Last Thursday April 17th, I played at Taste in Orlando.

This was another of the Preacher Bill Presents: Acoustic Appreciation shows, which happen every Thursday at Taste.
I know that these are just a tiny step away from an open-mic, but at this point I have not ruled out playing some open-mics around here just for the sake of playing out. And, I’ve done three of these so far, and it’s not that bad. Preacher Bill is a nice guy, at least a few people in the audience compliment me and enjoy what I’m doing. And sometimes there are only 2 or 3 people IN the audience, so to win an entire crowd feels good.
This time, I played 3rd of 4.
A kid named Patrick Bell played first. He was pretty good, but several of his songs were about suicide and similar topics. My problem is not that they were addressed, it just felt like the lyrics relating to these (and most other) topics were a bit ….”immature”? “Young”? Understand?
After him was a two piece called Chris With A ‘Z.’ I’m not sure if this was their real name or not. One guy playing guitar and singing, another on drums. I don’t remember much about this band. I sort of lost interest and went inside my head after a couple songs, so I can’t tell you much, other than the fact that I wasn’t impressed.
I played a short set. It was fine.
After me was Stephen Rock, who played at Lindsey’s party back in March with myself, POOPS, MakeSoundGood, and Birdie And Her Girly Nerves. I enjoyed him more this time. He’s a nice guy, we chatted a bit before he played. And I like his music. Some of the lyrics still feel kind-of contrived, but the delivery is pleasing.
I need to write some new songs. I’ve a lot on my mind…it just isn’t coming out.

And for anyone who lives down here, I’m not alone in thinking that Orlando Weekly is an unreadable piece of garbage, right? It’s very unfortunate that there exists in Orlando no other free, easily-accessible paper from which I can get information about upcoming shows. Because, even though it is free and I don’t have to read the whole thing, I pick it up and after checking the music section, I find myself thumbing through the rest and lingering on articles which might interest me. These articles have consistently proven to be very poorly written and usually so over-saturated with whatever ridiculously childish bias Orlando Weekly thinks it’s cool to push this week from their textbook left-wing lets-hate-on-everything-but-never-offer-improvements-or-reasonable -arguments writers that making it through an entire article becomes harder than being green. Richmond can relate with Style Weekly. I’m sure every city has one.