The first get-together for my punk band project is tomorrow evening, and I am pretty much over-the-moon excited about it. I like the people who responded to my call for musicians. They are friends who are interesting people with cool perspectives. Men and women. White and not. So I put out the call for people to play punk, and the people who responded were all NOT cis-white-middle-aged-men! Talk about a promising beginning! Also got a friend who is gonna be John Perry-Barlow to my Jerry Garcia... he has ideas for lyrics, song concepts, etc, that harmonize with mine, and we have been riffing off each other's ideas for about two weeks now. Got a long thread of partial song lyrics, topics we want to write about (meaningful shit, too), and the new Telecaster just has all kinds of amazing punk riffs pouring out of it! Good times. I hope.