New lappy.

Yep, got a new laptop. Allie and I had gone earlier in the week to Best Buy just to kind of price compare and loved the one we ended up getting. It's fast enough to do the things we want to do (blog, surf the internet, store/play music, and I'd like to get some music recording software and use it to produce music and record demos/ideas. This thing is pretty damn sweet. All the computers I've owned have been secondhand - you know, your parents/uncle/whatever gets a new computer and offer you the old one, which of course you accept because it's better than the old old one you are milking the last few drops out of. So to be the proud owner of a brand new machine is pretty cool. Getting used to the HD screen.

I dropped by Paolo and Amanda's to join up with their Halloween festivities last night and had a fun time. We went to Engine House No. 9 on 6th in Tacoma and ogled the costumes (sadly, as I had come from work, I was not dressed up). Some people were pretty daring - there was a chick sporting some big feathery angel wings aaaaaand that was pretty much it, besides her lacy bra and panties. And for some reason her boyfriend was getting irked at all the attention she was receiving - hey, buddy, if your girlfriend is gonna sport her underthings in public, especially in a bar, she's gonna get some attention. Paolo was a nattily-dressed skeleton, Wes was a Top Gun pilot, Scott and Courtney Chaffee dressed as Bill Murray and the gopher from Caddyshack, and I'm not quite sure what their friend Sarah was aiming for. I guess she was just dressing nicely. She is from Australia so of course after a few beers I try my accent on. I'm sure people love it when you mimic their accent....meh, she took it in stride. I have a habit of doing that - some of my friends know that I love to impersonate and take pride in nailing accents and voices, so....yeah, it's fun. We went back to Paolo's and he, this guy Julian, and I busted out the instruments and jammed it out for a while, and had some great conversation. This guy Julian kinda reminds me of a cross between Jack Johnson and Bob Dylan - I don't care for the former, but was intrigued by Julian's musical style, and I'm sure I made that quite clear with the beer on my side :). We rocked out until about 4am and I decided to head on home. That was a very fun night.

I'm intrigued with the way our music is going. I'm ashamed to say that I really haven't been able to come up with any good guitar parts or riffs lately, but Paolo has been hard at work and we are working on two new songs and a remix of an old faceplant (as in old 'us' faceplant, not those jagoffs from Texas) song called Stumble. I've had no shortage of lyric ideas though, and am still working off and on on the Johnny 'saga' (I hate that word, really) as well as a few other ideas. Paolo and I were talking while at E9 last night about how we need to create more separation between the two guitars, rather than the 'wall of sound' approach that Jeremy and I have grown accustomed to. I like the idea of toning down his distortion a bit to create more differentiation for his lead riffs, and I don't think this will be too hard of a bridge to cross seeing as he's really been tweaking with his tone lately anyway.

I've been looking through CDs of pictures that people have taken at past shows, and have found some real gems that my mom took at our Lost in the Sound release at Valhalla in June of '07. However, Blogger seems to not want to let me upload any of them, so another time then.

Well, I'm getting tired, and I've got a long day of hanging out with the family, going shooting, and general relaxation-intensive minutiae that I won't bother boring you with.

K bye.