FraKctured

November 19, 2000 Webster Theater / Hartford, CT

A good strong show. Not the best venue for us. The sound was pretty bad.
Not terrible, but definitely on the weak side of mediocre. The sound
on-stage was quite tough when we first began -- it was terribly loud
without much definition. I was set-up quite close to the PA, so I was
getting a lot of sound from there. And the room was this large
curved-ceiling concrete space -- very harsh to the ears. But, the crowd was
hot and we rose to their spirits.

We began with Larks' which I'm enjoying tremendously. This is a tough call
to make when we are in a place that sounds pretty crappy. But, tonight I
thought "Oh hell, let's just pummel them from the get-go." So, Larks' led
off, followed by a close Light and ProzaKc. I think we have 5 very
different sets, now, that really work. Often we will still write one up
completely from scratch, but mostly we just adapt our current feelings to a
modified version of one of these five.

I had a funny night out after the show with some folks who I met at the
gig. Once I told them about my on-line diaries they wanted to know whether
I was going to write about them. I said that "no, I probably wouldn't." And
they were sooooo hurt. "Well, why not? Aren't we good enough? What do we
have to do to get in your diaries?" I said that I generally don't write
about personal relationships unless it is relevant to the show or my
current thinking about music. "Well, what if I set this couch on fire?
Would you write about that?" "Hmmmmm.... I don't know. Probably not" "Well,
can you at least write about the fact that you didn't write about us?" I
can't say that I have ever been hustled, or even teased, about someone
wanting to appear in my diaries. It's such a funny thing. Plus, they have
never even read them, or even heard of them, until I brought it up.

This made me begin to wonder if I could sell 'slots of mention' in these
diaries? Like for ever mention of Dunkin' Donuts I could get a free case of
mixed doughnuts. Something like this:

"Well, Adrian and I got up early today and headed down to Dunkin' Donuts.
(ca-ching!) We decided last night that we needed to have a band meeting. So
the plan was to meet at Dunkin's Donuts (ca-ching!) this morning. Robert
wasn't so sure that he wanted to meet at Dunkin' Donuts (ca-ching!),
because he was more of a Krispy Kreme guy (hmmmm... conflict of interest...
I lose one case. Damn!) But Pat swung the vote being a true Dunkin' Donut
(ca-ching!) whore. So, then it's settled: Dunkin' Donuts (ca-ching!), it
was."

Now, come to think of it maybe I could arrange to sell the use of every
word in this diary. That would be the most effective use of this concept --
sell every single word. Some large multinational company could buy 'is' and
then some media conglomerate could buy 'dissension'. And I could get a
politician to buy 'buckethead.' Maybe even a bidding war would get started
over 'serendipity' or 'thusly.' Think of the possibilities. The other great
advantage to having every word pre-sold would mean that I would have no
bias in what I chose to write about. I could just write as I wished knowing
that every word that I wrote would be generating me truck-loads of cash. It
might even cause me to write more. Well, maybe, we can say that it would
definitely cause me to write more.