Bringin on the heartache... So, played with The Heartaches Thursday night. They were really great. Nice guys, good songs, killer energy. Really inspiring. They had the whole socal big song thing down to a tee.

Mike bought one of their LP's and they said it was the first that they had sold. Very sweet band moment. We all had a group hug. No, really. Okay, no.

I think we really played a good show. We showcased the new incarnation of our song 'The End' which really needs to be renamed so as not to collide with the opening of Apocalypse Now. We also played our new song penned by Brad "Srendi Vashtar" which is currently my fave to play. I love playing Brad's songs because they're so pop-a-riffic that every time I make a chord change I have the feeling that I'm bowing to inevitability. There's no possibilty that any other chord should or would be played there.

Myself I'm always struggling with the desire to make form reflect my subject as much as the content does, but I think that gets in the way some times. Luckily, we can all take elements of each others strength in this band. Makes it a lot of fun.

Also, The Heartaches are on Swami records which might be a target for our new self released EP. If you're reading this (and I know noone is) and you're an obsessive music freak, you might enjoy their forum which I have just discovered:

http://swamirecords.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1

There, don't say I never did anything for ya.  ¶ 5:11 AM