So tired. The weather is throwing me. The afternoons are looking too much like twilight, and I wake up honestly not knowing whether I am entering the day or leaving it. But hell, I get to wake up in the afternoons, so I suppose I don’t have all that much to complain about.
John and Ash, two new ilyAIMYites. I think we’ve got to write a really danceable tune so that we can keep jamming on it so that John and Ash can have a big dance-off with Jason and Cat. Now THAT would be a cool night. Sigh, it would HAVE to be at the Funk Box though, with those spring-loaded floors… yum.ilyAIMY at the Funk Box on Tuesday night. I was wired up and apparently played everything really fast – which would explain how I fit a 12 song set into an hour AND talked as much as I did. I think I told stories about the fire hydrant from earlier in the day, the story of Valeree getting hit in the head by a big steel moon, my old bass player bringing home women in trios, AND managed to advertise CDs, our next two shows, our mailing list… yeah. Was a little wired. Must’ve been crack in that there sushi.
The Funk Box show was fun, sounded good. Thanks everybody that came out. It was definitely a labor of love, though, because what looked very crowed was actually very much not, and then on top of everything they docked us payment for two more people because they assumed we’d used all 4 of our comp tickets instead of the two we actually used. I’m done being bitchy about that now. Sigh.
Speaking of dancing. “Oh Damn” brought romance into the Lives of many, it seems. Jason and Shawn getting it on. SO much dancing at the Funk Box. The earlier frenzied almost-mosh (will we ever get to full mosh? I’m not sure if I hope for it or not – maybe JUST to say that we’re an acoustic band and had a mosh pit) inspired me to reorganize the set-list a bit and throw some heavier stuff in like Storm and Steel…Something I’ve learned to really Love – if you look carefully at matched lips, what I saw clearly from the stage actually shows up in this shot that Mara got (also during “Oh Damn”, I think. Jason and Cat are singing along as they’re dancing. Nothing like having a room singing “hey sweetness”… Maybe I’ll try getting the audience to sing along at the College Perk gig… (hint hint)
I love when people dance and get into stuff. It makes me happy. It makes me feel like I’m giving people something. That people come out to see us still feels like a gift.
The band we opened for at the Funk Box, the Mosquitos. Very nice act, sort of like a wired-up version of the Combustible Edisons. The reminded Rowan and I of Frente, perhaps coupled with early, early Police.Good energy, short set. I liked the wiggly woman upfront, Zsou Zsou was what it sounded like. Brazilian, singing often in Portugese – they are from New York City and I’m jealous of whatever distortion their bass player was using.
So the solo show, looks like it’s going to be awesome. Perhaps so awesome, in fact, that I should have been more bold and opted to host it at a larger venue when I was thinking of places to have it. I figured I wanted it kind of small and casual. I mean, this time WAS supposed to be band vacation, after all. So this thing is supposed to be fun. In thinking of it that way, I completely forgot that lots of other people might think it would be fun, too, and oh, I don’t know … come see it. Duh.
Still, we should all have such problems. Anyone who wants to come, come on down and we’ll make it work. If I can pack the car, I can pack a coffeeshop. Oh, and turns out Brian Gundersdorf of We’re About 9 is doing a solo show the very next night at the old Jahva House in Ellicott City. My first appearance of any kind with ilyAIMY was a couple songs at the Jahva House the last night it was open under that name. So that shows you how new and how old I am to the ilyAIMY tradition. Anywho, Brian’s trying to get them to bring music back there. So why not make a weekend of it, everyone? Solo Shows and Turkey Leftovers Weekend. Brian and I shoud get some joint T-shirts made. Anyone got a solo show on Sunday?
