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I'm Nick Kelly, one of many Nick Kellys out there in the world wild web, but I'm the only ME that you'll ever know, and most folx are thankful for that. I'm a musician, a writer, an artist, a motorcycle rider, a hockey fanatic, a horror movie lover, a father, a husband, a son, and an overall lunatic. I've got some good stories so far on this wild ride I've called life and more comin' seemingly everyday, so hang out, pour yourself one up to the brim, and buckle up for safety.
It's going to be a fun ride.
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It's the heart of summer and we're celebrating baseball style!
Just Wanna Play, the party band I'm in with some great friends and better musicians, is performing before and after the Potomac Nationals baseball game Friday night, July 18th. We are going to immerse ourselves in the baseball experience and just enjoy the heck out of it, and I think anyone who comes out will love it, too. It's ladies night, so the grrls get in for free. They're giving away hats, and college kids are a buck off, and the young'n's get to run the bases. Info on the gig and directions are available HERE.
Ok, more on JWP. We're still looking for sponsors and vendors for our September 20th Rev Your Engines event to benefit Stop the Silence. We need help to raise money for this worthwhile cause - stopping child sexual abuse. Anyone interested in volunteering, sponsoring a kids' activity, or setting up as a vendor, drop me an email at Nick@CatKlaw.com. We managed to line up a few more gigs as well, so expect much more on the JWP front.
Division, my metal band, is not taking a break either. We're performing August 9th with Metal Church and again October 10th with Jon Oliva's Pain. Busy Busy Busy.
Life is as insane as ever, and it's only partially due to reading really graphic and twisted horror anthologies. The latest is Dark Arts Books' collection, Like a Chinese Tattoo. It features some of the most bizarre storytelling I've ever read. If you have a weak stomach, do two things. One, don't read it. Two, go to confession and light a candle that there's no one weird enough to buy the movie rights.
Alright, it's off to organize stuff for the gig and the Braveheart Ryderz BBQ on Saturday.
One Love,
nK
Labels: Catwalk, Division, Just Wanna Play, JWP, Potomac Nationals, Stop the Silence
The holiday weekend is coming to an end, and despite the rain, we've had plenty of fireworks here. It's looking like the rescue project dog we invited into our home has been discovered by its original owners. That may sound great up front, and I agree he deserves to be in his real home, but I have no idea how to translate that to a four-year old boy. Our little guy is likely going to be heartbroken, but then again, he routinely surprises me with his intelligence and empathy.
It's back to regular rehearsal for Division in preparation for our August 9th gig with Metal Church. We're rusty, to be sure, but we've got some lofty goals and I think we'll surprise a lot of people come showtime.
I'm wrapping up the second round of edits on Catwalk:Messiah which then goes into the hands of some fellow writers for constructive criticism. Then it's time to make the choice: shop it or find an agent. We'll see how that unfolds.
Ok, plenty more on tap between a class final in Criminal Procedure tomorrow, work from my day job and JWP gearing up for a set of gigs in the next two weeks. More to follow.
