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Two Awesome Things

July 16, 2009 10:20 PM

've always said that the two things I really wanted in life (other than superpowers) were an awesome girlfriend and a badass band. Now, for the first time ever, I have both.

Chelsadilla is fairly badass, and things are going great. I won't bore you--or embarrass her--by going on about that subject. Besides, it's the band I really care about.

The band is called SuperKarateMonkeyDeathCar. It consists of me and RPM, each on guitars and vocals, and two as-yet-un-nicknamed people on bass and drums. We should get on nicknaming them, I suppose.

Although we have our first gig scheduled (I cannot believe that Mr. Vice and pH are actually going to let us ruin their wedding), what I've enjoyed most so far is just the fact that I'm playing music with talented musicians on a regular basis. It's just so fun to work on something over and over again and then get it to click. It's so awesome to look up in the middle of a song and realize that you've each hit your parts perfectly so far and that you're probably going to do it for the rest of the song.

Right now, we're working primarily on covers, but we're kicking around ideas for new songs, and we've just free-form jammed a few times. I'm really excited to work on some originals--working on them by myself is cool because I always get what I want, but I think the product would be so much better with four of us pitching in and serving as sounding boards.

There's really nothing about me that doesn't put a smile on my face. I look forward to practice every week.

We've got a long way to go before we each quit our day jobs, but so far it's been so much fun that the whole "being good at it" thing is sort of secondary.