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Thanksgiving…a time when one can sit around the table(s), gourge themselves on food and talk to people that you may or may not know. I had an interesting one this year. As some of you know, I’m familyless down here so every year we usually will find someone else’s family to mooch off of for the day. It normally works out and this year is no different. This year we went over to a friends house and their entire extended family seemed to show up. Everyone was nice, met some new people and had some great food. It was after the dinner when things got interesting. Apparantly, it is tradition in this group that everyone must wear a funny hat and have their picture taken. Which I did with great joy. I, myself, have no problems wearing funny hats in awkward places, not to mention seeing “grandma”, grandpa and aunt Jane wearing these amazing Turkey-Hats. That, my friends, is a good time. Now it’s time to go for a walk (you notice that I walk alot around families, huh?). We walk out through the fields, woods and to the lake where we proceed to watch some people fish and experience a little “Manure-Golf”. One of the kids decided to take a baseball bat and whack piles of manure. Now isn’t that exciting? I was not one of the fortunate receipients of the manure barrage. I sat on the edge of the dock and watched grandmas fish race. (The scored ended, 2-0, by the way.) Is the story over? NO! Not by a long “shot”. Now, it’s time for the gun chapter of this tale. Any one of you who know me by any measure know that I’m not a huge fan of guns. I’m not going to be hypocritical and say that I don’t agree with them or that I’ve never owned one, I just think that a lot of the guns that are for sale out there are totally unnecessary. Anyway, it’s time do some skeet-shooting. Something that I’ve never done, but, according to my score (4 out of 5) I’m pretty good. That’s what the folks say, anyway. So, to some it up…another delightfully entertaining Thanksgiving. Anything special happen to you?
-C

Alright, so any of you that came out to the Haven last night for our Rock for Blood event, did we or did we not have a blast! Not only were there some great bands playing, but we collected 38 units of blood! That’s the potential to save 114 people!! I don’t know about you, but I would think that going out, having some fun, listening to some music and saving someones life would make for a pretty good Saturday night, don’t you think? Here’s some great quotes from the evening:

“…and the winner of the $30 in music downloads is….TwatRot!”

“…I got stuck three times, passed out and almost fell down the stairs…give me the damn thing!”

and of course, Manny’s famous joke:

An elephant and camel are talking and the elephant says to the Camel, “Why do you have your tits on your back?”
To which the Camel replies, “At least I don’t have my dick on my face!”

Har, har…I know. That’s what you get when you come to an AG show, right? Non-stop good times.

Now…what do you think we’re going to be up to next? Guess you’ll just have to wait and see.
-C

I’m really not sure what that title is all about. It’s just something to get me going, I guess. So we had our last rehearsal last night before the Rock for Blood event. I have to say, I’m pretty damn excited about this thing. It’ll be my first event that I’ve really organized from the ground up. Of course, I’ve had help, but still…you know what I mean. Our business meeting last night (for those of you who don’t know, Sanja and I have a business meeting at Denny’s every Wednesday to discuss marketing, PR, set goals and give a progress report on what we’re doing) And I think we’ve come up with some really great stuff that’s going to pop up here in the next couple of months. I’m excited about what’s going to happen for the band in the next year. Of course, it’s a little hard to be very excited about stuff when it’s so friggin’ cold. Although, I shouldn’t say anything. I know people who live in a colder area than what I’ve got down here. But whatever. Does anyone know any good jokes? I’m horrible at remembering jokes (because I have a HORRIBLE memory), but I do enjoy a good one every now and then. If you’ve got a good one, post it on here. I’d love to read it.
Another thing that came up at practice last night was Sanja’s claim that they have re-discovered a Mogwai like creature somewhere. Now, after her discripition, I was sure that she was just saying that they’ve found a new lemur or something. In fact, I insisted that she had found a new lemur, despite the fact that she “claims” to “never” have “seen” a “lemur”. Whatever Sanja. But of course, like always, I pull up Yahoo this morning and what’s on the front page? An article on the amazing pygmy tarsier, which is one of the cutest damn things I think I’ve ever seen. You have to check it out, read the story here: Damn that thing is cool. I’m sure that you would like to have one for your un-birthday. Be careful…apparantly they bite and do not like aerobics. Oh, and don’t get them wet or feed them after midnight.

If you haven’t heard yet, we’ve got a ton of new stuff designed for our store. Go and check it out. Just lick the link below.

Also, if you haven’t heard yet (like, if you’ve been living in a cave or been in outer-space) we’re hosting the Rock for Blood event on Nov.22nd @ the Haven. AND we’ve garnered ourselves a couple of nice little write-ups in Connections Magazine and Out-Impact e-zine. Check ‘em out!

So, what do you think about the election so far? It seems that there is a pretty good turnout at the voting booths. I know when I went there was a small mob of ol’ ladies there doing some voting business.

Come on new president!