One Love,
nK
Labels: Catwalk, Division, JWP, nK
I'm still working on edits of Catwalk:Lineage, including a fresh visit to some vampire scenes. It's always fun to try and figure out where your vampires fit in the grand scheme of fang-toothed evildoers. In this case, I think Lineage minions (not the elders, they're different) fit somewhere between the hordes in Underworld, the colorful beasts of Vampire Hunter D, and the feasting brood of 30 Days of Night. They certainly don't have the elegance of Anne Rice's brood, that's for sure.They have the Underworld fashion sense, and feature lots and lots of guns, that's for sure, but a different education. So, at any rate, Cat's story is wound around a vamp war in book two, and it's a lot of fun.Also in the postmortem category is the subject of one of the upcoming Division songs. I'll go as far as to confirm rumors that we do indeed have a zombie song on Control Issues CD. Previews will have to wait, but if you want a glimpse into how your might sing it, go watch Romero's Dawn of the Dead.From a writing standpoint, I got introduced to F. Paul Wilson's series of Repairman Jack novels. Good stuff.Okay all, you're supposed to be writing, marketing or being generally productive right now. Don't let me interrupt.One love!nKLabels: Anne Rice, Catwalk, Dawn of the Dead, Division, nK, Repairman Jack, Romero, vampires
As I sit down to go into editing mode again, I found myself comparing my different writing experiences. For instance, when I'm writing Catwalk, doing drafts or free form stuff, I find the heavier the music, the better (unless it's a sex scene or something meant to be dismal but not upbeat). This is night and day from when I'm writing for work or school, where I find instrumental music helpful but vocals distracting.So, to the creatives our there, what inspires you to write/paint/sculpt/etc? Is it music, is it sunlight (I'm particularly limited to what I write depending on how bright the setting is)? What do you find that helps you to stir the creative juices?One Love,nKLabels: Catwalk, Creative, nK, Writing
I couldn't resist citing the brilliant Warren Zevon as I tried to describe the disparate chaos of my week. I'm working with Litigation Support Teams regarding e-mail archiving and discovery for my day job, studying terrorists and identity thieves for my school, and trying to handle re-distributing equipment for the bands. So there you go...lawyers, guns and money.On the band front, both JWP and Division are busy. Check out the schedules for March, April and May often. We're about to get really busy!On the Catwalk front, I tracked down the artist from the 2001 Comic, and I'm working with artists from Texas to Slovakia to find the best cover for the novels. Stay tuned for more on that front.This is a brief checking in sort of post as the rain pummels the house and ruins my hot tub plans. Too bad, otherwise I'd be more introspective later I guess. Ah well.Hey, it's Bob Marley's birthday. Celebrate accordingly.One Love!nKLabels: Bob Marley, Catwalk, Die to be in a Division Song, Just Wanna Play, JWP, Messiah, nK
Ok, so a chapbook is to a novel what a trailer is to a feature film. It's time for me to slap together this chapbook and start teasing you all about how much fun you're going to have when you read the first Catwalk novel, Catwalk:Messiah.I'm working with an amazing artist on a cover while we go through one more round of edits and start soliciting an agent. Let's see how all that goes.Real life is going well too, but I don't wanna talk about all that right now, just about the Cat stuff, since it's been so much effort. I'll write about real life some other night!One Love!nKLabels: Cat, Catwalk, nK
Ok, the edits continue, including what I think is the most powerful scene in the first book, Catwalk:Messiah. I had to make a few passes at it. I hope it translates well. Poor Cat, I've made him suffer quite a bit. I'm 25 pages away from the first round of edits being finished, but it will take a few more nights. I've hit the end of my editing ways tonight, and tomorrow night...Cloverfield! Sybir has been awesome throughout, completing her massive daily regime and helpin' me with Pupzilla, who has been fun and tiring over the last few weeks. We had a chance to check out Eddie from Ohio on Saturday night which was fun. It was good to hang with bandmates from JWP.
Speaking of JWP, we'll be back at Bogey's on Feb 2nd. Bring yer dancin shoes! Division continues to record, as we go through more revisions of artwork and photography. Standby for updates on that! Ok, time to go shut down the brain for a bit. Best to everyone and Happy MLK Day!
One Love!
