Good Things Happen...

It's amazing how time can slip by. I've been dealing with some health issues over the last couple of weeks that have kept me from doing most everything, including blogging. It also caused me to miss the first week of the 30-day challenge I signed up for at yoga, meaning I have no chance whatsoever of making the goal of 30 practices in 30 days. Ah, well. There'll be another chance.

As I've mentioned I play in a band called Screwtape Lewis. Some good things have been happening for us lately. As I've also mentioned, we received funding to hire a radio tracker allowing our single 'Imperfect' to be released to Canadian Rock and Hot Adult Contemporary radio on Feb 6 for a six week campaign. Dulce Barbosa of dB Promotions is also promoting our album to campus radio and the CBC. Not long after the song went out, we received a call from a local station who has agreed to spin it in medium rotation for the month of March.

Yesterday we received an invitation to a contest we hadn't realized we were in (our drummer entered us and forgot). We were one of fifteen bands to audition to be featured in Decoys: Rebirth - a sci-fi sequel being shot here in Edmonton by director Jeffrey Lando. We managed to snag the opening spot, complete with soundcheck - a good thing since only 5 minutes were given for set-up between bands and my keyboard rig with laptop can take some time - and put on what we felt was a strong showing with our songs Rocketsredglare and (This Is Not A) Queer Agenda. Screwtape has been passed over in many a contest due to our lack of a stylistic pigeon-hole, but to our partial surprise (I'd snuck a peek at the judge's notes earlier and noticed they had made favorable comments about Queer Agenda), we were selected, along with local skankers Mad Bomber Society, to appear in the film. So in two weeks time we make our way onto the set to perform at a luau-themed college party featuring (or so we were told) women taking off their tops. I'm sure Clive would be proud.