Just got back from a Sons OF Nothing show in Park City. I'm tired, but I have some stuff to “flog.”

Harry O's

The show was at Harry O's - a venue the band has performed at a couple times before. There was a decent crowd of over 100 people who showed up very enthusiastic about experiencing the “Floydshow”. The music was pretty good, but I was a little disappointed with the evening.

First of all, the club's front video projector had broken, so they moved another projector into its place that was nowhere near as bright. The “screen” on stage was hoaky as heck and nothing looked good.

Fortunately, Harry O's has four plasma display panels around the club as well as 3-4 other projectors which project onto free-floating muslin-covered rings. It's a neat effect, especially when I'm projecting something round like the moon or some circular visualization.

Nonetheless, I was miffed about the on-stage projection. I remember the first time I showed the video footage I prepared for Astronomy Domine at Club Suede. There's a clip from that footage which is from astronomical data on the sun. It's basically a close-up of the surface of the sun showing sunspots and other variations in temperature. When I showed this behind the band at Club Suede, it was so cool because the picture took up the entire rear wall behind the band so this moving/rotating sun is slowly rotating behind the whole band. Oh, it was sweet.

Because the projector at Harry O's sucked, that effect was totally lost. As was the effect I prepared for tonight's show for the song Sheep from the Animals album. Who knows when the band will play that again.

And then, after the show, I found out Harry O's had given the band an almost insultingly low guarantee. For the amount of preparation that has to go into a Sons Of Nothing performance and the number of people involved, a club needs to guarantee twice as much as Harry O's did.

So those two things were kind of depressing.

There were some attractive young women (a.k.a. hot chicks) who showed up at the club tonight. Some of them were dancing all exotic and sexy to the music. It was quite a sight. There was one girl that made me think later if I wasn't happily married; If I didn't have an immense appreciation for the relative simplicity of my life and lifestyle; If I didn't love my kids... I might have considered talking to her. I guess you could say there was this really, really small part of me that was intrigued by her.

On erotica

I was talking to a friend on the phone today who had been looking over my website and he said nothing on my website surprised him except a mention on the home page about me liking “well-written erotica.”

It kind of made me realize I hadn't really read any erotica (let alone the “good stuff”) in a long time. Probably not since I was a college student. Should I take that off my home page? Or, should I leave it there so I continue to have something on my website that surprises people?

Alright. It's after 4 a.m. now. I'm heading to bed.