2 in one day you ask? Why yes, but I'll keep this one short.

In brief. I am a scaredy-cat. Oh, not every day, mind you. Only when faced with doing the things that I really want to do. Today's fear. STAGE-FRIGHT.

Tonight I join 3 other musicians on a very small stage to play publicly for the first time in a very long time. For the last 6 or 7 years I have been primarily a studio musician. It isn't that I am shy about people hearing my music. I have recorded songs for various advertising campaigns and films, I have played and sang with friends on roofs around the country (I like to sit on roofs a lot, ask anyone.), I have submitted my music to any number of forms of harsh criticism. Don't like it? Fine, someone else does. But the stage... Oh the stage... It's strange that it even effects me. I grew up performing classical and jazz for large audiences, but somewhere in my mid 20's even a 6 inch stage and 10 people started to make me sweat. It's always completely irrational. I'm not afraid that I'll be unable to play, I just get jittery.

Anyway, my hope is that sending this little bit of information into the digital forum will aid me in releasing that fear. It's either that or I imagine all of you naked. And, really I don't feel like seeing that.