Sometimes when you wake up and see a link like this, you know it's going to be a good day. (take my advice - wait til the end - it won't be easy, but it will be worth it).

I don't seem to have a "body clock", I seem to have a cheap "body wristwatch" that apparently is broken. I don't know when to sleep and when to be awake. Go to bed when the sun comes up, or try to switch it all around and stay awake to reset myself, then STILL can't sleep.

Don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but I don't remember my dreams. Odd, but ever since I was around 20, I just don't take anything with me when I open my eyes in the morning. I am kind of envious of people who remember theirs. That said, I confess that I am most bored on planet Earth when someone decides to tell me the minutiae of one of their dreams. When someone starts up with: "I had the craziest dream last night", 20 minutes later I am starting to dream myself - of my own sweet death releasing me from the bondage of their boring story. It's just that dream imagery, to me, seems very individually specific. Therefore only entertaining to the one who had the dream. Our symbols are really our own. A reason I never got into dream imagery books - I have a hard time believing that dream symbols are universal.

My Father is a clinical psychologist, and has alot of experience with hypnosis, dream definitions and other interesting mind research, and assures me that with nightly doses of a certain B vitamin and recording what you remember the instant you wake up in the morning in a dream journal, you can remember them. I tried for a while, but didn't seem to take, so I gave up. These days, I have the most barely perceptible flash of ... something, but when I open my eyes, it's gone.

Panic News:
We had band rehearsal the last two days, focusing on 2 new songs, "Not What You Said You'd Be" (tentative title), and "Start of Darkness". Dave and Chris are in Vegas today playing a Camp Freddy show, then Perk has a Banyan show Fri/Sat, so we go back in on Monday. On Tuesday we are demoing out "Start of Darkness" in the studio.

This is a new year, and we begin a new enterprise: getting The Panic Channel all "official", so we are starting to do the meetings & lunches, dance this week. So far, we have done everything on our own (with help from some close friends of the band), but it's time to kick this shit up a notch. We'll keep you posted on the process. Have to hold on to our "good news" for a little while longer, but it's in this department.

I had forgotten how much I liked The Damned. Listening to them now. Especially a record from the 80's called "Phantasmagoria". Can't find it on iTunes. Drag. 

"The deadbeats and the dispossessed, seekers of unlikely rest"
The Damned, "Street of Dreams"