nKLabels: Catwalk, Division, Eddie From Ohio, JWP, nK, Sybir
Joe Konrath was right. Editing is like being a serial killer. I'm on page 33 of Catwalk:Messiah at the moment, and I've sliced away so many words, it's silly. I apparently had a love affair with the word, "instantly" for no good reason. Anyway, things are flowing much better. I'm in need of a cover artist for the Chapbook, then I'm lookin' for an agent.As for life, I got back from the P.R.O. convention in Camden, New Jersey today. It was three days of being on the Motorcycle Club set and learning sooooo much. Special thanks to C. Money and Teddy B from 502, and to T.C., who has been on iron longer than I've been alive. It was a humbling experience to meet several individuals this weekend.I finished my next class in Criminal Justice, got to catch up with some cousins, aunts and uncles, and I was home to get some things done, hit the hot tub and re-acclimate with the real world. Now that I have all that done, it's back to edits.Oh yeah...Just Wanna Play @ Bogey's, Feb 2nd...spread the word!One love!nKLabels: Bogeys, Catwalk, J.A. Konrath, JWP, Lou-Evil Psycles
As I eagerly await my turn at recording my parts for the new Division CD, I'm still pounding away on the classwork and preparing to edit "Catwalk: Messiah" for consistency and adrenaline. I like what I have, but every time I read J. A. Konrath's blog, I feel like I'm in grade school again. The most recent post had me howling.2008 has entered with a bang, and Sybir and I decided on a new tradition for ringing in the new year. Hopefully we can continue it. If I could say more, I would, but this is a family show.Speaking of, I had a chance to write about schools of crime causation for a paper in class. That was a fun week of researching, drafting, editing and re-writing. I wound up handing in a 2000-word piece on Albert Fish. Read the linked article if you want to read about a gross killer and massive sexual deviant. This week is a team paper week, so I'm limited to mentioning Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal, but I take my shots where I can get them."Dexter in the Dark" was a great follow up to "Dearly Devoted Dexter" on my reading list. Now, if Showtime will get to releasing the Season Two DVD, I can get caught up on the show as well as the books.No real goals or resolutions in this post. I've been far too scattered to have that degree of focus. That changes this week, since I have so much to do!One Love,nKLabels: Albert Fish, Armin Meiwes, Catwalk, Dexter, Division, J.A. Konrath, Jeff Lindsay, nK, Sybir
I felt it only fitting for a view into Catwalk's life at this holiday season. Let's just say his view on the holidays isn't the same as mine!! One Love - nK It was cold, bitter cold, in the dangerous depths of Downtown Nitro City. Winter always seemed to bring out the desperation in the less-fortunate inhabitants. Burglaries increased, as did the counts of missing persons, arsons, and robberies. The fight for survival was easily quantified in the number of cases recorded by local law enforcement. Catwalk had seen firsthand how many cases went unrecorded. Usually, they resulted in a job and a paycheck for the so-called “killer with a conscience”. Several stories below, the people shuffled about, in greater numbers than usual. Cat knew the reason; he’d seen the fliers drifting in the cold winter air. There was a chorale concert, a voluntary gathering of singers, of all things, to be held in the spot which used to be Peterson Memorial Park. The sun has just set, or at least fallen into obscurity behind the skyscrapers that clawed their way toward the heavens. Uptown was where the real money existed; home to the celebrities and the wealthy. Down here, Downtown, the remainder of society existed; outcasts, renegades and those never given a chance. Cat preferred it here. As a former orphan, a former invalid, and a member of the police force back east who never seemed to fit in, he could understand those who lived Downtown. He had accepted this place, and it had welcomed him. Once he’d grown accustomed to life in the bowels of the city, he couldn’t picture living anywhere else. Cat gazed upward for just a moment. He’d finished a number of jobs that had gained him respect and notoriety Uptown. None of them had provided him the ability to balance and center as this place had. He felt himself chuckle and scoff at those labeled “better off”. He pulled his collar up against the spiraling winter breeze as he directed his attention to the gathering people below. The fascination grew within him as we watched from his perch. The carolers lined up in uniform fashion, armed bodyguards taking their places on each side. The small crowd gathered in the makeshift park, the grounds painstakingly cleaned up and picked over by the singers over the past three hours. As they began their song, he could see the faces of some of the onlookers mouthing the words. To Cat, Christmas was a curious