MinneapolitanMusic

Well, well, looks like I'm back at work again, nursing a mad Christmas hangover. Don't you just love the holidays?

I am gearing up for another round of great local shows, putting together a nice list for January that should be posted soon. I think that this upcoming year will be a good one, lots of great vibes (I hate it when people use that word, it's like, totally tubular dude) pulsating throughout the city and plenty of promising up-and-coming bands that should start to break out in the year ahead. I really agree with Michael Ferrier of Electropolis when he said in a recent interview that, in terms of the Twin Cities music scene, "we think it's about to BLOW UP. There are so many talented people here, and the world is just waking up to it." (By the way, it's a good idea to check out the blog attached to that interview, called Perfect Porridge, they offer interesting local reviews and concert schedules each week, one of my new favorite local blogs.)

My husband asked me if I had any New Year's resolutions, which I usually avoid at all costs because of my monstrous ego-crushing fear of failure. However, just for fun, I suppose I have a few goals for 2006:

1. Let someone read my novel all the way through and allow them to offer "constructive criticism" without balling up on the floor in tears. Take some sort of step toward possibly having it maybe published someday.
2. Stop eating fattening crap. Eat more veggies.
3. Regain traces of original feelings of idealism once embraced by my younger self. Consider doing something proactive for the community and/or world. One person can make a difference after all, even if only a small little dent in the steel armor of oppression and apathy.
4. Work on size of ass.
5. Have at least one music review published at a profit, by a nice respected news source, and, if at all possible, on real paper.
6. Infiltrate Chicago music scene and become famous.
   

That's about all I can think of for now. Happy New Year, a few days early!