“I’m not a mystery everything I think is written down” -Allison Weiss, “Why Bother” The sun is bright in Highland Park today, casting long stark shadows on the newly bare sidewalks and leafy lawns as people make their way through…
Category: All the Poets Became Rock Stars
Sun Cracks Horizon Dawn
Forgive the use of the Star Warsy sounding subtitle in the new logo up top, but it’s really the most accurate thing I can convey. There’s a reason that film was a smash hit, and if you go back and…
This Desert Life
I find I have less and less to say with my own voice. The wide applicability of that comment is hard to underestimate. Most music is dying for me, but the few songs that aren’t say everything I could possibly…
Won’t Somebody Save Me Please?: a Desperate Plea from a Loaded Catapult, also known as a Counting Crows Show
All of a sudden she disappears just yesterday she was here somebody tell me if I am sleeping someone should be with me here cause I don’t wanna be alone As already indicated, it’s been a crazy last few days.…
…It Pours
This is getting absurd. The Counting Crows show was a great experience overall, despite manifesting as an emotional woodchipper that forced me to hysterical tears during at least six songs. I’ll write up that whole situation at some point –…
Submitted Without Comment
Our conversation was short and sweet It nearly swept me off-a my feet And I’m back in the rain, oh, oh And you are on dry land You made it there somehow You’re a big girl now Bird on the…
When the World is Silent, the Mind Comes Alive
Twice a week, I drive to New Brunswick from Princeton, a 16-mile jaunt that usually takes over half an hour to complete because of the nature of driving in New Jersey. I head up there in the 8:00 hour to…
All Wide-Eyed Like the Rest
It was a weekend to examine youth. Em and I have been watching the Up Series, a continuum of documentaries about 14 British children who turned 7 in 1964. In the first film, they are shown expressing their hopes and…
Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine
Today (defined loosely as from noon yesterday till right now), I: Took delivery on a flat-screen television, which will hopefully never have network or cable TV thereon. Spoke to my parents on the phone. Listened to Barack Obama’s speech and……
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
It’s hard to believe that Friday night marked the ninth time I’ve seen Counting Crows live. To this day, I would probably rather spend time watching them in concert than see almost anyone else I haven’t seen – actively choosing…