Tonight we got to play another full-band show. Out under the slowly darkening sky at the Columbia Lake Front for one of Joe Isaacs’ “Music that Matters” showcases. We got to share the stage with Symbiont and Dan Sheer… both of which played in formats that I hadn’t seen before.
First off, Symbiont has a new drummer, who proceeded to be a monster of a rhythm player to back Jeff’s band. Really good sound. The toms went really well with Karyn Oliver’s hips. Good power set.
Dan Sheer had brought along a guitarist/bass player who I’d met before at the Thai Gour Cafe. Great blues player… really good night of a lot of great music.. Awesome night. It was really cool being home – I was surprised because I always think that College Perk is sort of like our homecoming show, and that that’s where we see all of our friends. I forget that I REALLY come out of Ellicott City, and the Jahva House, and that Columbia probably contains a WHOLE lot more of my old, old fans. I saw people tonight who were back from four years of school who didn’t have an album past Strength in Hare. Insanity.
I can’t believe how much time I spend just wasting my Life staring at the ceiling, or staring at the interior of my own eyelids, wishing myself to sleep. I forgot the process of it a long, long time ago, and then made up my own methods to get by. But the self-exhaustion required just can’t be found anymore, and at some point, I’m going to look back on my Life and realize that I’ve wasted days and weeks and inevitably whole years just tryingto fall asleep.
Ha, but probably only weeks writing about it.
Rehashing events and Life and the universe and everything, and wondering how I’ve ended up where I’m at, and what branches are extended to me from here.
