Smooth Landing

I've finally settled down (for a bit anyway), maybe I'll be able to start getting some work done again. I'm still pissed off at that psycho roommate of ours for the setback, but it's good to be out of a bad situation. Speaking of work -Creature's on the Loose will be playing at the Hollywood Theater on Saturday the 22nd, the Portland International Short Short festival -I hope it looks good on the big screen after the organizers' (www.zonkerfilms.com) digital transfer. It's also going into the first issue of the Oregon Literary Review (www.oregonliteraryreview.org). Pretty exciting.

Creature's on the Loose
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Well, the web archive for my files weren't working properly, so my audio files were loading but not my video. Samantha fixed it by putting it on our site... Nothing ever seems to work right the first time.

I worked a load out at one of the local network studios the other day, some deal called Gimme the Mike (creative, I know). One of these goofy deals where they get their force fed celebrity news anchor or weatherman or whatever, try to make ten people look like half the country, and give away an SUV to make it exciting. This time Joanne won! So they had the thing driven into the studio and put in front of their blue screen wall so they can make it look like it's flying through space or whatever.
I act as if these people are a bunch of morons and they don't help the situation by putting a bunch of signs on the windshield saying "Gimme me the Mike!" and "Joanne your #1!"

Time

It's not been easy to get much playing in lately...in between homes, everything I own in boxes, working every day, interruptions, catching colds...

I finally got a chance to do some playing in the backyard of my friends house in between the load-in and load-out of Audioslave (who put on a good show).

It took a while to warm up considering I was just getting over a cold, but I believe I'm getting closer to my goal of improvised songwriting. If I don't have the time or money to develop tunes right now at least I can record what I'm doing in the moment so I can come back to it later on.

Improv 9-27-05
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With only a couple of hours to play in a couple of weeks the almost constant interruptions were obviously irritating.

Blues Interrupted
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One interruption was finding out that one of our good friends had been attacked. We haven't heard from her since getting her somewhat ambiguous email, I hope she's okay...