I've really been tryin' to draw portfolio lately. I just can't seem to grasp it :( I guess I'll just have to keep trying. Practice makes perfect right?

    I'm just about to watch our friends Richard Cranium do their interview on J Street Radio. Excite!

    And how about the weather?!!!! YAY!!! Spring is coming. Survived another winter! Although I must say that this winter was not so bad...at least compared to the last one. I got bit by my first mosquito and pathetic enough I'm thrilled! Haha. I'm not a winter person. And I went for a hike with my friends in the woods...climbed a tree, jumped over streams, and pulled a tick out of my dog. Ewwww! But beautiful!

Till Next Time,
      xoxoxox
            Steph

wow...I'm a little distracted because I can't stop danceing to these great songs that just keep popping up like (Super Freak) "she's a super freak, super freak" and Play that funky music white boy.  Any ways.  I'm going to be getting my very first tattoo done soon!!!  And I'm extremely exited about it because it's going to look that amazing!  What else...what else... I'm convinced that we're finally going to finish this album by February!!!  We've been working on our organizational skills and they're starting to pay off I think :) Go Donoma!

Well, we have a show at Hattrix on the 22nd...hope to see people there.  We're actually headlining this time so I'm really excited about that!  I'm just a big ball of excitement right now!!!

xxxxx :)

Stephanie

Feel free to tell me about your Christmas.  I'd love to hear it.

Steph

So the plan was, take the hundreds of flyers that we have, leave at 10 to get up there by noon, go to the campus and such handing out flyers, then play a small acoustic set to encourage people to come or watch on the internet, grab some lunch and get to the place at 4:30 for set up time to be on air by 7.  Reasonable plan.  We're Donoma, so of course we're running at least an hour late...no big deal, there's plenty of time to stop at the gas station, fill up our tires and our tanks, grab some breakfast (for me it was french fries) and get on the road ( Oh, not to mention that we played a show last night where our guitar strings and bass drum head had been broken).  So we have to drive a bit out of the way to make a quick stop at the music store.  Then we get on the highway and everythings goin' smooth.  We split amongst ourselves (Izz and I in the van, Shelle, Brian and Bob in the Jeep).  Israel had just inherited a van from a family member so we named him Charlie Brown and called him our band van.  This is the first real trip we had made with Charlie Brown.  We had taken him to the Penny Road Pub, which was sorta a hike, but nothing too bad.  Actually, Madison isn't that much of a hike either really.  We were so excited!!!  We had just got this van recently mind you.  Paid plenty to get the title and the plates, bought curtain hangers, made our ouwn curtains, and installed them.  The van was awesome.  It was so awesome, Shelle and Brian couldn't even wait for a band tour to sleep in it so they slept in it in my driveway! Silly monkeys :)

A bit over an hour into our trip (everything's finally going smoothly) Israel and I hear a loud rattling noise.  So we pull over, popped the hood and it smells aweful and smoking (I know nothing about cars except for what color they are).  All I could think about is the irony of how a few weeks ago our friends who are also from Kenosha were supposed to play on Red Dragon and thier van broke down so they couldn't make it.  After hours of trying to jump it on the freeway (that was an adrenaline rush) we only got it to move half a mile before it was done for.  Getting it towed somewhere wasn't the problem, but what about all of our equipment!?!  Long story semi-short, thanks to the help of our friends and family we were able to make it to the show.  And I'd say we had a kick ass time and a lot of good comments.  Thanks you to all of you who supported us that night.

Love Love Love,

Stephanie

oh charlie brown, even though you weren't with us long, how I miss you so.

Shelle - Donoma

But like I said, starting Thursday... Thursday night we took a trip out to a haunted house. i was riding every ones ass because I haven't done anything Halloweeny, and Halloween was coming up in 2 days!!! AHHHH! We were told about this haunted house that was an hour drive away but ranked #1 in Illinois and #2 in the country. Pretty sweet huh? It was even on the travel channel, because of this houses unique way of haunting (duhn duhn duhn.....) Not only is this house supposed to look gory, it smells like it looks. Again with the procrastination (but hey, at least im consistant) we said we'd leave at 6 30 but didnt leave 'till 9 and with doors closing at 10 we JUST made it as the last line of people. I was a bit disappointed I'd say. I smelt no blood or guts and it only scared me a bit, but I'll go easy on them because it was a weekday and we were late. I had fun though.

Friday. What did we do Friday. Oh yeah, we played down in Chicago for the freak gala spook fest. We were the first ones on but I think it went quite well actually. There were people movin' and groovin' and lets not forget, Time Warping!!!! We dressed as Rocky Horror Picture Show and played Time Warp for the first time. We rock. Iz makes a great Eddie, Shelle does Columbia with perfection, and Brian....don't even get me started. I've never seen a better Dr. Frank-N-Furter impersonator in my life! Brian, you walk better in heals that me and look way sexier in nylons and garter belts than I ever could. You bitch! :) I was Magenta, and of course, up walks another Magenta (but don't worry, there's only room for one Magenta so I'm sure you can guess how that ended)...

