Day 21 - Waiting For Rehearsal...

I know that I know about 75% of all of the songs that we are going to play. At least I know I can fake my way through that many live already. I am just worried about the ones I am not super familiarized with already. I still have a few that we have not even covered in rehearsal. I am sure that we will hit a few of those tonite, but man... I just want it to sound good the first time and not fuck it up... But then again, that is what rehearsals are for.

SO.. in the mail today I got 2 DVD's.... One i cannot watch until after the show... and one I will watch right away... The first one that I cannot watch yet is the Dark City director's cut... I already have Dark City, but i do not have this cut of the movie with all of the new commentaries as well as featurettes on the making of this landmark film that combines modern filmmaking with Film Noire and German Expressionism (OK... Maybe that is a bit too far for you all... I tend to have a pretty big obsession with film... but whatever, it's MY blog). The OTHER movie is the sequel to Purple Rain... it is called Graffitti Bridge. Another movie loosely based on Prince's life... And since my band is doing a song from the Purple Rain soundtrack, (OOooh a spoiler for you perhaps?? I didn't say WHICH song though... HA HA!) it is a totally appropriate movie.

I will watch that this weekend...

I want to design the backdrop logo for the band for on stage this weekend. That should be interesting.

I also am looking forward to going to a wedding on Saturday....

ANYONE want to go for SUNDAY BRUNCH?

Zubazz

Day 22 - The Heat Is On!

And I don't mean that cheesy song from the 80's..... I mean I had to turn on my furnace... YUCK!

A Chill is in the breeze! BOO! I hate winter...

Zubazz

Day 23 - Tick tock, Tick tock...

Ha ha! 23 days left with only a little over 10,000 words to memorize!! Can he do it?

Of course he can! He's Zubazz!

Last night's rehearsal was short but we went through some songs and they are starting to come together so that is awesome. We have another rehearsal for Thursday and I am sure that one will be a lot of fun so we can jam out on some of the other new tunes.

Kevin ordered the costumes today, so we shall have them for next week. I found the website for this stuff and it is absolutely hilarious. I cannot wait to see everyone's face when we all come out in this stuff! Every day that goes by I just get more and more excited!

I just got the call to HOST karaoke at McNally's tonight so that should be interesting. Less of me singing, but more of me plugging my show! HA HA!

I am likely going to try and sell off some of those tickets tonight too... (I have been holding off until this payday coming up, but there are going to be a few people tonight that should get some now while they see me cause they wont have a chance to get them before they sell out)

...and if YOU want tickets, facebook me... call me... come out and see me tuesday's at McNally's or even Friday nights at the Pump in the basement karaoke lounge!

OK... I need a nap so i can survive work tomorrow morning...

See you all soon!

Zubazz

Day 24 - Back Into The Fire!

Well, I have been working my ass off all day during my day job.... I have been hot as hell doing it too... What a scorcher out there today! I had to go home at lunch to change clothes cause I was way too hot and gross.

I get home after work and it is straight into printing out lyrics for me. I had to print out 20 more pages of lyrics. So i think i have all of my songs printed out now... I just need to work on them all now. SWEET, SWEET TUNES!!!!

Oh Ya... and I found a great place online to order our costumes from so that we can have what we want by the end of the week. I want us to have stuff by the end of the week so I can get photos and then we can have POSTERS... We need to do the poster thing like right away i think!

I am trying to think of a place where I can get some eighties style leg warmers and head and wrist bands for a couple 80's Workout Songs we are doing... If anybody out there has any that they are willing to part with, that would rock!

Too much to do before rehearsal! LOL... Off I go!

Havarti-ly yours,

Zubazz

Days 26 and 25 - Even Gods Need Rest

I took the weekend off of everything. Hung out with some friends... Talked heart to heart with some good buddies... A well needed rest to avoid what I thought could be sickness and now to get busy again!

Day 27 - Work WTF!

Nuff said about work...

Drinking with Kent before working at the Pump... AGAIN... Oops!

Oh well!

Zubazz

Day 28 - The Word Is Out There...

After yesterday's facebooking, I find that there are 72 people so far in the fan base. There are many people who haven't added us yet. I also expect there are many that are going that deleted us too because they don't like to gum up their facebook with useless things. I must admit I do that quite often. If you ever send me one of those toys on facebook, you will notice that i just block it, no matter what it is. I am sure it is fun for 30 seconds, but in the end it is just a bunch of annoying stuff to sift through on somebody else's page. I think that some of the groups are good to have out there, although I rarely visit them. But that is why you send messages to the group. I will do that shortly. I just don't want to randomly annoy people.

I do know this... People are starting to talk about this show and that is a good thing!

OK... So Yesterday for inspiration, my friend Carina takes me out to the Gaslight to see a band. Opening for this band we had a great set by League Of One. I got to see them do some stuff that I had not seen them do yet and it was very cool! Great set! And THEN... I didn't realize i was in for a REALLY different treat... I knew I was at a punk show of a sort, but what i didn't know was that it was going to be fronted by 2 huge, burly dudes in kilts playing bag pipes. The band was the MUDMEN. WOW! Punk Rock Bag Pipes! With Bass and Guitar, drums and a lead singer. They drove all the way from Toronto to do the show and it was AWESOME! Then I realized that i recognized their song DRINK AND FIGHT. I actually have it somewhere on my computer. I was highly entertained by this whole thing so I thought I would pay for the song by buying their disc. It was worth it just to talk to one of the burly piper dudes after the show. What a great time! THANX CARINA!

Just when you think you have seen every other band, a friend takes you to a show that throws you for an awesome left turn. I am HOPING that my band will do that for you too! Let me be that friend that invites you out to something you haven't quite seen yet!

Well... Time to practice songs...

Zubazz