I’m watching the red carpet at the premier of Star Wars Episode VIII – The Last Jedi.  At this point next Saturday I will have seen it already.  Possibly twice.

Tonight I am celebrating by doing this:

Two items of notes from today’s little guitar practice session:

1. Playing through two amps at once is still awesome!

2. Just like when I was in music school, I still can’t play anything from the second King’s X record to save my life. Mission? Nope. Pleiades? Close, but nope. Summerland? Oh please, don’t make me laugh, fat boy.

Yup, youtube can stop now.  This is the greatest video ever posted on the internet anywhere anytime.

Duck Duck at the Middle East, 8/24/90.

Go ahead.  Worship.

We drove around looking for Christmas Lights. We found a couple of winners.

Check out the camera on my telephone getting all artsy-fartsy.

We had two visitors in the back yard yesterday morning. They were just hanging out all lazy like so I was able to snag a couple of pictures. I figure if I could see these two cool cats, there were probably 10 more out there that I couldn’t see.

I completely blew off November’s recording project.  I noodled together some bass parts but that’s it.  I never even started actual recording.  Oh well.

It’s not that I didn’t want to work on it, I just didn’t have the time or the energy.  That’s two writing/recording projects in a row that have been woefully neglected and unfinished.  The summer 50/90 had some actual progress, but nothing got finished.  I guess that means I have a lot of ideas kicking around.  I can use some of them in February when RPM comes along, but for now I want to forget about them and do something else.

Two years ago I started a little project to re-record a bunch of old RPM/5090/NaSoAlMo songs.  The idea was to take a little more time and care in recording and batch them together in a nice little “best of” bandcamp playlist.  I ran out of steam after a couple of months, then tried picking it up again last year, then ran out of steam again.

Right now the band is on holiday break and I have all of my gear at home.  Maybe it’s time to get back on this particular wagon.  Starting tomorrow (hypothetically) I am going to setup both of my amps in stereo in the cellar and try to record some new guitar parts.  If I get a little spark of ambition, maybe I can finish a few of these songs and post them as I go rather than waiting for everything to be finished.  We’ll see.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Today is November 30th.  That means tomorrow is December 1st.

I can’t…

I just don’t…

December?  Already?  Wasn’t it just December a couple of months ago?