7:00 PM
Home (sitting in bed)
Below is a clip of The Von Bondies performing Pale Bride last night on The Late Show With David Letterman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qgi3gGxiQ4
Below is a clip of the 2005 Emmy Awards tribute to Johnny Carson as introduced by David Letterman, a rare appearance for him at an awards show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oUydHL_q2k&feature=PlayList&p=1CBD39FA397661A3&playnext=1&index=70
I woke up this morning with a bad headache and it hasn't dissipated. I also received some potentially bad news concerning an elderly family member. Time is a realist's greatest enemy.
"Make a circle in the sand, make a halo with your hand, I'll make a place for you to land........"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXyC3blapk
Above is the first part of a five part interview with Counting Crows by a very young girl shot September 21, 2008 in Seattle. Besides the interviews with various band members this clip includes live video of Miami, Richard Manuel is Dead and Omaha.
"It's nothing but time and a face that you lose, I chose to feel it and you couldn't chose, I'll write you a postcard, I'll send you the news from a house down the road from real love..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8FJhQ-teE
Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars
I wrote the following this afternoon. It is about how life always happens too soon, even if it seems like we have been waiting for it to happen all our life.
Always Too Soon
She had orange hair like a future moody cat
My hair was dark and shabby unlike it is now
We used to walk to and from school together
Through every category of Canadian weather
She was my very first childhood female friend
I remember her freckles but not her eye colour
They could have been blue or conceivably green
I am sure they were especially beautiful at seven
Under the fast moving clouds of a June afternoon
Where we licked purple popsicles and kissed lips
Before her family moved away to the west coast
Making my Quebec Street walks absolutely lonely
I have always preferred the company of females
Even as a young boy I was drawn to their games
Of course with age and the advancement of sex
Friendships became cluttered by physical needs
Territories were marked and lines were formed
All the dances inevitably ended with spilt tears
Boys are not supposed to understand or worry
When a girl’s heart is broken because of words
Simple sentences turning into complex emotions
Long before actions evolve and needs intensify
Always too soon we are forced into adulthood
Breasts quickly become desired and measured
The size common knowledge without consent
Daily smears are scribbled on bathroom stalls
Friends vandalizing the reputations of friends
Childhood drama and games within the sexes
There are no winners and innocence is erased
Love is absently exchanged for sexual pleasure
How quickly its vanity is learned and applied
Every guy becomes hated because he is a guy
The opposite parades very loudly behind them
Turning those polarizing girls into best friends
United by their campaign of hatred and scorn
Played out in the various theatres of society
Carefully scripted battles between the sexes
Young men and women on conflicting sides
Always too soon friendships are transformed
By the simple facts of our minds and bodies
Until they are too old to care or reciprocate
Silver haired, face wrinkled and weathered
Lined with knowledge previously impossible
How sad it is to have to make many amends
For being young and stupid but it happens
Like kindness, happiness and forgiveness.
02/10/09
"Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza1zYM4ibA
Above is the second part of the Counting Crows experience. Along with more interview questions and answers is the song Anna Begins and a cover of Cecila performed with Augustana.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL5tP9M9shc
Yesterday in the clip above Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance enhancing substances from 2001-2003. He had to come clean, there are too many legal issues for him to lie like Clemens, McGwire, Sosa and Bonds. The fallout of Rodriguez's admittance will be steep and baseball has been set back 10 years or more in terms of fan trust. Tomorrow Miguel Tejada of the Houston Astros is expected to admit guilty to lying to Congress in 2003 about his steriod use. I have a feeling Tejada will not be the last star of baseball to admit their guilt. Alex Rodriguez's excuse was that he was young and stupid, such an easy excuse but it could very possibly be the only real excuse.
john
Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn and John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0 (9 million + views)
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