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Declarations, manifestos, etc: on music and money, what else
On Saturday I played a show in Connecticut. I didn't think twice when I was asked to play; it was a show and the invite came from a tourmate I adore, of course I immediately said yes. My set wasn't fantastic, but I'm sick of my old stuff. What I did love was playing music with Ashley, who joined me again on guitar - I had as much fun practicing the ( Read more... ) -
On Cleopatra and All-Ages Venues
Here are old words I wrote about being in a play ( Read more... ) -
Oh, I have made a DECISION and it feels so right and good and true.
Suddenly I exist in a world not of questions but of answers. I'm moving. On September first, I'm moving. I'm moving to Pennsylvania, the land of my hopes and dreams. I'm moving to a place called Phoenixville - I've looked, I've checked, I can afford it (at least as much as I can afford living here and now), it's kind of perfect. I was talking on ( Read more... ) -
Just another life update, to clean out the cobwebs in my brain.
I'm watching Starship and as I reach the end of Act 1 - where I've currently stopped - I'm thinking, why is this such a universal narrative? Why does nobody ever feel like they fit in? Is everybody just settling for something? I legitimately don't understand. Do we never make it? Is happiness just some great myth we perpetuate like gods to console ( Read more... ) -
Excuse my sloth, my indecision, my voluntary paralysis
Convention is insidious and inescapable. I feel like I spend every conscious moment trying to escape it, yet it lurks around every corner. As Britt Daniel of Spoon once wrote, "I wanna forget how convention fits, but can I get out from under it? Can I gut it out of me?" His word choice is so precise, so perfect - so visceral. With every choice I ( Read more... ) -
Further Fragmented Thoughts, but Good Ones
Tour officially ended for me yesterday. Now I'm faced with an open expanse of daytime and am not quite sure how to fill it. I'll probably start writing my living-local column again and will hopefully sit down with an instrument for a while this afternoon. Maybe take a bike ride. I've already spent the morning working on booking shows for the next ( Read more... ) -
Some thoughts: pretty tame, mostly plain, a bit scattered.
Inspiration goes in waves, and the tide is low tonight. My day was actually pretty great: woke up, re-watched New Earth (because every morning should start with some Doctor/Rose fluff), made eggs-in-hole bread for breakfast (thought of my grandfather, who taught me how), finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (from the library, about another ( Read more... ) -
Languishing. Futile. Idle. Idyllic. Words of the day.
I think the core of my dissatisfaction right now is that I know what good looks like, but not what it tastes like.
For the past few days, maybe even a week now, I've been thinking a lot about how there's nothing I'm great at. There are very few things I'm bad at on this earth, extremely few, because I have many skills and learning things quickly is ( Read more... ) -
This is a list of things I could maybe use to decide what I want to do with myself in the future.
My dad took me out to dinner tonight and as usual, we talked about my failure to assimilate seamlessly into traditional society. But he did reiterate the very true point that I need to figure out what I want to do with myself, and argued that I should just try things that top my list (though on a part-time level, as he feels [appropriately enough] ( Read more... ) -
February thoughts - fragmented
Watching Mumford & Sons videos lately has overwhelmed me. Their performance at the Grammys - my god, it was just unreal. How happy they are. How good they are. How real they are. Love it on every level. Wish I could find video of it. Wish I could live it ( Read more... )