the new deal
so it's crazy. i now live in d.c.
for those wondering where the posts here have been, i must say that they have been lost in a flurry of lifegiving- dvds, people, moving, holidays, farewells, hellocommunion, nowhereville negotiations...
the weekend wherein i demonstrated baton rouge in a hyperjet speed slideshow of sights and stuff distilled with the wondereunion moments and miniworld stillness of which we were waiting was perfection. really. more documentable yet beautifully abstract than a film about marilyn monroe. there were crawfish in her diet, there were key souls from the formative years, there were places i've known so much as to forget in familiarity yet brazen with the flames of newtogether forgery, there were ancient bills tacked to the ceiling and women dressed in polyester garb badly trying to impersonate plantation southern wealth, there were gifts of baklava pronounced strangely and silver articles of wrist decor. and between the spaces of rushjob directionally challenged new orleans and summerlit cozyhouse december conversate sitting, there was the simple grace of understanding. of wanting to understand.
after that came the mad rush to both do the final steps of dvd creation as well as make a split-second decision to pack up all my stuff and go, fatally governed by smalltown podunk SC politics that ignore the right of a guy to change a court date. i use the term court loosely. because if a terribly organized trough of people dressed like they work at jc penny in the 80s working in a strip mall building in the middle of fast-food nowhere represents justice, than i can pretty much set my sights for the hills. but i was able to negotiate a $400 ticket down to 170, and continue on the the safe harbor of days that feel like holidays up north.
i drove into delerium, and then by the time i got to the place that would represent my new little cave o residence, i was unexpectedly enchanted by the welcoming presence of exciteable people who had set up my new room just right, with balloons and a mood of fanfare, as they had waited up for me and actually made an event of my arrival. i don't think they were aware that this can do wonderments for a fellow's heart.
fast-forward thru an expanse of dvd assembly and settlement, exploratory carrides, family mealnesses and holiday consumption, and you might note a season for the first time spent away from that place where the mississippi first caressed my backdrops, yet unusually homey and spirited. i have delighted in the comforts of a few different dens of hospitality, good food, and gift-deriving in all forms, and i am quite grateful and wide-eyed because of it. and on christmas day i got to see a tower of hats and gloves and a badass mafia coke-dealer houserobe, and i opened the wonderful bag-o-semblances of home-via-santa, and i then got to go meet the charismatic patriarch and epicenter of the bayou that shines my heart, amongst a warm dwelling of truly curious conversation and thankfulness. christmas was wrapped up in the most perfect ribbon by the midnight smalltheatre feature of napolean dynamite, which beaded off all the droplets of nervous energy and stalled out pistons of selfhood in the miracle elixir of hysterical laughter. my christmas this year certainly contained angelic presence..
and here i am in my new situation. i excitedly await the realm of possibility, yet i shift the gears of fortune and reaping myself. drop me a hello, give me a sign of you, order this dvd of which i am so proud. this thursday i am playing at college perk and it is going to be titillating. there is so much for which i can't wait.
escapades
so jonathan and i are planning this big uber-road trip right after new years where we are driving all the way from d.c. to seattle, with stops in chicago and the amazing metropoli of the dakotas and spokane and then like a week of seattle. i will be playing music every night. but it is cool because we are taking the souped up vehicle of choice for the modern road tripper equipped with like 200 miles to the gallon and windows XP audio-video-itunes-dvd-internet-navigational screens that tell you exactly where you are to use the bathroom and where you may purchase gas and calculates your hunger based on blood activity so we don't really have to think for ourselves at all. and he is gonna be all decked out in accordance like the modern hasselhoff with his zipped up matrixy leather-bound and high definition sunglasses. we will burst thru the grey of cold in these towns like some kind of invaders from the future of space, and we'll find what we came there for and be on our way. there will be no looking back, just the dust we've swept up from our blazing hot tire tracks set for the horizon. we are gonna have a laptop presentation screen for my merch everywhere i go illuminating the need for DL dry goods kind of like when luke first sees the simulated princess lea and suddenly feels an unusual sense of purpose pontificating in his veins. jon is also going to be pushing his own dry goods, the fly arse t's built for modern hipsters and discerning youth available on his website business which will be featured in this friday's rolling stone-
www.curefornudity.com really i'm not kidding read your entertainment exploitation mags it will be there yes you saw it first.
i have also seen every episode of felicity. what makes me so badass that i can view episodes that aren't even out on dvd you ask? oh, connections baby, and i'm not saying the entirety of what that entails. anyway let's just say that it peaks out in the third year because that's when they were all still having fun. god how close it all is to real college..
i am feeling so dynofabulous we are all thru with this dvd and i am seeing the summit where i no longer have to peer into tiny video editing tools to represent a reality that once knew as the exhileration of playing music. i just want everyone to see the far reaches and places and gigs that have comprised the best of the best recently, and have it all on a tight digital keepable little disc.
and holy formica i can't stop thinking about that female creature who keeps on keeping on with the insight, the warmth, the magic, the sheer approximation of everything that ever could be beautiful in a peoplepairing. she is flying in on friday i will pick her up in that scattered mosaic and vibrantly hued loveliness that is new orleans.
i hope everyone is in blankets all wrapped up and feeling good like hot holiday cocoa. i want to share in the humanity.
notes from the bayou
blogger has been bad to me it has done strange things i was in the back room with it and it just started to get all weird and all of a sudden i felt uncomfortable and... well i don't really wanna talk about it.
but anyway i do want to say that the moon is shining so bright these days. the journey i took winding tween hills and cruising through the hours of sporadic notions was saddled with snares however the higher ground i was able to see was unbelieveable. o asheville. to what do i owe this gratitude? can this bountious return to the tenements of safety anymore make me feel reinvented?
i am stoked orders are up on the site for the live dvd as you prolly have seen if you are viewing this. this dvd is gonna SHATTER YOUR CHANDELIERS you had better be ready it is as real as you can get in the days of market calculations and formulated scientific method stock enriching entertainment media genre-tame board meeting suited projections.
i am afraid this internet is unstable so i have to keep it snappy i will write more soon.