#1496, Tuesday, August 25: A first gig reminiscence

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Post 1496, Day 237 of 2015
- 1,698 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I'm feeling a little mellow today. Unfortunately, that doesn't really leave me much interesting to write about.

A month away from my LA vacation, and I just heard some good news from out there. Alex sold his first script. It is for a youTube video production, but he wrote it, and someone paid him for it.

Kind of huge. At least to me. It is at least as significant as the first time I got paid for playing bass.

That happened when I was seventeen.

My friend, former neighbor, and too-loud guitarist Richie got a gig for a band he didn't have. I supplied another guitarist, a drummer and, of course, me as front man/vocalist and on bass.

I also named the band. I called us 'Smack', because I was experimenting with heroin at the time. The club didn't get it, and billed us as 'the Smacks'. Probably for the best.

This club was called Mr. D's. It was a gay bar on the very classy Upper East Side of Manhattan. I didn't know what kind of place it was and neither did Richie (not that it mattered - it wasn't my first encounter with gay men, and I've never had a problem with them).

I showed up there a six-foot, four-inch seventeen year old in tight pants and a gold velvet caped vest from a theater supply company. Hilariously appropriate, given I had no idea who my audience was.

We were a big hit. We played there twice a month until someone suggested we should practice and the drummer quit.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   206.8 lbs

Previous Weight (8/24):           209.4 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 2.6 lbs

Diet Comment

This refreshing weight drop is brought to you by WTF! Completely unexpected - and nothing I did yesterday, which included a cheat and more than half my calories eaten after 8pm. Not complaining, not understanding. Happy, nonetheless.

Food Log

Breakfast
Protein shake with almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, extra-large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, celery and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch

Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.

Snack 
Beef bone broth from Core.

Dinner 
London broil and cheese on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax bread with a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 24 oz.;  Water: 36+ oz.

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