Not the powdery stuff mind you but the liquid stuff. I grew up on soft drinks, or as we say where I come from: “coke.” Because anything with carbonation in it is inexplicably labeled as so. That is, with the exception of carbonated spring water because that’s way too high class for people like me and deserves it’s own special category.
Anyways, I used to always have a Sunkist or Mountain Dew on my way to school everyday. I would have had more at lunch but they replaced all the vending machine drinks with high sugar content fruit crap at my school because I’m assuming someone thought that would be better for us even though the calorie content was actually higher (I actually checked). I used to always make excuses too. “Oh, I just drink coke all the time because I don’t drink coffee. It’s like my coffee.” That of course worked until I started drinking coffee.
It doesn’t stop me from using the excuse though.
Being now that I’m married, have a kid, and am slowly on my path to dying, my metabolism decided to say “fuck it” somewhere along the way and packed up it’s shit and moved out. And sitting in front of a computer all day I’m sure doesn’t help much either. Regardless of the reason, I quickly learned that injecting a case of coke a day does wonders for your belly, and I decided to cut down. And that failed miserably. So being the thrifty, inventive person that I am, I made the attempt to switch to diet coke instead.
Amazingly somehow I was able to pull it off. At first I thought they tasted like absolute crap. After a couple of weeks though, it’s amazing how much you grow to love it. At this stage, I think I honestly like the taste of diet cola better. But I still drink the mess out of it. The only difference is that now I have a better excuse for doing so.
Yesterday I went into the studio with the other fit members for our weekly rehearsal. We had scheduled in three hours this week so we really got through a lot. We finished deciding on our set list for the event in October and ran through it a couple of times, putting most of our focus on the two new songs we are going to play and “Blue,” which we plan on recording at the beginning of November. I have found myself really liking our newest song (tentatively named “Last Samurai” until we come up with an actual title). It’s pretty straight forward but it is a lot of fun to play. I use more double bass in it than any other song I have played so far so it is a bit of a challenge to get through at times. I’m going home every Wednesday with my left ankle all cramped up. It’s a good thing though — I really need to develop more strength and control with my left foot.
It’s almost 7:30 am now and I think I finally, finally got Anna to go to sleep. You’re killing me girl, you really are.
You know, before Anna was born I considered writing her a nice long letter; something I could give to her when she got older were I would elaborately, beautifully, intelligently and eloquently teach her all of life’s little secrets and set her off on her way when it comes time for her to go out into the world on her own.
I stopped after about two sentences.
Here is the thing: I’m 28 years old right now and I’m not even close to figuring it out myself. To be honest I doubt I ever will. You flow from one thing to another and you get lazy and start making your lifestyle patterns and rules, and once you think you got it all down and feel safe and cozy in your little world there will always be someone or something that comes along for the sole purpose of fucking your shit up. Sometimes for the best, and sometimes for the worst, but inevitability, whatever it is will be extremely proficient at grabbing a hold of your shit, and fucking it the hell up. And out of my 28 years on this planet, that is the one and only thing I have ever found to be constant — that nothing ever will be.
So my advice? Just do your thing. Do dumb shit, do smart shit, do mean shit and nice shit, and if at all possible, try to work in more of the smart and nice shit than the dumb and mean shit, and — well, just enjoy your time while you’re here, because we aren’t forever. And don’t take anything, including life in general too seriously because it is only as serious as you make it, and even then, it is still pretty damn silly.
Oh, and try to get some sleep when the baby sleeps.
We took Anna out to the neighborhood temple today for her “Omiyamairi.” For the non-Japanese out there, “Omiyamairi” basically involves dressing your newborn up in a kimono and taking them out to a temple to pray for their health, and whatever else you can think of to pray for. The rule is supposedly 30 days after birth but people are a bit random about it these days. After taking Anna out, I figured out why. Can you guess how hard it is to get a kimono on a one month year old and keep them quite long enough to pray and take some pictures? Trust me, it’s much harder than it looks.
Anyways, the rest of the day we pretty much just sat at home and played host to a bunch of Anna visitors. We had three couples come visit today and had a big group drop by last night — which was rather nice being that we don’t get the chance to leave the house much these days. It is really nice to have the company. And to drink. Of course.
I took today off to take Anna to the doctors for her first checkup. So far so good. She’s all healthy it seems — which is good of course. She was a little demon the majority of the time we were outside though. We figured out later that she just wanted to take a massive crap. Understandable. I get like that when I need to take a crap too.
Last week was the first time in a month we got all the fit members together for a practice. We had been taking a break for the last month for various reasons, Anna’s birth of course being one of them. I think it went really well. We already had a new song together within about 10 minutes of getting setup. It sounds pretty good! Simple, straight forward, but loud and fun. The plan is to play that one and one other new song at our gig in October. If you’re in Tokyo you should come check us out. I’m really looking forward to this show. It is sure to be a good one!
87 Sonic III
Milk (Ebius, Tokyo)
10.21.2007 (Sun)
Doors open at 17:30, show starts at 17:55
We should be on at about 21:25.
Featuring:
Nyuryoku Tanshi
GABBA GABBA HEY !
Tokyo Highball Club
palpunte
civic
ricca
fit
87Stupid
Tickets are 1,500 yen (+ one 500 yen drink) .
Ticket reservations can be made in advance via email.
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As you can see from the above, I got myself a new haircut this weekend. I have been meaning to get my hair cut for almost a month now and I finally was able to force a little time in my schedule yesterday to go get it done. As for hair, I have been going in the same pattern for about five years now. Cut if all off, let it grow long, rinse, wash, repeat. So this time, I figured I would actually try something new. I have always been rather envious of people with straight hair, mainly because mine has always been all over the place. Being so, I figured I would take a go with being a Straight Hair Person™. I got myself one of those special straight perms for us curly headed people who aren’t cool enough for just your regular, everyday, straight perm. I think they call them “Super Ultra Straight Perms” or something awesome like that. Oh and for the sake of being overly obvious, I added some stripeys as well. Yeah!
Anyhow, one of the reasons I haven’t been keeping up with the I-World (I just made up a word) lately is because of my on-going computer issues I keep writing about. I finally got myself a new machine and am now 90% finished getting it set up. And I am running a multiple monitor setup now. Because I’m a dork.
So in short, I’m getting back in the game here peoples. Looking forward with catching up with everyone soon!