Tim Stopulos

As I sit on my couch with my computer the day after the Pontiac Cafe show (for an idea of what that might look like - please see "Cribs" in the January section of the archive), everything is pretty still. I can hear the buzz of my dryer start to die away, while the TV is muted and Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" is open to "Fugue in C# Major" next to me. I have a hint of a headache that's exacerbated by the unsufferable beeping of my now completed dryer. It's almost 1 PM, I'm only wearing shorts, I've been up for 5 hours and I still haven't eaten anything. This is definitely the day after a gig. Thank God I don't have to work.

Last night's show was small and short. We played maybe 8 songs, and got paid right around minimum wage. Still, I can't help but think it was a big step forward. "Normal", the first song of the night, is feeling stronger every time we play it. "Wandering" is better than it's ever been. "Overrated" was a blast to play and "Weak and Willing" had huge energy. To everyone who made it - I hope you had as much fun as I did. Hopefully we can do it again soon.

For those of you who still don't believe I play music, I offer indisputable visual proof in the form of four photographs. And I'm not just sitting at the piano not playing, if that's what you're thinking (AD). And for those of you who still don't believe that I have (a) friend(s) with whom I play, I ask you to look closely at the fourth (not the band). That's Justin, and he's playing a "cajon" (pronouced ka-hone'). Translate that however you like. You may notice that in all the pictures, this website plugs itself. It's not a link. It's a website within a website. I think Poe wrote about this kind of thing once.

My band will be debuting very soon. New material. New look. New balance. So stay very tuned.