Today is extraordinarily beautiful. Clear, sunny, somewhere in the Fahrenheit upper-fifties, which is approaching what we know as “perfect” on the Sims temperature scale.
I feel happier than I have felt in weeks.
I feel human.
It was about two miles of absolute wonder. The wind blew my hair (which is about 50% longer than it has been [...]
Driving back from Target today (I bought a super-hippie-style soy wax Eucalyptus/Patchouli candle), I popped in Mike Doughty’s newest record Golden Delicious, which, incidentally, I can bring myself neither to love nor to completely write off.
And one of the main reasons I can’t write it off is the album’s opening track, Fort Hood, a tear-jerking [...]
It was unbelievably cold and only three came out any good at all, but the sight was truly incredible and it was a beautiful distraction from paper-writing.
Someone tell me how to be rational about what’s happening right now.
School isn’t working for me anymore. Finance isn’t right for me, I’ve known this. I’m confused about [...]
Carlos Santana is completely and totally and miserably irrelevant.
I had the misfortune of flipping on Vh1 this morning and being exposed to the aural disaster that is Into The Night by Carlos Santana, featuring none other than Chad Kroeger from Nickelback.
Now Carlos Santana used to be a special man. He used to turn out [...]
I guess I didn’t get the memo.
What an unusual year it’s been. Sometimes extraordinary, other times remarkably underwhelming.
I am recommending Pearl Jam’s Live on Two Legs. Dig it.
Go see live music.
Happy holidays, everyone.
Wow. Last night was an absolutely amazing show. Yes–literally amazing.
This man is not of this world. He hails from Sweden, born to Argentinian emigrants. The rest of the details are inconsequential. Just know that José González is an incredibly brilliant musician. And his music is beautiful and moving and you should be listening to it [...]
I can’t seem to get what I want to say into concise lyrics right now. And I have a lot I want to say.
And then there’s the fact that I’m writing better guitar parts than I may have ever written. It’s almost certain that I’m trying too hard. This tends to happen. A great deal [...]
Check that shit out.
Third set down. I’m very very pumped.
Thanks to Mike for putting on a helluva show for me to photograph. Listen to his music.
Jeff Tweedy sang:
I shake like a toothache
When I hear myself sing
Though I’m not totally sure how toothaches shake, I’m giving Jeff artistic license here. He’s spot-on. It’s incredibly tough to see one’s own work. I’m not really ever fully satisfied with the words I write, be it in my journal, on this blog, or in [...]
It initially seems redundant (and perhaps pretentious) for me to write about my writing.
But maybe it isn’t when I write about my lack of writing.
The band Widespread Panic just bores me to fountains of tears, but John Bell had it right when he penned the line:
Inspiration
Oh she barely waits a moment
I’ve had a [...]