havent had a phone in some days. since the weekend. it's entirely possible that it's at the beach cottage, though I didn't find it even after going back to look again. I might end up having to get another. coinciding with this, the 'net seems to have gone down for good. unclear re. access at the new place. can always take the machine to the pub ( Read more... )

last night the following humourous top five was issued when the bar inexplicably began to play bad music: top five artists who could make this shit song sound respectable (the song was some pop drec that gets stuck in your head and caused several of us to holler at one another and at the bartender "I just want you to know who I am!" who does that ( Read more... )

last night discovered a cure for sleep. that was after procuring another drummer and mandolin player and thereafter engaging in a full-on freestyle circle and MC battle the likes of which I haven't seen since the D train back in the day. I didn't even have to go trolling with my hat. tonight, found out that I may well be playing a raucous metal ( Read more... )

driving back into the city from the west, full of thai birds and endorphins, and gnawing great thick sticks of sugarcane, and subjecting my friend Wacko to the more insidious songs of roger miller, I saw a sticker on the back of the car behind us what said FOCUS in big letters, and it seemed strangely fitting. I'm getting back into the swing of ( Read more... )

July continues to impress the pants off me. I'm looking down the road and thinking, bring it. what style you got ( Read more... )

so after my grandfather's birthday party we drove out to the waterfall. he said it'd be a good idea if I brought my guitar along, so I did. right before we got in that fight he took this sweet video of me playing some of our favorite caetano veloso songs for a group of icelandic tourists that happened by long enough to challenge him to a drinking ( Read more... )

my friend Jen, my buddy Wacko's girl, announced two nights ago that for her birthday, which we celebrated today by breaking out the pony-shaped cake we baked and sculpted a few nights ago, that what she wanted as a present was for me to shave m'beard off. something about never seeing my chin or upper lip or some such. which can't possibly be true. ( Read more... )

saw a grey fox dart across the road on the drive back from Newburg, listening to Doc and digging the moon coming up all gibbous and sallow like someone hung the wrong one up there as a joke on us. spent the day on my cousin's land, catching up with relatives I hadn't seen in years, watching the eagles spook the ospreys and the hounds hunt for blue- ( Read more... )

DAMN, what a great couple of weeks this has been.

probably the best shows of the weekend: dungen, sonic youth, also dug on amadou and mariam. got to play some sort of greek lute-like, oud-like instrument whose name I can't spell with authority but sounds phonetically like "lou etta." visited boone, visited asheville, played faron young and roger miller songs in rural tennessee over plates of ( Read more... )