event. He’d been taught the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, Son of God, and how he was born in a manger to a loving father and virgin mother. He’d learned that Jesus grew up, gathered his apostles, was persecuted, crucified and rose from the dead. Anyone who believed in him could gain eternal peace, and their sins would be absolved. He exhaled sharply, the steam from his breath forming in the cold air. Eternal Peace. The promise of that was reward enough. He didn’t need pure angels with trumpets and wings, or contentment for all eternity. He didn’t need blinding lights, festivals and food on which only the divine could feed. Peace itself would be a welcome change from the chaotic life he’d played out so far. As much as he’d like to think the Bible stories were truth, he had grown too calloused…or too much of a realist…to believe they were anything more than fairy tales. God had created Man in his own image, and yet, everyday in Nitro City, there were thousands of people paying fortunes to remake that image, preferring their own take on creation. Most of them did so willingly. Others, like him, weren’t really given a choice. Try as he may, there was still something sympathetic in the heart of the hitman. Instead of watching in fascination or feeling the so-called “spirit of Christmas”, he scanned the crowd, his hand gracing the palm of his pistol. While he may not join in the caroling, he caught himself protecting the carolers from anyone who might destroy their special moment. His spirit might be weak, but his flesh was willing. In that moment, he envied them; the singers…the hopeful…the believers. Had the lessons of his past not been what they were, who knew…he might even be among their number today. Though he couldn’t find it in his heart to believe, something within him respected their hope, and that something was willing to protect them. -In our own special way, Merry Christmas from Catwalk and myself, and a very special “I Miss You” to Criss Oliva (1963-1993) “I am the Way, I am the Light, I am the dark inside the night, I feel you hope, I feel your dreams, And in the dark, I hear your screams, Don’t turn away, just take my hand, And when you make your final stand, I’ll be right there…I’ll never leave, All I ask of you is Believe.” -Savatage, “Believe” (1991) Labels: Catwalk, Christmas, Criss Oliva, nK, Savatage
Alright, that's not entirely true. I still have to revise, edit, format, and add an Epilogue, but the first version of book three is done. "Catwalk:Mercy Killing" is the third book featuring the Nitro City cop-turned-independent-contractor who once again finds himself in the midst of the nastiest villains in all of the city.This time, Catwalk faces off against a ruthless power monger bent on enslaving all of society with cybernetic enhancements, goes toe-to-giant-toe with an armored Russian Mech, and has to deal with his own psychosis. How will our sometimes-hero, sometimes-ruthless-bastard survive? Only time will tell.Mercy Killing came in around 53000 words, and that was after a few trim-the-fat sessions, so I'm really glad with the way this story evolved. NaNoWriMo, for those aspiring writers who haven't tried it, is one intense month. Don't ask how much Jack Daniel's I went through.For those with an interest in Catwalk, Click Here.One Love,nKLabels: Catwalk, Jack Daniel's, Mercy Killing, NaNoWriMo, nK
"Don't waste your breath. Don't waste my time. If I hear one more excuse, I'll lose my mind."- Lowen & NavarroThat's good stuff, isn't it? I love powerful lyrics. Friday night was a marathon night with JWP. Sunday night was an impromptu gig with Division. In all, not bad, and I'm glad work was slow enough Monday that I could recover.I love music that holds a message and just sweeps over you like a wave burying a sandcastle. I got hit with one of those from an unlikely source. I was watching Scrubs, Season Two. There's an amazing episode ending including a musical number and a character named Elaine. Those who are familiar will already know where I'm coming from on this. Those who don't, go buy Scrubs from Season One on DVD and start there. You'll like it.Catwalk is up to his helmet in trouble in the third book, "Catwalk: Mercy Killing". Progress is going better than I'd expected. Prostitutes, Russian assassins, political ambitious, arms dealers and more....stay tuned :)Have a great holiday everyone. If you're traveling, stay safe!One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Division, JWP, Nick Kelly, nK, Scrubs, Sybir
Time for major re-writes. I figured out tonight what the missing element was from the third Catwalk book, "Mercy Killing". I hadn't clearly designed the target of ire and hatred. What's a Catwalk book without a proper vehicle for ire and hatred? Well, I got it now (since the work week is wound down and i finished my first paper for school).Now, 17000 words in, it's time to go back, add some cut-scenes a la all the cool video games, temper a few things to make the story gel more, and then it's back to blood, mayhem, gore and violence. In other words, time to unleash Catwalk again.Stay tuned for more updates and samples!One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, nK
