Mad World

I really don't have  aset point to put across tonight I guess. I just finished playing a show at the House of Blues in Hollywood. It was really fun and exciting. Needless to say that I met the band leader 2 weeks ago, got the music 4 days later, and had 2 rehearsals to learn 8 tunes to perform with 2 people I had never played with before made it even more exciting (nerve wrecking).

Being in Hollywood trips me out. You have a city where it takes 30 minutes to drive 2 miles, nothing but restaurants, clubs, and bars as far as the eye can see, and everyone and their mother trying to make it in the biz. It is like a bunch of wild animals out of their cage during feeding time. Smoke, drink, flirt, party party....But it is nice to know there are people who sift through the bullshit rather than get swept away.

I used to be into status, who knows who, who does what, how someone sounds, how someone looks, what  it is. But after a while the glam fades and all you are left with is the truth. I really cannot say much more than that about it, and it is especially true for musicians. It is a shitty profession. You work long hours, late at night, no security, no benefits, and one of the steepest fucking learning curves ever to exist. All in the name of self expression. Weird I am here but it is what I wanted. I feel ok with it because it was my choice.

On a side note, fuzz pedals are fucking amazing for bass solos. I felt like a guitar player when I could hold out a note for more than a few seconds. Now to put that into jazz somehow.

I will leave you with an impromptu poem/artistic piece of crap that I will try to congure up

Intents and purposes
never make me the same again
Don't stop writing because you can't make a mistake
even when you do the mistake is a fleeting moment in time that defines that moment
Is there ever truly a mistake if whatever you were feeling at that point in time was represented by that so called  "mistake"?
 Are there ever really mistakes or just expressions of feeling off?

 my back hurts, nighty night