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i made this, quickly.

i made this, quickly.

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my body bangs and twitches as brown liquor wets my tongue.
my fingers find the stitches firmly back and forth they run.
i need no other memory of the bits of me i left, when all this leathal drinking is to hopefully forget
about you.

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i hope i can make it through this. i hope we make it through together.

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i wish i could find brady’s tumblr.

About to watch a film called Henry Fool. I know nothing about it except Parker Posey is in it and she wails.

I should still be designing right now but I ran out of brain-juice. So now I’m having some whiskey-juice. I think working a 106 degree workplace should be illegal. Because, boy, do I fell dumb from it.

first “blog” since 08. woop.

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WINTER 2005. back when being cool was cool.

WINTER 2005. back when being cool was cool.

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theduty:

repeatinglikebrokenrecords:

I had the privilege of playing guitar with Gentle Ghost at the Norman Music Festival yesterday. here is your video proof. warning…this may contain me rocking more than you would normally be used to…

one of my all time besties, doing what he does….

Thanks duty. I wish I’d found you again so could’ve hung out!

Tyler, I’m so glad you played with us!

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robbyrharris:
Gentle Ghost - Opolis - 1-30-09 (More on my facebook)
Thanks for taking the pics robby!

robbyrharris:

Gentle Ghost - Opolis - 1-30-09 (More on my facebook)

Thanks for taking the pics robby!

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Jan
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DAY 05: Brooklyn/ Manhattan, NY

Thanks to the quick and wonderful kindness of Laura Fink, we didn’t have to sleep in a ten dollar coffin in Chinatown or spend $180 in a dank Manhattan motel. For whatever reason, poor planning, misscommunication or misunderstanding, we had no place lined up to stay in New York city and I learned this as we are pulling in to view of the City. I’m behind the wheel. I pulled into the wrong lane at the toll. Several fine people responded to my twittered plea for help and right away. Laura lived close to where we needed to be in Williamsburg the next day and was just getting off work when she called me. I get full to my brim with pride and joy from how many kindly and selfless people I am surrounded by in my life. So willing to put themselves out and take in a friend and two strangers he’ll vouch for. Truly I am blessed. 

This morning we awoke early and started our day with some brew from a place called Gimme Coffee before jumping on the L train heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Today was a slew of firsts for me.

First time to buy a metrocard. first time in a subway station.  to ride in a subway train.first time to almost fall into a sleeping woman’s lap from the railcar’s lurch-jolt out of our first station. First time to see Time Square. The Lower East Side. Strands books. Kim’s Records.

Realizations were had a plenty as well. Don’t look up when you’re crossing a street, homeless guy will not try to avoid collision but he will wait until the last second to blurt a warning yell. Van’s are not walking shoes. Van’s are not warm shoes. Not waterproof shoes. Maybe even snow/ yuck/ wetness magnet shoes. That being said, one can still walk miles even if his feet are so cold he can’t tell if they’re still connected at the ankles. Starbucks is one of the only places with public restrooms (for the first few hours I just thought everyone in New York either had camel hump bladders.

Chase had several meetings around Manhattan today with different industry types so Jordan and I got lost until we found an H&M. I bought socks to replace the ones left in PA. I’m proud at how fast I adapted to the NYC subway system. That’s not to say I didn’t get us really lost, but I also got us un-lost. Little detours I like to call scenic shortcuts. 

The show tonight was at a member’s only private club called the Norwood. One of several book release parties for Derrick Brown’s newest collection called Scandalabra. Beau Jennings did some songs, as well as backed Derrick with several other musicians while Derrick read. It was great. I didn’t play tonight, Chase played solo and then backed Paul Mazier. Paul has a beautiful soul, I knew we’d be friends before I even met him by all the praise he was given by Scott Windsor and Beau. This club was seriously nuts. After the performances we went to the third floor bar where a beer was 12 dollars. I had no drinks until one was handed to me by a friend. Julia Stiles was downstairs and Chase made sure to come get me so I could see her. I hadn’t really seen a celebrity until tonight. I’m sure there were lots of people cut from the rich and celebrity cloth there but I couldn’t tell. I’m so bad at that. 

