Insomnia, insomnia, insomnia… I once met a girl named Insomnia… and stayed up ALLLLL night with her….

Dylan Lee Brady performing at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore, MD.

February 14th, 2010.
The last couple of nights have been a lot of fun.  Scratch the fact that we could get out of the house – that was a bonus.  These would’ve been fun shows nonetheless.

ilyAIMY performing at the Senator. Ashraf Dawod joined us on djembe - but it's just not the same.

Thursday night was my open mic.  I was sort of stunned that they’d managed to shovel out.  As of the end of the blizzard the previous day there was 40” of snow in some places and Java Mammas doesn’t have the easiest of parking lots.  Still, I was really glad to get the call that they were open, and we redoubled our efforts to get Kristen’s trusty Subaru out of the drifts that had engulfed it.  Finally freeing the beast, we slipped and slid and finally made it out of the neighbourhood to my coffee cult.

We were very under-populated by our standards perhaps but still a decent turnout at a tiny coffeehouse.  The only unfortunate thing was that we had such a top-notch featured-artist: sahffi deserved to have the fullest of full-houses rather than the tiny knot of hard-core regulars.  Her performance was passionate and delicious.  I’d forgotten how flat-out GOOD she was.  We had about 40 people tune into the webcast, but they