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This Is What It Feels Like
I walked outa’ work last night into the brightly lit bustle of Times Square and I thought, ‘Ya’ know what? Fuck this!’ All this tail-between-the-legs shit I’ve written the last few days, I mean. Yeah, so life’s tough, and I’ve been seeking some big break for what feels like a long time and all but……
Read MoreKickin’ Ass
I’ve been laying low from The Daily Journal of late ‘cuz I haven’t been feeling the music so much these last few days. Correction: I haven’t been feeling the music business so much these days. The music’s still here, and still coming. I’ve been listening to a lot of Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake of…
Read MoreThe “Summer’s Gone” Tour Assessment
I promised myself, and anyone who asked, that I was reserving judgement, delaying assessment, forgoing analysis of last week’s “Summer’s Gone Tour” at least through the weekend. So here it is, the stuff that’s not in the bio, the vulnerability that isn’t cool, but is essential… As I built up to the “Summer’s Gone” Tour,…
Read MorePriceless
“Summer’s Gone” CD Single: $537. Website: $35. Postcards: $367. Band: $375. Rehearsal Space: $86. Taxis: $24. Rental Car: $235. Tolls: $37. Gas: $94. Food: $126. Lodging: $422. “Summer’s Gone” Tour: Priceless
Read MoreI Still Love You New York
Left South Hill, Virginia, around 9:30 this morning. Drove, drove, drove (listening to The Vines “Get Free” roughly every hour). Finally rolled through the Lincoln Tunnel at 6:30, and was forced towards 34th Street where, before turning west, I looked up to see the Empire State and New Yorker Buildings. I still love you New…
Read MoreChapel Hill “Summer’s Gone” Tour Report
Econo Lodge, South Hill, Virginia. 3:05 a.m. Pointed the Rent-an-Escape north on I-85 about a 30 minutes after the show. With some 500 miles to cover before Tuesday night, I was anxious to make progress. I made it about 75 miles shy of Richmond before the adrenaline wore off. So after a few hours of…
Read MoreCharlottesville (Day II) “Summer’s Gone” Tour Report
Exhale… it’s Sunday. Today, I rest. I’m still in Charlottesville, back in the UVA computer cluster with my cousin. I’m much, much worse for the wear. Same clothes as Friday. Dehydrated (sympathetic dehydration — there’s a draught in the region despite Isadore’s recent rainfall). Head ache. You get the picture. It’s the basic residual affects…
Read MoreCharlottesville “Summer’s Gone” Tour Report
It’s 70 degrees, sunny and beautiful, but my cousin and I are bathed in weak AC, bad floursecent light and the hum of hundreds PCs here in the outside the UVA computer cluster getting our marketing plan together for tonight’s Charlottesville show. Of course, it was supposed to be last night’s Charlottesville show. It was…
Read MoreRaleigh/Durham “Summer’s Gone” Tour Report
Breakfast at the La Quinta Inn: Raisin Bran and Mello Yello. I looked down at USA Today just now and thought, “What day is it? Where am I?” Ooooh, right. Raleigh/Durham. North Carolina. Friday morning. Ok, allgood. Everything in it’s right place. This time yesterday morning, everything looked pretty bleak. I was exhausted. My brother…
Read MorePhiladelphia “Summer’s Gone” Tour Report
I’m sitting in my mother’s kitchen eating a bowl of tuna fish and a fistful of tortilla chips. So rocknroll. Jut in from The Point show afterparty, which was at the Wayne Pub (where half the patrons were alumni of my high school). Weird. Anyway, tonight’s show was, as Bono would say, some sort of…
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