Weirdos!

Yesterday we were at the new space and we were playing in one of the downstairs, windowless units because the other units were inaccesable. Anyhow, we were warming up with oroshi, kind of being really dramatic and loud, and some guy comes out in his underwear and yells at us to shut up. We didn't, of course. We're in an industrial area and they can't do much to make us shut up, but anyhow, we kind of ignored him and kept working on different things. Then later, he comes out and starts throwing stuff in our direction--we didn't get hit, and I don't think he intended to cause any harm, but the thing that I thought was funny was that he was yelling "Shut up, you--you--- . . . weirdos!" See, we're in the city of Alameda. I've lived in the Bay Area for close to 10 years now, and though I'd never really been to Alameda before I started coming to this new space, my idea of Alameda was that it is a place where you go live in little victorian houses with picket fences and raise your nuclear families. Very small town cozy charming kitty-cat puppy dog friendly neighbor green grass doilies ice cream and sunshine kind of place. All this in contrast to the great city across the way, Oakland. As the angry guy in his underwear was yelling at us, calling us weirdos, I was like, oh that's so lame. You poor guy. You need to go across the way and learn real explatives.

Anyhow. If things work out, we've got a show coming up in March. It's not a big deal--just a gig, but we'd like to use it as an excuse to get a good solid set together, and to work on new versions of things and polishing up other things. I think it's exciting. I like the hard work. I just wish it were possible to meet more. I know that everyone has their schedules, but Janet was wanting to meet twice a week, and I'm all for that, but I don't know if the others can do it. We'll see I guess. In the meantime, I've got a new version of an old song to learn, plus a couple of drills that I could spend hours and hours working on. Yippee!!