May 24th, 2022. Ridin’ ridin’.

Gas is climbing spectacularly which means it’s about time for us to get back out on the road. Friday May 20th found Heather, Kristen, Rowan and I heading north to Mount Cuba, Delaware. I was so out-of-practice crossing state lines that I almost missed my photo.

We got up to Mount Cuba Botanical Gardens plenty early for our Twilight on the Terrace gig, specifically so we could spend some time a’wanderin’.

I had an option. I could reach to my left and grab my laptop and type my thoughts and create something. Or I could reach to my right and grab my phone and check my email or the World and consume something.

Alas – I chose the phone, and I regret it. Now I’m typing to get my head straight again because the phone was full of laments and complaints and “please send me” things that I can’t address till I’m home… but it will bug me, sitting on my shoulder until I forget about it, leaving me with a nagging feeling of needing to do something, but being unable to execute it even when it explodes distractingly back into my mind.

A Lovely day wandering the gardens – though we really only had 20 minutes or so before a volunteer approached us and asked us to head up to the house since we had thunderstorms heading in.

When I have time and the wherewithal, the bandwidth both mental and literal, and the files, yes – I’ll send you a tech sheet, and I’ll send YOU a presslist, and I’ll listen to YOUR performance and see if I can explain why the sound you got on your phone isn’t the sound that you heard in the room.

And until I can sit and do that I’ll try not to think about how I need to sit and do that.

For the moment we’re running down the dream on I-95, traveling south beneath omnipresent but not terribly threatening clouds with the hope of performing outside at a venue that’s patently miserable if we’re stuck inside… it’s been a disturbingly easy drive, and though we’re being passed by WALLS of DC commuters, almost as if we were an x-wing flying down the Death Star trench in reverse, we’re happily moving along at a stable pace.

Whelp, this is NOT where we had the stage last time! Good thing I brought good speakers as we were having to play to an audience set up … not a small distance away!

Saturday night we went to catch a really awesome double feature with Heather’s family and Mosno Al-Moseeki! T’was his first drive-in experience and it was a really fantastic lineup : “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” + “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. Really cool pairing.

ilyAIMY performing at Lena’s in Alexandria, VA on Tuesday May 24th. Though most of the audience didn’t actually move out to be with us till the last set, it was a beautiful night.

Y’all use your gas like that. Foos.

I’m thinking too much about the end of the world via nuclear, biological or economic warfare, ecological catastrophe or cyber-singularity. I sure hope our robot overlords like acoustic-grunge. Despite inroads in the worlds of content creation on visual, textual and musical fronts, I think I’ll be able to do what I do better than an AI for at LEAST a little while longer.

Those “we will not be replaced” paranoid racists doth not know from whence the true threat cometh!