Monday, January 31, 2005

The hands of time



Look fast and you may miss it. The clock hands chop chop along at a blistering pace and you turn around and where's the decade go?
Got a posting on MySpace today asking to list the bands you been in. Crimony, that made me calculate the old milage ticker. (WARNING: Shameless name dropping ahead!)
Not to mention the time we made Jerry Garcia cry, bought Jonathan Richman a salad at Doc's Pad, plundered the Reverend's liquor and Grohl's guitar strings, paid the Cowgirl's parking tickets, stole Nashville Pussy's women, forced Mojo Nixon to read Suzanne Sommer's poetry, hit on Westerberg's future wife ... and, you get the idea ... many, many other bad bad things.
Hell in not too long, I'll have been making rock music for 20 years.
What do you want YOUR gravestone to say?

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Testify


Many a Sunday I find the greatest rock and roll inspiration I've ever heard. It's the little church around the corner from Potown Records HQ.
This gospel goup rocks the block like band of boomin angels, shoutin' and a thumpin away on the rhythm as I stroll by in the sunshine.
No joke, Charlie.
I see the light!!!

Panic in the streets of Portland



Yes, here it is. The twisted, blisteringly fast, liquid life of a writer.
This is where I make the funniest news show on the planet:
Coming back to work on Saturday is my Monday.


Someone's gotta do it.

Friday, January 28, 2005

These days

The question ain't 'what is'
The question is 'what ain't'
We gonna do

Best things in life are free
But a car wash and a haircut
Can't be beat