Upon watching more of the old videos from my college and post-college years, I've come across one of the reasons I was a dick: I was hanging around some dicks. I'd forgotten how some of these people were just complete jerks to everyone. Most of them were involved in the bands I was in. There were some notable exceptions to the rule: Jerry, our bass player, was not a dick. He was wacky, but not a dick. As for the other people, I think they mellowed out a little later. As did I. I hope. Give me a metaphorical smack if I haven't.
In other music related stuff, I am producing a disk for a friend, Tim Cain. I've known Tim for around 10 years now, and I have played drums and guitar on a couple of his projects. This time, I'm just producing. It's been slow going, since we both squeeze in time to work on the songs whenever either of us has a free moment. As I'm working on Tim's disk, I'm floating some ideas around for the next Nancys disk. Once I'm done with this producing job, Jon and I will be getting together to start merging our ideas and forming new Nancys songs. I'm thinking that will be late February or early March. It's a little frustrating going this long without new Nancys songs, but the wait will be worth it, I think.
I'm off to San Francisco next week to shoot Macworld again. It was a blast last year. I not only got to play photojournalist, but I got to play reporter, too. I'm doing that again this year, taking photos and writing a story for Tribune Media Services. Writing is not my strong suit, but it helps to have worked for newspapers (and to have literate friends!) in the past. Reading newspapers every now and again doesn't hurt either.
The other weird thing C and I have been doing is something called the Master Cleanse. It's a fasting diet where you only consume a liquid concoction consisting of lemon, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper mixed with water. You can also have herbal tea. It's disgusting. I lasted three days. C is still going strong on his fifth day. It's supposed to wash out your system, specifically, your colon, of toxic buildup that's just sitting there. The other major component of this regimen? Salt. Water. Flush. Yes, it is an uber-laxative. You'd be surprised at what comes out of you, and how fast it comes out. Yuck. The good thing is that we were both amazed at how we were able to NOT EAT ANYTHING for so long. Even now, though I've stopped the clease bit, I'm only eating a breakfast, then nothing else all day. Today, I might just do a lemon/water mix for the rest of the day. Adding the syrup and pepper to that makes me gag.
And you think that's bad? Ask Jon about his vegan bucket.
