May 2009
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May 30th, 2009.
Working hard? Or hardly working? It’s an amazing day. Absolutely stunning temperature, beautiful sunshine, no humidity. Even though my soul prefers the snow, even I have to admit that it’s an opportunity to use my favourite word: spectacular. Kristen’s pulling the tails off of shrimp and Jackson has just been bathed. It’s a precarious task…
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May 29th, 2009.
Eileen Korn playing at my open mic at Java Mammas in Reisterstown, MD with Ashraf Dawod blobbily playing percussion in the background. My fridays are different from other people’s fridays. Mine are awesomer. I get to sleep in, slowly gain consciousness and watch bad sci-fi movies… I’m fresh from the victory of my open mic…
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May 28th, 2009.
I’m sitting in the dark, listening to the lawnmowers as they pace the neighbourhood. As usual, I’m troubled by the world and am amazed by how big it is and how many horrible things happen in it. Chris Colvin performing at the Austin Grill in Silver Spring, MD with most of his music students. It was…
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May 16th, 2009.
I’ve got to admit, I’m already exhausted. Playing in the sunshine (even “mostly cloudy”) and vicious (and viscous) humidity just rips the energy out of me and I keep debating whether falling asleep will make me feel better or worse. There’s a sunset of pastels to my right as we race south on I-97, making…
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May 15th, 2009.
What dreams. A vast tangle of imagery – I guess it’s just what I get for actually getting enough sleep. A song running and cycling through my head, sunlight beginning to creep around the barricades in my room, slowly stirring – I almost miss the hanging dust in the sunbeams of my old room from…
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May 14th, 2009.
Oh sweet Journal, what do I have to say to you? Not that much, I’m afraid – it’s been a combination of busy and boring which makes for very full Living, but makes for kind of crap stories. Even my desire to be upset about politics seems to be somewhat abandoning me at the moment. …
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May 4th, 2009.
We’re driving in the rain, rounding the Beltway in the nightmare that is Monday evening rush hour traffic. We’ve literally been straddling the DC border and now have broken federal capital orbit in the hopes of making our 6.30pm sound check. The Weathered Road and Heather performing at my Java Mammas open mic in Reisterstown,…
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May 3rd, 2009.
And there’s no rest for the wicked! We no sooner get to our first Maryland gig then we’re made to WORK. Or at least Heather is – there she is playing with Rick Millman at Mad City Coffee in Columbia, MD. Oh man, horrible dreams last night. Bizarre organic ones coming from out of the…