Day 8 - I FINISHED THE POSTER!

RIGHT ON!!

Now i have more work to do before rehearsal at 10pm tonite...

See ya!
Zubazz

Day 9 - LIVE from Karaoke...

So I am writing this blog while I am at Karaoke at McNally's... I had run out of time to actually do this blog at home... and in fact... the first thing i did after work was eat stuff and take a nap.... The NAP happened to go way longer than I expected... So i had to edit the band poster while i was at Karaoke tonite.. it looks not too bad... i just have to add the logos and dates now and it should be golden.

Rehearsal last night was good... we went over some more new songs... then at about one AM we went to my house and did a photoshoot for the band... we finished that all up around 3:30 am... I would have been fine if i didn't have my alarm clock in the same room as me. You see i had to move it into my room when i created the photo studio in the other room. So i turned the alarm off as soon as it hit and then i slept in... I got to work about a half hour late (SORRY BOUT THAT!) So ya...

In OTHER NEWS... i got like 5 free dvds in the mail today.... as part of my "how many free DVD's can i score off of the internet project". You have to have a lot of patience and spare time to fill out the forms on the internet to score all of these free DVDs... they are not necessarily the coolest DVDs too... Travel DVDs, Science DVDs, and DVDs punting some product that you either dont really want or one that is too cool for you to afford... but I think it is fun, so i am going to continue wasting the money of these companies so i have some weird dvds to fall asleep to. See, I dont have cable and this is the next best thing to wasting my time with INFOMERCIALS!

I had to interrupt typing to go up and sing Mr Big - To Be With You. That was fun...

Now i am going to take off so I can get to bed.

Catch ya on the Flipside!

Zubazz

Day 10 - Crackin' Down

It is about 9pm right now... and so far, I have worked all day at my day job and then came home and worked some more on band stuff... In about an hour, I will need to leave my house and go rehearse for like 2 hours i am guessing and then we gotta come back here so we can do some band photos.

One of the things I did tonight was transform my other bedroom into a photo studio. It is really funny because i have a couch standing on end in the kitchen up against the cupboards... FUNNY SHIT! But oh well... it is all for a good cause! I need band photos so that I can make posters to hype the show.

The whole time tonite, I have been listening to the entire setlist for the gig on repeat and singing along. I figure i cannot afford to sit in silence right now when i can be practicing.

I might keep that room like that for the winter so that i can do more shoots too... Now that i have my camera, I can likely line up some models and learn that art better. I really seem to be getting better at this photography thing now.

The only problem with tonights photography is not having another person to play photographer... i mean... where are you going to get somebody to do that at midnight? Ah what the hell... it will be fun anyways... as long as people are patient enough to give me like a half an hour to get things right. I will give it a shot anyhow...

oh ya... i gotta shave... dammit!! ok... gotta go!

Have fun!

Zubazz

Days 12 and 11 - Shop Till You Drop!

Saturday - Kev and I went shopping for as much of the remaining gear we need for our show to do it right. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAT WE COULD GET, but we got just what we need to do it proper the first night... IT IS GOING TO LOOK SO COOL!! Man... I am just stoked for this...

I spent some quality time with some songs on Saturday....

Sunday - I had to fix my computer today so that I can be ready to do up the graphics when it comes time to do the band Photos... I am thinking that we will likely do some tomorrow night after practice... so like Midnight... I think that is going to hurt, but whatever... Work and rehearsals and everything will be a blur for me the next 10 days..

Rehearsal was good tonite... we are getting there on a lot of songs... but there is so much that is not done... So much that I wish i could say i was confident on with the lyrics, but when you put me in a live setting I suddenly don't have many of the musical cues or sounds that i am used to to actually remember what verse goes in that spot. THIS MAKES ME WORRY because I ONLY have 10 days to not only get it right, but get it to the point of mastery so that I can play with a busy crowd and make it all look good at the same time.

Rebooting my computer, I forgot to save my lyrics file somewhere else. I actually see this as a good thing because I want to redo all of the lyrics from scratch... There are a lot of things that we have done to the songs that are slightly different from the original recordings that i need to put in print... and HOPEFULLY I won't need to look at them too much after this week is out... BUT I will have them for reference right away and create the lyrics in my minds eye so i can see them properly.

We have our 2 sets in the order that we want them now... Should make for some high energy playing all night... I think the way we put it all together is going to make people go nuts with the energy we are creating.

Ok... These next two weeks are going to be tough... LET'S JUST DO IT!

Crank it up!

Zubazz

Day 13 - And A Friday At That!

THE NEW BAND CLOTHES ARE IN!

HA HA HA HA HA!!

Funny as hell... Ok... I am not wearing the top hat... or am I? Who knows... but it is fucking funny as hell... I love the new band clothes... Things are coming together...

Tonite I work at the Pump... I look forward to getting on stage and singing!

That is all i have... I am going to go back to laughing at my new band wear!

Luv,
Zubazz

Days 15-14 - ONLY 2 Weeks!!!

Wednesday - OK... So Tuesday night, right after karaoke I offered Dan a ride home from Karaoke... That was cool... he offered me a beer for the trouble and I took it... So ya... He got into a very interesting discussion with Kevin and we didn't leave the bar till about 4:30 am... The trouble with that is that I had to work at 7 am... LOL... I probably could have left, but the nature of the conversation interested me completely...

