these summer days...
these days have been filled with light...filled with goodness and friends and all things swell and well just makes me happy. i've started working at breaking new grounds, good times for the most part. probably one of the highlights lately was a show i saw in portsmouth. I wish i had a picture of it, it was perfect. Jason Anderson played. you know there are some performers that you can ge into if you allow yourself to be open to it. with jason, he broke through whatever sheild you have on, be it your ego, sense of how something should or shouldn't sound, whatever, and just pulled you into his world of look around this life is fucking beautiful. one of the stories he told went something like this...i remember one of the most amazing dates i ever went on, we were in high school...and we went to canaby lake park...the park shut down...but it was just one of those nights where you don't want to go home, (or whoever you're with that night just feels like home, my opinion)...so we went to this little asian restaurant and then they shut down, so we sat in my car listening to music that we both new and loved, elliot smith's I Bleed Granite...and we weren't kissing or anything like that, we just sat there. and it was fucking amazing, fucking beautiful...there was just a connection, i don't know how to describe it but it was there, it was as real as anything else...isn't that why we get out of bed every morning...for conversations like that? I don't know this life can be fucking beautiful if we just open our eyes to it....there's no weird line between the band and you (the audience) it's just us. we're in this together. this muggy monday night, let's make it ours. cause it's all we have right? this is all we have...so let's make it ours and let's aqueeze every ounce of life out of it...and he howled on and got sing-alongs with pumping sweaty fists and it was fucking beautiful. there's been graduation, shows at atlantic hall, lots of hanging out with caroline and liz and co. working, surfing, bumming around and trying to soak it all in...overall it's been great lately. i got out of work tomorrow so i can go to amy and shauns cookout thing tomorrow...that means i don't have to work until teusday, which actually is sort of a bummer...i think that means i really like the job. next saturday dave pajo is playing in new york....his album "live from a shark's cage" pretty much changed my life...he hardly ever plays shows...he's releasing a new album and he's playing two shows. 1 in kentucky and one in new york...damn dave i like you alot to go all the way to new york to see you. hopefully it works out...and no post would be complete with out a photo...me liz and caroline hoofin' it to the islands.
