WORK!!!

Listening to Damian Marley

Where is the work? February is always slow for us. We are waiting for someone to call and give us a good job. In the meantime we are painting the bedroom a calming off white. And today we are going to start sanding the floor in order to refinish it.
It's HARD to stay calm when you are slowly running out of money.
Have to try and keep my cynical attitude in check. Reggae helps. All the tings dat go along with jahs music help.....But I'm going to need more of that soon and that means I need more MONEY.
vicious circles.

Much Visitation

Listening to Muddy Waters
There has been much visitation this weekend. We had 7 friends come over on saturday and 2 on sunday. Luckily the 2 on sunday ate the leftovers from the 7 on saturday. I was unable to see my friend from up north because of all this friendship. Well, you gain some and you loose some I suppose. I hope my good northern friend will forgive me.
I really tied one on this weekend. It was the first party we had at our homestead here in maybe 4 years. Kind of a last minute thing. I'm glad we finally got our balls together and did it. We have a lot of anxiety between us about such things
if it's not one person loosing their mind ...it's the other.

Unmasked

Listening to Jimmy Reed
Well it seems they have unmasked the person who is appearing in public as J.T.LeRoy. He is a she- a 20 something woman from SF. And it also seems probable that the writer who writes as J.T. is actually a 40 year old woman ex-rocker also from SF. See what happens when you give up the rocknroll. But who doesn't appreciate a good hoax? Wish I could come up with something that good to make some extra cash.
This picture of me is taken in Volcano, Ca. last spring. Some friends and I went a-shootin with bb guns. That was a nice little get away.
I'm noticing that my body is just falling apart. I'm still looking pretty good for my 39th year but I have so many aches and pains. It's just not fair to grow old. I now have some kind of water on the knee and SEVERE pain in my rotating sholder cup thingy.
I think someone needs to shoot me with a bbgun to stop my whining ways.

My new bass

Listening to Drunk Horse

I got a new bass recently. An Ibanez Iceman ICB200. It rocks. It's a re-issue. They do that with cool old guitars these days. Mass produce them in Korea and sell them over here for big bills. The most famous person to play an Iceman was Paul Stanley of Kiss. Although he played guitar. Mine looks the same but bigger! I have a pretty nice Ibanez SR810. If I compare the two basses it's like comparing a corvette to a jeep. The Iceman being the jeep. The two sounds are so different and they both play so differently but that's what I wanted.
Kimm was a little put off when I brought that thing home. She didn't understand why I needed TWO basses. When I brought it to it's first show in Dec. I broke a string on my "corvette bass" during the first song. So I swung up my new Iceman and charged thru the set. Now I think she understands.