Division and I had such a blast Friday night, playing our last show of 2007 and playing host to a great band. We had the honor of playing at Jaxx (last time till March, kids!) and it was the last date of the U.S. tour for what-the-hell-do-you-even-call-them band, Therion. The easiest way to explain Therion is this. I have no idea how it works.The band features four vocalists, two male and two female, and an instrumental section that makes its living kicking people in the head. The music is heavy and straightforward, and the vocals provide such a myriad of textures that you simply don't know what's coming next.Minnesota-based Aesma Daeva was Therion's touring partner, and they are a damned laugh riot. They interrupted the encore by appearing on stage with a cardboard boat, plastic viking helmets and axes. I thought I was going to cough up a lung, I was laughing so hard.Locals Burning Shadows and Almost Human opened the show and really set the stage for us. We were so thankful that every band played and mingled without ego or incident.Special congratulations to the contest winners; Candy Caine, Alicia Smith and Suzanne Glover. It was fun to finally break out "The Collector" on people.Now, it's November, which means more NaNoWriMo. Time to get back to writing episode THREE in the Catwalk series, tentatively titled "Catwalk: Mercy Killing". More to follow.One Love!nKLabels: aesma daeva, Catwalk, Division, Division contest, NaNoWriMo, nK, Therion
Happy Halloween everyone! It's that time for one of my favoritest of favorite holidays, and as much fun as it's been, it's just getting waylaid in the storm of all that is going on. We're on what amounts to Day Five of our Halloween celebration, including parties, Trick or Treating, more parties, Candy, parties...well, you get the idea.Pup is the coolest Optimus Prime of all time. Far cooler than the crappy Gorilla version in the last few years, even cooler than the original, trailer with Rolly and all that. He wow'ed and dazzled everyone at my day job last night, and was spoiled as a result. Shocker.Tonight is the culmination of our Halloween celebration. More Trick or Treating, and then I'm off to see Lizzy Borden on his new tour. Should be a riot. Cant' wait to see Jaxx tonight. I'll be there again Friday for Division's gig with Therion. We get to close up our "Dying to Be in a Division Song" contest that night, so it'll be a good time.School is fun and exciting. Trying to fit in the reading and posting has been a little challenging with all else going on, but it's nice to be back in a learning environment. Not that I'm not always reading and learning for my day job, but now it's double the workload.It's also 12 hours til we kick off the 2007 version of NaNoWriMo. The Third Catwalk book is on its way!Ok, busy is as busy does...or was that stupid. Ah, either way. One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Die to be in a Division Song, Division, NaNoWriMo, Nick Kelly, nK, Transformers
When I've described Catwalk in the past, I've sometimes said it's part Spider Man, Blade Runner and Akira in one. This past week, I got to dig a little deeper into one of those ingredients.Fans of Blade Runner know that there are several versions, and several possible endings, but the biggest debate usually comes around the presence of Harrison Ford's voiceover track as he plays Deckard. It's either loved or hated in most cases. Regardless of anyone's stance on what it adds or takes away, it's obvious that the studio wanted to create the Film Noir detective flavor to Deckard's character. It's a throwback to the more famous detectives in the past.This week on Sirius satellite radio, the Radio Classics channel (118) had "Detectives Week". That meant an endless marathon of Dragnet, Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe, Johnny Dollar, Sam Spade, and more. It was so much fun to immerse myself in the old school suspense around Private Investigators and the like. The timing couldn't have been better as I'm sitting down to edit Catwalk:Lineage before taking part in NaNoWriMo to write the third installment of the Catwalk series. (Messiah was written over the past year but hasn't undergone edits yet.)Among the shows I enjoyed was The Saint, featuring Vincent Price as Simon Templar, aka the title character. Price's off-the-cuff delivery to clients, bartenders, cabbies or even villains made for a great visit to some of Catwalk's own sarcastic traits. Fortunately, I get a chance to listen to more of it, thanks to the online stores that sell that material, and Sybir's aunt carrying a similar love for the detective classics.That's it for now. Back to the scalpel and editing Lineage. Don't forget the Bottles and Throttles Event on Oct. 20th.
