Tonight I took the Moms out to dinner. She told me that Ted Demme died. He was the son-in-law to our next door neighbors. I prolly met the dude a couple times as he was always over at their house. He was just “Ted.” Nothing more, nothing less. Just very odd how some of us put people on pedistals. Small world.
Which reminds me of college when my band at the time, LANDON, was playing a show at the University of Hartford Art Opening or something. We seemed to always open for this band that had only a standup bass (played by this boy named Floyd with whom Zut was obsessed with for a little while after we broke up), Ed on drums and some guy on the AM radio. Ed wasnt a drummer. He wasnt even good at trying to be a drummer. The only real memorable experience with him was hearing about his fear of dirty teeth. I tell you, the man brushed his teeth more times that I say “awesome” in any given day. So one day Ed decides he is going to tie himself to a tree in dental floss which his mouth propped open and a mirror will be right in front of him. He did this standing there for days. I wonder how he ate.
there’s a fine line between stupid and clever.
So what did Ed have to do with my band Landon? I cant even remember.
I do remember playing some shitty ass gigs. But that one Art Show was pretty cool in that I played two trash cans, a few shakers and whatever else I could find. I think I had a 40 and a wine bottle too. That day I found the power of the shakers. It moved me. I think it stemmed from my love of early Verve records. I, of course, taped the show and took a few of the lines of audience banter and placed it at the end of a new MONS song. I wonder if new MONS songs are even new anymore. Prolly not. Oh well. I bed my PO Box needs to be renewed. Arg.
is this a fantasy or is this mine
Today was one of those quirky days where you really didn’t do anything, yet the time went by so quickly. I have been working on this corporate site for a few days now. It’s been like weeks in the planning (in my head…), but I have finally started to lay coding. Fun. I had to show my progress to the boss today expecting him to say, “Be gone. This is awful. Start over!” But surprisingly he loved it. His only suggestion was changing the menu from being horizontal to being more vertical. So woo! Yeah, in addition to DC101 i do actually have 5 other sites I work on. A DC AM Talk site, 2 Baltimore sites (Rock and Classic Rock) and 2 Ocean City sites. In addition to that I am doing corporate and internal sites for Clear Channel. Yeah, I guess it keeps me busy. It’s just weird doing this shit. Cos I was hired to do only DC101. But I reckon things change. And more responsibility and creative control are always good in my book.
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