deep breath, forge ahead

thoughts that i would like to recap:
1. shows
2. salim
3. chains (stores, and bondage)
4. new albums (see #2)

happy new year to you all! i hope that 2006 is off to a great start. we have seen 2006 from the car window, and from behind a microphone, both in a studio and on stage. we rang in the new year at lawrence's house (great party), and i sang auld lang syne (sort of), and promptly realized why we all sing "hmm hmm hmm auld lang syne..." The words to that song are a trip.

shows have been going great. we had a fantastic time last night at standard and pours in dallas - you should have been there, because the rest of dallas was. it was packed. good times - and they did a webcast, and probably it is archived somewhere...check out pirate radio network and look for standard and pours. or their myspace site. who knows what you'll find.

we've been recording with salim and i am chomping at the bit to put new songs up on the site. i can't really, or shouldn't, because they are all unmixed...we don't have our bass recorded yet, or much electric guitar, and the levels are still wacky, but everything sounds amazing. it has been such fun to record with salim, because he is a very calming presence in the studio - and i need more calming presences in my life. anyhow, we'll probably set up a dummy myspace page with some of the songs....i'll release the address soon.

as we were driving down I-45 in Houston the other day, between Spring and downtown, Manuel said something really funny...in Italian he said that if you try to open a restaurant here, "ti spaccano il culo," which basically means they kick your arse. he was referring to the fact that, at least from what you can see from the highways, it's mcdonald's or whataburger or kfc or god knows what else, but it sure as heck isn't mom and pop's country fried steak, at least not until you get to nowhereville, texas, and even there the giants are invading. it was a funny but sad observation.

the new cds will be released in some order in 2006, but i am not sure yet how/when. blackout, the EP, is almost finished....just one song remains to be recorded. little films is going swimmingly, as mentioned before. i will soon be sending out my "please help us, dear goodness" email, in which i plead once more for support from those who love our music. since we have an outside producer this time around, recording costs are, while low by industry standards, high by any other.

lastly! award nominations for the My Texas Music are being taken at the link below. Categories in which you could vote for us would be:
song of the year
female vocalist of the year
album of the year
singer/songwriter of the year

the link is here - you can ONLY VOTE ONCE. :) double voting will be disqualified.

http://www.texasmusicawards.org/nominate/index.html

thanks and happy saturday to you,
v