I know it’s been quiet around here. I’ve been working, a bit for money and more on working over the next chapter of the book in my head. Writing starts tonight.
While you wait, here’s some music I like.
Seelinnikoi, by Värttinä, who are a force
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I’m all lost in the supermarket
I have never been happier
so many aisles with so many products
so many grownups get their shopping done here.
Hey mama mama, come here and find me
wrapped up in the cereal aisle
you know Trix are just Kix with more
I was heading east about ten years ago, having slept little in a motel room in Wells, NV. The Pequop Mountains rolled past, and the Toana Range, and their pinyons and junipers made me long to sleep beneath them, a dangerous sentiment.
I stopped
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Maybe the second song is a little crass. Posting this … (continues)
Koko Taylor died yesterday.
I had the privilege to see her perform a few times while I lived in Buffalo. Whatever the flaws in my old hometown that drove me out West, Buffalo was a fine place for music. There were big venues where the headliner
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The best way to chase it from your heart is to share it, sometimes.
Ever have the experience of thinking you know someone fairly well and all of a sudden they pull out a talent you didn’t know they had and display it and it’s obvious they have this whole side of their life you knew nothing about, and it’s like a
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