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Because these final chapters had become a mess of red ink and green ink, I printed them all again and I transcribed what notes remained. This sucked because it ate up a lot of time and it made my neck hurt. It did, however, give me a very clear view of the work I have ahead of me, so it was worth it.
This evening, I worked on the currently active chapter. I greened out a lot of red ink and I performed some intensive detail work. I don't feel as though I accomplished a lot, but I think that's probably because the story didn't really change.

As a wholly unrelated matter, I feel I should say something about the death of Jani Lane. I don't know what caused his death and I don't really know anything about his personal life. He was not any kind of hero to me and I am not changed because of his death. I say this because I want to be clear about my desire to not overstate things. I am, for several reasons, quite sad that he died. First, I met him once after a concert in Birmingham and he was extraordinarily cool. (This was after Warrant's popularity had really faded.) Second, I have, for a very long time now, been an outspoken fan of Lane's vocal work and his songwriting ability. It is my contention that Warrant (with Lane) was a terribly underrated band whose work improved with solid significance on each successive album. Warrant never really lived up to what I believed to be their potential, but I think any fan of hard rock would do well to revisit the Warrant discography. Third, while I was not the typical Warrant fan, and while Jani Lane was a few years older than me, he was young enough and rocked hard enough for me to think of him as one of "us". I always believed him to be a guy who had a lot of the same albums and cassettes that I had. I always believed him to be a guy who saw a lot of the same bands I saw and who had a lot the same experiences. I believe a lot of the stories we could have told about our teenage years would have been very similar, both in content and in tone. Like I said, I'm not changed, not devastated, but I am sad.


-Cary