I have been a busy lass as of late.
For starters, I participated in a Rock Band competition run by a local radio station (The Zone 91.3) along with Tour de Rock to raise money for cancer research, and I’m delighted to say that I had a blast. Our band, Five Knuckle Dry, managed to take the #1 spot, too! (I was bassist.) You can find some video and pictures in The Zone’s photo vault.
The experience gave me a lot of respect for rock stars. It’s hard to nance across a stage in tights and boots, and somehow keep up with your bass strums while tossing your hair erratically. The lights get damnably hot and blinding, and one’s hands can get sweaty and slip on the buttons strings.
I also got invited to join the fellas over at Quiksave.net on their podcast. I’ve written for them a bit in the past, and I was happy to get asked to step up to the podcasting plate – even though I’m surprised at my voice’s slurry, mannish qualities. (Enunciation is a new goal of mine.) You can find me here, in Episode 19.
And now I’m going to dive back into writing a review for the Martlet of Girl Talk’s performance at Sugar nightclub. That’ll be in the August issue, on shelves and digitally available. In case you’re too busy to hunt it down in August, I’ll give you the gist of it now: It was incredible.
