haha. I do not know how to put the zonkboard in even if I've signed up for one. i'm totally stupid when it comes to stuff like that. i could copy and paste the html code i guess but i'm afraid i might fuck up the blog. so you'll just have to wait in silence for a while... at least, until ralph can enlighten me... oh, raaalphyyy...

we did end up practicing last night! ralph and charmaine were with Allan during the afternoon because he was roadieing for Parokya at Ever Commonwealth. Allan brought them to Ayn's house to visit Tristania while he practiced with Pillow. Nakakainggit!!! So they texted last night and picked me up and we all went to the studio.

Allan was practicing his two Pillow vocalists and it looked like he was really working hard on them. Medyo nainip kami ng konti after a while because Roel hadn't showed up yet and it was getting late. The three of us decided to start practicing just to make good use of our time. We played the soft songs, acoustic... my voice was a little scratchy (probably from all the recent drinking binges) but I was able to get it used to singing again. It was nice to go ahead without Allan because it just shows how we can also work independently of him when he can't make it. Roel then arrived and then I called Allan... we soon had a full setup. I thought we were going to practice the old songs and perhaps rework them, as Allan had originally planned, but he gave Ayn this bass line to do. She did it-- and then they started on the new song! Cool. Allan told me he hadn't thought up a melody yet and was hinting that I could contribute if I want to, but that prospect scared me so much. Still, I tried thinking of possible melodies and I had just begun humming something when he hummed something into the mic. It sounded different from the melody I was thinking, so all the strains vanished from my head and I immediately realized that the most I can contribute for this song are some lyrics.

Allan will be alarmed at this statement. Nope... I really wasn't ready to give any melody, and I think he just saved me from embarrassing myself haha. Seriously... I'm not ready. I think I will be someday, just not for this song. Hindi ko pa makuha kasi yung intuition that comes with being in a band when it comes to musical direction. Saka na.

It's a good song. I think it has great potential... we only finished 3/4 of it and none of the melody yet. Ralph can't see where it's going yet but that's ok. It still needs a ton of work. I'm glad we're becoming productive again.

well, hope we all can catch (as a band) the cine europa movies that lara sent through the egroups.