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The band Canasta at the Beat Kitchen on Saturday night

I wish I could write like Darling Nikki!!  She’s writin’ frickin’ Neuromancer over there and I’m all "I like to take BATHS!" ::sigh::  I guess I yam what I yam.  But I wish I could write like Darling Nikki.

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I wish I could come up with a better way to get my thoughts up here, it’s so much of a chore.  It needs to be more like a little notepad where I can jot a bunch of things down real quick instead of creating these humongous catching-up posts where I’m trying to summarize a whole week or two.  Bitch bitch bitch!!

Speaking of notepads, have you heard about the latest craze?  The low-tech hipster PDA, just a bunch of index cards held together with a binder clip.  I love that, it really appeals to my love of list-making and my fetish for office supplies.  It also leaves me lusting over fancier things like a Levenger pocket briefcase and a little Moleskine notebook for writing down my song-snippets.  I love using my Treo for contact management — I have so many of those it really is a space-saver, but for note-taking, the Treo doesn’t really work too well for me.  I like to have notes and to-do lists right in front of my face, not hidden away in a program on my phone that I might never open for weeks!

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I played a solo set at the Beat Kitchen, at a benefit for the Tangerine Arts Group.  The benefit was headed up by the chamber pop band Canasta (playing 3 sets), and also featured Eric Ziegenhagen, Brandon Durham (of Palaxy Tracks), Dan from Zapruder Point, and Annie Higgins.

I went with Eric Ziegenhagen last night to see Canasta at the Ice Factory.  They’re really good, I guess you’d call it "chamber pop".  Their fiddle player Elizabeth is playing with Eric tonight at his show at the Beat Kitchen and I’ll be doing harmonies on a few songs too.  Yay!!  I love Eric’s songs and I love singing harmonies, so I’m psyched he’s lettin’ me horn in on that.  :-)

We’re going to see Hasil Adkins tonight at the Beat Kitchen!  Whoah.

Played at the Beat Kitchen with Roger Manning; The Vendettas; Swing Low

My band: Ryan Hembrey (bass); Gerald Dowd (drums)