Tommy Collison

Drumming.

Whatever about the annoyance of the cast, whatever about having to use a wheelchair at school, whatever about having decidedly less skin on my kneecap than before, whatever about not being able to go upstairs, whatever about having to get up around 3am every night like I’m the father of some newborn kid, there’s only one thing that really, really, really annoys me.

Not being able to drum.

When I first went into the cast I thought I might be able to continue drumming by swapping the bass pedal to my other, not-casted foot but it didn’t really work out because everything was backwards and confusing and it generally was about as successful as New Coke.

So when the Easter holidays roll around (cast comes off on April 1st) there’s only one thing I’ll be really looking forward to – getting home and taking out 6 weeks’ worth of anger and frustration and cold turkey and withdrawal symptoms to the rhythm of some Panic At the Disco or Blink 182 or Red Hot Chili Peppers…