How did yet another perfectly good weekend get away from me again?! Oh jeez. Well, Friday night was SO worth it, with the free Texmaniacs concert. It was me, Mr. Wonderful Stefano, George, his wife, Phillipo, and Phillipo's mom and stepdad. We ALL danced! The .99 cent margaritas were flowing! It was so great. We only stayed for the 1st set though, as I had to get up early on Sat. to work on my Personnel file for the new applicant I'm investigating. That's b/c I made the appt. to interview him on Sat. afternoon.
Before I left to go downtown and pick up the unmarked patrol car and get to the applicant's house (a goddamn HOUR away from my house) Stefano called me, urgently saying that the cheesy sports bar we played at last week needed us to play at the last minute that night--however we had no drummer. So we immediately got on the horn to all our drummer friends. All my drummer peeps were either already gigging or busy with other commitments. Then I was busy w/my interview for a couple of hours. But after I was done and driving back Stefano said they got a drummer, actually one I'd played with back in August when I sat in with that other band for the outdoor gig the night of our in-store performance.
I hated to have to miss the live CD show at Anderson Fair but god knows I need the gig and the $ for that cabinet I still have to buy for my new amp. It was still a very hard decision, but my li'l bro made me feel better by pointing out that Bill Cade would totally understand. Anyway, the gig was lame, as I knew it would be. The prob with playing at sports bars is no one's paying attention to the band in the corner. They're all smoking and drinking and watching the big screen TV's. But I always enjoy playing w/Mr. Wonderful and his harp player and the drummer is also a pal, so it was all good. Several Crown and Diet Cokes also took the edge off. And that $ at the end of the night sure didn't hurt either. We also went to Waffle House afterwards for a pecan waffle--yum!
On Sunday I slept 'til noon. I had to, as we didn't get to bed 'til 4am! Then I had to get up and work on a new bass line for one of Leo's songs. I wanted to spruce it up a little bit. Rehearsal was short and sweet thankfully, but we are still a little undecided on our 5-song set list. It's a delicate balance between "types" of blues songs--i.e., we have a standard slow blues song, then we have a straight shuffle, and then our blues cover of The Police's "Roxanne" which everyone always gets a kick out of, but now we have to decide on the final 2 songs. Song order is also a major consideration, due to style and keys, etc. Hmmmm.
After rehearsal I ran by Express, a store I rarely go to but I had a gift card and I had some ideas for our look for the finals. We decided on a black and white color scheme and I'd gotten some look ideas out of the Victoria's Secretions clothing catalog, so I was curious to see if I could find something similar at Express. I did, actually! These really cool black shorts that were sparkly as they had silver thread woven throughout. Unfortunately there were only 3 prs. left and the largest size was a size 4. FORTUNATELY I fit into them!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello, Crown and *DIET* Cokes and all this running I force myself to do!!! I then found a snug, long-sleeve white cotton shirt w/silver cufflinks (size SMALL!) to go on top and my outfit is now complete, once I add shoes from my closet (black cowboy boots?) and maybe a silver tube top under the shirt, which I also already own. Total cost: $91 but with my gift card and another discount I paid $57. HELL. YEAH!!!!!
Then to celebrate, I went for a run along the bayou. Last night Mr. Wonderful came to spend the night at my house and today he started his new job. He was a little subdued last night as his 3 weeks of freedom came to an end, but I already talked to him today and his 1st day went fine. I'm so happy to hear it. Tonight is a night OFF for me, and tomorrow too but Wednesday begins the nonstop madness again. Rehearsal Weds. night, and Thurs. night is the 1st night of the 3-day Festival Chicano that I must make appearances at. Friday night is when I'll take Stefano to the Festival; after that I want to go see our friend's band play at the Big Easy; Sat. I have to work security at Greek Fest from 8a-4p; Sat. night is the final night of Festival; after that I want to see my new guitarist friend that I'm obsessed with play at the Big Easy; and Sunday we have rehearsal again. Madness, I tell you, madness!
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