Overdue blog post and the mystery of the 22nd.

I suppose I owe a blog post. This past month has been ridiculous and not generally in a good way. But that's in the past and I'd rather move on and not think about it again. One good thing did come out of it, though (other than a fascinatingly shaped bruise on my leg. Bruises are so pretty). I've decided not to drink again until further notice. Not that I'll be a teetotaler from now on, but while I don't mind other people drinking around me I can't handle anything stronger than ice water. It's for the best, anyway, since buying drinks has been cutting into my budget a lot lately. Moving on...

The 22nd will be a very busy evening. Alex, as you may or may not know, also plays in a band called Blue Mire and they happen to be playing a show the exact same night across town at the Dogfish Cafe. They're quite good in their own right and if you haven't seen them before, here's a video I took at one of their shows:




While that's good because it means double money that evening for Alex and all, it does mean it's a bit complicated logistically. Both shows can and will be done, though, it just means that we will have to be second in the line-up at the very latest. Ah, well, things always work out as they're supposed to.
This brings up something else , though-- the show on the 22nd will be the last Gin Circus show for a while. Essentially and most simply it's out of convenience. Once school starts again we will both be taking a full course of classes in addition to working on other school activities. It just doesn't make sense when we both have about one semester left to try and deal with a band also. When we do end up doing something Gin Circus again, though, it will no doubt be better and more musically unified. As Alex says, it's impossible for a band to really break up nowadays as long as all band members are alive.

In the meantime, though, I've returned to my solo stuff. Or, in other words, just Aubin Thomas. It seems to be going fairly well and I've leapt from around 1400 fans on myspace to a little over 2200. I know that doesn't mean much but it's still nice to see. I'm not quite sure how I'll perform solo yet, though-- for one thing I like having someone else to play off of when I'm on stage and secondly I would feel more comfortable with a piano or guitar or something to put between me and the audience but instead I just have my voice and my computer (and who knows how long this computer will last with all the heavy vibrations I'm putting it through during performance and practice. I must stop setting it down on live amps). I'm enjoying the infancy of this solo identity, though. I like taking press photos and creating demos and all of that. I'm taking more pictures this weekend, but for now here is one of my current favorites and I bet you can't guess which opera singer inspired the look:



I'm sure there'll be more to report later. I'll keep using the Gin Circus blog even while Gin Circus is on hiatus. After all, I'm still 50% of the band.

-Aubin