--IT
ONLY HURTS WHEN I BREATHE
…I’m
going to Portland/Vancouver tomorrow, quite early in fact. Should be fun times. I hope you are having fun times for yourself.
A
distant friend suffered a heart attack yesterday and is terminal today. Very tragic.
As
they say, life is short so let’s all try enjoy it.
...At
that Sam Smith concert I wrote about last time, the opener was some Irish guy I’d
never heard of—Gavin James.
But he
nailed it. The crowd loved it. Surprisingly, there were quite a few who knew
the words to all of his songs, and they sang along and squealed and shouted.
He
looked happy about that.
He
played acoustic—just him and a guitar.
Here
was one of my favorite songs of his:
…When
I pick blue berries, which I’ve been doing more than ever this summer, I often
get awful songs stuck in my head. We’re
talking awful. Things like, “Tip Toe
Through The Tulips” and “The Donkey Song.”
It’s
tragic.
But
today while picking I had this song stuck in my head, which I rather like
though it does remind of when I’d play their album repeatedly while I was in
North Dakota my sophomore year of high school, and hating every minute of it:
…I
like every kind of music that exists. A
lot of people detest country music. I
get it, but today country really just fills a missing pop niche with strong
hooks and melodies.
Take a
listen to this (it even has rapping in it):
…Okay,
last song (also country) that I once had stuck in my head for two weeks. It’s a good one:
…Hey,
you, have a great couple of days.
I’ll
see you soon.
Until
then, here are a couple of other things I like:
-“A great party room has a horrible rug
that you cannot destroy.”
-“Some people say there isn’t a
difference between love and sex. Those
people are women.”
-“I feel like I learned more about love
when relationships ended. That may have
been truer love because we took the sex out of the equation.”
-“If you want to be a butterfly, you
have to spend some time as a worm.”
-“There’s definitely a time when the
best you can do is look good for your age.”
-“I hope there’s no such thing as
reincarnation because I will never pull a better life.” – Bill Maher
- “Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first
time, or even the third time. Remember
this in moments of despair. If you find
that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.” William Zinsser
-“If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you
have done as well as or better than anyone else.” William Feather
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