Flash forward 5 years later.  Madison's sixth birthday is coming up, and for the last four years I've been in a band called thinksobrain.  To this day, we've yet to open for a national act, but that's all going to change on August 1st.  The band?  Smile Empty Soul.  I finally get to say that I'll be sharing the stage with a major label band, and it's a band that has such a special meaning to me.

August is going to be an extremely busy month, so it's only fitting that we're starting the month off with a show.  On August 20th, we're playing the Honoring The Idol 2010 pre-party with Penntera.  A week later, it's a hometown stop at the Evening Star Concert Hall with Where She Wept, and the next night it's our first Club Diablo show in over two years with Dead Before Dawn.  Hope to see everybody out! 

We played a show the other night around the corner from the place we played that first show back.  It was extremely hot in the place and the acoustics were terrible.  We didn't play badly, and apparently everywhere else except where I was standing while playing my guitar, things sounded pretty good.

Well, the next step for us is to hit the studio, and we've officially confirmed that we are indeed doing so in the very near future.  We all picked one song each, and will hopefully have, at the very least, a four song demo to shill at our next show, be it the charity show at Chuggers in West Seneca on August 20 or something sooner.  The songs that we've decided on are one of our newest, "Dave's Tune,"  an old favorite, "World Falls Apart," and re-recordings of "Greater Than Expected" and "King of Chaos."  

I'm off for now, check back in a couple of weeks for updates from the studio! 

There's an air of buzz surrounding this show.  There are some fans that are nearly as excited about it as we are.  A lot of planning has gone into this, and it will all unfold on the stage in just two days.

See you then.

I could talk music - Dave has proven an excellent addition to the thinksobrain family, but with no drummer to speak of, we're kinda stalled at the moment.

I could talk business.  Business isn't so bad right now - I actually did my first professional logo for the band Dead Before Dawn.  They love it, and personally, I'm extremely happy with the way it turned out.  Maybe I can do work without absolutely hating it after a week.  That's parlayed itself into a partnership of sorts between Fropac Productions and Dead By Dawn drummer Steve Brown's Guilty Truth Entertainment.  I suppose I could talk about that.

Steve and I have discussed business before, since we're both looking to get our entertainment companies off the ground.  The thing is, in recent months Steve has pushed more towards the live entertainment aspect of the business, while I've pushed more towards the promotions aspect of the business.  In that sense it enables us to work together to promote each others businesses as we offer different services.

Guilty Truth is promoting it's first show in a couple of weeks, Friday, March 26 at the American Legion Post on Main Street in Tonawanda, NY.  If everything goes according to plan, yours truly will be the MC for the night and Fropac Productions will have a presence. 

Looks pretty good, Eric.  I especially like the post titles how they start on the side with the date and avatar and then shrink into the post title.  Hey, wait a minute - that's what I did on my blog!  Now, don't get me wrong.  In no way, shape, or form do I think Eric copied my idea.  I don't know if he'd even seen my design before starting work on his.  Eric is a great designer and I have no doubt that it's pure coincidence that his post title concept is similar to mine.  I just thought it was funny and figured I'd have a little bit of fun with the similarities.

You may recall, a few weeks ago I posted an article featuring videos of Johnny Carson, the legendary host of the Tonight Show for three decades.  Since then, rumors started swirling about nbc's "The jay leno Show" tanking in the ratings, and the possibility that current Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien could be moved to a different time slot or leaving the network entirely.  Well, this morning it was announced officially that O'Brien would be taking a $32 million payoff to leave the network and give Jay Leno the Tonight Show back after only 7 months.  On last night's show, O'Brien joked that he never thought he'd be jealous of the illustrious run that nbc gave "Joey."

O'Brien's last show will be tomorrow night, January 22, 2010, and he'll be eligible to start a new show on a new network as of September 1st.  Well, I'm here to say, fuck jay leno.  You know what, fuck it - he doesn't even get his name capitalized, since that's supposed to be a sign of respect and I have none for that fuckwad.

Look.  If I had a television show, and my ratings tanked so bad that it was killing the ratings of the local newscasts in several markets, my show would be canceled and I'd be out of a job.  I wouldn't get a promotion.  I wouldn't get to take back my previous job as host of the most prestigious show in late night television.  I'd be sent home and I'd be looking for information on how to get myself into the next season of The Surreal Life or whatever similar shows are out there now.

leno's bitch ass gets a damned promotion.  Why?  What has he done to deserve it?  Nothing.  leno should be fired.  nbc gave him a show, they gave him a fair shot at success, and he failed miserably.  Now they're going to let O'Brien go, and give leno the show back.  Team Conan has turned out in full force to support O'Brien and I'd highly doubt that any Conan supporters will watch the new leno-hosted Tonight Show next week.  With all due respect to the contributions of Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, and of course, Conan O'Brien, I hope everybody is so turned off by the actions of nbc and jay leno that nobody tunes in to watch the show, and nbc has to replace leno yet again - at the very least.

I'll be watching tomorrow for O'Brien's last show, but that will be the absolute last time I watch the Tonight Show - save for clips on Carson's Comedy Classics.

So, in conclusion, fuck jay leno, and fuck nbc.

Speaking of thinksobrain...

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If anybody knows where to find this song, please, for the love of (insert supreme being here), let me know so I can find it.

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