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Friday night at home, resting up for yet another big race, this time the NYRRC 18-miler on Sunday. It’d sure be nice to have a weekend off, but I guess that comes next week in Nantucket… So, what am I up to? Well, we’re all about the Video Music Awards at the MTV these days.…

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Raining outside. Colplay on in the living room, Radiohead in the bedroom — schizophrenic  me… Aaaah… the inevitable post show let down. What can I tell you? How do I spin it? Well, we played well. We took some risks: the band performed both “Hollywood Arms” and “California” 48 hours after I introduced them, and…

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Big win of the day: After a year of persistent lobbying, I booked my Philadelphia “Summer’s Gone” tour stop at the city’s the premiere acoustic music venue: The Point on Wednesday, September 25th. Details to follow — but it’s never to late to start spreading the good word. Meanwhile, I’m tippin’ you off, ‘cuz you’re…

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Contacts dry. Dehydrated. No dinner. Drank a skunked Sam Adams that’s been in the fridge for months. Listening to REM’s “Sweetness Follows” (“It’s these little things that pull you under / Live your life filled with joy and thunder”). Fresh from rehearsal… I foisted all kinds of new wrenches on the band. Todd’s never played…

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I should be in the studio, but after this morning’s triathlon, I called Kevin and begged off. It goes like this… I woke up at 4:55, showered, and walked to the 79th Street Boat Basin transition area, dropped my gear (helmet, gloves, shoes, backpack, PowerGels, Vaseline) at my bike. Then I followed the line of…

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Tonight I’m doubly nervous. I carbo-loaded, hydrated, and filled to the gills with soy protein shake. In 12 hours, I’ll be in the middle of a one mile swim in the Hudson River, staring down the barrel at a 25 mile ride followed by a 10k run. Per usual, I feel unprepared. I notice every…

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Sigh… At home, Friday night, resting up for Sunday’s tri, listening to the Innocence Mission, kinda’ melancholy (pretty rocknroll, huh?). I miss my guitar. I need it. Crave it. It’s like I’ve lost my voice, my ability to dream, or my ability to understand dreams. That’s what songs are, after all: lucid dreams. When the…

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I’m watching “Vanilla Sky,” another piece of Cameron Crowe brilliance. Tom Cruise is about to get in his big car crash. Life’s so great right now, so full, so busy, so complete — the work, the record, the travel, the tour, the relationships — I hope I’m not headed for my own big crash. Last…

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After the world’s longest and busiest day (I’m planning and prepping for MTV News’ Video Music Awards coverage and 9/11 Remembrance concurrently), I met my buddy Jon Rosenblatt for a bike ride. The sun had fallen into New Jersey by the time we hit the path along the river. The George Washington Bridge was glistening…

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Aaaaaaaaaaah, the inevitable let down. Not really, not completely, there’s just a ton going on. The record, the tour, mailers, running, work, work, work — oh yeah, don’t forget to eat! Life… you know. And all guitarless. Like an alcoholic without booze. Or a confessor without a priest. Fortunately, I have Beth Orton to keep…

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