Good morning to the world. I’m kind of buzzy from a late night, not-so-early morning. Listening to a playlist of friends’ music that I’ve put together for another friend looking for inspiration for her television program in California. Sneezing uncontrollably. Happy Friday.
Heather’s up at Falcon Ridge and I’m a little bit jealous of how much stuff she must be infused with at the moment, but it’s absurd how much satisfaction I get out of our Firestone’s gigs. Three hours of playing whatever we please, playing hard and fast to keep the bar crowd happy. Pushing voice and fingers without the breaks that normally come from having Heather at my side, I imagine this is what it feels like getting a lot of exercise for people who… like doing that stuff.
Yeah, if I got this kind of satisfied high out of lifting or running or whatever else I’d be all svelte and fit – alas, no. Give me my guitar and 2 1000 watt speakers and I’m a jolly beast.
That being said, it IS a three hour bar gig, and I’m generally too wired to sleep afterwards, and my fingers are sore, my back is sore, I only slept about five hours before the construction woke me up and my brain’s not really swimming into focus yet today, though I’ve got plenty of work to do, I got a call from my stock broker (why do they always just say “please call me”, why don’t they ever give me details?) and in general I’m just wishing my Friday felt like other peoples’ Fridays. I remember Fridays. Today feels like Sunday. Like… I know I’ve got work to get done today, but tomorrow my work week truly starts and all I want to do today is kick back and watch Star Wars. Twice.
Below – a lot of our friends and fans are getting married right now. As we say, “they’ve got the nups”. And so ilyAIMY’s been asked to play a lot of nuptual gigs – which has been a learning process. This is a wedding for our friends Mariah and Sarah and there were Christmas lights and pinatas and twerking. Everything you ought to have at a wedding. Also – thunderstorms and ilyAIMY. Happy Nups! July 27th, 2017 in Martinsburg, WV.
On July 29th ilyAIMY was asked to play a friend’s birthday party. Though the day started out grey and dismal and very, very windy – things cleared up and we got to play to a Lovely audience on a Lovely day. Things got a little tense when they proved themselves to be NOT Lovely at making Chinese lanterns go… but after they stopped lighting things on fire and the local farmland proved too damp to ignite they started throwing fireworks in the firepit. At this point we decided it was time to make our way home. Swiftly.
