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O.M.G. There are no words, abbreviated or spelled out in full, that can describe how much fun I had at Willie Mae Ladies Rock Camp this weekend. Holy shit dude, seriously. Eight (or more) hours a day for three days straight learning how to play drums for the very first time, making punk pins, silkscreening T-shirts, and ROCKING OUT in band practice with my new for reals band, ROYAL PINK!!! Here we are in the photo above (L to R) Errin on bass, Karen the lead singer, and lil’ ol’ me on the badass kit. Unfortunately missing from this photo is Stacie, supreme bassist #2. That’s right… drums, vocals, 2 basses and NO GUITAR. Our sound is so hot and heavy, you don’t even know. We were assigned to be a band together on Friday afternoon. We had our first original pop/punk song written and arranged by that evening, perfected it on Saturday, and on Sunday wrote ANOTHER song and messed around with a bunch of covers while gearing up for our debut performance at Sin-e on the LES. The show rocked. Hard. We didn’t fuck up, I beat the hell out of the drums in my newly cultivated, super-simple but hardcore Meg White style, and the packed house cheered and danced!!! To my in-time beats! That I made!!! Anyway, the whole thing was so exhilerating and awesome that the gals and I decided to stick together and make a go of it as a real band. Errin has a whole set up with drums and a PA and everything up in Harlem, and they like the way I drum even though I’m brand new, so I’m gonna try to take lessons with my Rock Camp teacher Caryn and try to get some skillz as a gritty girl drummer. Wow! I know I’m always booked up and on deadline and totally stressed and whatevs, but this past weekend was such a rush of pure adrenaline-pumping joy, it would be sick to give up on it now that the opportunity to jam out some more is being literally handed to me. Scary, for sure. But I love Rock ‘n’ Roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby.

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