Tulsa bound

I spent 14 hours looking at this today. Another 6 tomorrow. 13 miles to the gallon. 1200 miles total. Ouch. I am in a hotel room in eastern arkansas enjoying one of my three floyds double IPAs. A big change deserves a perfect beer. I hope no one steals my shit while im sleeping.

smart people

so yeah, i dropped out of high school. i used to regret that but im really happy with life and how its all worked out so far. i dont think i regret it anymore. in the village of my brain, that thought lives right next to the one that is scared that my brain gets less useful each day. sometimes i think i can feel me getting a little more dumb. i try to learn new things but most of the time its just because i need to learn them. things like how high the action should be on my mans guitars or how to post a blog from my phone. i dont feel like i explore intelligence for the sake of exercising my brain. i should. so occasionally i try. nights like that leave me reading my beloved bukowski. flipping thru my bartletts. this night i fell in love with the brain of robert frost.

"The best way out is always through."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."

what level of brilliance lives in you in order to come up with perfect thoughts like these? i should read more. each time i do, i am amazed and inspired and happy.

Shopping

a trip to the post office turned into what may be my last trip to Plan 9 (a kick ass record store a few blocks from me). even growing up outside of the city, Plan 9 was just where you went to get music. its a real indy record store. they sell music to people who love it. i will miss it and god i hope i can find something like it in tulsa. this is what i got...

Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Men at Work - Super Hits
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Gregor Samsa - 55:12
Damien Rice - Live from Union Chapel
Opeth - Watershed
Marc Broussard - Save Our Soul
Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future
Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
Brandi Carlile - Live @ Easy St.

so there we have it. thats what I did. I love music. you should too. check these out.

Richmond is almost over

So I have one week left. One day of work left. I just finished off a two day event for Soundworks. That was my last gig for them. Sad. My stuff is almost all packed up. My trailer has been reserved. I am starting to see people for the last time. I just ran out of coffee and sugar. I canceled my electricity. Mom, you might want to get that set up. They come to cut it off on the 30th.

good things

so im 28. i got my first iron maiden tape when i was 7. that makes me a fan for exactly 75% of my life. Pretty insane I think. i dont know too many people my age that can say they have been a fan of anything that long. thanks amy, damon.

tonight i got to see them for the second time in 21 years of caring. tonight they played the worlds most perfect setlist. nothing except stuff from the 80s. nothing from the first two albums and nothing from the last 5 and they used the set from the powerslave tour. fucking amazing. im so lucky that the two times i have seen them they were supporting DVD releases of older things. I dont want to see new maiden.

its magical for me. i just kinda watch them and laugh out loud every now and then because of how excited i am. i sang more to the songs in the car on the way home than i did at the show. i just stand in awe. these are my heros. i kid you not, it is a collection of men who helped shape my life. if i had the means to do it, id probably follow them around for the rest of the US tour. there is just something that lives in them that fits me. and 17,000 other people at Merriweather Post. Sold out show. I was proud of my heroes. 28 years of putting out music and they're still a hot ticket on a large level and totally outside of the mainstream. i love iron maiden, love.

ok world

alright, yeah, i know i need to shave. but im not gonna til i move. thats what i told myself when i got home from tour. i dont know why i decided that. maybe it was visual incentive to hurry up and get going. like live in richmond and it makes me ugly, move and i can get cute again. who knows. but its the deal i made with me. and no, the cd didnt have jolene on it, cus i already had that song. booyah.

200

so this is the 200th blog. on bloggers. as some of you may remember i used to have one on myspace but myspace blows balls. so now im here, and this is 200. i want to talk about something very briefly. im getting old. i was sending tara pictures of me from when i was younger (21) and realized how stupid and old i look now. check this shit out...



and then now....



and i boughta dolly parton cd tonite. yay.

the move.

so it begins.

let me tell you something, these mother flippin boxes are heavy. three are piled full of nothing but movies, every inch of box filled with movies, and two more are cds. heavy. i still have one more box of cds to pack up but i was out of boxes. there is way way more crap i need to pack up, but like i said, i ran out of boxes. i will be getting some more soon.

 

 

 

 

my tv is dead

fuck, it will be 800 bucks to fix my tv. looks like im fucked. stuck with my stupid 27". at least til after a tour.

holy heat waves

so i had to be out doors all week end. stupid heat. i went thru like a dozen shirts. i have flip flop sunburn on my feet. i look stupid.my arms and face are a little red too. certainly cant shave now. id have some stupid looking white skin beardy-thing instead of some stupid looking red hair one. i think my hair on my head is even a little lighter.

i have from now until friday afternoon off. i guess i will call the electricity makers and gas people and internet guys and tell them to cut me off at the end of the month. guess ill try to take my car to the shop for AC. i guess ill try to finally finish rainbow 6. damn it, its 95 outside already and its only ten til noon. its 65 and rainy in tulsa.

damn it

still no tv. still no new home. still no air conditioning in my car, still flat spare tire.

its over

so my birthday was really laid back. cept for the going to work part. i had to wake up early to go do some lunchtime show. i was done by 3 so it wasnt a huge deal. i took a little nap afterwards and then went to see my parents. after that i came home and slept some more.

thanks to everyone who sent their well wishes and all that, fuck off to anyone who forgot..... assholes, i dont forget yours.

june 3

its the guitarist from slayers birthday. its joeys birthday too. its also francos birthday. today is my pal grants wifes birthday.