updates
Well there is a mix of good and bad and funny news.

The bad:
Our download on Amazon has fallen down to the 900s. . . it's like we're old washed up rock stars now, one hit wonders. Just kidding. But our reign of terror there is seemingly over.

We got 3 negative reviews in a row at garageband!! Ouch. And the latest one said I sang out of tune. Man that hurts. Oh well . . . I'll just keep on croaking. I'm getting better at handling negative reviews, but honestly that one is tough to swallow. It makes me hear my own voice differently (if you're a singer, you know that one of the hardest obstacles to overcome is just the shock of hearing your own voice and being able to declare it good. Comments like this make that mental game harder!). But I'm getting past it (see my post below).

The Good:
We've had 2 straight nights of great practices and we are ready to go to Target Studio on Thursday for some great recording. I'm really excited about it, we're sounding very good (once I can get past my nagging doubts about my voice being out of tune). We'll be recording 3 songs, hopefully have it done by Monday. It's $40/hr, so hopefully we'll be tight and knock them out quickly and beautifully. Man I want to be done these songs so we can start working on some new stuff because it seems like we have new songs busting out of the seams but have to pay attention to working on these old ones that we need to record. We have more to say and play!

The funny:
A co-worker of mine's daughter is going to be in the Ms Junior Teen Delaware pagaent. She had asked people at work if anyone wanted to sponsor her with a donation -- and told me specifically that if the Look Machine wanted to sponsor her they could get an ad in their program. I told her that maybe we would like to play at their after party or something like that (thinking hmmmm . .. . we could use more fans, so maybe this wouldn't be a bad opportunity). She called the director of the program, who then called me.

Turns out that they don't have a party, but they do have an exhibit hall where we could set up a table with our music and stuff so the girls could hear our music and find out about us. BUT -- in order to get a table, 2 of us would have to be judges in the pagaent. And they have to be over 21, so that leaves just me and Collin to be judges in the pagaent. One of my favorite movies is Drop Dead Gorgeous, which is a satirical documentary about beauty pagaents, so the idea of me and Collin being judges just cracks me up.

We would have to interview them. I've already prepared my questions:

"So which one of the Look Machine's songs is your favorite?"
"Tell me, what do you like most about Ian's guitar work?"
"Given the choice between the two, would you rather have world peace, or attend a Look Machine concert?"

BUT, it's on Mother's Day, and the Look Machine loves their mothers, so it's probably not going to happen. Darn, we really could use 100 more fans between the ages of 9 and 19 -- those people buy CDs and shirts and love music. . .

Would it tarnish the image of the Look Machine to have us be beauty pagaent judges?

That's it, I have to go to bed.