"Mama, why do they call it the blues?"

Lately, I've been really wrapped up by the big picture. The big picture doesn't look so good. I mean, there's global warming, peak oil, wars present & future. Plus species are dying, rainforests are disappearing, oceans are being polluted, the food chain is poisoned. Our government spies on us, lies to us, secretly detains and tortures us. Each morning, check out the news, be prepared for the "outrage of the day." And don't forget the universe is expanding. Our genetic code is 99% identical to chimpanzees. There probably isn't a god. No one is looking down at us with love and affection. People we love are dead or are going to die. Dead people probably don't go to a better place.

As the lovely Carla likes to say, "something is wrong."

Sorry. The coffee hasn't really kicked in this morning. Of course on the other hand...well...besides all that, I mean, hot damn, everything's great!

Sometimes you just have to go back to the micro-level of existence. Glad to wake up. Brew up a great pot of coffee. Sunny day. No pain. Maybe something good is right around the corner...

I've been in my little home studio, working on new music. I posted some tracks here. They are all free downloads. Check out my 7 minute vamp on a classic Neil Young song, which I dubbed "C the K," and check out my little ditty "The Prisoner of Love." I'm pretty pleased with the results. Anyway we must muddle through, nothing can stop the music...and well things are inexplicably, impossibly looking up!

UPDATE: Last night I was surfing YouTube and I came across this classic performance of "Idiot Wind" from Bob Dylan on tour in 1976. I love the passion and pissed off-ness he brings to this song. Seems to me his best songs always have an edge of anger, it's when the mask sort of falls away.

Although, at the same time, Dylan always seems to be wearing that Dylan mask, which seems to be the theme of this movie (multiple actors will portray the man). I'm really looking forward it!