the first performance...

of sideview mirror took place last night at the campus open mic/haiku slam. except i'm no longer calling it sideview mirror; its new working title is jalopy heart blues. click here for an mp3 of it. and click soon - it's just over 5 megs and i don't know if my leep site administrator will allow it to stay up for very long.

other than almost forgetting my chords at the beginning, and almost blowing a lyric a third of the way through, it went okay. let me know what you think.

here's my haiku i read, which did not win the twenty dollar grand prize. i was robbed.

i think this haiku
is the very best haiku
you will hear tonight

link o' the day:

the gospel of judas is public domain. national geographic doesn't want you to know this, and would rather you buy their printed copy for only $15.95. as a result, they have buried the actual text on their website pretty effectively. but if you click here, you'll go directly to the pdf. happy reading.

new song

hey folks. here's a new one i just got done with, and it's definitely making the band's setlist.

Sideview Mirror

Driving round downtown
Each stoplight an endless wait
Pavement cracked, you pick up the slack
But you should’ve probably just stayed
The dashboard’s split, all along you’ve known it
Somewhere streets turn to gravel
The clutch is past its prime and it’s time
This whole thing began to unravel

Carburetor, catch you later, metal-flake paint and some chrome
Carburetor, catch you later, down the street a hundred miles from home

The trees are green, the avenue bleeds
You plug it and make a left turn
Between what you want and what you need
You smoke a cigarette while you burn
So you name your car and take off the tar
With rags and some turpentine
The echoes stay and yesterday
You stopped asking for some kind of sign

Carburetor, catch you later, metal-flake paint and some chrome
Carburetor, catch you later, down the street a hundred miles from home

You’d sockhop from rooftop to rooftop
If you thought you only could
After a rolling stop you see a cop
He knows that you’re up to no good
It doesn’t matter that your seats are in tatters
You’re already good as gone
Imitation ain’t flattery, just a jumpstarted battery
You’re done with the pros and the cons

Carburetor, catch you later, metal-flake paint and some chrome
Carburetor, catch you later, down the street a hundred miles from home

we'll get there eventually

click here for a loose, sloppy, but fun cover we did last friday of uncle tupelo's "the long cut."

i don't put our best tracks up here, y'know - i only put the ones that fit the 5 mb or smaller requirements of the server space i have access to.

have a fantastic weekend, people!

too pooped...

this morning to write much here at turning your orbit around. but i did post over on spinnerfall, so go check it out.

link o' the day:

as you can see from the graphs on this usgs site, spring runoff in the yampa river is starting in earnest. fishing in town may not happen again until june.