We were on the train for about 2 hours on the trek back to Brooklyn to stay with Beau and Jodie. There’s all of this crazy construction on the NYC train system so we had to go way past and then backtrack. This was a fun ride because the train was full of people all headed back from the city to Brooklyn. Got to talk movies with some real nice guys. Beau and Jodie live in an incredible apartment in Fort Green, the first place I went in New York and thought, dang, I could probably live here. Quiet, clean, removed, but still big city. 

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Jan
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DAY 04: New Windsor, NY

Bummer news guys. I left Snoopy in Lancaster, PA. “Who’s Snoopy?” Snoopy is the only suitcase I’ve ever owned. I inherited him upon birth from my older sister. But all is not lost.

Good News: I left it at Andy of Unwed Sailor’s house.

Other Good News: He’s very graciously agreed to ship him back to Oklahoma for me.

Bad News: I don’t have any clothes except for the ones on my back and I already smell like an old potato. 

Also Bad News: I don’t have any of the ultra-warm clothes I packed for butt-ass cold NYC. These dress socks aren’t going to quite do the trick I don’t think. I’m not sweating it too hard though, I know I’ll manage. Probably. 

Philadelphia was a very interesting city. The architecture was incredible, we saw what Chase calls “the Rocky Steps”. We got yelled at by a drunk man after we didn’t give him money. My heart hurt as I was walking into a warm bar to drink a free beer and I can only assume he was facing a looming risk of freezing to death while trying to sleep out in the street. I don’t know what to do with those feelings. Can’t put them anywhere near the ones that feel sorry about me leaving my suitcase. ugh. I’ll figure that out another time. 

So right now I’m in the mastering studio of West West Side in New Windsor NY watching, listening and sometimes participating with Alan Douches and Chase as they master Chase’s new record. This is a pretty amazing experience. We’ve been here for about 8 hours and I am loving every second. Alan mastered so many of my favorite albums. SO many. He’s a very nice man, I’ve really enjoyed hanging out with him. His whole staff is awesome. If it’s cool with him I’m going to take some pics of the studio and I’ll post them later. Well friends, I’m going to go but I’ll regale you with tales of Sethy getting lost in Brooklyn sometime tomorrow. If you take a shower  or put on a clean sock soon, send me some clean vibes. 

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Jan
14th
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DaY 03: Lancaster PA/ Philly PA

So I did some driving, the last four hours or so. West Virginia and the Appalachians were quite beautiful, evenly moonlit when the clouds broke enough. No Ice on the road which was a blessing. We’re in Lancaster PA, rolled in this morning at about 4:30am (a little different than 2:00). I slept until 11:30 when I was woken up by a kitten standing on my face. I feel like he was there for a while before I woke up. I’ve met a lot of really cute animals this tour. Right now I’m in an attic loft of a very old downtown-Lancaster apartment. It’s really awesome. The guy that lives here, Andy, seems very nice. It is now time for a shower. Playing philly at a place called fergies tonight.

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DAY 02: Drive day Con't.

Lots of Snow on the road today. From what I’m hearing we’re heading into some pretty interesting weather in the north east. Supposedly the 16th is supposed to be the coldest day of the year for New York? I don’t know how anyone could know that but dang, that’s going to be cold. We used the better half of an hour in a walmart while Chase and Jordan looked for gloves and long underware. Walmart was fresh out of longies. I packed all of my longies and even borrowed a pair from becky. I’m in business. I feel bad for their skinny little-jeaned legs. We played our first show of the tour last night. The venue was called Cicero’s, it was in the Loop in St. Louis. You’d think a big city like that would have already told clubs to cut out the indoor smoking. Nope. 

We got a late start today, then got lost getting off the highway trying to find a mythical Starbucks that exists only in the Global Positioning System dimension. The weather hasn’t been the friendliest either. It’s 8:50pm, I’m sitting in the back of the van right now watching the snow swirl like an coffeemate dust bowl. We’re slated to roll into a town an hour outside of Philly around 2:00am if Mother Nature is into that idea.  Okay, this road situation is getting a little intense, I can see Jordan putting on the dash-brakes in the passenger seat. More later… 

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