Dare I Believe It?

Well good golly, I almost don't believe it: I'm at home, and I'm making a blog entry! Will wonders never cease? This stupid thing never logs me in at home. Now if only I had something to say...

Well, first things first, I guess. Hello and thank you to the people that have heard about/congratulated me on Bella signing to Mint, and for those of you who haven't heard, Bella signed to Mint Records (The New Pornographers, The Organ, Immaculate Machine, etc.) on the 16th of this month. Boy is it nice to have actually signed that contract. Mint had been showing at least some interest in us for probably a year and a half and in November we actually got together with a couple guys from the label officially to talk shop, drink beer and eat food (on them). They sent us into a local recording studio to do a demo (the same studio we'll probably end up recording the full length at), and it turned out really well. Since then it's been all lawyers and waiting, until last Friday when the call finally came that the finalized version of the contract was at the office and we could actually sign it. Whoo hoo! I think we were all pretty stoked about the whole concept of signing to Mint when we first got together with them those few months ago, but the ensuing, uhh, legal battle, as it were, kind of drained the life right out of the whole thing. When I actually got the email from Tiff that the contract was ready, however, something stirred in me and some of that excitement returned. Now it's just a matter of us getting our act together in time to record, which is looking like sometime around the end of March. And then we'll see where it goes from there. Tiff wants to be touring Europe by August, but we'll see what happens. If it were left in my hands, well, none of this would have happened at all, so who knows, right?

Speaking of which, I was suddenly inspired this evening and ended up writing what could be considered the chorus of a new song. It's kind of like a prayer I guess, and goes along the lines of: "Lord, help me help myself, cos no one will do it for me". I'd been playing some of the other songs I've written and feeling good about it, yet bad about it at the same time, thinking "These songs need to be heard", yet feeling like that might never happen. Which is funny, considering that, in the previous paragraph, I just detailed the signing of the band I'm in to a record label. There is a difference, though, between what I write normally and what I write in Bella, and what I write obviously came first. I'd really like to do something with it someday. Lord help me help myself.

Other than that, well, I missed the opportunity to post my "charts" from last week, so heck, just because it amuses me, I'll post this week's and last week's. And then you'll all know how cool I am *cough cough*. Whatever, I think it's cool. It's my blog anyway.

Peace.



P.S. I couldn't actually figure out how to post last week's standings, so you're off the hook... this time. And oh yeah, earlier today I just saw the end of the video for the song I posted at the top. Menh.