Okay, so it hasn’t been exactly a year, but I haven’t written in a blog for a while.  The blogs I used to write were overly personal and sort of sloppy. I think I’ll try to make this one a mostly music related. That probably won’t be too difficult a transition, seeing as a good percentage of my old posts were about music anyway. I’ll just try and minimize the amount of “24 is the greatest TV show known to man” type posts and focus more on thoughts on music concepts, recordings and performances that interest me, as well as ruminations on my transition from student musician to professional musician.

My friend Q will be designing me a bitchen new website. I have no doubt that it will look awesome. A lot of my friends who are registering their own domain names are opting for the popular Dynamod Web Portals. These generally look good and do their job well, but I don’t think they are for me. That my friends are using Dynamod and not just Myspace Music, is a fact to be applauded. Sometimes you have to dress for success.

The completion of my last final exam this coming Wednesday will mark the end of my first of two years of grad school at UNT. Thursday will be my first rock music performance since the dissolution of my old band, Chestnut House. My band will now consist of me and members of The Grasshopper’s Dying Words, who will also be playing the show. The Grasshopper’s Dying Words is an amazing band led by ridiculously talented and soon-to-be-degree-holding multi-instrumentalist and composer Brian Stark. I would advertise this event, but it’s doubtful anyone will know of this blog’s existence in the next few days. For posterity’s sake, the show is at 9PM this Thursday, May 8th at Art Six Coffee House in Denton, TX.