What I have been up to lately
I have dropped off the radar, but I'm still alive and kicking. I'm not going to poetry readings at all anymore. I'm not on a slam team for the first time since 2004 (and won't be at NPS in August). I'm barely keeping up with reading. I'm lucky if I ride the Vespa twice a week. I'm out with friends maybe once a week? Twice if I'm lucky. The bike gets dusted off a few times between Monday and Friday. I'm not even spending much time with writing at all (updating the Vespa blog twice a week and maybe editing for no more than a total of 4 hours a week). I run a little. Do a little Yoga, but other than that, I'm planted in my living room.
Things are afoot. Big things. I'm breaking my neck on a project and a few shows that are coming up in August. Once you hear about it, I think you will forgive me for not being around. Here's what the project has done to my living room.
An incomplete list:
Tascam 424 Fourtracker, Roland RS-5 Synthesizer, Johnson J-Station amp modeler pod, MobilePre M-audio preamp, Shure PG48 microphone, Boss TU-2 chromatic tuner, Digitech Tone Driver overdrive pedal, Digitech Digiverb reverb pedal, Boss DD-6 digital delay pedal, Boss DD-20 Giga-Delay pedal, Akai Head Rush tap delay and loop pedal, Martin D-28 guitar, some headphones, a bazillion cables, and a fat stack of cassette tapes.
In other news, I found a rusted, dented, abused VBB frame (polished VBB shown here), and I think I'm going to start a resto project from the ground up with it.... starting in August, but no sooner.
Things are afoot. Big things. I'm breaking my neck on a project and a few shows that are coming up in August. Once you hear about it, I think you will forgive me for not being around. Here's what the project has done to my living room.
An incomplete list:
Tascam 424 Fourtracker, Roland RS-5 Synthesizer, Johnson J-Station amp modeler pod, MobilePre M-audio preamp, Shure PG48 microphone, Boss TU-2 chromatic tuner, Digitech Tone Driver overdrive pedal, Digitech Digiverb reverb pedal, Boss DD-6 digital delay pedal, Boss DD-20 Giga-Delay pedal, Akai Head Rush tap delay and loop pedal, Martin D-28 guitar, some headphones, a bazillion cables, and a fat stack of cassette tapes.
In other news, I found a rusted, dented, abused VBB frame (polished VBB shown here), and I think I'm going to start a resto project from the ground up with it.... starting in August, but no sooner.
