I got together with my old friend Phil who I haven't seen in almost 5 years tonight. He was a friend of a friend who I met and we always seemed to have a mutual appreciation of each other -- musically more than anything else. He is a drummer. A very good drummer at that. We used to hang out at Denny's all the time so where better to reunite?
We ate and catched up on each other's lives but it wasn't until we got talking about music where the juices started flowing just like they used to years ago. We could talk for hours about music -- in fact... we did tonight. Actually, we listened.
He wanted to hear my album so we went to the parking lot and listened to every song. He brought along some songs he's been working on, after learning some guitar and recording it using computer programs and a drum machine. We just sat there for the entire time -- a little over an hour.

I wanted to play him some of the new A Perfect Circle album because even though he was going to buy it at some point, I had to fuel the fire by letting him hear the beauty that lies within the plastic jewel case. But I only got 20 seconds into the first song when the Denny's Rent-A-Cop came and pointed to my car saying something to ...something.. behind us. *turn around* Cop? Oh jeez... they're gonna kick us out of the parking lot....
"THERE. IT'S THE PASSENGER WHO'S SMOKING THE WEED."

Woah, woah, woah..... what? "No dude," Phil says as he grabs his pouch of Drum tobacco, "this is tobacco!"
The cop asks us out of the car and to see our ID's. We obey, laughing all the way.
The rent-a-cop has already disappeared back into the restaurant, probably out of embarrassment.
They check out our ID's, hand them back to us and tell us how "that guy's a jack-ass" and we're OK where we are but we should move just so they don't have to get called out there again. So we park across the street in Home Depot's lot -- where, a half hour later were kicked out by a regular man in a van. Maybe an employee? I don't know... but we found it all very humorous. In all honesty, I am amused at the events that took place tonight and have taken place many times in the past. I'm amused at what we've become. There is no place to go and park and listen to music. There is no park to go to at night to chat with a friend. Matter of fact, you can't even go to a park and be by yourself. There is literally no place outdoors to sit with yourself or a friend or two and talk, listen to music, relax, etc. There just simply is no place to go without being kicked out by someone. Hence: Canada.

Anyway, I'm hopeful Phil is who I've been looking for these past few years to pull me back into the music scene. We're going to make an honest effort into making something happen. He gave me the rough draft songs he's recorded, less vocals, and invites me to see what I can do for lyrics and vocals. I hope I can actually do what I've been wanting for years to have the chance at doing. I guess we'll see.

Here's to something new....


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