So Much Going On

I have been lax in my blogging.

More than lax, honestly. I've downright ignored it, with some exceptions.

The fact is, things have been piling up here. Be it The Shadow Over Innsmouth, or starting rehearsals for Golden Boy, I've been feeling nothing but overwhelmed for the last few weeks. Getting sick didn't help. I didn't work out for TWO WEEKS, and, by now, you should all know how much that bothers me.

...And Getting Dollars Back is out there. Hayoth exists. A few people have downloaded tracks, or the whole album. I thank those who have, and who have taken the time to listen. I am feeling the urge to start working in that direction again....

But I also have to fucking get off book for Golden Boy. Somebody asked me if it was just a lot of dialogue, or if I was old. I said it was both. I feel so tired. I figure it's a offshoot of being sick, and the miserably cold weather we've been enduring here in Chi-town, which is understandable, but still...I need some energy.

I've been WAY into Kyuss, lately. Probably because I've been thinking about recording some more tunes, and Hayoth has always had some Kyuss inspiration.


50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
by Kyuss

I am drinking
I am rolling (you can't stop me)
I am hiding
I am running (you can't stop me)

But I'll never forget you (anyway)
But I'll never forget you (anyway)
But I'll never forget you (anyway)
But I'll never forget you

I am drinking
I am rolling (you can't stop me)
I am running
I am rolling (you can't stop me)

But I'll never forget you anyway
But I'll never forget you anyway
But I'll never forget you anyway
But I'll never forget you

See our family to realize
As it's running down today
I love the city love the day

No fool for you
In this I am
I'm never gonna run about

Thursday's been rough.

This has been a dark day for me. Honestly, it's been a string of dark days. The sun is setting earlier, and it sucks to look out the window at 4:30 to...night. I've also been out of the house a lot. Lots of evening commitments. So, tonight is the only night this week I can go home and relax. Tomorrow I have a rehearsal for a reading, Saturday, said reading goes up, and immediately after I go to another rehearsal. Sunday, of course brings another shot of the Boss' love...

I has so hoped that the weather would hold for Sunday. We have General Admission tickets, so a lot of waiting in line is on the menu. That's, of course the day when showers are in the forecast. So, we shall see. It could've been a LOT worse, I suppose, I mean it is mid-November, we could be knee-deep in snow.

Plus, I HATE having a big coat if I'm on the floor at a show. So, I try to dress as lightly as possible. Bad news at the Metallica show last January, when I ended up quite sick after. There's a joy in being able to take public transport to concerts easily, but you also miss that ability to just jump in the car to warm up, y'know?

So, anyway...I don't know what's eating at me. I'm just kind of in a "sick of it all" funk. the sort of thing that comes and it goes, I guess. I feel like playing the guitar tonight, but, with it being my only night home, I feel bad just retreating into the office.

I do feel like I've got a sound in my head now that I can really run with. It's definitely hard rock, metal even, but a little muddy, not as sharp-edged. In preparation of the Them Crooked Vultures release, I've been listening to a lot of Kyuss, and I think it's rubbing off on me. "Stoner Metal" was the term, I guess.

My friend Tom B. introduced me to Kyuss a few years ago. He put a song or two on a disk with the Probot album. I thought that song, "50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)," was pretty damn cool, but didn't really click with the band until I heard "Demon Cleaner" on the Metallica: Guitar Hero video game. (So I guess there is something to be said for those games introducing new music to people.)

So, anyway...it's a dark Thursday.