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some songs try really hard.
some songs don’t try enough.
i seem to always get obsessed
with songs that just seem to show up.
don’t feel labored over….
but are still so HEAVY!
death cab do it sometimes. like ‘title and registration’.
they could go for something bigger, but they don’t.
because it would just be… bigger.
and who needs bigger.
it’s hard enough to move as it is.

some songs are small. and enormous.
like a clown car…. no, more like a poison dart…
hits you quietly, and before you know it, you can’t
see or move. or think.

go here
and click on the song “breakable” in the player.
ingrid is truth.

i want to take back the word ‘facial’ from the folks in porn.
either that, or i want a new word for the spa treatment.
or maybe i just need to grow up and get rid of this 5th grade sense of humor.
but for real, it is impossible to hear non-porn people ask for a facial.
i CANNOT be the only one affected by this….

also, today i decided that i need to play a les paul live during
the song ‘car crash.’ i’ve been playing a 335. and it no work-y..
les paul sounds WAY tougher. and i’m all into tough.

yesterday was sunday. we made gluten free cupcakes and tried,
in vain, to see the 4:05 showing of ‘30 days of night.’ this was
attempt number three to see the movie.
the first 2 times failed due to lethargy on my part. yesterday, it was traffic.
is that irony? or is that only when it rains on your wedding day?

i have been home from tour now for 4 days.
my decompression has begun.
i watched the tom petty movie, ‘running down a dream.’
which was inspiring. and amazing.
i decided that i need to be more frivolous with my money.
and buy more guitars.
not that i have gallons of excess cash with which to be frivolous.
but TP and company had a different vintage guitar in every picture.
and at every live show…
so many, in fact, i lost count.
of course, he is tom petty. and he is very rich.
but they had great gear even back when they had no money. ah!
i also decided, while watching the movie, that i have to
write a song as good as ‘the waiting’… and ‘learning to fly.’…
and ‘you got lucky’.
he has great songs like he has great guitars.
maybe it’s a one for one thing, i don’t know…
ugh. tom. why must you set the bar so high?!

and for those of you reading, i am very aware that i didn’t
update this blog/journal thing once while on tour.
and for that, i apologize.
it was a great tour, but crazy time.
lot’s of stuff… and i never even cracked my murakami book.
or my magazines (paste, harp, rolling stone, Juggs)
and my only respite was 3 downloaded episodes of ‘gossip girl’.

one more thing. i was talking to my dad today..
and i pronounced ‘respite’ like ‘despite.’
he corrected me by telling me it is pronounced like ‘res-pit’.
and i’m sure he’s right.. but why the fuck did they put the ‘e’ on it
if they wanted it pronounced like that? what a bunch of dicks… or is it dickes?