updating my journal

thursday night i fucking slept for 10.5 hrs...i set my alarm to sleep for 9, but i just went right back to sleep again...worked and we were actually really busy so i made a good sum of money there...then i went over to Brad's and played random NES games while he took a nap...band practice happened after that...we went over some songs and then Brad left...Paul, Jacques, and i messed around seeing if we could figure out some covers...mostly Joy Division...we tooled around w/ some Cure songs too (though often not so seriously...) we went through "Disorder," "Ceremony," and then "New Dawn Fades"...if we actually do a cover at the show it'll prob'ly be that one...depending on Jacques' Mustang getting out of the shop in time and we're able to do "Taken"...after playing around we sat around the space talking for a while then proceeded over to the Pancake Shop...dropping Paul's car off along the way, Jacques was introduced to Annie, the amazing roof-hainging out dog and Chauncy and Lillith, the amazing hanging out in the back yard pigs...the Pancake Shop was a wonderful bit of sleep-deprived fun...it was a bit into daylight at this point so we were all tired and delerious...we had a big "conversation" about the band opening for King Diamond if he ever comes here again, going over our stage rap for the metal-heads ("diamond bangers")...we discussed the cardboard/magic marker cemetery and "haunted house" we'd make for our stage set...and we angered this old couple sitting next to us w/ our METAL shrieks of DEATH about "all the dudes in the audience" and related mansex humor...being up all night rules, w/ humorous results!

i was too fucking tired to go home and Jacques and i were gonna go to the shop to see about getting the guitars fixed anyway so i just passed out on his couch...it was 8:30am...i finally woke up after not enough sleep and we went...i got my two Silvertones and Jacques got his Mustang...we went to that place on Highland but they said they only do the electronics so we took the guitars to Consignment...i asked him about my synths that need repair work and i think they might actually be able to fix them...at least the ARP...hopefully...i was already just late for work, but on the way back i stopped by Lastchance anyway...i got:
Mogwai: Rock Action
Rocket from the Tombs: The Day the Earth Met The. . .
now i'm caught up on all Mogwai's stuff before the show (in less than a week!!!) as i was checking out the Mogwai cd, Larry asked me what i thought of what was playing on the overhead...as i was tired and preocupied by my being late for work i hadn't even noticed it...he showed me the Rocket from the Tombs cd and i saw that it was used and i needed it so i bought that too...dropping Jacques off he borrowed me Bowie's Station to Station...mostly quite good...after work i went back to Jacques'...David and Justin were there...we kicked it, but the two had to leave after not too long...Brad showed up...more sitting around kicking it...Paul called, getting off work much earlier than i had expected...i was thinking "alright! we can get an earlier start on practice!" but for some reason when he arrived, everyone continued to sit around watching tv for a while...finally, just as i was starting to get everyone to head to the space, i got called back in to work...it wasn't right when i came in but it got fucking busy as hell...i didn't get off 'til almost 3am...Brad had already had to go home to bed by then...i had given them the key so they'd go to the space while i was working and get started w/out me to get some practice done, but for some reason they didn't...ugh...i believe we're supposed to be practicing every day before the show minus tomorrow...hopefully that'll happen...