You think you’re ready. You always think you’re ready before you go on stage. But you don’t really know until something goes wrong. You convince yourself nothing will or that if it does, you’re ready to deal with it. But you just have to do it. You go from thinking about doing it, from wondering […]
Ziggy patted the seat on the couch next to him. I sat down cross-legged, sideways so I was facing him. He sat the same way and our knees touched. He brushed my hair back from my face with his fingers. “You want the old pencil, or you want to try the liquid waterproof stuff?” “Is […]
I have no idea if I’ve mentioned earplugs before. Bart and I started wearing them back in school, whenever we went to shows, and as soon as we started playing venues bigger than the coffeehouse, we wore them to play out, too. Christian got converted not long after joining us. I can’t remember when Ziggy […]
The show was at a place called the Seattle Center Arena. I had no idea what to expect with a name like that, but I knew from one of the many lists of Carynne’s I’d seen that it seated eight thousand. Inside it was kind of a miniature Madison Square Garden. Once upon a time […]
(If you missed the poll to vote on the band logo or whether we should dump Paypal, please go vote here: https://daron.ceciliatan.com/archives/1364) The good part about having gotten no sleep the night before flying across the whole country is that I slept on the plane. And I mean from the moment we sat down and […]
(NOTE: The Malware is GONE. We’re CLEAN.) We had take-out Indian from a place Michelle liked, so she brought it. There was way more than we could eat. Lars promised he’d throw the leftovers out before we got back if he couldn’t eat them himself. He was moving in with his girlfriend, but he was […]
We’d had months to get ready, so why were we rushing around like chickens with our heads cut off the final week? That’s just how it is, I guess. Carynne had us doing a list of errands, and there was packing, and laundry, and equipment checks, and eight billion other things, plus phone interviews with […]
So in that “it’s a small world” sort of way, it turned out Cameron and Louis knew each other from some previous project. They caught up a little while I showed Antoine around the theater. Carynne appeared and met everyone and I trusted her to get everyone’s names and figure out who we needed to […]
I don’t think there was a single person still working at Tower from the days when I’d been there. Michelle had been one of the last ones left, and since she’d quit, I was pretty sure I didn’t know anyone. That didn’t stop nearly everyone on the staff from acting like they’d known me all […]
A bunch of things I didn’t expect happened on the day of the video shoot. Among them, a phone call at eight in the morning from a PA making sure of how I was dressed (jeans, T-shirt, and a flannel shirt around my waist in case it got chilly, as usual) and telling me to […]