ANYWAYS... I got home, put the next days clothes in the wash and went straight to bed and was asleep in less that probably 50 seconds... My first alarm goes off at 5:30 to get me ready for the idea that I have to be up and running in an hour. My alarm is in the next room because I have a real problem with turning the alarm off in my sleep and sleeping in... I hit the alarm, throw my clothes in the dryer and go back to bed... Wake up at 6:30 and into the shower I go. Out I come... Get in the car and arrive at work nicely at 6:58 am. FUCKING DEAD! What was I thinking... FUCK THAT... Because of my irresponsibility, I did not want to go to the cafeteria just yet to get a drink. Instead I work in zombie mode until my first break at 8:45. That was when things got interesting... I went into my desk and popped 3 caffeine pills and drank a Rockstar.... WOW! 15 minutes later, you'd think I was a different person...

The come down from that was pretty interesting... I was quite sketched out... It was like confusing, giddy, funny, depressing, awake and tired and horrible all at once... It was fucked up... Let that be a lesson! It probably won't be though, next time i show up all burnt out.

After work, I had plans for the night... Instead I slept SOLID.... OOps... oh well.

Thursday - OK... So after work today, I decide to clean the house a little like i was going to do last night.... I shower and stuff.... ALL while trying to practice my songs for the show while listening to the karaoke tracks... Standard time.... And THEN.... I found my fucking camera that I thought somebody had stolen from my house like a month ago! WHAT THE FUCK!?!?! Where the fuck was it? I will tell you where... In a dresser drawer that i NEVER EVER go in... FUCK! You mean to tell me that i have been accusing people and shit of stealing and it was in my house... that is fucked up... i feel bad... i had like motives for people all drawn out in my head and stuff... that is just all dramatic and shit... You know how many fuckin cool photo shoots i could have done over the summer? FUCK!! HOWEVER.... Now i can use this camera for my own band's photo shoot coming up and any shaved monkey can take the pictures after i design the lighting for this thing.... AWESOME!!! That was what inspired me to blog right now... and so there it is... FUCKING RIGHTS!!!

NOW, I better get back to learning my songs... I only have HOLY FUCK, 2 weeks! I have a LOT of work to do... but it is going to look SOOO good! We have some great surprises in store for everyone that shows up to this thing!

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September 18th at McNally's Pub

HAPPY AS HELL that I have my camera back now....
Zubazz

Days 20 through 16 - What A Weekend...

Friday - Worked at Staples all day... Went for drinks with my coworkers and good buddies after work... Worked the karaoke at the Pump. The crowd seemed tame for a Friday night. I knew that they were trying to pace themselves through the weekend though. Sure enough... I was right...

Saturday - Woke up late... Started piecing together what I needed to do to go to Brad & Whitney's wedding. Called up the troops and we all met together at my house. Went to the ceremony... What a great preacher man! Full of jokes and everything during the ceremony! HA HA HA.... However, you could just feel it the moment we walked into the church... EVERYONE turned heads... We weren't really even doing anything... YET... And not to disrespect Brad and Whitney, we were just ourselves that day... The "Disfunctional Rock N Roll Family"... Much crazy fun was had at the wedding... I decided that we were all going to start drinking immediately after the ceremony... We did.... We drank right up until it was time to go to the supper. At the supper... There was a distinct feeling that we were being considered "THAT TABLE"... Hell, that was our MISSION at that point... We had fun... We meant no harm... Although some people were quite shocked at our tables antics... A lot of it was Chris... but he wasn't the only one going off... Gradually our group disappearred slowly from the reception. I managed to hold out until the midnight lunch was served... at which point i grabbed a MOUNTAIN of cheese from the cheese tray and ate it! Once that was through, JJ and I each got a nice chop across the chest from Plum Loco and then we were off to walk to the Pump (from the Victorian club) in our drunken stupor to find what other trouble we could get into. I found myself singing Fight For Your Right To Party at karaoke there and then I found myself upstairs making out with some chick... After that, I decided it was time to go, so I attempted to walk to my home near the Pasqua Hospital from the Pump Roadhouse... HA HA HA... I got about as far as the fire station and then I was discovered by some friends and they gave me a ride most of the way home! PASS OUT...

Sunday - Wake up with a hangover... Recieve phone call from friends who left booze at my house the day before... THEY WANT TO START DRINKING... Oh my aching head... "Can I come get you when the painkillers have kicked in?" "Ya, that's fair" Soon enough I was drinking with my friends again... And of COURSE we should be drinking... it is the day of the big football game... The Labour Day football game is like the most important game/party of the entire football season (with exception only to the Grey Cup). Drink... Win Football game... Drink... And everyone seems to be passed out after a while... Once again, I find myself walking home... THIS time, I walked the entire distance from Chris's house to my own. Just enough time to take a one hour break before going to work at the Pump.... Start work early for the victory party already in progress... BOY was THAT a crazy night... There were wall to wall party animals in there ALL NIGHT LONG... it was something to behold. I had a few nice musical moments that meant a lot to me... Starting off with Chris and Kent when i was singing INXS with them... We Are The Champions gave me goosebumps when I got the crowd going on it... and FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY again this night it was way better with crowd participation... I had so much fun! SLEEP.....

Monday..... SLEEP ALL DAY... Practice at night.... Hammered out 4 tunes only because practice was shortened by unforseen circumstances. AND then we went to O'Hanlons as a band to talk about some band ideas and eat some 'ZZA... All was good... Made for a great day...

Tuesday... I worked all day today and now I am going to take a nap so that I can do the Karaoke thing without dying tomorrow morning. Tonight an old friend, Dee Dee is coming out to see what the rage is about with Karaoke off of a laptop computer. He wonders if the quality of sound from a laptop is as good as the karaoke cd's that he has (also made on a laptop by the way). Some people think records sound better than CD's too... They feel that you can get frequencies with a record that you cannot get with a CD... I have a lot that i can say how i feel on that, but I won't say it this time... I would like our friend to come to his own conclusions. I am sure you all have an opinion on how this should end, however... Let's let this one be though...