December 22

It is quite early here. about 8 or so. It is real early, and I am very tired but seemingly cannot get any sleep, so I will probably be up until 2 in the good ol' friend of mine, AM, yes, that is write, I will be up until tomorrow morning and wake at about ten or so, like always. Hey, I will have energy later today, but for now I am just posting because I feel like it.
Last night was no good, trying to get some sleep but something was on my mind, I am not sure what it was, but it is still on my mind, and won't leave my mind. I don't really feel like talking about it, it is really complicated and will get grief from some of my so-called "friends," so I would rather keep it to myself for awhile
Well, I remember yesterday talking to my friends Melissa and Mary, all day, and trying to record some of my Harmonica playing, and of course, it didn't work out. It is great how I can pay nearly $400 of equipment and I can't figure out how to use it. Well, atleast I got some stuff recorded, but it was all Acoustic, and I am not that proud of it. I should be soon recording some songs for a local T.V. station, which will definitely be fun, but I am not sure when that will be, truthfully and honestly.
Well, Melissa was okay yesterday, she must have been a little bit stresses, she was working on a paper or something, and I felt bad. I hope she is getting it done, I want her to enjoy her vacation. She is always fun to talk to, I must admit, and I really want her to have a great vacation. She needs it considering she was sick for awhile, and she has been a bit stressed about other things.
Mary is doing okay. She is as usually, very cute and funny, always get a laugh or a smile out of me, ain't that grand? Of course it is! Well, I did find out some interesting things. All of Mary's Auburn friends (all people I know, so it comes to me a 'surprise') told her I am the sketchiest and scariest person alive. Well, at least she has gotten to know me, and she disagrees. It figures, some of these so-called friends of mine are just little con-friends. It is amazing, I don't have too too many friends on my side on things, my side has never been looked at or examined.
But, anyways, I am okay with that. Mary doesn't seemed to be bothered with me and we seem to be good friends already, which is great. I am really hoping to meet her as I would LOVE to hear her singing, I have been told she is a CLASS-A singer, and I also want to hear her play Clarinet, which I have heard she is good as some of the legends (if she can match Benny Goodman, than, yes, she is truly a prodigy),


