What’s Going On?: Signs

Woke up, looked out the window, it’s a beautiful sunny Sunday morning and I saw a couple of dolphins surfacing and diving under some slow glassy waves. Sunday mornings don’t get much better than that.

I’ve spent most of the week horizontal due to a back injury. I have gained a lot of empathy for old people. Every single thing I do is painful, even coughing. And since there is no universal health care in this country and I can’t afford insurance we’re just crossing our fingers and hoping it fixes itself. I’m pretty sure it will fix itself, this morning it even feels a bit better. The yoga child’s pose has also been working wonders. This journal entry will be short though, I can’t sit up for too long until my back reminds me it prefers horizontalness. Anyway, I’m really bored of talking about my back, so…

I wrote a couple of new songs this week. I even managed to record a rough demo of one of them yesterday before my back demanded that gravity win. I put it in the bottom of this journal entry if you want to check it out.

I was also wrong this week. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The Universe has been relentlessly giving me signs pointing me in a particular direction. Spooky and relentlessly, much much more than coincidence would allow. The folks that saw it from the outside even said “yeah, duh!”. So I finally gave in and went that direction, but it turns out it was the wrong direction. So I just shook my head, turned around, and walked back hoping that the Universe wouldn’t be too upset. I did everything I could though, maybe even too much. It makes no sense, but that’s the way it is. That muse is gone and I’ll be drawing from a different source now.

The computer that I use for recording and has my MP3 collection is also not working, but a friend has lent me her record player. I will never listen to an MP3 again. Listening to vinyl records on this player has been way too much fun. It feels like it’s 1970 in my living room right now. Hold on, I need to flip it to side four (it’s a 2 disc set) of CSN&Y 4 Way Street…

Ok, I’m back. I only have 5 records right now, will be venturing out to the record store once I’m mobile again.

Hahah. “OHIO” is now playing in my living room. Universe, you’re a funny mofo. Well, it’s a great song in any case.

We are opening a show for Wang Chung in a couple of weeks, if you’re in Southern California you should join us, it’s going to be huge fun. And it’s even more fun because you can get discounted tickets from us here: http://www.sjatr.com/wangchung

Lords, ladies, and gentlemen, have a happy week. I leave you with this (forgive the quality, it’s just a demo):

come closer

the long way out is over here
electricity pouring from the socket
carbon monoxide kisses
an alarm wired to my front pocket

come closer, it’ll be ok
let me whisper, it’ll be ok

i’ll pour salt around your bed
to keep the nightmares away
from the roof i’ll keep watch all around
until i don’t know night from day

come closer, come closer, it’ll be ok
let me whisper, let me whisper, it’ll be ok

i was holding on
lord knows i held it in
but if you’d asked the stars
they’d say i should win

come closer, come closer, it’ll be ok
let me whisper, let me whisper, it’ll be ok

All the best,

SJ