Quite the weekend. Very productive and enjoyable, for the most part.

Friday the 13^th == Buffy!

Last month, Eric and I started talking about watching the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode, Once More, With Feeling at his parents house since they have a big flatscreen TV.

We decided the best night to do this would be Friday, 13 August. In attendance were Eric, Adam (my brother-in-law), Melissa (his wife, Christine’s sister), Jennie (my soon-to-be ex-sister-in-law), Christine, and me.

Eric’s parents have left to serve a mission in the Phillipines, so they weren’t there. Eric ordered some pizza, I brought drinks, and Jennie brought enough lime-flavored tortilla chips and salsa to feed 40 people.

After watching OMWF, Adam and Melissa left and the rest of us watched Hush.

It was a great get-together. The shows looked terrific on the HDTV screen. There’s talk about doing it again sometime.

Hot Egos

Sons Of Nothing played a show in Salt Lake City at Club Egos on Saturday night.

The show went fairly well, but sound check was delayed by more than two hours due to obscure technical difficulties. Greg, the drummer, thinks the place is cursed or haunted because of all the problems he’s had there over the years in other bands and what not.

I had lots of new video for this show including stuff for On The Run, Time, Money, and Learning to Fly. I also experimented with some material for the original piece Mr. Serious, which is becoming a band and crowd favorite.

The A/C system at Egos lacks punch and I was soaking with perspiration at times during the set up and during the show itself. But, it wasn’t intolerable.

This was the second time SoN played Egos this year. The audience was as good or better the second time and the music was definitely better. The sound mixing was nowhere near as good, though. Whoever they had the last time SoN played there was better. I don’t know if it has to do with the fact they moved their soundboard since the last time or what, but blaring high-pitched feedback was showing up in the mix a lot.

On top of video projections and computer-generated visuals, I handle the sound effects. There were quite a few at this show partly because the set list included all songs from Dark Side Of The Moon. I think they all went off relatively on-cue. In addition, I was running lights. So, I was busy.

After the show was over and we packed up the gear, Thom and I met up with Jennie and our old friend Dave at a Dennys for a post-show meal. It was a lot of fun.

I got home close to 5 a.m.

On behalf of the band, I’d like to thank all the people who came to the show including people I’m related to (Jennie, Tom, Adam, Laura, and Jeremy), Bobbi, Dave, Chadd, and Damon. I hope you all had a blast.

Jennie did some great work at the show collecting additions to the Sons Of Nothing mailing list and selling over a dozen of the band’s latest CD, One Left Turn. She is really becoming a valuable person at these shows.

We may be heading back to Egos in October. We’ll see.

Sunday

I had such a hard time waking up this morning. I don’t know why.

Heh.

But, I managed to make it to sacrament meeting at church. Then I took Eli home and while he took a nap, I took a nap. Then we went and picked up Christine and the girls, changed our clothes at home, and then headed to my parents’ house for Sunday dinner.