Okay, I know, I know…it’s been a while since I wrote anything, but hey, I’ve been busy! I promise! I’ve got TONS of work done on the Rock for Blood event. We’re pretty much in the homestretch. The bands are picked, the tickets are done (I’ll let you know where you can get them soon enough, so just settle down) and the online ads are up and about. Now we just have a few little things here and there to work out and we’ll be ready! Aside from that, let me tell you what is absolutely hilarious! It happened today at work and I think you all will appreciate the humor.
So, it’s “really busy” at the shop today. (note my sarcasm, please) Dan has decided to bring his pellet gun to work to pass the time. I think it looks like fun, so we go out behind the shop and start shooting at a water bottle. Apparantly, this thing is not all that powerful, so it’s not really going through the bottle when we hit it. It’s my shot and I’m aiming, Dan’s telling me some story about this target thing that he had as a kid and *POP!* the pellet bounces off the bottle and tags Dan right in the side of the face! Of course I nearly passed out from laughter immediately! It was like the scene from “A Christmas Story”. I never thought it would happen in real life. So, needless to say, we put the pellet gun away.
Now the horrible thing. It’s just a little review of this place in Eustis. We’ve been working a new tune and Dan and I got together the other day to work on the arrangement. After we were finished, we thought it would be good to go and grab a beer or something somewhere. We stopped at this place in Eustis call “The Crazy Gator”. DO NOT GO THERE! It was horrible. It was like an episode of the twilight zone, with the empty bar, the same people that are trapped in that weird extra dimension. The waitress couldn’t seem to figure out what we wanted when we told her, the beer was watered down, the chips were stale and there was no atmosphere. No music, not TV sound, nothing. Well, except the rednecks talking and the little mexican baby screaming from the corner. The highlight of the experience came from some huge fat girl nearling busting her ass trying to get off hte bar-stool and nearling pushing Dan out the window. Of course, THAT was funny. The best part was she didn’t really seem to notice us sitting there nor did her Boyfriend even look up when she did it. I laughed hard on the inside.

I’m off for now. I’ll let you know where you can pick up the Rock for Blood tickets.

-C

Not only the past weekend, which by the way, was a blast. We ended up going down to Halloween Horror Nights. Too much fun..the only complaints were the long lines (nothing we can do about that) and the early closing hours. But, we managed to get into the main Haunted House and a couple of others, had a tasty drink (the Scaaary Mary) and got a nice little light up cup. Also, tons of spookieness around the park. What’s that you say? You think I was scared? Hmmm? Screamed like a little girl? You bet your ass!! I’m sure they’ll be some pictures floating around somewhere…you’ll see what I mean.

This coming weekend is Biketoberfest. If you’re in to bikes and beer and chicks, you should come out and have a little fun with us on Saturday. We’re down at Rif-Raf’s (formerly Dizzy’s). They’re having music all day starting at 1pm. We go on around 10pm.

A Scorpion! I had a scorpion strutting across my front room last night. I knew that they were supposed to be around, but I had never seen one in person. Sure enough, here he comes, hauling ass across the floor. Stops right in the middle, looks at me, and then keeps on going. I couldn’t believe it. I caught him, told him to stay the hell out of the house and then put him out on the porch. Cool little critter, but not so nice to have around the inside of the house. Anyone else run into one of these?

Out for now..see some of you at the show this weekend,

=C

We’re officially the hosts and organizers for the “Rock for Blood” event! It’ll be on November 22nd, starting at 4pm and ending at 10pm. You can click the link above to get all the details, but I’ll be posting on the website as they are put together. Great bands, a great cause, free stuff, food, drinks, and all sorts of fun. Come out and have a blast with us.

In the mean time, my apologies for not keeping this updated more…my computer is still broken. I’m not complaining, just telling the truth. Hopefully I’ll have it up and running again soon so I can post some pics from my little “business” trip.

So what do you think about this crappy economy? Hmmm?

You know, I’m starting to wonder if there is a force working against me here. I get back from my wonderful vacation and my computer has dumped on me…and speaking of Dump…the septic tank is full. Did I mention all this before? My brain hasn’t arrived from overseas yet, I think. Oh well, I’m getting it all in line again. Parts are ordered for the ‘puter (along with some upgrades. I figure that if I’m going to be gutting it, I might as well make it better), the Septic tank has been dug up, pumped out and refilled, and the Kitty has had her shots. I’m back to work on Rock For Blood. Check it out if you haven’t yet, hope to see you all there. www.myspace.com/rockforblood of course, I don’t want to seem like I complain all the time. Maybe you think that I bitch too much, but hey, what are Blogs for anyway? I guess I could come up with some positives…ummm…we have an acoustic show coming up…no, I already said that…uh…I had a good lunch and a delicious apple for breakfast. Oh! And I got some new strings on my guitar and they sound great. Speaking of guitars, I found one the other day at GC that I really like. Check it out and let me know what you think?
See ya’,
C

Well, I’ve returned home. FINALLY..after what seems like a million year flight. I can’t think of anything that would take me any longer. The trip home started out on Thurs. night at midnight and didn’t end until I got back here (home) at midnight last night. Don’t forget the six hour difference there kiddies…that’s right. A long bit of travellin’ for ol’ Mr. Clint. He was a delirious and tired boy last night. I’m sure that a conversation with me would have been hilarious. The last days were great, nonetheless, filled with what else that eating and drinking. I think I must have gained like a thousand pounds or so (actually, only 4, but hey..a thousand sounds more exciting). It was a great trip and I’m looking forward to the next one. Who knows where that will be? Hmmm? No, you don’t, so don’t even try and figure it out.

I’ve come home to a crashed computer in the main house, so I’m out here in the Studio. Which is a good thing, since I have to rehearse for the show on Saturday in Tampa. It’s an acoustic one, and I have to admit, I haven’t played those songs in a while. It’ll be good for me to get back in the swing. The nice thing was, though, there was a guitar there for me to play and I did practice a little and even started working on some new material. Whether anything will come from it, who knows. So, I’m off to play. Starting with CP: Scarred and moving down the list. When I get my main machine running, I will get the pictures uploaded. I think you’ll find them entertaining if nothing else.
See ya’,
-C