Today I received a call from a drummer I jammed with that just got Sleep With You. said he was calling to tell me that he sat and cried when he heard the song "Junkie" because he was so moved. Which was just mind-blowing and here's why. It was the third person who had told me that about this new album in the last month, but each one with a different song. First with "Guilty," then with "Keep Moving On," and now with "Junkie." It just really made me feel good. cause maybe we fucking did it this time. 

Here's the deal: since my first album when I was a snotty16-year-old kid who knew nothing about what I was doing and couldn’t barely play an instrument, I loved what I was making. I loved my songs. It wasn't like I look back and go oh this album is good and these before it weren't. I mean I'm a huge fan of the first album and every one since then. And Rise and Shine still blows me away when I listen to it. I really can’t believe that I was a part in creating that album. I love it. What I mean by us really doing it this time is that maybe we created something that a lot of people are going to be as moved by as we are. Like maybe just cosmically everything will come together we’ll be on the same page as a lot of people at the same time. Which will be great, because I really need to make some money to justify continuing to spend all my money time and resources on creating music. (Is this true? Does an artist really need to justify their art? Or is the art justification enough regardless of the reception it receives?)

This is just truly strange:

Wife’s body kept in freezer for years

Elderly man hoped she could someday be brought back to life

ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX, Sept. 12 — A 75-year-old man stored his wife’s body for nearly six years in his backyard, twisted and upside down in an old freezer, because he hoped she could someday be brought back to life, authorities said

Last screening: Real time with Bill Maher. Thank God for Bill Maher. The guy is classic.

Current Spin:; Ginger Baby by Father Bloopy. This is an amazing album. filled with pure pop magic. Good songs galore. Check it out at www.dippyrecords.com  

Went to CD release party tonight for country rock group dharma bomb. They put on the best show of their careers. Really really good. Everyone from the local music scene was there—derek, Zach and Jodi, rat Bastard, Danny Jessup, Mode, Omine, even Joey fagiola, etc etc---and now a lot of the actors are starting to come around ever since that recent merging of the two groups from the Decay play. At some points during the show I was so moved because I was just digging the music and looking at all these people, some of whom I have known for so long. And we are all still hanging out together because of our common bond of music. It was cool. But at the same time felt this unknown feeling of loneliness swelling up within me, you know, like, who am I and why am I here, and do any of these people really know me or like me. that type of stuff. but I just felt into it and let it go. 

Nikki tells me that Sasha is now seeing the junkie who has been going out with the Toad for the last seven years. Really weird news. so later that night the Toad asks me if I have heard. I say yes. I tell him I was just talking about that same thing the night before as it related to him because there was a time about six years ago when I moved to New York and he immediately started dating Queenie as soon as I left, who had been my girlfriend for about two years. He and I were in a band together and lived together for about six years during that time. so that was a little weird, but I was telling a friend that it didn't really bother me because I loved the Toad very much and would share anything with him, even my girl. And we had shared girls before anyway, being in a band together and all for so long.