Doug Van Pelt

Long nights crying by the record machine

...dreaming of my chevy and the old routine,
but the biggest trhill I ever got was doin' a thing called the "crocodile rock..."

hehe

Whoo! Just like my daughters' growing up (I often ask if they will stop growing and just freeze-frame at their current age. They always say, "No."), the deadline moves on. Looks like the score I keep on the wipe/marker board in the office meeting area (which now reads: "DVP-2, Deadline-2") is going to soon read: "DVP-2, Deadline-3," as we'll have to delay the magazine by 3 days. This is mostly due to ad sales being too low. Usually this is never much of an issue, but most of the record companies are saying "no" to ads. We are so thankful for our faithful "mainstays" who must understand the need to reach out and market to our very specialized (and devoted) audience -- labels like Tooth & Nail and Mono Vs Stereo get big high-fives these days.

The fact that Amanda's hard drive pooped out yesterday (and me spending a couple hours then and today trying to revive it) did not help things. Nor does the sore neck, etc. It'll be weird seeing the interns leave before the final day of deadline (as originally and normally planned), but I am not in control. There's no reason to stress out over the things I can't control.

My family is planning a camp out with some friends of ours the weekend after deadline, so as long as this doesn't interfere with that, we should be okay. I hope I can really relax and have fun at that campout. I could use the rest.
:?)

Maybe I need to take a year's sabbath from HM Magazine, like the farmers in Old Testament times. Wouldn't that be nice -- to take a break from my work for a whole year. I wonder if I'd go crazy or get antsy about writing, etc. I'd probably try to finish my novel and get the Rock Stars, Volume 2 book (and that children's book I wrote a couple years ago) all published.

Am listening to the new Bad Brains album. It's very interesting ... and familiar. I remember seeing them open for Living Colour many years ago. That was a hard and intense show. HR's voice, of course, sounds very familiar, because I hear it so often (I play POD more than Bad Brains around here) on, like, the Satellite album.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at July 18, 2007 01:52 PM