I need to learn my place.

The importance of being self-important

Originally uploaded by Annie Ominous

Happy Easter from Neurotic Mess, Inc.

Thoughts from that day where a certain group of people wear green and get tossed

Better late than never, yes?

I was going to start this post with a big ol' Minnie Pearl "howdeee!" to the month of March when it occurred to me that the tempestuous third month is two-thirds gone. Where did the time go?

The Day of the Potato Eaters has passed. I survived another year of bagpipers and intoxicated Irish-Americans slurring in brutalized brogue. KT has been playing bass for Jon Conover and they played a great show at Kelly's in Sandwich to the delight of its drunk denizens.

St. Patrick's Day is always a freak show if one chooses to venture out for the evening. That Guy was there. You know the one: non-threatening yet moderately douchy in appearance with a haircut last seen on Jared Leto circa 1993. That Guy had a creepy "is he drunk or maybe a bit touched" aura about him. He seemed pleasant enough but didn't quite grasp the concept of personal space as he kept inching closer to me on the banquette I had the misfortune of sharing with him. He asked me no less than four times if I attended his grade-school (no...) and then peppered me with a slew of unrelated, yet mildly personal questions that crescendoed into a long discussion of an Aurora teenager that was shot to death almost 15 years ago. All I could do was smile, nod, frown and say, "Yeah, that awful." Though the place was stocked with inebriated weirdos and misguided micks, it was a good time.

KT ran into this nice, half-crocked married couple whom he knew when he played in another band. They were elated to see him and told him that earlier in the day they had been singing some of his songs. Suddenly they started belting out their rendition of a song he wrote fifteen years ago. KT appeared to be simultaneously flattered and terrified while I was highly amused and more than a little proud. While it's great to see that people care about things he created, I am looking forward to him getting out more of the stuff he has been working on the last few years and what is going to happen next.

There's more to say, but I'll save it for later.

Annie O