I'm playing hooky today....I've pretty much caught up on my work and we are getting a lighter case load and i don't have a car...yeap....you get a new used car and look what happens...you have no AC. Good thing its still covered under warranty! Woohoo! So this week at work i will work about 3 days...i may have to take off a little early on Thursday and next week i will only be working 3 days! Hooray....Cody and i are going to San Antonio....our first couple trip together, hehe! I'm certain it will go okay....his sister lives there and i have family there so its going to be a great family time! We have pretty much met each others entire family so its no big deal anymore! Actually, some of you (if anyone still reads this) have met his sister....she came to a roller derby bout and then came with me to the brewery! Okay, i promise not to ramble on and on about cody!

I did have a great time the other night....it kind of felt like old times!

Lets see, what else can i write about! Well...i do know music....there is this neat thing that paste has started....its called discrevolt....if you are in a band or interested in new music you should check it out...discrevolt.com....its going to replace the cd. what it is, is a card....that you get something like 15 points on...and you design and sell your card at shows....then the people that buy them go to the website, type in the code on the card and get to download your songs....you can change your songs any time....and they don't have to download them all at once...in case you do change the songs.....its really a great idea....they offered for a while, 100 free cards with free shipping and the stringents barely got in on the deal.....i will be getting our cards tomorrow and i'm excited....right now we don't have anything to sell but when we do every card we sell will be profit....nice really. Above is the picture of our card!

As for new music that i'm listening to.....lets see....i'm digging the new travis....theres a band called the tossers, man...i feel like there is a lot but for the life of me i can't really think of them at the moment....well...i'll just have to let you know later. although, at work i've been listening to the cool as folk station on yahoo music and am finding many new bands that i really like....and then most of them are on e-music so that works out well! :)

As for what i'm doing with music....i, of course, have the stringents....for a list of our upcoming shows see thestringentents.com :)...actually, sarah will be out of town a lot this summer and we don't have many shows in the month of june or july but the ones we do have are going to be pretty cool.....on that everyone should come to is on a Sunday night at Edgewine (?) park July 29th...it is on the south side but the good part of the south side....its a twilight concert put on by the okc arts council....best part is that it is free....who can beat a free concert in the park....i'll

keep you posted. Then i'm working on a couple of projects with my friend Lisa Curl....we are currently starting a band of sorts....we've practiced a couple of time but don't really have a good idea on what are sound is yet.....but that comes. Then I'm playing with Lisa on her music, already established....we are going to be playing the woody gutherie festival....and several times at pearls lakeside....then we have a show in dallas coming up.....good times really.

Cody and i got our tickets to ACL last weekend. if anyone is interested in coming with us let me know...we can take the short bus (thats what i call my box car)....its a pretty good line up i think. http://www.aclfest.com/lineup.aspx i'm sure most of you have already looked at this...i'm most excited about seeing andrew bird....man, he is killer. :) Fionn Regan is going to be there too...who i think i blogged a while back about....i like his stuff too! actually now that i look at the line up again...i'm getting more excited...yes i do know that its not until september but i do love live music....

Okay...i hope everyone had a wonderful day at work or whatever it is you all are doing and i'm going to play around on the computer and watch more carnival (which is really killer, btw, and really weird) and possibly some heroes...and then who knows what else....i may be back to type another blog about movies i've watched lately....who knows...if not i will do that later....yet again i'm going to try to start writing more often...it got hard all the sudden when we started getting more case and i was actually working all day....but i think i'm starting to get into the groove of work...which is nice and i think i may be there for a little while at least...well, until i go on tour with lisa that is (haha, that was a joke :)