take one stone tablet by mouth at bedtime

whenever i'm unable to spout out my own nonsense on this thing, like now, i've decided that i'll be giving you little excerpts instead from a book that an ex-girlfriend found on the street and gave me a bunch of years back, it's called:
"so you want to be a rock & roll star" (yes, johnny, just like the song), and it's by some lady named sharon lawrence. it calls itself "the complete insider's handbook for getting it together and getting ahead in rock music"... right, so here goes the first selection.
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"chapter 1-your band-building a team
so you've decided to form a band! the first thing to be aware of is how much hard work it will take before you can truly say, 'yes, we are a band, we're good and we're worth listening to'. the #1 rule of the game is communication. in the beginning, this amounts to spreading the word that you are looking for other musicians or would-be players to team up with. Tell your friends, put a notice up at your local record store or musical instrument dealer. check the advertisements in your school paper, in local underground papers and in rolling stone. ask the music teachers at local high schools and colleges. presumably, you've thought out what you have to offer musically-you've sung with the school or church choirs or sung along with records and know you can keep a tune. if you're not interested in singing, then you have at least a rudimentary knowledge of a musical instrument, have possibly taken lessons and you're prepared to reherse and grow. communication has alot to do with musical growth. in the earliest stages of putting a band together, you'll be auditioning or having others audition for you. this means communicating verbally and musically. some of the things you'll want to talk about are:
(1) the musical direction and sound of the proposed band... do you love blues and hate psychedelia or soft rock?"
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and this is were i abruptly end my first entry from this pile of shit. there will be more exciting words of wisdom from these pages in the future, i promise, esp. as my brain continues to atrophy and deteriorate at this alarmingly rapid rate.