I did a bit of Spring cleaning this morning. I woke up with sunshine pouring through my window and it seemed like a perfect morning to get rid of some old stuff laying about the house. Breathing seemed easier, my eyes saw more hopefully, and the windows needed to all be opened to let the breeze blow through and blow out any lingering bad energy. Somehow it just seemed like life had started over again, which I guess is why we have so many Spring re-birth/resurrection myths.

Mostly I just threw away some old junk with old (and useless) memories. But even that just made everything seem brighter.

A good Spring morning makes the possibilities seem endless.

I found the best snack today: lemon roasted almonds. I never really liked almonds that much, until this morning when I was at my local farmer’s market and walked by a vendor that sells nuts with millions of different flavours. I have a pretty serious salt addiction, and an addiction to lemonade, and I eat way too many snack foods. The vendor (like any good drug dealer) knew my addictions and had me try some of the lemon roasted almonds.

I bought a bag. And a half. The other half I gave to a friend, and it was all I could do to keep my addiction in check and make sure I split it evenly.

I think the only way they could make these nuts any better is if they marinated them in Guinness before they roasted them.

I had some Chinese food with a friend last night, didn’t feel well later when I went to bed, it seemed like I was going to vomit. I didn’t. But then…

I went into the studio this morning and one of my notes (in my terrible handwriting) for a song that will be on the next album called ‘Pulse’ looked like instead of ‘Pulse’, it said ‘Puke’. Again, I didn’t. But then…

Actually, that’s all. I’m not sure if I’ll be seeing any more patterns like this today. I’ll post more later if I do. I know, I know, you’ll be checking back every 5 minutes just in case I do have more.

Tonight is the last episode of Battlestar Galactica. I am not sure how they are going to wrap up everything that’s been going on over the past 5 years. I kind of wish they would make just a few more episodes so we can really know how things will end up.

I know they won’t though. They’ve already torn down the sets and are auctioning and selling everything off. I was thinking of emailing the producers and asking how much they want for Boomer.

I am very pleased to announce that I will be playing with Colin Hay at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano CA in May. Details to come.

Men at Work was one of my favourite bands when I was a little boy, and I had such a great time last time I played with him. I’m really looking forward to this show.

Back in 1985, Phil Collins performed at both Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia in one day. He managed to do this by flying on the supersonic jet Concorde. We achieved a similar feat last night.

We played two shows in one night at two different venues, one in Santa Monica CA, and one in Fullerton CA. True, they weren’t necessarily as far apart as London and Philadelphia, but since we did travel down the 405 freeway which seems to have traffic at every hour of the day, we figure our achievement was comparable to Phil’s.

We should’ve played ‘In The Air Tonight’ just to make the similarities even closer. I don’t know if I know all the words, but I can definitely “air drum” the drum fill right before the chorus.

I have a Guinness in the refrigerator for St. Patrick’s day today. I’ll be avoiding the bars today very easily. It’s definitely an amateur drinking day, and I don’t think I can handle any U2 cover bands blaring ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, no matter how good of a song it is.

I’ll be recording today though, so I’ll make it a point to sneak some Irish tin whistle in on one of the tracks.

Sláinte,

SJ

Last week was very good for recording, we are progressing much faster than I thought. I greatly reduced my social life and pretty much locked myself in the studio. I allowed some visitor access, but mostly it was just a week of music. So now I might be a bit pale skinned, but at least we have the foundation down for the album.

Hey folks,

I uploaded a demo of a brand new song, it’s less than a day old. It’s called ‘Supposed To Be’.

You can check it out on my MySpace profile:

http://myspace.com/saintjohnandtherevelations

It’s very rough because it’s just a demo, but let me know what you think. The lyrics are in a previous post if you need them.

Cheers,

SJ