"We really should've been in on the fingerprints" => "Sorry, things are moving real fast over here"

Ahh. God. So much blowing up it's ridiculous.

1) Music n' Me

> Turned over 1/2 my remaining lineup [post-Scott backout] two nights ago to the tune of Aaron quitting and Brian B. getting cut loose for basically disappearing; Brian Stansberry (ex-Special Disaster Team) is gonna have a spin on the skins and I'm thinking for now about not even replacing Aaron and just going with the classic Talking Heads / Attractions / Small Faces quartet format of guitar, bass, keys, drums. If I prove an insufficient player in that respect, compromises can be made. Practice at 3pm today.

I have 12 songs laid out with at least completed lyric sheets for album #2, plus JUST rescued "Need to Need You Baby" with a much-improved chorus in order to get it on album #1. It's very much an R&B-feeling 4x4-beat track and should help pace out the midtempo material that may yet clog the meat of the running order.

Still hoping to find a bass player.

> Playing drums for Jake is starting to bear out fruit; we are The High Points and he just keeps turning out understated and awesome singles. Mod is so back that we're in NorMOD, Oklahoma from now on. Come on, children!

2) Sara n' Me

> The girl is Sara Moore, the feeling is mutual, the salad days are on. That's just about fantastic.

3) Comedy n' Me

> I've completed a pilot script for what I hope to be a web series titled Maneater about a guy who comes to the tardy realization that he's a cannibal and has to cope with both learning how to catch and eat people and the awkwardness his discovery causes with his friends and loved ones. I'm also writing the score, and it's all variations on Hall & Oates songs*. I've already re-arranged the title track into something sounding halfway between Weezer 1996 and The National for the opening credit sequence. It's something to do in my spare time at least.

*I'm not even TOUCHING "Sara Smile," just 'cause... Jesus, how on-the-nose can you get?

4) Moving n' Me

> Found a SWEET duplex-apartment in the South Campus area of town (College and Lindsey) that I'll be subletting from an old chum as he moves to Virginia to take a job. The first month's rent will be paid by his folks as a courtesy, plus if I extend the lease through fall he claims one can make $200 a gameday parking cars there. Shit, sounds like it pays for itself half the year. I'll be into there by Valentine's Day for sure.

Okay, that's the short of it. The long of it is like 12 months long, because goddammit, it is 2009. A very good year thus far.