One Love!nKLabels: Bottles and Throttles, Catwalk, JWP, Sirius, Sybir, Vincent Price
Grab your attention? I hope so.
Tonight marks the finish line for the second Catwalk novel, "Catwalk:Messiah" at a rough draft of 55,925 words. This is the precursor to last year's "Catwalk:Lineage" which is about to get severely edited as a result of ten months of new learning. Messiah is the name of the first book, and the first villain, a religious radical who unleashes a technological army on the city in an attempt to meet his demands.
To read the prologue, hit the Samples page. Very soon, the chatbook will be available with the prologue and chapter one to help generate some interest.
Special thanks to the many influences and supporting cast who helped me finish this milestone. Plenty more to come!
One Love,
nK
Labels: Catwalk, Lineage, Messiah, nK
This weekend was awesome. It was an educational mix of good and bad, with plenty of lessons filed inside my spinning skull. First of all, Mike and I stayed after rehearsal on Thursday night to record vocals for Division's upcoming demo. I haven't recorded anything with Division in a few years (despite doing some of my solo stuff). It was fun to see how different things are when you're trying to do it all yourself, rather than have a dedicated engineer. The demo is being mixed now (poor Mike!) and we'll have a few songs on hand in Chicago next weekend at Midwest Metal Anthem. Friday night, Division performed for a sold-out crowd at Jaxx Nightclub (opening for Kamelot). Before we played, Jaxx owner and long-time friend, Jay Nedry, announced the band's induction into the club's Hall of Fame. It was really breathtaking, having been on that stage dozens of times and watching the club stand firm and prosper for the last thirteen years.Sore from the festivities, I wound up knocking about twenty things off of my "take care of the house" list on Saturday. It also meant contacting a potential staging partner for October's Caring for Kids Charity Event for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Much more on that in the near future, so keep your eyes peeled.Saturday night, Sybir and I had the night to ourselves and elected to write and research instead of go out. Too bad neither of us is writing an erotica novel at the moment...that research is always so much fun. haha.Sunday was mostly a recovery day, other than the website updates, the networking, chores and another rehearsal. It's back to the work week tomorrow morning, so it's time to get the next piece written to Catwalk:Messiah.Be good out there. One Love!nKLabels: Caring for Kids, Catwalk, Division, Jaxx, nK, Sybir
The last few nights have been very productive from a writing standpoint. I completed a few more chapters on Catwalk:Messiah, including a fight scene that lasted two pretty long chapters by itself. Fortunately, I get into Cat's head pretty easily, so I managed to find the writing mindset again. The problem has been that this story is essentially four different things - a comic book type novel, a romance, an action movie and on some levels, a comedy.Of course there will be edits and rewrites, but for right now, the core product is really coming along well. Cat gets to take on quite a number of nasties this time around, while still trying to keep himself human between the ears.Fortunately, work has lightened up some, though I've added a few more community projects through the Outreach Committee. Of course, we're still doing our Caring for Kids Event on October 20th to benefit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.Labels: Caring for Kids, Catwalk, NCMEC, nK
Tonight involved so much developmental training, it's absurd. I took a broader view of the latest Catwalk writing project and decided I needed more structure. As a result, I went and wrote out a more defined outline of Catwalk:Messiah.In addition, I watched a film regarding demons and the supernatural. "Fallen Angels" by Jeff Thomas was pretty good! I was surprised by how many industy vets showed up in that film.Anyway, back to work after a great weekend in the company of Sybir. See you this week!One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, fallen angels, Sybir
Welcome home, Cat!Work-Man, four days of Chicago is enough of Chicago when you're bustin' in a new job, meetin' new peeps, learnin' new products, and trying to keep all the other stuff I'm usually juggling.Music-Division is juggling a few new tunes to play for our June 10th gig with Doro and Belladona. We have some never-before-heard material that people are definitely going to wanna catch. Cool stuff, plus maybe a new cover, who knows? Also, check our MySpace page for a live version of Greed!Writing-I tried to sleep on the plane tonight. No dice, so instead I managed to sketch out Pestylence; one of the villains in the current Catwalk novel draft. I have a few of the others already designed and written out but Pest is the first one I decided to sketch. I'll post some to this site when they're done as an update to the book.Ok, I've seen enough power point in the last few days to choke a mule so I'm off. One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Division
