3 songwriting tips

1. writing a song is like watching your teenager try on clothes.

2. if it ain't worth stealing, it ain't worth listening to.

3. ray charles is worth listening to.

a bitter request

it's easier to believe that a dead man can rise and walk again
than to pray for my enemies.
but fire doesn't stop fire; water does.
please change their hearts
from a distance.

Chinese saying...

dinner with meichi, describing someone boring/empty-headed: "if you hit his head with a bat, he  wouldn't even fart."  hahaha. I wish dad was around.

misfits

at the library on Front St today.  felt totally at home.

Chchchchanges...

"The only art I will ever study is stuff that I can steal from."
- David Bowie

Just read that in an awesome book.

walked 10 yards...

out of a show in harrisburg.
a man on the corner trash talking bc we're not the same color,
trying to share his racism.
guessing he doesn't know my honey has a revolver.
let's all keep moving.

A year into dating...

and I just realized that we're interracial. huh.

Been re-writing lyrics

to Beatles tunes. they can't all be as good as Old Brown Shoe.

Wipe your feet, please.

No, seriously. wipe them.