Wow.. been a long time since I've written in this thing. Been pretty busy with classes, soccer, gigs.. the usual. But now soccer's over (an uneventful season at best) so hopefully I can get some more shows in.


Speaking of which, here's what I want for Christmas:





Isn't she a beauty? She's a Taylor, limited edition. I don't usually like Taylor guitars, but I heard someone testing out one of these babies at Guitar Town and the sound is just heavenly. So who's buying?


I haven't seen Zezrae or Verity in forever. Maybe I'm losing my touch.

If one were to say that I, Drew Salinger, did the deed with Verity.. well, then they would be right.

And it was.. cool. Heh.

So that little party turned out to be pretty sweet, I must say.. played some tunes, socialized, had some sex, you know..

Normally I'm not the kinda guy who just goes all out in the middle of the woods.. but come on, it was Verity.

Yet something tells me that Verity isn't exactly all giggly right now, writing in her journal.. "OMG I just had sex with Drew!!!" Heh.

Hopefully this doesn't leak out into that little gossip column thing on the boards.. If Zez catches wind of this, she probably won't be too happy with me. Of course, it's not like we're exclusive, or even remotely dating at all, but regardless, I don't think she'd take it too well.

I feel like writing now.

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[Edit:] Funny.. Verity told me she had two tattoos...

((Just copying off of Claud because I got bored, heh. ;) Yeah, this is mainly for my own reference, but yeah, have a look. I'm saving this in my memories, feel free to do the same if you want.))

( Drewsie )

Today is August 14. I really like the number 14. I'm not sure why.







I've been really reclusive the past couple days. Been writing [or attempting to write, rather] some new songs.

Hopefully, if things go as planned, I'll be playing a gig at the Auditory next week, opening for Mark and his band. I need a gig, it's been a while.

Sometimes it feels like my guitar has better relationships with people than I do. That's weird.







I bet it would be really neat to have a wallaby farm.

Okay, so.. I'm fairly certain that I'm in trouble.

Zez came to my room last night.. I guess something happened with her father, and she was REALLY upset. She played me a song (which appened to have some pretty.. cryptic lyrics), then she just started flat-out bawling.. so I tried to make her feel better, because y'know, Drewsie likes to bring the fun.. so, anyway.. when she calmed down enough, I showed her some lyrics to a song I was writing.. and we finished it off together, it was great.. actually, it was perfect. I'm thinking of calling it "Disco." But anyway, that's besides the point..

She seems.. REALLY attracted to me, and I don't know what to think of it. I mean, maybe she's just feeling that way because I was the closest guy, and she was emotionally vulnerable? Or maybe it's the music she's attracted to, and not so much me? I don't know.. but last night I couldn't help but reciprocate some of her advances.. and it felt nice.

She's a sweet girl, and beautiful, and adorable, and I DO like her, a lot.. I just don't know what to do about any of this. I'm always so horrible with relationships. Plus, I mean.. other than the music, and the little rant she gave in my dorm last night, we know basically nothing about each other.

Maybe if I lay low for a while.. and she goes out, makes new friends.. she'll forget about me. Or her attraction, at least, then I won't have to deal with any of it.

I know I sound really horrible when I say that.. but.. it would probably be better if we didn't get involved.. seeing her that upset last night.. it just really floored me. I never want to hurt her like that. And I know that I would, somehow. It's inevitable.

But then again, we're only days into this. I'm probably jumping the gun.

In other news, I finally met the infamous Verity. I had my doubts, but she's actually really cool. Dare I say she even flirted with me a little bit. But yeah, not getting into that..

Meeting Verity was a little strange, actually in the way that it wasn't really strange at all. If that makes any sense.. at the surface we seem like polar opposites, yet I couldn't help but feel there was something common between us. Don't know what it is, but.. at any rate, she's cool. Not at all what I expected.. which is a good thing.

I think something's wrong with Gloria.. I played "Disco" this morning and it just didn't feel the same..

Ugh, I'm so tired. Well actually, a better way to describe it is just.. burnt out.

I had a pleasant little get-together last night with a new kid.. her name's Zezrae. First off, the girl is just flat-out gorgeous. AND she's a killer guitar player. It's a shame, though, because apparently she has horrible stage fright, so she never goes out to perform or anything. That part blew me away. How could she possibly just keep all that talent to herself? It's selfish, that's what it is! Ha.

But yeah, we jammed for a little while, played a few songs.. we even had a little mini audience going, and they loved her. It was kinda weird, but fun, how we kinda communicated through our music for a while. We had just barely introduced ourselves and we just started playing, nothing needed to be said. But yeah, that girl can PLAY. And she's got a nice Gibson, too. Nothing quite like a Dove though.. ha.

So now I'm going to show her the ropes when it comes to performing.. underground style. I gotta admit, I usually only like playing solo, but with her it was different. It was almost kinda like I WAS still playing solo, like we had become one person.. a siamese twin, joined at the frets. Ha. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Plus, hey, she's adorable. She's got this cute little nervous new kid thing going on.. I don't know how to explain it, her personality is just refreshing, really. Beats the heck out of the majority of Ashbury's kids last year.. everyone was so depressed/angsty/not fun.

It's funny though, how this school seems to go in cycles. Last year everyone was like one of those rebellious types who hate their fathers.. this year everyone's playing guitar. I'm in for some competition, it seems.

Oh well. I'll blow 'em out of the water.

Ah, hello world! Drewsie is back in action.

That's right, I have returned to Ashbury for the school year. God, summer sucked. I absolutely hated being home. No friends, no gigs, nothing to do.. basically all I did was watch the tube and skateboard occasionally. And played guitar, of course, whenever the 'rents weren't home. For some reason they hate my guitar, I don't get it. I don't suck THAT bad.

Oh, right, playing guitar makes me happy, so therefore it MUST be evil.

But now I'm back and it feels.. nice. I never thought I'd be the kind of kid who looks forward to school.

I have a feeling junior year's gonna be great, though.

Other than that, I really don't have much to say. Like I said, summer was uneventful. So I'm off to go strum a tune on ol' Gloria. Later.

-Drew