To say it's been an eventful night would be the equivalent of saying the Jim Jones mass suicide was "kinda upsetting". In the past ten days, I've had my day job change 180 degreees, my wife really dive deeply into her new role, our Motorcycle Club potentially double in size, my favorite team bounced from the playoffs, and my son prepare for pre-shcool. That's quite a deep-dish pizza, my devoted friends.Sybir swapped my schedule, leading to some cardio at 6:30 this morning, which should set the tone for this post. She's awesome, and the camo pants are just a tempting little finger drawing me to go to bed early. JWP finished another gig at Happy Endings this weekend, having an absolute blast while eating the fact that we played on the first gorgeous day of summer.Meanwhile, Division continues to work on selling tix to our next gig, June 10th with Doro. Old school metal heads will not want to miss out on this gig with the former vocalist from Warlock!Other than that, the edits continue for Catwalk: Messiah. Stand by for more free samples on the writing page!one love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Division, Doro, JWP, Lou-Evil Psycles, Sybir
No April Fool's jokes, just more writing.Division had a band meeting last night. We're almost Nine songs into the next CD, with the probability of writing more before deciding on a studio, mastering and duplication. We want to do this RIGHT, not necessarily quick, so stand by, be patient and enjoy the surprises that will be coming from us in the next few months.With some very cool HELP, we've taken the first steps toward the 2nd Annual Caring for Kids Charity Event, to benefit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. That's going to be a very fun event, so check back often for details.The Catwalk fans out there should know that the working draft of Catwalk:Messiah is over the 17000 word mark, with some fun emotional rollercoaster stuff coming out tonight.Next gigs: Just Wanna Play - April 21st at Happy EndingsDivision - June 10th at Jaxx with Doro and Belladona, August 17th with KamelotOne Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Division, JWP, Malena, NCMEC
Updating a links page may not be big news, but in this case, I feel like it is. Not only did we review code and get the Family Watchdog information posted (the site for the National Sex Offender Registry) but also the java applet for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. So, take a look at those very important sites, as well as the other great people I have linked on that page.I topped 14000 words on the Catwalk:Messiah working draft, and I have the rest outlined pretty well. It should be a good time as I move along here. Got a few great character tie-in ideas the other night.JWP plays Saturday night at the RNR Bar and Lounge in downtown DC. We're on around 10, so if you're in DC, come on by.Division is halfway through another brutal tune for the upcoming CD. We also added a new LIVE performance from last year to our MySpace page. We've got tickets already for the next shows, so don't hesitate to drop me a line for tix to see Division with Doro in June and Kamelot in August!One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Division, Doro, Family Watchdog, JWP, Kamelot, NCMEC
I managed to get the outline written for the Catwalk novel in the works. The humorous part is that it's the predecessor to the one I already finished in November. The goal is to have this one finished by next November and write book three in the next NaNo, though, this may wind up as Book Two and Lineage Book Three. So I'd have to write Book One or Four.Never mind. JWP is ready to roll, almost. Going to be fun. D sent out the new mix of Take It Easy by the Eagles. We'll put it up on our site so check it out. Next gig: St Patty's Day, March 17th, at Happy Endings in Fredericksburg. Stay tuned!It's the pup's 3rd bday today, so it's good to be home from the insanity of VA Beach. I like my job but offseason, that place is a nightmare. Road stuff is fun, but when you have a Sybir and pup at home, there's nowhere better.One Love!nKLabels: Catwalk, Happy Endings, JWP, NaNoWriMo
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