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Friday, September 08, 2006

Sometimes I almost feel like a rockstar.

Yesterday was photo and press day. I did a test shoot with Dean Paul, an excellent Chicago photographer; for the first time in my life I had my makeup professionally done. Complete with a few fake eyelashes on the ends in order to make them stand out in the photos. (Incidentally, they're not as easy to get off as the makeup artist claimed; it took a half hour of work to pull the glue off my lashes without pulling the real ones out as well. I don't think I'll be doing that again in the near future.) Dean was a pleasure to work with, and he gave me a number of useful suggestions since honestly, I don't have tons of modeling experience. (For example, it's usually more interesting to create an angle with your shoulders rather than keep both of them straight.) The initial images on his website look good, and I can't wait to see the rest.

After the shoot, I drove out to Evanston to do an interview with Lisa from Lumino Magazine (we'd met a few weeks ago when I played a variety show in Lakeview); she's actually a musician in her own right with a long history of playing in bands. She made me some spaghetti and we ended up talking about music, art, and her crazy life for a while before actually getting to the interview. Let me tell you, Lisa has great stories. Somewhere toward the end of her 20 questions, Barry appeared to take some photos for the article. When we were done, the three of us hung out in Lisa's new apartment for a while--between the two of them, Barry and Lisa probably know the entire Chicago rock scene. We could probably even expand that quite a bit since Lisa's been writing about music for some time and Barry's done work for Rolling Stone and various festivals and tours. Anyway, after a couple of hours we realized that it was getting late, Barry left, and Lisa and I finished the interview. In the end, I was in the apartment for almost five hours. Time flies when you're having fun.

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