August 2021
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August 29th, 2021. The Acoustic Guitar Project.
For 10 years the Acoustic Guitar Project hath existed. It’s slowly expanded to it’s current form, with cities all over the world taking part. I’ve been aware of it for closer to seven years, which, looking back, is how long the local DC edition has existed. I’ve long been aware of friends being invited to…
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August 28th, 2021. Forsooth, I am BOOF.
(above, I never really took a photograph of our audience, which is a shame, because they filled the hills – perhaps a hundred people, a fair number of which actually cared we were playing for them there at Red Shedman Brewery at Linganore Winery in Mount Airy, MD) I don’t actually know much about Red…
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August 26th, 2021. Diner.
Last night I dreamt I was in a diner. Not one I recognized, a pretty generic diner, but we were all grateful to be there. T’was me and the band and Jade and Justin (Heather’s brother) and Chris Ehrich and Brennan. Weirdly we all fit at a relatively small table and we were strangely quiet,…
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August 24th, 2021. I’m Off.
During our offness out internet connectivity has been really iffy. We can see this as lucky or UNlucky from different points of view, but this particular failure WAS kinda perfect. We’re hiding. Not very effectively. We’re just ain’t going out there. And we’re not making loud noises. And we’re petting the cat. It’s not QUITE…
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August 22nd, 2021. Hello? Knees?
Friday night we played a Lovely show at American Ice Co. Or at least…. it was Lovely until the wasps woke up. I felt that after Thursday night’s open mic’s heat, low population and rapid breakdown due to rain I was kinda OWED such an incredible evening… but wasps ruin EVERYTHING. It WAS pointed out…
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August 19th, 2021. The Main Street Open Mic.
Setting it up, making it go. Last week we canceled because it was 107 degrees out here. I think playing outside is beginning to wear on me. I hated the fact that loading in tonight was so grueling, in the heat and the humidity, that when I was indicating to a band where to put…
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August 18th, 2021. Shhh.
Washing cables in the rain. This is pretty chill too. Much of my gear got dragged through the mud Friday night and now it’s time to undo some of the damage. It’s a quiet morning. I didn’t realize it since I was listening to the news and making breakfast, but as I slow down, quiet…
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August 16th, 2021. The Dreamscapes Project.
Keith Center saying farewell to the Dreamscapes Project’s last audience in Falls Church, VA, April 2014. I NEED to get the Journal transferred. No-one will probably ever care except me and Susan and maybe the random one-off humans who are impressed that I can find details about a particular date pre-Facebook, but I need to…
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August 14th, 2021. Friday the 13th.
Friday the 13th was a night of plans, back up plans, and changing plans. We got everything under cover before the wind and rain REALLY built up… Well, I’ve got to admit last night was EXHAUSTING, and as I look at my gigantic pile of wet, mud-spattered cables, speakers, instruments with broken strings, pedals that…
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August 12th, 2021. Silver lining, where now?
(Okay – here’s a silver lining – on August 10th, 2021 – while Tinsmith was performing at Jammin Java in Vienna, VA, Rowan found our sticker still up in the bathroom!) A silver lining! I’m taking photos of my microphone with springy looking flowers to gather graphics for a new open mic I’ll be running…