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Tuesday September 11th 2012, 3:55 am

Hustling to get out the door, facing down wandering highway traffic amid one numerous road construction site after another, Wendy and I biting our tongues to keep from spouting too many profanities at the other idiots whizzing along besides ourselves, dare I say added to the excitement of knowing what this evening brought. And annoyingly certain hours heading into San Francisco are usually fraught with perilous driving adventure and tensions. But when we see that familiar beckoning Bay Bridge looming ahead we know that we’re almost to a place of good times. All set to meet up with friends, James Sime, Kirsten Baldock, and Victor Scaggs, other notoriously affectionately called, like myself, Debheads. But the term really means enormous Blondie fan. After a quick grab of some food, we head to over to the Warfield and get in the will call line, for those who might not know what that refers to, its for invited guests of the band. The show was a total roar, booming beats, sharp guitars, brilliant lighting, and that oh so exquisite Debbie Harry voice. A blur of overcrowded floors, stuffy hot air, a few roughshod pit mongers having to get thrown out, moving along to the soundtrack of a thrumming elevation. After the lights sadly came back up, we got the luxury of hanging with the band for about 30 minutes or so. A highlight was signing a copy of Batwoman: Hydrology to guiatrist/song writer Chris Stein upon his request. And whirlwind conversations about art and music, loose vague notions of ideas for the package art I’m set to do for them down the road for the next release, getting to meet the producer, and talking with Debbie for about 10 minutes kinda put our day way over the top. With the reveal of my art for The Sword album taking place today as well, its really an amazing convergence of time and space for my love of music. Now back home at 3:30am coming down of what I can only say is…

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