Last night I went to see my current favorite band Remote Wonder at the Horseshoe. It's incredibly satifying not only to see my dear friend Christian Rogers finally having found his calling, but doing so incredibly well with it. At the end of their performance they received the loudest and longest ovation I have ever seen an unsigned act get in all of the tons and tons of shows I've ever seen. I'm really proud of them, and I'm very happy that I was the one who got Christian performing again and introduced him and his keyboardist Jill when the pair of them played with an incarnation of The Sean Ward Players. A show that good makes me long to get back on stage again.
The evening made me nostalgic for the good ol' days when I wasn't such a serious professional, all getting up early and taking care of business. I remember when Christian and me used to, for example, stay up all night smoking hash, watching the entire ten-hour Beatles Anthology, and drawing comics. Back then we were only talking about all the things we were going to do and now here we are doing it. It will be glorious when we can sit down, raise a glass, and toast to having DONE it. But the only way there is for me to upload this right now and get back to work.