Like a Martin guitar, the experience will only get better with age. The logistics of getting to DC were a nightmare. Left Fredericksburg VA (approx 30 miles from DC), at 3.30 am, rolled up to ‘the area’ where everyone was at 9.10. About 3.5 hours in the car to the metro, 30 minutes in line [...]
Thinking tonight — Is it better to sell out a stadium, or to sell out a nice theater, and all the variations. A band becomes successful by reaching the masses, or winning American Idol or what have you. Soon they are on mainstream channels of communication, next thing you know they are singing their national [...]
Listening to Josh Ritter for me is listening to an individual who’s transcended the existential debate. 14 years of perfect attendance in church and religious doctrine won’t wash Jesus out of my soul, and it doesn’t seem to be washing away from Ritter either. What I’ve come to understand is an arrangement between pragmatism and [...]
I’ve found in life whatever age you are, there’s someone always there to explain the nuance life throws at you. Tomorrow I see Bryan Adams, he used to be a person who explained things to me, when life was ‘more simple,’ looking back we all see things at trite in our past, but as we [...]
Tonight I go to the bar to watch the spurs, for water cooler talks sake. I like ‘soccer’ because once it was explained to me, countries abstract their hatred for another country to an opponents soccer team. Made sense to me, makes the stakes more intense, etc, etc. Meat and potato basketball wins again. Got [...]
The weekend belonged to Robyn and Rolando, the wedding in a Dallas suburb. What were the guys doing behind there you ask? Well, Baptist Church parking lots are good places for a brew or two. Living in the nicest place in NB, the ‘flux capacitor’ went out and didn’t get repaired for a week. Who [...]
Mike P and Mike D, The Dog and Duck Pub, a place I love, place I’ve tried to solve the worlds problems via pub talk many stumbly nights. I told them to look mad. I liked the slogan on the table, basically saying carpe diem. A rare Robert visit to the mall to get measured [...]
Random sentiments — Trip commentary, pictures and all that will come sooner than later. What can I say other than that To The Dogs Or Whoever, off The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter album is stellar. I’d say its my ‘song of the month,’ the one I hum while sitting in the airport while allowing [...]