In the last month or so, I have come up with over a dozen different ideas for things I wanted to post about. For some reason, though, this month I could not write a thing. I don't know why. I guess I was just too busy, and when I had time to do it I was busy thinking about other things and never had enough time to really get going.
Now I have a little bit of free time, but I'm just going to write about my life, since all of the complicated blog posts take too much time and effort. At least this post will be posted.
I have had a very musical week. Two of the bands that I'm in have shows coming up and we're rehearsing a lot. One of the bands has a show this Saturday, and the other has one in August. Also, the latest play I'm in is going into tech week, and we still have a lot of songs to run. Oh yes, and my friend Joe Harris and I are working on a musical again! Collaboration for the win!
I'm currently very excited that we finally picked a name for our band (the one that has a show in August). You would think that finding a name would be the least of our worries, but I was kind of bummed that it looked like we would be announced as "The Joseph Lamy Band," which just doesn't have the same ring as "The David Crowder Band" or "The David Matthews Band." I mean, you've got the short vowel repetition, but there's just no name recognition. No offense, Joe.
We're called heretoday, and yes, the "t" is supposed to be a cross. Just wait 'till you see the t-shirts. I'm quite happy with it, because it's short, easy to remember, sound kind of cool, and has spiritual meaning. And, on what I suppose is a more important note, we had a great rehearsal and our songs are sounding great. Finally I feel good about playing them. I still have one harmony that needs practice, but we're practicing again tomorrow night so I should be able to get it. Besides, we have at least three more after that before the show. Fun stuff.
In addition to blogging, I've started work on a novel again. Hooray! I finally found a copy of my book about a homeless college graduate on one of my dad's hard drives. After this post is complete I'll be back to work on that. It's amazing how many edits are required after growing just a year older. I embarrass myself sometimes... but perhaps after some more editing I will post an excerpt or two on here. I don't know, maybe somebody will be interested. We shall see.
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Yay, I remember that novel! I just reread the part you sent me yesterday when I was going through my old emails. [right before my computer crashed and I lost said emails! sad.] I'm glad you're going back to work on it.
ReplyDeleteI hate having lots of blog ideas and not being able to actually write. it's a mysterious, cure-less syndrome. yeah.
also, I think "The Joseph Lamy Band" sounds awesome. but heretoday is neat, too. have you guys done any recording?
It is very different now... the basic plot has not changed much (except for details about college stuff that I didn't know before), but the wording, narration, exposition, dialogue, description, exposition, et cetera has been greatly altered.
ReplyDeleteWell, we don't know for sure if it is cure-less. There might be a cure, but I don't know what it is. If I find out, I'll let you know.
3 reasons why The Joseph Lamy Band shouldn't be our band name:
1. It was never an actual suggestion, but since we had no suggestions until the night we picked our name, I theorized, that whoever was introducing us would have to come up with a name like that (Think the Spiderman/Human Spider thing from Spiderman 1).
2. Joseph Lamy is not necessarily the frontman for our band, he just organized it in the beginning. He will readily admit that he is the least experienced member of the band, he just recently picked up the guitar, he doesn't write music, and he doesn't write lyrics.
3. The whole "The (Name of Frontman Here) Band" thing has been done at least three times already (David Crowder, Dave Matthews, Robbie Seay) and is getting old.
No, we haven't done any recording yet. We're a very new band (hence why we didn't have a name until recently), but I like the direction the band is going and I would love to record some music sometime in the future.