ilyĀIMY

June 2021

  • June 28th, 2021. You Can’t Handle the Troof.

    (a picture from that time we visited the Roswell museum in 2007? It seems appropriate) Damn. Do you remember when Scientific American was a prestigious scientific magazine that your NASA optical physicist Dad subscribed to? Remember when National Geographic wasn’t owned by 21st Century Fox / Disney and didn’t publish clickbait? No? Maybe I’m romanticizing…

  • June 27th, 2021. A good weekend.

    (above : Mama Saray and Kim Gravatt join us for a post-performance selfie…) This picture made me really happy. Tis my ilyMobile and us together in a way that can rarely be captured! (At American Ice Co. Cafe in Westminster, MD) There was a lot of weekend in this weekend. And in the old-style sense…

  • June 22nd, 2021. Well, let’s do this.

    We went to an OPEN MIC tonight. Which was – well, we weren’t sure what it was going to be but it turned out to be simply a perfect night. A good sandwich, some great performers, a beautiful evening with the almost-full-moon rising above a rustic outdoor stage – and generally the most normal I’ve…

  • June 21st, 2021. Band Practice.

    Ha – and what’s playing with friends without eating with friends? Kristen made marvelous band pasta and deviled eggs, Rowan brought the beer, Heather brought the bounty of her gig at the farmer’s market and we reveled in fresh fruit and breads to boot! Band practice is such a decidedly delicious thing. Even as the…

  • June 18th, 2021. Today is today.

    Kristen’s spent the Incursion taking photographs of Brood X. She’s got a stunning eye (and stunning eyes) and has done more for my appreciation of the bugs than the bugs themselves! Rolled into the Mt Cuba Center after a shot up I-95 into Baltimore. We got up here extra early so that we would have…

  • June 13th, 2021. Shifting.

    Oh the horror. We have no idea what these are only that they swarm over the bodies of the cicadas in one particular yard. That yard should PROBABLY be burnt out of existence. Weirdly, there are hidden treasures where the cicadas creep forth. I need to write the Tom Waits song of the past year…

  • June 12th, 2021. Dirty Pool.

    Interesting. A friend excitedly posted about his #1 chart position on a site called N1M and though I’ve gotten emails from them I’d never really looked into it. I clicked through and was like “ha, way to go!” and then out of curiosity googled the company. Instantly you’ve got a lot of artists complaining about…

  • June 7th, 2021. It’s HAWT.

    ilyAIMY performing at the Stage of Musical Traditions, which is the back porch of the House of Musical Traditions, presented by the Institute of Musical Traditions. It’s a pretty great space that SOUNDS great from the park across the street, had great distancing, LOOKS great and HAPPENS to be a perfect 16:9 ratio! Dave Eisner…

  • June 4th, 2021. Madness says I.

    I’ve been just struck DOWN by spectacular fatigue in the middle of the day every day FOR days. Can’t focus. Brain-fog. TIRED. Not sure if I should be worried about it. It sucks because I’m kind of honest with my doctor. “I’m really tired. But I also don’t sleep. Also I’m 46. Is there something…

  • June 3rd, 2021. About going back to Open Mics.

    I get asked this frequently… and I’m getting asked frequentlier – which is totally a word. I’ve probably got another Journal entry about it, but when I got asked today I figured I better sensibly and intelligently lay out my thoughts. Believe it or not, I’m an Authority on The Subject! Ish. Q: hey Rob,…