This week The June Umbrella had a band practice with a full line-up, even a keyboard player. This is a completely new group of musicians and nothing is set in stone but I'm pretty much settled on using everybody. It's a really great group. The best thing is that everyone is the type of person that really values music and wants to do it for real. This is something I have gotten closer and closer to. I am hopeful that perhaps I finally attained it.
The fact is, since mid-summer I have been missing something that to most people seems very insignificant. There's this feeling I get when I'm in a band room with people I care about, writing songs that I can really connect with. For me there is almost nothing that compares to it. I once explained to my mother by asking her when she feels like everything is well and she is being who she is supposed to be. She replied 'around the dinner table when family is together.' My obsession with this experience seems a bit creepy to me. I suppose my relatively continue exposure to others like me propagates the whole ordeal.
Polyphone is going well, I am finishing up an instrumental piece for 240 Noble Graphic design, a company that my sister-in-law, Monica is starting. She did my web page. I will post a link once it's up.
Amy and I are working hard on the tracks for this year's Christmas album, and for the Asthmatic Kitty song exchange. Hope all is well and happy Thanksgiving.
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Hey, Brian,
Thanks for the encouragement on my writing. I am so glad that you are going for the music thing. If you remember, I saw that on you back in the day.
Also, just to comment a little on what you said in this blog, I think it takes a certain kind of obsession or passion to make it in any creative endeavor. I'm dealing with that now with my writing, as I used to with my music. I feel like such a radical much of the time, but that's better than blase. Right?
I would love a Christmas album; & also maybe some older stuff. Amy & I keep exchanging e-mail addresses when we see each other, & she said she would send me some of your stuff. So...my physical address is: Linda Culbertson, 300 SE Goodnight Ave., Corvallis, 97333.
Thanks!
way to go b!
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