!! "Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

ah broke my elbow, flew off my bike. first ten minutes i called people, hunting down an instrument i can play with one hand. found a pocket trumpet to borrow. then i realised i should be concerned about getting to the ER. oh

i put on a show a few days after my birthday. sixteen people came and sat on alphabet squares and drank. my setlist, on the back of a 7 year old's birthday invitation, looked like this ( Read more... )

suzy and i have been sleeping a bit on a roof at 50th and hazel. i felt i was on some craft blown about by the wind all last night. i'm not sure if i slept this summer but summer is fading crashing and changing out and parts of my brain i had to let go to sleep are cautiously starting to not so cautiously fidget and jump up and down and getting ( Read more... )

[6 year old with dad in jail for life, pensive lego-building moment] "i wish i had a twin brother ( Read more... )

as of May my address will be

409 S 43rd St
Philadelphia, PA 19104

This will be my fourth Philadelphia home in under two years. Clark park is in my backyard. The two books in my bag right now are Grasshopper on the Road by Leo Tolstoy and Anna Karenina by Arnold Lobel.

anni and i planted morning glories, moonflowers, sunflowers, black eyed susans, catmint, purple coneflowers, basil, lavender and zinnias.

Broke my foot, wrist is still not un busted, love my new job (philly youth program), the new green, while i could bike around before breaking a foot, writing, writing guitar/sing songs (haha seriously), haven't been able to play the piano since june (june!), but as brianna says, "it growing?" "yes, brianna, it's growing" "why it growing?" etc

yesterday as i was riding my bicycle home through Fairmount Park a bug flew in my eye (i had just stepped in poo). the bug landed in my cornea, not just where eye boogers live. ok, i thought, bugs, flew, as they do, shoe, poo, and so on and forgot the bug until i exhumed the body !three hours later

ok so i played more than a fourth for the first time in two months. hello brain. still cannot lift potatoes but almost brain. also i will be in boston through late august. then 1176 S 11th Street Philadelphia PA 19147. ok!

dear triquetrum,

i'm sorry. please come back.

fuck you,
erich