Nov 4

Stayed up til 5 playing the bass. Naturally I didn’t want to wake up for lunch, but I had to because I made plans.

Dragged myself out, had lunch, went home, took a food coma nap.

It rained all day today. I did not want to go out and meet Achilles again. But I knew I should, for me and for him. So I dragged my ass out of bed and onto the subway, eventually.

I started warming up at Barnes and Noble, but nothing really hooked. We bounced to the Whole Foods, same thing. We bounced to the Forever 21, where I decided to be more teasing and in-your-face, a la Joe Natural, and things worked a lot better. Also I became more persistent. Three girls hooked but eventually said they had to continue shopping. In all cases I should have either shopped with them (before they mentioned it) or gotten their numbers. I am so out of the habit of getting numbers these days.

I need to take better care of my body, sleep better, eat better.

I may be playing bass in a music video! More news to come.

I’ve started forcing my strumming hand to use each finger sequentially, to make it easier for me to play sixteenth notes. I can play the first eight notes of Hysteria at around 76 bpm, but things are starting to fall apart. Muse plays it at 94 bpm. I am still struggling with playing the next eight notes at 40 bpm =P

Wow, listening through a bunch of Rage songs, it turns out the bass is played a lot more throughout their songs than the guitar. I should learn some.