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Short Song no. 1

Letting Go Of The Future is the first track completed for the in-progress Short Songs For Long Faces EP. I was considering the type of obsessions from which we can’t set ourselves free. There’s a certain stubbornness, or is it pride, that binds us to these habits even when confronted with help.

Totally unqualified, as I am, to diagnose these things I hold the belief there’s a part of us that wants to be understood, even in the middle of the mess we’ve made. We want someone to come all the way to us, to care that much. And if we don’t eventually grab that outstretched hand that’s when we are Letting Go Of The Future.

It’s 2:21 long.

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Hail to the travel guitar

This guitar has seen a lot of places, been stuffed many times into my suitcase and lost some apparently non essential parts. The tuning is spotty. The tone is abrasive. The feel is callous.

But this good friend has patiently been available for my every whim, not minding long waits in the back of the car. We’ve written, roughly guessing, fifty or so songs together. We’ve enjoyed vacations in a number of countries including Italy, Costa Rica, Ukraine & Poland. We’ve jammed countless songs in the car at the oddest of locations. Once it demanded a new tuning peg. Sweetly it accepted the odd sized replacement. Even now it allows tuning of the B string with needle nosed pliers without absolutely digging in its heels for a shiny new non matching peg.

Presently we wait somewhere… for some reason. We will tune up and play. The unlikely place makes it seem, somehow, quite normal.

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Pop Star intro

toay’s weight = 226.6
start = 227 (june 1, 2010)
goal = 172 (june 20, 2011)

Got in a bit of bicycling yesterday. Will try for more today.

Now that my cd is recorded and sent out to cdbaby, it’s time to make sure I can actually perform the songs. My buddy Robert Oriol wrote Pop Star with me and came up with that really nice piano line. Uhhh. How to play it as a solo act strumming and singing? I had to learn it like it was a cover tune. Here’s the intro.

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