Schrodinger's Cat

Don't give up yr dayjob

The holidays seem to be over for most of Wellington, which suits me – I’d had enough of sitting around reading books and hoping the weather would improve. I’ve had a couple of training days for my proofreading / formatting job at Brooker’s legal publishing firm, so can get into that now. It’s ok, not great, but a start. I like to build up momentum steadily, so now I’ve got a part-time job it’s hopefully easier to get another - then I can put money aside while also pushing ahead with Ascension Band. The thing with WINZ and part-time work is that I’ll end up with the same amount of money each week whether I do 12 hours a week or 20. Really I need to be working 30+ hours and get off the dole - it’s not like I’m incapable of working or have any great need to stay there (no new albums to finish off). I kind of avoided getting a job late last year so I could give my full attention to Ascension Band, Fringe pre-production, the Live 2004 DVD, and make the Fringe preview show on Dec 18th happen. We made an $8 loss on the show, so like they say don’t give up yr dayjob. Also the band seems to have a bit of momentum going now and I can start delegating tasks. I’ve done the hard part and got the ball rolling; now hopefully it’ll gather its own momentum and be unstoppable.

At least if I’m working I’ll have an excuse for my low writing output. I’ve got one more story to go to round off my second volume of shorts, so I guess I’ll do the self-publish thing again. The book’s provisionally titled Scrames don la Screan, and covers the period early 2003 -> whenever it gets finished. I guess it's a bit darker than the first volume, Anterior Pathways. So much has happened in that time, but it’s all been internal. My material circumstances haven’t changed much, though I’m living in a better flat now. Artistically I’ve gone from total solo introspection with Mantis Shaped and Worrying finished in January 2003, to currently being the instigator of a large proliferating group project that I can’t directly control the sound of and wouldn’t want to. In between comes The Winter, RIP. It’s not like Ascension Band is coming out of the blue though, we had a first attempt at Meatwaters in late 2003. The basic premise was that I’d always wanted to play with a big group. But now with The Winter officially defunct and neither Mike nor Simon in the current AB lineup my attention’s been transferred. Like Star Trek: Generations when they killed off Kirk… Anyway – gigs are coming up in the Fringe Festival, and the band’s got a website now at http://ascension05.tripod.com