Other than my life that has few friends, I have also become a bit more musically involved with The Blues. Right now I am listening to "The Paul Butterfield Blues Band." The song I am listening to is called "Mary Mary," it is the only song I really have only heard once by him, it his interesting. I believe it was written by Nesmith, whatever his first name is, of the 'band' "The Monkees." Hey, it is still a great song, Harmonica playing is top notch as always. And, if in case you are wondering, this song is of the album "East-Wes" and Paul Butterfield is a Blues Harmonicist (Yes, a Harmonica player). But, at this moment I would like to hear a different song, as this song is really not that great... Well, actually, it just ended. Now I am listening to the track before it, "Work Song," which is a Jazz-Psychedelic Blues Jam. It is really a great instrumental, Mike Bloomfield play a mean Eastern Guitar, and Butterfield really screams with his Harmonica. And, man the Organist knows how to play. Such a great band. Sadly, Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield lost interest in the band, or that is what I have heard. Paul and Mike both did their own thing, and sadly they both died in the eighties from Overdoses and Alcohol Complications and Addictions.
Well, anyways, on to MY music, I recently formed a Blues Band, which is appropriately named "The Zack Pomerleau Blues Band." It should be great fun playing and recording together. The members are me on Harmonica, Vocals and Guitar, Alex Smith on Keyboard, Cody Leavitt on Guitar, and Jared Girardin on Drums. All of the members have been friends of mine for either a year or two or even for several years. I will be great jamming together. I think we are all very talented Musicians, and we all can make a full sounding band with so few members, even though I only touch base with Guitar here and there.
So, for the Blues Band, I have written a few Blues songs, which, really aren't too too hard to write, but I hope to make them more than Twelve-Bar Blues.
"Cottonfield Blues" is a song based on early slavery up until the end. Basically the Vocalist takes the part of a slave who is being badgered and what-not by is 'Master.' It is a real interesting song, none-the-less.
Another song I wrote, which I am not disclosing the title yet as I KNOW controversy will appear with, again, so-called 'friends,' so I am not going to disclose it for a bit, until it is recorded. The song is basically about a wanted Love, about a boy who wants a girl who was, at the time, broken hearted. It is a real interesting song. It is very quite slow and has very Baritone-like Vocals. It is a basic Twelve-Bar Blues song, and is very slow. Really slow, I must say. It has many sections for solos, and, I assure you, those soloing spots will definitely be filled. It is also a very dramatic song, and if listened t0 (well, once it is recorded), it is easy to hear how the speed and sadness changes, and the desire becomes so much stronger as the verses pas, though there are only three, with one that repeats the song title continuously. I have a good feeling it will be a favorite among us, I love to sing it. A good thing about it will be the Harmonica, especially, as I have come up with a little intro that sounds very Country-Western-ish, sort of like a Folk song or Cowboy song. It should be real great.
I am also working on another song, with barely any words written, and, it is a re-work using a Guitar part I had written a year or so ago. It isn't a Blues song, it is very Folk-Pop like. Sort of like an early or so Joni Mitchell tune. I have yet to come up with many lyrics, and, I have noticed the inner-song chord changes sort of sound similar to "Sweet Child O' Mine" by "Guns 'N' Roses," so I will need to do something about that.
Well, now that I think of it, I am writing song called "Song For Carmen," which will be a very Jazz oriented song. I don't really want to explain the song's name, but I will say it is being written for a girl named Carmen. And, no, it is not a Love Song, it is more of an Autobiography with our very 'Love/Don't Talk' relationship. If you want to hear a Love Song, listen to that un-amed Blues song I was saing would start some controversy, or wait for the one that I said will be edited because it is very similar to "Sweet Child O' Mine," by "Gun 'N' Roses." And, by the way, "Song For Carmen" has no written lyrics, as I really am experiment with Poems and Lyrics for it. I have basic chord changes, but, am not sure on the key.
We also might do some covers, and I am trying to find good songs. I am thinking along the lines of Early Blues Tunes, like Robert Johnson or something, but also like a song called "Born In Chicago," but another song called "I Got My Mojo Workin'" is great, too, but I really have been liking this song called "Blues With A Feeling." But, I really think we should do "I Have A Mind To Give Up Living (And Go Shopping Instead)" because of the humor used in the title.


I have also been working on Poetry a lot more recently. Mary has commented on my work a few times, and Melissa, too. Not very many get to see my Poetry in the early stages, or ever at all. But, I usually never even edit a Poem, unless I really have feelings about it, or it doesn't describe what I want to describe enough.
I think the only real significant thing about my 'Poetic-Life' right now is the fact that I am trying to self-publish. I had done it once on a website called "LuLu" (www.LuLu.com), which is a basic website that takes half royalties from a book if you publish with them, which is great, you just upload your writing and you design a cover, and they sell it for you, and they print it. They also do CDs, DVDs, Calendars, and many other things.
And, funny thing is, if you look on the website, and you type in "The Mind," you might find a book I published dedicated to E.G. as a full book (as a joke), and other several Poems dedicated to Jim Morrison (James Douglas Morrison at times) and other various people. The book was horrible, just random Rantings, and Poems, and has several typos, if I remember correctly. Don't buy it, seriously, but there is a free download of it.
Other than that there isn't too much with Poetry going on. Mary seems to like it and has found a strange typo or two in a Poem of mine (make me your wife, wow, aren't I smart? I should have put, let me have you as my wife...). That poem is really different from some of my Poems. She has seen very little of my Poetry, though. And, I am also trying to find some of my Poetry, which I hope I succeed.
So, yeah, Melissa and Mary are very nice critics.


Well, I am going to leave now as I have written everything I have wanted to say. Hopefully Melissa and Mary read this, as I thank them quite much for things, which they normally don't hear.


Keep On Harpin',
Zack.