now

It's raining, Garrett's recording keyboard to "So in Love w/ Myself", Miles is working on his electric drums, and I'm writing a new song. A typical day in the life of Pat: loud noises, acoustic guitars, getting tangled up in wires. Today I was like "Have you heard of the Metrics? I just put their CD on hold at the library", and Garrett was all like "Dude, I have their CD in my car." Long story short, now I've made an illegal copy and I'm gonna play it in my car.

That makes me a pirate.

My future looks grim. I guess the next step for me is stealing cars and gold (hopefully I can be a Robin Hood-like pirate and disperse the wealth in a sort of neo-communist fashion, because as we all know, if you work really hard and earn something than someone should steal it from you and give it to someone else who worked really hard and didn't earn anything).

Anyway, I'm sure you're all curious as to what fascinating adventures Shotty's been getting into recently! Well, right now I would say that we're in our cocoon; saving up money and developing our new songs and whatever else we can think up. At this point we have one thing on our minds: the album! It's so exciting! It's shaping up to be quite spectacular.

In the meantime, we're very excited to get out and play for our favorite Seattle fans at the Redmond Firehouse's FIRST ANNUAL MONSTER MOSH! We're getting our costumes ready, and getting our ideas together. We want to make this a Halloween show to remember!

The rain continues pouring; each drop filling me with hope, collecting into the oceans, floating into the sky only to fall once again. It reminds me that all of life is a constant cycle of endless wonder, and with each new creation we help to push humanity forward into a future of love, insight, and of course outer space. Speaking of which, I want to go to mars, but that's a topic for another day...

--pat moon