i'm sitting here, listening to a playlist of kilowatthours songs that i've rearranged into a prospective "set list," trying to memorize the song titles with the songs, that way whenever i end up looking at a real setlist i won't sit there thinking "how the fuck does this one go?" it doesn't help that we don't go by the album titles on some of the songs. bet you can't figure out which songs are referred to as "dead" and "dan is…"

and now i'm just utterly exhausted. two straight days of intense band practice and i think i've got a solid handle on the material. let's just say it's incredibly rough momrizing an album and a half of material in…a day and a half. we'll be playing through a set or two before we load the van up, so hopefully that'll be all i need. if not? well…i'm fucked. but i'm going to go to sleep to this shit if i have to.

on the fun side of things, most of the "guest hosts" have been set up and locked in. some of the posters will be unknown to most, but this is, after all, just to amuse me whenever i can check in from the road. that and to "drive away any audience we might have," as has been stated at least once over the past couple of days. so with the first show later tonight and us leaving early saturday morning, this will be my last post for a while. bring on the dancing monkeys…

"let it begin."