Behind the Curtain, Between the Scenes.......

Consider all of the thought that has passed through my mind this evening I'd better choose where I start carefully.......godammit,I've already begun. Well, you see.......I just got in from my walk through the rain, wait.......no. It was around 9:30 pm last night when things actually started getting interesting, musically and so forth. I went to see a friend of mine play an open mic night at a joint called Reale's. There was a handful of interesting people (musicians of course) in attendance.

After meeting Norm, who I'll refer to as the host of this weekly event and meeting up with Matt (said friend who rocks Reale's from time to time) the music began. First Norm and Ian the bartender slash drum student along with several other individuals did some seriously, no bullshit rockin' covers. Once they'd warmed up the few drunkards in the back so to speak another drummer and his guitarist slash singer did their thing which was interesting. Not before, but following the bass amp fiasco Matt and his bass player Steve played their beautiful, interesting set and I was jazzed.

The best part of the night (of course followed by the worst) was hanging out with Matt after the show, talking film,art,music and life which was nothing short of thought provoking. Shortly after our parting of ways I realized the bus I was waiting for wasn't coming as it started to rain quite heavily. I then proceeded onward, thinking all kinds of obscene things like: What kind of things could happen to my charachter walking through the rain in a film? How many perspectives could I have in any particular state of mind? Why did I stop drawing so long ago? There still sits and empty drawing pad in my room, this must change.

Anyways, I made it back to the place where I reside and ponder amongst other things and decided that there was no better time to begin drawing again. Of course I'll backtrack and read through some of the book I have on drawing properly, but there now lies a self portrait of mine in a book of graph paper which was intended to be used for school that never happened. I'm kind of worn out, but wide awake as usual.......watching a movie is most likely in the cards and hopefully sleep, I hope expressing what I see through the metaphorical lens here is at the very least bearable to an extent, though I'd guess that it is far from that. I think I'll challenge myself not to delete this and or throw away what I'm drawing, who knows what will come of this.......
TO BE CONTINUED.......