People,

Fooled By April has been rehearsing its ass off recently in order to make the final show something to remember. We've been hunkering down in my basement night after night, painstakingly combing through the songs to make them as good as they can be. And strangely, it has been really fun.

I say strangely because being in a band is actually very rarely fun. Rehearsal for me has always been stressful. I would find myself trying to not take the criticism of others personally, all the while trying to figure out how to constructively criticize others. Then we would fight, or people wouldn't show up, or we'd argue about what to play. It was frequently a big fucking drag.

But this time around it's really simple. We have one more show to play and everything is in place. The record is done, the songs are arranged and we can actually get back to the basic reason we got together in the first place - we like making music we care about together. We're no longer trying to get a record deal, no longer trying to make a career of it - we're just four dudes having a laugh.

As sad as it is to have to end this chapter of our lives, this month or so of preparation will probably be some of the nicest time we've had as a group.

Life is a bitch that way.