Is This a Test

I am having problems uploading stuff to blogger. Let me see if this works.

Ok. It looks like all this crap is uploading now. I dunno what happened before and I will pretend not to care.

Listening to the new Joanna Newsome (well it was new sometime in the past year) and toggling back and forth between that and some Tom Waits tracks from Orphans.

I toggle between records now. What has become of me? What will become of me?

Ash.

In between I will continue to toggle some great music and be undeserving of pity from anyone except for everyone.

I am too lazy to assemble the rest of this Tom Waits record. What does that say about me?

When ChrisB first got his kick ass record collection all loaded and manipulatable on his machine he burned a lot of discs for me with tons of great music in alphabetical order.

Enjoying listening to music these days in part, because I am not writing anything new (or anything that's worth anything I'm just writing shit to keep doing it waiting for more good songs to come) but mostly I am enjoying listening to records because aside from prayer and time with family it is time well spent.

This is one of those periods when everything is falling into place. I don't have time to write and no need to throw myself into it with any great thrust of energy. bD will have a show in Rockford next week (thanks Lady Di), the Ambersons will have a coupla practices left to get our shit together for Oct 25th and it will be fun to sit down with them again...

Things may get a bit manic after the Oct 25th show. I turned down another gig (with possible hard feelings and fall out to follow) and we will probably turn down some more gigs coming our way but that will serve a greater goal. bD can start recording these new songs we've worked so hard on and I love so much.

I don't recognize the Decemberist track that is playing now. It is probably from the Crane wife record that I loaded into my machine and then never took the time to listen to in one sitting. That sounds like me. Critics are saying it was the best record last year. I'm always a few years behind these things so I'll really dig it in 2010 or something like that.

I figure I have plenty of time to listen to this and other records before the end of the Mayan Calender.

This Decemberist song is pretty good. Maybe I should listen to the record before 2010. There's a part:

"I will hang my head, hang my head - low"

/and there are some cool doodely, doodly things that make it sound like a song from Camper's OUr Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.

Another great record my friend ChrisB burned for me.

Did I mention that I wish Chris Young was still on our beloved WhiteSOX?