Non Sequiturs

It was a long week and a short week. I am very glad it is the weekend and I can get some much needed relaxation in. No huge plans this weekend other than Barry Bishop's annual birthday bear pool party. I have never been and hear it is a lot of fun, so am looking forward to it. Apparently over 300+ people are going to be there. How they are going to fit that many bears into this setting is beyond me.

I feel really bad that I haven't posted more blog posts lately. I have a huge backlog of cd reviews that I would like to get out there. I am reaching the critical mass point where I either have to get them all done in one sitting or just cut off and start with the new ones going forward. I will likely do the one sitting thing. There have been too many good releases lately to let slip through the cracks.

It's a rainy Friday here in Atlanta. Not a just a storm here and there day, it is a black clouds, don't see the sun all day rainy day. Very depressing. Fits my mood as I was supposed to go to Chicago this weekend for five days. I only wish it were sunny here and hurricane like conditions there. Sorry, I am grousing. I am just mad that I had to eat a $150 plane ticket. The fee to change the ticket was $150, so it basically nullified everything.

I take it back about wanting it to rain in Chicago. My friend Kurt is up there with his friends Janis and Ian for two NIN shows on his small venue farewell tour. He was not looking forward to going because he spent all last weekend in NYC at two shows and didn't sleep much. But secretly I think he is in for something special and I hope it turns out that way.

Lyrics Rattling Around My Head

"I wanna sleep
Underneath the weeping willow
As it cries all night quietly
Its tears all around me
I'll sleep there so soundly
Until I'm allowed finally
To wake and be happy again
To wake and be happy again "

Grandaddy
"Underneath the Weeping Willow"

"They are useless hangup cures,
All except that trick of yours.

No one to leave the light on,
To help you choose the right song.

I try to do right, but it's wrong.
Nothing feels right with you gone.

Over hedges high,
Climbs a smiling spy.

Who now will shift your shoelace?
And wipe the crumbs off your face?

No one should get what you got,
Nothing should end where you start."

Mew
"Start"

"In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches trip me as I speak
Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there"

Radiohead
"There There"

"When I question love I thought I'd surely die
I couldn't see a future without you by my side
We're not together but I'm still alive
I'd rather not see you for a really long time

Funny how love is"

Fine Young Cannibals
"Funny How Love Is"

"And you're not the one
Who said he'd never leave
The one who made me believe in me
That was someone who could do no wrong
But you lost him

You're not the man
Who would bleed for me
But never shed a tear
You're not the one
Who said he'd always, always, always be here
said he'd always always be near"

Sade
"You're Not The Man"

"You know the hurts
So deep
That I cant sleep or eat,
And what Im hoping for
Is to feel your kisses sweet.
If we could just talk
Things might be a little more clear.
I really need the chance
To explain the way I feel.

I cant sleep (cant sleep),
Thinking of you constantly,
I cant sleep (cant sleep),
Wishing you were here with me.
I cant sleep (cant sleep
Where are you please?"

Saint Etienne
"Carnt Sleep"

"Every day, I get up and pray to Jah
And he decreases the number of clocks by exactly one
Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes
Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same
There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with anything
I has a dream last night, but I forget what it was
I had a dream last night about you, my friend
I had a dream--I wanted to sleep next to plastic
I had a dream--I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream--it was about nothing"

Camper Van Beethoven
"Take the Skinheads Bowling"

Appealing Things

A good friend in Denver
Blue British eyes
The XX
80s alternative music
Hiking in the North Georgia mountains and feeling the presence of something higher.
Mew
Bear pool parties
An office window
My body finally getting used to the new medication
Dinner with dear friends

Annoying Things

Rain on a Friday
Stressing about my healthcare running out
Politics
US immigration policies and medical travel bans
Being lectured about something I am quite well aware of. I am not 16 years old people, I am almost 40