The More Things Change

What the hell do I have to say?

I hate the truth.com commercials. I don't hate the cause. Being a semi-ex-smoker (and by that I mean I still smoke whenever I can just not constantly) I think trying to keep kids from even trying it is a VERY good thing, but the commercials are ridiculous. The one where there are 1,500 people standing outside of the cigarette company and they all "drop dead" at once is just gay. The one with the rats was worse. They only one that I did like was the one that had the cowboy with the voice box singing that fucking song. Now THAT was funny as hell. They need to have a singing-voice-box-cowboy in every one. Anyway, goddamn you truth.com stop being so retarded.

I think I may have resolved my issues with the band (we'll see what time tells). We are in talks with a booking company from Chicago, and they seem to be working on getting us some decent shows that actually pay well. Thats all I have ever really wanted from it. I just wanted to write music, play shows, and make enough money that its worth the cost of getting to the show. Every time gas prices go up it makes it less and less worth it to drive 200 miles to a show to make $100 especially since there are 6 of us. I really don't want much. Maybe enough to cover gas and have $50 to put in each of our pockets. The problem is there are so many goddamn shitty fucking bands out there that "just want to play for the exposure" that will play for $60 of worse yet for free, that bars and venues don't want to pay anything anymore. Then the venues expect YOU to pull in a crowed. It is fucking bullshit.

In the near future we are planning to bring a semi-big act to our town and play with them and hopefully make some money. The biggest possibility right now it God Forbid. That is huge because they are one of my favorite bands. Since I get 99.9999% of my music from limewire I like to support my favorite bands by buying merch, going to shows, and now by paying them to play shows in our town. I will keep posting about this because its a huge deal to me. Possibly a future job...?

I have nothing further to bitch about.