I started formulating plans to build a personal matter teleporter....world economics be damned!!
I woke up early this morning and made my way to pirahna Studios to continue work on recording vocals for our as-of-yet untitled record. Progress is good and by tonight the rough mix of "patience Guide" should be up on our myspace page for your listening pleasure.
Anyway, Josh had to take off for a while to do some work at Mars Hill so K3 and I are going to have some fun with cameras and creative lighting. The results will most likely end up on my myspace page later tonight. If you're lucky.
Okay...Off to be creative.
later.
I managed to fake my way though the better part of my workday but, when I literally fell asleep at my desk I decided that the time for keeping up appearances was through. Thankfully, my boss is awesome and let me bail on the remaining 2 hours of my workday. Unfortunately this 2 hour window left me little time to do anything but run back to my apartment, change clothes, eat a cheeseburger, and run back into Bellevue to meet the rest of The Four Colour Process at The Ground Zero Teen center.
Even though I live 20 minutes away I always get a little nostalgic being back in Bellevue. It just seems like the ghosts of my teenage years speak the loudest when I'm on their turf.
The Show itself was a good time and the energetic dance response from the kids in the front was a nice change from the usual "indier-than-thou" statue impressions that greet most bands in the greater Seattle area. Coretta Scott, the headliner from Spokane ran into some van trouble stranding their lead singer Josh at the GZ without a band to play with. In a show of true rock and roll "good sportsmanship" Josh decided to give the kids an acoustic performance of several songs from his solo writings and I was left rather impressed by the depth and effectiveness of his set. I would have told him this myself but penetrating the phalanx of 14 year old indie girls that surrounded him seemed like it would take more strength than my exhausted body had left. Really the only down side about last night was when a marauding band of jocks drove by in someones fathers Audi and shot a crowd of us with paintballs. Now my leg has a welt and there is a green paint splotch on my favorite jeans. Devin and I grabed rocks to break the cars windsheild if they made a return pass but, sadly, we were not given the chance to retaliate. probably for the best really.
Overall, last night felt like an all ages show should: a common effort by a bunch of kids to play and enjoy good local music without all the scene bullshit that has left some of us a little jaded.
After the show was over I bowed out of the general plans to go back to the hill and hit the egg room after party. As much as I wanted to stay up until 7am and wake up feeling like an angry rhinoceros had "had his way with me" I felt that the smart move for me would be to go home and catch up on all the sleep I'd missed the night before.
Upon getting home my Wife called me from Bourbon street in New Orleans and my desire to be with her was so bad that my heart started to feel like a tin can in a trash compacter. (ooooh so EMO)It was at this moment that I started formulating plans to build a personal matter teleporter....world economics be damned!!
I woke up early this morning and made my way to pirahna Studios to continue work on recording vocals for our as-of-yet untitled record. Progress is good and by tonight the rough mix of "patience Guide" should be up on our myspace page for your listening pleasure.
Anyway, Josh had to take off for a while to do some work at Mars Hill so K3 and I are going to have some fun with cameras and creative lighting. The results will most likely end up on my myspace page later tonight. If you're lucky.
Okay...Off to be creative.
later.
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