Myspace Race.

Depeche Mode has 307,995. Lily Allen has 430,785 of them. My Chemical Romance has 1,094,840. Of what, exactly? Myspace friends of course. And now Gin Circus has, as of this moment that I'm writing this, 1,300 friends on Myspace. I think that Alex, although he generally supports what I do online, kind of scoffs at the idea of being pleased with a high amount of Myspace friends. But I can't help but be happy! Even though I'm sure a lot of those 1,300 friends only friended our profile to up their own friend count I think that having that many speaks well of us. It says that not only are we actively promoting ourselves (and taking our goals seriously) but, superficially, it could also look like everyone who had friended us had checked our music out before doing that (granted, we have 1,378 profile views so it's not exactly that far off to guess that). Anyhow, our first gig was booked through someone who I'd friended on our Myspace, so it does have a real world effect to be Myspace friends with people. There's also the practical aspect of Myspace being used as a temporary band website, some place to direct people to when they want to hear what our music sounds like.

Speaking of Myspace, one of our next shows is being booked through there-- with a band from New York who had said on their own Myspace page that they needed a place in Maine to play in August. They're very good and this show will happen even if we have to host it in someone's basement and pass a jar around to cover their travel and give them a bit of profit as well. If you're interested *and you should be!) they're called Take One Car, and their Myspace is here: http://www.myspace.com/takeonecar
Next stop: Twitter! I'm saving that for tour, though.

In the meantime, we are having another recording session tomorrow. Thanks to the perrils of home recording we've had two unusable takes per song but in the long run it is cheaper. In the meantime, I've designed the CD art for the live demo and in another effort to save money will be drawing on each CD by hand. This is also known as putting my partially completed degree in illustration to good work. Here's the rough template on computer paper with a bic pen:



The cat is because being somewhat cat-like has been a theme of my personality for about three or four years. Since I have a somewhat bad memory and three or four years is about as far back as my vivid memories go I like to think I've always acted a bit like a cat. It's most obvious in the fact that I say "meow" an awful lot, something Alex has taken to responding in kind to when I do it. We're strange, but if my brother and I fancy ourselves kittens there's nothing terribly wrong with it. Anyhow, at least for talking like cats talk to one another, it's only a mark of how at ease we are in each others' company; after all, I wouldn't openly meow at a lawyer or a congressman or something. But I digress....I'll be drawing on the CDs which, assuming we actually succeed in making music our careers, might make them worth something in the future and that would be a nice treat for all involved.

As far as a personal update is concerned, I've been limping around lately because I busted my right big toe and bruised up the inside of my left ankle within an hour of each other this past Thursday. Both were my fault but I now know that Alex is capable of giving me a piggy back ride down a brick sidewalk, which is information I'm sure will come in handy at some point should I ever again find myself unable to walk back to a friend's apartment cos my leg hurts. I ought to be a good girl and finish some of my overdue summer coursework this evening and I also should either finish watching News Radio or stop watching it and do my homework. I'm not sure which I'll do.

In conclusion, to continue the cat theme, I will now show off my pillowcase:



-Aubin