You wake up sore as the alarm rings, and you cringe. Because it's 6:15 AM. Because you have to go to work on less than 4 hours of sleep. Because you've sworn off coffee— or trying to, at any rate.
It's been awhile since that old, familiar feeling has crept up on me, but that's exactly what happened this morning.
Being back home since the tour has been strange, like being in both a familiar and unfamiliar world at the same time. I'm restless, incredibly antsy, and (for today at least) have broken my morning-coffee sabbatical. Which isn't to suggest things are static, either. They're not. There's actually a lot going on, many things we've been talking about to keeping moving forward, creatively and professionally (does that word make anyone else gag?), and I even felt the need to record a couple of quick little demos, something I have not done since we started working on Fan The Fury last year. Things are still good and things are still fun. It's just been a little difficult slowing down, having gone from practically playing every single day to waiting a month between shows while we regroup and work on booking some more dates.
So it was no small feat that last night made me forget about all that sad-sackery. Brendan (surname: Boogie Band) kept mentioning last night that between them, us, Harris, and all our friends in attendance it was a lot like a family reunion (we can call Jen Murdza a distant cousin... she was quite awesome too). I can get behind that. Even the staff was great. It was a good homecoming, anyway. Everyone played ridiculously well.
All it needed at the end was a side order at Denny's to top me off and about 7-8 hours of sleep in a hotel room. But we can't get everything, I suppose.
Cheers,
Henry
P.S. Some other business to tend to while I've got your attention:
- Updated our Flickr page. We stopped being cheap bastards and started paying for a pro account, so we can update without the fear of our photo sets being lost now. We're still organizing things there, but we've got a bunch of photos up from the tour. Check them out, and if you have any send them our way... www.flickr.com/aloud
- Don't be the only kid on your block without this. And tell us what you think, too. Leave reviews! You can leave bad ones too, but I can't promise I won't sue you for hurting my feelings like these women did.
It's been awhile since that old, familiar feeling has crept up on me, but that's exactly what happened this morning.
Being back home since the tour has been strange, like being in both a familiar and unfamiliar world at the same time. I'm restless, incredibly antsy, and (for today at least) have broken my morning-coffee sabbatical. Which isn't to suggest things are static, either. They're not. There's actually a lot going on, many things we've been talking about to keeping moving forward, creatively and professionally (does that word make anyone else gag?), and I even felt the need to record a couple of quick little demos, something I have not done since we started working on Fan The Fury last year. Things are still good and things are still fun. It's just been a little difficult slowing down, having gone from practically playing every single day to waiting a month between shows while we regroup and work on booking some more dates.
So it was no small feat that last night made me forget about all that sad-sackery. Brendan (surname: Boogie Band) kept mentioning last night that between them, us, Harris, and all our friends in attendance it was a lot like a family reunion (we can call Jen Murdza a distant cousin... she was quite awesome too). I can get behind that. Even the staff was great. It was a good homecoming, anyway. Everyone played ridiculously well.
All it needed at the end was a side order at Denny's to top me off and about 7-8 hours of sleep in a hotel room. But we can't get everything, I suppose.
Cheers,
Henry
P.S. Some other business to tend to while I've got your attention:
- Updated our Flickr page. We stopped being cheap bastards and started paying for a pro account, so we can update without the fear of our photo sets being lost now. We're still organizing things there, but we've got a bunch of photos up from the tour. Check them out, and if you have any send them our way... www.flickr.com/aloud
- Don't be the only kid on your block without this. And tell us what you think, too. Leave reviews! You can leave bad ones too, but I can't promise I won't sue you for hurting my feelings like these women did.
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