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(plus, i was reading some old entries one day whilst out and on someone else&#8217;s computer, and i must go back and fix my errors. put on my editor hat and clean things up. yeesh.)<\/p>\n<p>so, what have you missed?<\/p>\n<p>* we&#8217;ve played some shows, of course. because that&#8217;s what we do. our last was with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/fivealarmfiremusic\">five alarm fire<\/a>, the new band of john maurer from social distortion. oh my stars. what a great night. and i feel very lucky that john and i clicked and spent most the night talking. he&#8217;s quite cool, and i urge you to check them out if five alarm fire play near you.<\/p>\n<p>* our johhny&#8217;s main band, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/postadolescence\">post adolescence<\/a>, had their cd release! i&#8217;m linking you to their myspace, urging you to buy a copy. if you buy it digitally, please consider using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digstation.com\/ArtistAlbums.aspx?artistname=PostAdolescence\">digstation<\/a>, because the boys get 100% of that money. seriously, seriously proud of my best friend &#038; bassist, and of the other boys in the band (also my friends). plus, it was produced by mark clem, whose name you might have seen mentioned as producing the varnish ep (also a friend of mine).<\/p>\n<p>* ah, the varnish ep&#8230;the silver lining of the fact that the cover art has proven ridiculously hard to make happen is that there&#8217;s still money in my savings (because it would, otherwise, have been spent to press the cd). and that&#8217;s good because it looks like my day job is about to cut my hours (maybe my job?) in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>* but that last part is only not awesome because i have bills. it *is* awesome because i have also started working on some side project stuff about which i&#8217;m very excited. it&#8217;s different from varnish, so it lets me stretch and explore. and it&#8217;s with two people i consider family (always a bonus&#8230;one thing i love about working with johnny in varnish is that he *is* my family). plus, i&#8217;m working hard to promote varnish more and really get moving. i&#8217;m going to add us to more sites. and i&#8217;ll be sincerely, deeply grateful for any efforts people make to help spread the word about us.<\/p>\n<p>* not yet sure how i&#8217;ll handle selling them if you don&#8217;t live near (probably paypal), but we got these cool, limited edition (made only 50, 4 of which go to the band) varnish dog tags. this is the mockup, not a photo of the actual thing, but it&#8217;s pretty close:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4741013287_f9106f46b8.jpg\" alt=\"varnish dog tag\" \/><\/p>\n<p>* there are also stickers now. if you head over to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/varnishcentral\">facebook<\/a> page and look at the pics from 2010-06-19, there&#8217;s a picture in there. i suspect those will make their way happily around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* lots in my life and in my head. and varnish are working on new material. just moving ahead as much as i can in all areas. blessed to be surrounded by good people, to have a stellar bff like johnny (and his cat), and to see myself at least clearly enough to like myself. something i wish i could help all of you do&#8230;.see clearly that you are of worth&#8230;.i truly believe we&#8217;d all get further in life and would treat ourselves and each other better if we knew we were of great worth. so i&#8217;m going to keep telling you that until you believe me. because i never lie&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>i appreciate the many lovely compliments that people have sent my way after shows and online. i feel truly blessed to be able to make music, and super flattered that you see my goodness. so far, i must confess, my favourite has been the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultra Goddess to the highest power. 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