Today I'm going to my old school's Spring Festival (a carnival or fair of sorts). This will be a first among Spring Festivals for one main reason: it's the first one that my band is not playing at since we really got off the ground. We played there in 2002, 2003 (pictured), and 2004. I already miss doing it. It was a really spectacular thing, being up on that trailer-turned-stage, even though there were also "real" bands there to show us up.

At first (in 2002) we were invited to play there as a selected act from the school talent show, which we pwned that year and the next. But sometimes we weren't specifically invited and we had to ask to be squeezed in. But no matter. We weren't really ready to play this year; we hadn't practiced much in the months leading up to this weekend. On top of that, not everybody wanted to do it. Maybe if we got paid for our gigs, the motivation would be there and we would learn more songs. But we can't really get paid until we're good and can play a lot of stuf. It's a vicious cycle, a catch-22, that must be broken. Please consider booking us for your next event.

Anyway, my friends and I are going to the Festival today for my friend Mark's birthday (which was actually last month). It's a surprise, so don't tell anyone. (And I'm sure he won't be reading this before he finds out because there's some sort of diversion to get him out of the house, and I don't even think he goes here anyway.) It should be a lot of fun.

And yes, I went to see Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood on Thursday night. What a show! It was basically like Whose Line Is It Anyway?, except the games were longer and there was more audience involvement. A game they used to play on the show was the Alphabet Game (or something like that), in which there's a particular scenario and when the performers take turns speaking, each person's line has to start with the next letter of the alphabet. Colin and Brad played this game for their finale... while walking and crawling on 100 mousetraps blindfolded and barefoot. You'd never see that on the show, that's for sure.

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Tommy: What is your opinion about the Canadians?

I think, on the whole, they're fine people. I can't really understand why other Americans think they're so weird, besides that they kind of are. I think they just come across that way because they're almost exactly like Americans but not quite. But some Canadians have used this to their advanatge, viz. Colin Mochrie.

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