Hello nice people. I miss talking to you and seeing you around. I can't believe the last time I posted anything was in May, more than 3 months ago. While I've been to some token shows, I have been to no where as many as I wanted too. I have seen no new local bands - not because they are not out there, but because of the stuff that keep all of us form going out on occasion - health issues, home issues, money issues, employment issues, and fear, loathing and exhaustion issues. I am hoping at least some of the above issues are behind me because this Summer it seems like I got a little of all of them.

A few weeks ago I received an email from someone I have not seen in person for 13 years (YIKES). We'd kept in touch by U.S. mail and then email once they invented that. In thirteen years our paths only came close to crossing once. If I remember he got a last minute gigs in NOVA a weekend I was on vacation in Boston.

Unlike then, Ambrose's band Joss is playing at the Blackcat on Thursday, September 30 with locals, exit clov and I will be able to be there. I think this is a smashing, smashing, smashing omen for a better Fall with lots of meaningful music moments. Don't you?.

I am committed to groupiegirldc, being about, duh, dc music, but if you approached me in person I would say there is a small number of out of dc groups that I would make an exception for. Joss is one of them. I've also been wanting to see exit clov since last Fall, so I will be killing two birds with one stone and the cat in a few days. It should so rock!