I'm feeling better. The Evildoers had a show at Headhunters last Saturday and it went really well (except for my guitar not working on one song). A guy from another band was in the audience and has asked us to play with his band in late April. I've also revamped the website for The Evildoers, which has given me a sense of accomplishment. I've also had an interesting week at work. I can't say it's gone great, but my students' science projects are starting to come together, so I can actually see some tangible results.
03/19/2005:
What am I doing with my life? It’s a good question. I’ve been very lazy during my spring break. Somer visited for a few days. Amazing! I drank a lot and we watched a bunch of movies (which I always enjoy). Now that she’s gone back to Fort Worth, I am alone again with my thoughts, and I am reminded that I have no fucking clue about what to do with my life. Will I become a decent teacher? Should I quit and work at a video store until I learn enough to open my own? Should I try to do music full-time (I have no idea how to do this)? Will the answers to any of these questions make me happy? Should I give in to my laziness and lead a life of poverty without a family and responsibility and just indulge in my base desires (I could watch five movies a day for the rest of my life)? Maybe I should have a nervous breakdown so I can be committed to a mental institution where I can be taken care of. What a pathetic notion! And yet I think about it every single fucking day of my life. I know that Somer makes me happy. I know that The Evildoers make me happy. I know that Dame Darcy makes me happy. I know that Akira Kurosawa makes me happy. I know that The Beatles still make me happy after more than 5,000 spins on the stereo. And that damn acoustic guitar that screams at me while I’m trying to cook dinner or check my e-mail or write lesson plans and begs me to pick it up and strum, strum, strum, playing the same thing over and over until I break through the wall and find something new to play and sing, sing, sing.
02/26/2005:
The Evildoers have mixdowned five of the six songs we recorded for our first EP (tentatively titled, Seven Cliques). Hopefully we’ll mixdown the last song sometime this week. Then we’ve got to figure out what we want to do with the recordings. If we want to get it mastered it’s going to cost us a big chunk of change up front. I can afford it, but I’m not so sure about the rest of my band mates.
02/12/2005:
I made it through my big make-it-or-break-it observation for my teacher certification program. I was super nervous on Tuesday before and during the lesson, but things seemed to go really well, and yesterday when I conferenced with my field supporter she was very complimentary.
So far this weekend I’ve mainly done prep-work for my next ARD meeting. I’ve got one a week for the next three weeks. It’s going to suck.
02/06/2005:
As usual the weekend went by too fast. I did managed to get a lot done, about two-thirds of what I’d hoped, which is more than usual. I even managed to watch some movies, which I haven’t done a lot of lately.
02/05/2005:
Last Sunday The Evildoers did indeed finish recording what will hopefully be our first six song EP. Some of the band members thought I was getting a little ridiculous with all the overdubs I wanted to do on some of the songs, but I figured we should put down as much as possible during the recording phase. Later on, if we don’t like it then we can just leave it out of the final mix. Mixing the songs will probably be the most arduous part of the recording process, but I can’t wait to get started, ‘cause I can’t wait to listen to the final mix on my stereo.
The rest of my week was ok. I kind of feel like I’m just going through the motions at work. I did have a rehearsal with Xander’s new musical project, Crown Violet. It’s sort of a prog-metal band and it’s fun to just rock out.
01/29/2005:
Well, this has probably been my worst month for updating this website. In the past even if I didn’t have anything to write about, I still updated what music, movies, books and comics I’d listened to or seen or read, but I haven’t even done that this month. What I’ve got on this page is based on my hazy recollection of this month. I haven’t watched a lot of movies, but I may have seen a few I don’t have listed here. If I remember any more, I’ll update this page.
Anyway, The Evildoers are still working on our recordings (you can hear a few rough mixes at our MySpace website). Tomorrow we’re going to have a marathon recording session and will hopefully finish adding all the overdubs we want. Then we’ll just have to mix it.
Work has been ok, but I’ve been getting pretty stressed out. I’m trying to take some steps so that I can be more proactive about things, so I don’t get so stressed.
01/13/2005:
From what I hear teachers are supposed to feel rejuvenated after winter break, but I'm feeling completely incompetent right now. On the other hand, The Evildoers are more than halfway done with our first demo recording. It sounds really great. I’ve uploaded the songs to our myspace website. Also Somer’s visiting me in Austin right now and that always makes me feel better.
11/01/2004-12/31/2004
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||