Those Were the Days My Friend...

Some folks say..."Oh boy, those were the days."

I don't think that way. Never did.

I've had good times and bad times. I remember. But the days come and go.

I ride the vibe. It's the only way I really know how to live.

Chicago Bound?

Lebron James in a Chicago Bulls uniform? I'm skeptical. But if he happened to come this way, gee, I'm thinking his moves on the court would be much more appealing. For sure.

New Song...

See the tree bend the wind

just like they were friends

hoping it'll never end

See the tree dance with the wind

just like they were friends

hoping it'll never end

hoping it'll never end

hoping it'll never end

Conjuring!

Conjuring the powers of mystery. And those mysterious powers have their own agenda baby!

Who?

Walking someone else's foot steps. Wearing someone else's sunglasses. Chilling out in someone else's homestead. Walking someone else's dog...

Kind of identity-busting. Everything is different, still, everything is the same. Little changes add up to big questions.

Who am I today? Who will I be tomorrow? Who was I yesterday?

Sustain!

The Telepaths played a rock show last night. A little bar called Dukes. Nice place, a warm, cozy room. We totally rocked out. I tried out my new sustainer/distortion pedal! Afterwards I was told we sounded like Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Wow. That is music to my ears. Very much the r&r musical vibe I love. The owner of the joint invited us back! Surprise! And he complimented me on my guitar playing. Now you can't beat that!

Here, There, Nowhere...

The Lovely Carla tells me my presence can be disturbing to the peace.

My absence too.

That about covers it.

The Oil Habit

Someone pointed out to me that we are the "oil people." We are swimming in the stuff. We eat it, drink it, breathe it.

It is the blood of our way of life, oil and it's derivatives are ubiquitous in the products we produce and consume.

I guess their point was that getting off oil was going to be near impossible.

Still isn't it totally necessary if we are to save ourselves? Don't we have to get off the stuff? And isn't what looks like near impossible today, totally doable some day?

And shouldn't we try to get to that "some day" soon?!

Breathing

Last night we did a yoga session at our little storefront space. The heat and humidity were totally oppressive.

I was sweating bullets like James Brown, "the hardest working man in YOGA!" It was difficult and challenging, and when it was over I was glad to be breathing.

Sometimes that's more than enough...

A Happy Dream

Playing music on the main stage this weekend felt really, really comfortable.

A sort of euphoria descended upon me. I felt closer to the sky, the sun, the moon, the stars, than to all the "people stuff" going down on the street.

Of course, it was all a momentary illusion. Still, for most of the weekend I sort of floated around in a genial bubble.

It's back to earth this morning. But that "elevated feeling" still lingers like a happy dream.

Summer Street Fest

We played a street festival yesterday. Blazing hot day. We went on at 1:00 p.m.

Main stage, baby! Our violinist was a no-show, he was stuck on the east coast, so everyone kind of rose to the challenge to fill up some of the space in our songs.

One of our best all-time shows. The sound was superb, our music blasted down the avenue. It was all so fun and satisfying.

Got lots of love from the audience. The best feeling ever.

Clean Living

All this "clean living" is starting to catch up to me...

I'm expecting to fly anytime now...

Instructive

Yesterday was instructive...

I found out I know some things I didn't know I knew.

And I found out some things I didn't know I didn't know.

Surfing the Moment!

The Lovely Carla: "It feels like everything is coming together and falling apart at the same time."

sunnyjimmy: "Yes it does!"

The Dutch!

This woman is such a blithering idiot...

Call in the Dutch!?!

Looks

You look at the world and sometimes it seems that everything is just unconnected random chaos. You look again and it seems that everything is interconnected and working in a secretly ordered manner.

Same world...

Malingering

A series of events turned into a kind of nostalgia tour yesterday. And I hate nostalgia. Too many ghosts, wrong turns, dead channels.

I'd rather be in the now. I carry all those ghosts with me anyway. No sense in lingering...

No $ Required

Free Stuff. Turns out it's the best stuff. And you can't put a price on it!

Dissatisfied Mind!

It's really weird. Sometimes that void-inducing feeling of dissatisfication (is that a word?!) can be quite satisfying!

Opinions

I've learned it's okay not to have an opinion about everything. Probably especially about things that I don't really know much about, which is actually a pretty vast knowledge base.

Still, I think it's sort of a "revelation" to realize that my opinion really doesn't matter...

I mean, sometimes even to me...