Today is a morose day. But it's sunshiney and beautiful. So I'm trying to get it together. I'll have it together for tomorrow's webcast. I'll have it together for Friday's show. And Saturday's show. And Monday's show. It's the in-betwixt times that are trickier.

Hey - good news though! All of our RSVP and Ticketed upcoming shows are sold out! Huzzah! However, there's a waiting list for Saturday's full band show in Woodstock, MD ( email Peter at pvanhouten1234@comcast.net ) AND some of the presenters for May 1st's Sidewalk Serenades in Baltimore and Timonium, MD are willing to have a couple of extra people attend these otherwise private shows ( email ME at rob@ilyaimy.com ).

During the spectacular taiko - ilyAIMY crossover this past Saturday I gave Mark H Rooney the following advice about banter : when you can't think of anything to say, or you think you can't get anything POSITIVE out of your mouth - activate a stream-of-consciousness mind-feed about chupacabras. "Goat suckin'" is JUST dirty enough to be mindlessly amusing. The Chupacabra has an element of horror and sci fi and checks off my usual nerd-cred. He (or she - or it) can be cute or terrifying and can be placed in a number of trite or tragic situations and yet can be saved by the sheer whimsy of his non-existence. The plural is even good for sound checks combining a unique sound that can be heard distinctly with a solid plosive and a sibilant ending.

Yes. When you've got nothing better to say, turn to the trusty Chupacabra and let fly. I told this to Mark H Rooney, though he may not have realized it. I think I was merely yelling "Chupacabra" at him at Saturday's show and he may not have realized that I was willing him to learn from example - and to do what I do, not what I say, though what I was doing was saying what I was doing by saying what I'd do.

What?

Chupacabra.

-rob
ilyAIMY
Baltimore, MD 
www.ilyaimy.com