180: Second Time Around

OK, a few bits of good/fun news first... Last week's minisong was called Look Up! Feel free to download and enjoy...

Also, I've participated in this great project started by my good friend David (formerly of Jet By Day and presently of Coyote Bones) called Telephono. It's basically the fun old game of Telephone but with pieces of music! He sent me a guitar riff, I built stuff around it and then i passed it to Owen. He worked it and passed it to a friend in Italy and so on and so forth. Listen to all of the songs here! Many many more to come on that front.

Last bit of good news... I am going to be actually buying a HOUSE with a partner. A two flat in Chicago with a basement (hopefully), yard, garage... the works. It's a huge investment mentally (gulp), physically (gulp gulp), and financially (gulp gulp gulp) but i'm fucking ready. I'm ready to finally care about something. See this blade of grass here? I love it and I will take care of it because it's mine... This also means that i WILL have a place to put that old rusty rotted out tin can of a jukebox. My collection has been saved for the time being! However you know how bills get... and this leads me to my one bit of bad news.

The lymphoma is back. Thankfully not with a vengeance. It's manifested itself in my left eye. So... it's back to the scanning board. Had two on Friday. An orbital CT scan and a PET scan. If it is indeed only in my eye, then i'm going to argue for a lesser treatment than last time. My side effects with Chemotherapy 2006 were almost non-existent but that's not to say that it didn't still totally suck. So there's that.

In a completely non-related story, I saw No Country For Old Men yesterday and i really loved it. I'm no spoiler so i'm not going to give you my interpretation of the events... until it wins Best Picture.