It’s a morning. Friday night we had a tiny show at Mr. Toad’s Coffee Roasters in Cary , North Carolina – and saw a number of people that I hadn’t seen in a long time. It’s always good to have Katy out for a gig, but we hadn’t seen Missy and Mike out to a show for a year or so, and I’d forgotten how much thy radiate their appreciation of our music. Mike, sitting there with his eyes closed and just nodding his head, Missy barely able to keep still. The toads slowly coming out, the people behind the bar say they always come out for the musicians. I was pleased to discover that one of the women working the counter was actually from PG County and that we’d almost crossed paths in high school. Crazy, tiny world.
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Heather’s a distraction. She’s picked up my guitar and is playing through one of my new songs, Trouble. It’s a reminder that for fast songs I can’t be beat, but perhaps I should be turning the slow stuff over to her to sing – she’s got the most exquisite voice, low and sultry today – Like Macy Gray singing it. It sure would take the pressure off of me for trying to remember lyrics.
Anywho, every very time I begin to lose my faith in purpose, it seems there are so many people dropped in my path, and the coincidences mount, and my poor tiny brain drops its belief in infinity.
Or maybe when I grow up I want a dog just like Dakota here. He outweighs many of my friends. My tinier friends, yeah, but still – a good number of them. Acacia? Cat? Sharif? This dog is bigger than all of you combined. Graffitti in downtown NoDa in Charlotte, NC.
Saturday night we played in Hickory, back at the Tee and Coffee Company, and my understanding of infinity piled back in – we are indeed two tiny people in the middle of a huge world, most of which doesn’t know we exist. We played to a mostly empty room – a couple of friends came out from long distances – but we spent a lot of time watching teenagers careen through the room and wondering how to catch them as they passed.
We came back to Ben’s and sat and hung out. We went to bed. Woke up, sat at Ben’s place and hung out. Went out to see Pirates 3 and was impressed by it’s grandiosity and beauty, complexity and confusion. Good movie, certainly got your money’s worth length-wise, but I did spend an awful lot of time wishing I’d reviewed 2 first. Came back to Ben’s house and sat and hung out. Watched Dark Star. Don’t do this.
Just don’t do it.
Heather singing with Ben Henry at the Evening Muse in Charlotte, NC. She’s so very pretty and Ben is so very fierce. Look at him go!!!! What’s he singing about Heather? “Hands into Hammers” has the screaming refrain “I thought I was everything to you” and it breaks my heart every time. Heather and I at the Evening Muse in Charlotte, NC. FINALLY someone gets a photograph of me like I’m MOVING. I feel like I move a LOT on stage and yet almost all the pictures of me look like I’m looking at my hands with my mouth hanging open. THANK you Ben Lawless! Me playing outside with Ben Henry after a great gig at the Evening Muse. I Love hanging out with the Ben’s as we always end up hanging out and playing music until late in the night. Street corners are expecially conducive to playing hard and playing strong and singing your heart off and flirting like there’s no tomorrow. After the show, hanging out with our friend Anthony and laughing the night away. Erika Blatnik wailing her heart out at the Evening Muse in Charlotte, NC. That was a great night – amazing performers and good people. I think that it could count as one of my favourite shows, and I’m already really, really eager to get back there.
