Verses of Truth Trash and Beauty

Waiting to pick up some flyers to promote our show next weekend at Rock Bottom, July 26th, I started reading one of those self-help books, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" reminiscent of my childhood, my dad used to read it. There was a chapter in the book about criticism, and how it only hold you back and does not push you forward. Maybe, I'm thinking that's one of the most significant things I've read in a long time. So, I think from now on I should promise myself not to be so hard on myself, something I've been really bad at a lot but getting better at over I would say the past five years. Then I started thinking about playing music in the band, and how sometimes things seem to be progressing not as quickly as I would like for everything to be progressing. not putting blame on anyone, it's just the way things have been working out. I would like to write more songs, faster, and better. I would like to do another tour, farther and longer. I would like to play guitar faster and better, sing live, more comfortably and, better. Thrn it dawned on me that this tour coming up, even though only a week long, with ledaswan, is exciting and scary. I'm not sure how we'll all get along together, I guess it might be a test of our friendship as a band. So that's scary. but anyway, I think I'll just try to enjoy it for what it is in its all innocence, and fantasy.