10 Minutes - The Rocking Was Good

Hi. It's Joe.

Last night BABY ROCKET played a decent show at Carp's Landing in Lake Mills WI. We had a new drummer named Mike. He was quite fun to rock with. My bass playing was unleashed too, I think maybe in part because of all the jazz I have been listening too.

At the first set break, I got totally creeped on by a drunken sea hag who was all over the bar making out with random dudes. I don't know why I attract such types, when I clearly show zero (maybe even negative) interest in them. I seem to be cursed (plagued?) by this problem, but it makes sense from the standpoint of THE GAME, by Neil Strauss.

According to his hypothesis, everyone is insecure and seeks approval from others. He parlays this concept into a mechanism for scoring chicks that is far less creepy than directly hitting on someone. But the point being, I am inadvertently "busting game" on women I am totally disiniterested in by the fact of the disinterest itself. It's totally ass backwards, and I am convinced that if there is a God, he is a sadistic a-hole. Definitely not an "intelligent" designer when it comes to human behavior.

This particluar woman was far too aggressive in her approval seeking though. I was really glad to be up on stage most of the time and far from her creepiness. My hope was that she would hook up with some drunken idiot in the bar and leave, and it appeared to transpire later in the night when she left with some dude.

But then, when we were done rocking and tearing down our gear to go home, she was back. I tried to avoid her, but when you are walking back and forth with music gear, it is easy to get cornered. I tried to talk to Mike about some stuff and not pay any attention to her, but then he left me to die and all I could do was flee.

Don't get me wrong. It was a fun night of rock-n-roll and this episode was HIGHLY entertaining, just creepy. Something creepy always seems to go down when my bands play at Carp's Landing in Lake Mills. I don't know why, but it happens consistently. The clientele there is 80% totally normal Wisconsin cheesehead beer-drinking partiers out for a fun time and 20% creepy characters.

Anyway, that's my story for today. In other news, today I have to work out for 45 minutes and practice piano (probably in the opposite order, but maybe not) in order to achieve my weekly goals. Yesterday, I did my Welsh lessons (I finished Module I of IV, and started Module II, yea! Lots of new verbs...), putting me at 3/3 on Welsh for the week. My 90 minute workout on Friday put me at 4/5 on workouts for the week, but I did not get to piano. So that is my task (not a chore, though) for today.

I also have GUPPY EFFECT band practice at 5 PM and I need to squeeze in learning THE ZAMBONI SONG before then. It is for our youth hockey benefit show on 2/11. We still have one more practice before then, so if I do not get to it, Stefan will be mad at me, but other than that it is not a life and death matter. He did his homework though and learned the guitar and vocals, so I would feel super bad if I did not step up and learn it.

Time.