great

day today! In speech, my duo got alot of work done on it, and i'm feeling pretty damn good about it.

And because i just got back from band practice, i'm going to talk about my band : ]

So... we're playing at next week's talent show! i'm super pumped for that. we're gonna rock it. But there are some major concerns i have...

We timed out set, and it was about 12 minutes long. If you add in me talking to the crowd and stuff, we'll probably need around 13 minutes. I'm not sure if student council will let us have that much time. So that's an issue.

Secondly. Our set consists of an intro we wrote (which is pretty cool. It can be a little mechanical at times, but it certainly does have a hook in it. It ends with me soloing... Which obviously i love. but for some reason its not a groove i'm hooking up with. I can't tap into it and find those perfect notes quite yet. i'll work on it.) Our next song is an original called "Driving Force". We wrote it wiith our old singer Alex singing. With me singing it, it's a little different, and i'm a little put off by it. I'm not gonna lie. I solo at the end of this one too. This one even more so than the first, i'm having a hard time making beautiful connections to the bass line. (even my solo on the recording on our myspace leaves something to be desired...)

During our performance, i'll have to guitar solo's. This is the talent show. I want people to be amazed! (does that sound cocky?) and right now i don't feel like the two solo's i'll have will allow me to do so. That worries me.

And not only that.

Our final song is a RHCP cover (of course it is haha). It's called "Purple Stain". Don't get me wrong, i love this song! but i'm not sure if the audience will. It's pretty out there. And also, it doesn't highlight my guitar playing. It ends with this monster jam, which is a blast to play. But again, i'm afraid of the audience not getting it, and thinking it's just "noise". overall, this is the song i'm most iffy on. I honestly don't want to play it at all. (only problem is eric and gabe are set on it.)

So yeah... I may come off like a dick because I want all the songs to have some awesome guitar part. I just want to be known around the school as a genuine guitar player. I take myself and my band pretty seriously, and i want everyone else too.

I just want to put on the best show possible. It just happens that i believe that the best show we could play would consist of me playing some awesome guitar : ]