when girls fall asleep in band practice.

I have a few minutes before spending the rest of the night at work and I remembered that I once told Jacob I was posting something about him here. Never did. Here's my second, or third rather, band practice scribbles:

JV Band Practice:
The sheer luck it took to get me here is unexplainable, so I won't try. I remember what Nathen said about how awkwardness isn't real but created by ourselves- so I've made the trio I've part of for the last fifteen minutes hopefully tolerable. Plu I am smiley today. Nicky asks what's wrong with me that I'm so smiley lol. Jacob comes in and just radiates; he's smiley too, and warm, ready and able-bodied. He hugs me first becoming the ring master of this cellar circus, and I get the feeling of tight-chested awe that I get sometimes with Nate, and Lights, even Stereo, but never yet with JV. He turns and smiles at little jokes he makes towards me and I appreciate it like a cool washcloth after the heat This Condition has been giving my face. I change focus and see Nicky as a celebrity in this moment which is semi, if not wholly, amusing to me. He behaves so differently here than his own band's practice. Here he is...assertive, even relaxed. This Nicky- JV Nicky- intimidates me. He knows what he's doing, knows what he wants to do, is damn good...and knows it. Zach's impressively handling the bass, high hat, and snare rhythms as well as throwing in a trumpet up top. I don't so much adore the parts he has created for Jacob's songs, but they're making this happen right here and now. And I have to give props to that.

Nicky moves to lean very James Dean-esque against a pole- a punk rock Jimmy D. aw lol. And he looks -. He still blushes when he realizes I'm watching, which is ironic since he picks on me for being over-attentive all the time. The cycle is the only thing that keeps me grounded with him, oddly enough.

It's cool how it only takes musicians and dancers 4 counts to delve back into the dramatic intensities of a piece. "One! Two! Three! Four!" or "A-5, 6, 7, 8 And!"

Jacob laughs at everything and I consider recent chats I've had with both frontmen, making observations about Jacob and Nate that I will choose to leave out here.

Nicky likes when Jacob yell-sings, and I do recall seeing that excited smile on him when Nate breaks the sound barrier too. Jacob's playing "Africa" again.

*note: the scribe of these writings fell asleep in band practice before the accounts could be completed. She apologizes to all present.




...Ricky.
the "HOT" song, to be by: Jacob Vanags