May 28th, 2007.

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.

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.

One of the toads of Mr. Toad’s Coffee Roasters in Cary, NC. There were three others that we could find, but he was certainly the most photogenic, posing oh so prettily. They were hidden away beneath rocks and stones while we set up, but into the evening they gradually emerged. I think it’s just such a shame they didn’t sing along with us.

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.

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.

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