House of Many Smells # 543

I submitted all of the paperwork for my new passport today. In triplicate. Stamped by a Notary Republic. There’s an ad on a local radio station that some Notary Public’s will make $100,000 dollars this year. I’m thinking the one at the post office isn’t pulling down six figures. Just a hunch…

My Very Good Friend and I are going on an eleven-day cruise around the Hawaiian Islands in September to celebrate our wedding anniversary and as a honeymoon. I have more money in my front pocket now than I had in my bank account when we got married, hence the delayed honeymoon. Anticipating that my CD will go triple-platinum and all, we decided now is the time to book that trip. Well…actually we’ve saved some and we have some bonus money coming to us that will pay for the trip. But if my CD DOES go triple-platinum, we’ll probably take another cruise.

I think going to the post office is a very interesting experience; It fits in the category of “House of Many Smells.” There are good and bad Houses of Many Smells; this one was very ripe, dare I say rancorous, today. I felt a little embarrassed because I smelled clean and freshly-bathed. I was definitely an outsider, one of those lucky few in Los Angeles who can afford running water AND deodorant. I am one of the blessed.

The post office is like a big stinking ethnic melting pot. I bet when the founders of our great nation thought of the concept of the Great American Melting Pot they didn’t consider the smell. Which is unfortunate for the rest of us.

There have been no Rhymes With Orange updates lately. Why, you ask, have I been keeping all of my loyal fans (well…loyal fan, anyway) in the dark about the most recent goings on in the studio? Mostly because there hasn’t been much to report. I have a job, people. What do you want from me?

But tomorrow is going to be a very exciting day for Rhymes with Orange. We’ve rented a rehearsal space in downtown Los Angeles in which we (Phillip and I) will be working on drum arrangements. Including the arrangements for FOUR (count ‘em, F-O-U-R) new tunes. These new tunes will take the place of some of the “weaker” songs on the CD. In other words, it’s going to wind up being a strong, powerful, emotional tour of force.

When we get around to releasing it. Now that this year is half over, and Craig is traveling so much between Minneapolis and Sacramento, I’m very afraid that it’s not going to be done in December. Maybe if some of you out there (I know you’re there lurking) write and tell J and Craig how absolutely stoked you are about the imminent release of “Artificial Heart”, it’ll light the fire under our collective asses to sacrifice sleeping and eating to really push forward.

Mail a pair of lacy undergarments to Craig to really seal the deal.

Unless you’re a man. That weirds him out.