I lost. She had REAL hair....not a stupid fake wig that looks nothing like the characters even though it is an actual Magenta wig. Shame. But I like to tell the story with a different ending. I blasted her.

Saturday we played a private party, but it's private so I'm not going to talk about it, just know you wish you could have been there. hahaha!

Then Sunday we jamed out on the Martigras stage at Six Flags Great America with Richard Cranium and Eye(S). AMAZING TIME!!!! I love them guys! After words we got to Rage on the Bull and take on a few haunted houses! yeah yeah.

Monday comes around and you think that you could finally get some rest, but we got invited last minute to a birthday party we couldn't refuse. It's was a 50's 60's dress up party! That was so much fun. Especially the part where I almost got bit by the dog that lives there.

Yay Tuesday!!!! Rest after work. Just kidding. At 7 I went to see my little sis play here first concert with the flute. I'm so proud of her. (and you'll be blasted for real if I get any smart ass comments about band camp) Then on our way home we stopped at our friends house. We were supposed to stay for 10 minutes (hahaha) more like 5/6 hours. But I can't complain 'cuz that was fun too.

So here we are, Wednesday, and I'm sad 'cuz our friends are leaveing for Colorado tomorrow so we are going to say our goodbyes tonight. I'm glad for them though. They're not stuck here in Kenowhere with the rest of us. There doing something and that's inspiring that they had the guts to do it for real. Yay you guys!

So I just realized how long this blog is blah blah blah. I haven't even begun what I really wanted to say but for the sakes of all you precious'es I shall save it for another day. Just know that I had a reminder today of how sick the human kind is and it's sad ;( those are not tears of joy. And yet they are 'cuz people are great and I had a great weekend/weekdays , that are actually not over with!

So... 'Till next time strangers!

xoxoxox Stephanie

Okay, Splinter...not so bad. I jumped quite a few times so I'd say it's worth watching. I love horror films but it's hard to find people to watch them with. Not neccessarily because people can't handle scary, just that alot of people would rather watch a good action film. As for me, give me a horror film, as cheesy as you can get it! :) We finally spend a full day in the studio trying to get our album finished. (We didn't) I think the best part of being in the studio is having that freedom to manipulate the song in anyway. There are so many things you can add to the song because you have the chance to layer. And it makes it so much easier to add different ideas to the song because you can step back and listen to it from a different perspective. Prit-Tea Koo-EL! We played a show at the nook the other night. To be honest I didn't think there would be that great of a turn out but there actually was! I'm excited. And thank you to the fans who purchased our T-shirts, CD's, and for the donations. I can't express how much help that gives us. I think I'm still in the hole so far from just my own pocket for being in the band. Not that it's a bad thing. I have my day job like I've expressed in my first blog. But it costs alot to get a band going. Money to make T-shirts, CD's, Stickers, Lighters, gas money, Equipment, you name it, and even one dollar is extremely appreciated. Makes me feel like people care :) I still haven't set up any solo acts. (I'm a guilty procrastinator) But you know how that goes... So I've been thinking about setting up a twitter account. I don't know much about it. Actually, I don't really know anything about it but I keep hearing that there are bands that use twitter. For all you twitter users, I was just wondering if it is worth it to get one. (Band wise, 'cuz I'm not much of a personal account user) But I'd love to hear your feedback on it. Spank you and have a good night!

X X X

Stephanie

But Saturday we had a show outside at the Twilight Market. Maybe you've heard of it. It's this really awesome thing where they shut down 6th Ave. in Kenosha Wisconsin  and set up stands and have bands playing outside. Too bad the weather has been so crappy lately though. I believe it was a high of 28 that night. bbbbrrrrr was that cold! Can I get an AMEN to the fact that we were told that we were the only band to stick it out. I had a blast though. The only shitty thing was that it was so difficult to sing. Although there wasn't too many people due to the cold, there were still a few passer-by's. Oh, not to mention A GUY VIDEO TAPING THE EVENT AND OUR BAND! haha. oh man. But luckly enough we had our good friends there (Richard Cranium and Todd/No One Solider) to step in, and all in all, it turned out to be a great night. I even got to meet Captain Jack Sparrow and explain to him how it was I who drank all his rum.

I have realized that a crap load of my clutter is from my song writing. Not that there is an abundance of never ending songs, but that I can't seem to be satisfied with writing down my songs only once. I happen to write it at the very least 10-13 times, oh, and not to mention they are all written in multiple places. The blue notebook, the red one, a napkin, computer paper, loose sheet of notebook paper, the black note book, the black notebook again... so I have decided to put my computer to use and save all of my lyrics and stuff in here. That way I can finally get rid of the endless amount of scattered paper and notebooks everywhere. I hope this helps. But you know, I just can't help thinking, what if something happens to my computer? That means that something will happen to my songs, so I should probably keep some papers lying around...and thats how it gets started. (Or, in my case, how it never gets finished.) So, it's back to typing lyrics for me!

Hopefully I will have my voice back soon and FINALLY finish this album! Wouldn't that be nice :)

Love, Love, and Love, Stephanie