I found Muze listed at FuckedCompany.com, that’s another place I used to work ten years ago.  There was always a lot of controversy there between the workers and management, so I wasn’t surprised to see people had complained about it.  But despite all that, we had a super excellent team back then, and I made more lasting friendships there than almost anywhere else I’ve worked.  One guy who commented on FC actually listed the nicknames of our whole ’93 crew and even gave me a personal shout-out!!  I mean, as one of the NICE people, as opposed to somebody he’d complain about.  I know who it was, too, and I feel the same way about him, and everyone he listed.

Yeah, we had some REALLY good times at that job; it might be my favorite straight job ever.  I wouldn’t be on Drag City if it weren’t for Muze, because it was my coworker Chuckles that turned me on to the Palace Brothers, and egged me on to send my tape to their label, AND did the artwork for my first album.  (The cover had a photo of a puddle, and in the puddle was a reflection of one of the WTC towers.  Sigh…)

Patrick came over last night to hang out and work on music with John, and ended up spending the night in our guestroom.  There were parties going on upstairs AND downstairs from us, and John & Pat were blasting music too, so the whole building was rockin’, it was hilarious.  Everybody joins in, nobody complains.

Sigmatropic FINALLY got my package today, thank heavens.  The one I sent THREE DAYS ago, not the one from two weeks ago!!  Registered mail is a crock’a'shit, don’t ever use it for anything that’s time-critical.

They liked it, too!!  :-) Theo, who’s the spokesperson to the various musicians involved, said my stuff was cool and it’d be hard to choose which song(s) to use. I’m well pleased to hear that, because I’m too critical of my own shit. It’s always really hard to discern what’s truly bad from what’s only bad in my mind.  I might hear little teensy variations in my pitch or whatever, and it might drive me nuts, even if it’s something only dogs can hear.  But I can tell when something is spot-on, and I know there were at least a couple of songs like that amongst the ones I submitted.  I’m very psyched they thought so too!!