Heather wrote a new song. "Are You Lost" is beautiful and it breaks my heart a little. There's a lot of joy in the sadness, hope in the bleakness. I sat and listened and then grabbed my old fretless bass, Maria, down off the wall and played along. Kristen was immediately inspired too.

Take a listen. Maybe it's something you need to hear.

https://heatheraubreylloyd.com/track/2296040/are-you-lost-demo

Mon 4/6 - A Sort-of-Open Mic (r).
I think we're getting closer to having an actual open mic night! Tune in and judge for yourself at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/robsopenmics/ - if you'd like to PERFORM please email me asap! And if you're local and REALLY want to recreate the open mic experience - well - Teavolve and El Golfo are still doing take out!

Wed 4/8 - rob and Kristen Live from the Lair (rK).
Join Kristen Jones and Rob Hinkal as we webcast from the Lair. Every week this gets a little smoover. Ish. Sort of. Live via Facebook Live - donations cheerfully accepted via paypal.me/ilyaimy and venmo @ilytips - we welcome some requests (especially if you send them in advance), but I must admit - we've been generally playing what we damned well please! Tune in at www.facebook.com/groups/ilyaimy at 7pm ET.

I've been looking at the calendar a lot. It's simply really, really easy to lose track of time without the exterior influence of events. I wrote extensively in the Journal yesterday about how I'm spending my days, but that's mostly for my own sanity. How're you spending yours? Are you ordered to shelter-in-place? Are you self-quarantined? Is it business as usual? Are you working? From home? From work? I imagine we have a pretty broad range of Lives being Lived right now.

Heather's recovered from being quite sick in time to take care of her husband as he picks up where she left off. Kristen and I reach three weeks since seeing anyone else who WASN'T self-isolating as of today. 

Running events online has been an exercise in frustration, but is slowly beginning to bear fruit. There seem to be no ideal solutions, so I'm doing the best I can with the tools that exist. We're fighting the good fight from our basement and doing it as loudly as possible. That's probably a metaphor.

We Love you and We Miss you...

-rob
ilyAIMY
Baltimore, MD (FOREVER!!!!)
www.ilyaimy.com