subjects (a sort of stream)

so i guess there's no real reason to post this blog, but i haven't posted since I was in maine. that week I performed i think 5 days in a row... i say days and not nights since one of them was an afternoon college show at good old JMU, thanks to Shari for getting me back in there. i left her a gift (parking ticket) upon my departure. someone remind me to change my license plate sometime between now and Fall...

well i've been keeping really busy here in the F just a block or two from the D... i have been slinging food at a couple of good establishments and gearing up for another great set of shows for March. a few colleges, some old, some new, and some great new places in alabama and in kansas. otherwise, you know I'm just about to start hitting up colleges for Fall shows.

this thing, you know it never ends...it's a somewhat tedious cycle. the payoff is what makes it all worth it. i never find myself hating what I do. ever. sometimes I need to stretch or take a lengthy break from like e-mailing the 1,000th person for the day. no lie though I send hundreds of e-mails some days... not spam y'all, like freakin e-mails and some cutting and pasting, but it's part of the gig. and like i said, once the shows come it's always worth it.

i changed the name on my page today and started a facebook for High May Music. High May is the name change. it's still me and my songs, my music, lyrics, shoddy singing and guitar-playing. but i just decided, like yesterday or today and was like "fook it" so it's High May now. I figure i'm well overdue on an album or two, and if I do end up doing a record this year it'll be as High May. and I've been writing down every good album title idea that I dream up from time to time.

i bought these little notebooks from barnes and noble, somewhere in MA i think earlier this month. their blank page, pocket style and i guess are based on what some people used to use in the old days. obviously it's hard to recreate things like that, but i used to have these journals, notebooks filled with scratchings, setlists, notes, phone numbers, addresses, names, lyrics, titles, and anything that I had to write down while on the road. i don't know what's happened to them. i think they're in a box somewhere in my basement. but i thought the pocket size might work out well here...

i was recently playing in PA at this music conference. i saw a great band called Vulgarrity www.myspace.com/vulgarrity and they are playing in detroit i just noticed.... but FUCK, I am in Maine that night playing at Thomas College... what the frick man... anyone reads this, check out their page and go see them. a brother and sister tandem, with electric guitar loops, drivng bass, rockin drums and most importantly, killer HARMONIES.... they both can sing! and their name is pretty sweet too...

my bro is having twins. i'm pretty excited to be an uncle. uncle jimmy i think i'll be called although my bro calls me james most of the time. they are going to be sick hockey players. the next henrik and frederick sedin. I think those are the names of the twins in the NHL on the canucks... can someone verify this for me?

i recently got back in touch with an OLD friend from my hockey youth through facebook. i started my page a few weeks ago amidst a ton of peer pressure and general ridicule. most of which I can take, but when I went to sign up and was finished signing up in 3 minutes, i thought this can't be THAT bad. reconnecting is cool, and I get to choose who to reconnect with, and its not just me trying to compile as many "friends" as i can. i started a High May facebook page just to keep things separate. you know even though i don't have a personal myspace page, i changed the name because i kinda want this to be mainly used for music. music is what I live for, and what i am very proud of. and now that i have this fucking facebook page, people I know can write me little stupid messages, and i can use myspace for music shite.

i'm going down to ATL this weekend to play the eddies attic open mic. i also am hopefully going to catch up with at least one of 3 friends who live down there whom i have not seen in years and also whom I would really love to catch up with... they are all very good people and the type of people i value while not really being that close with... i put value on people. i value many people in my life differently. sometimes I put more value on someone I haven't seen in 5-10 years than someone i see on the regular. but on the flipside, maybe i don't choose to see that someone i see on the regular, and am thrown into it, so you get my drift?

i have been sleeping in my sweatpants all winter. i don't like to turn my heat up too high and sometimes wear sweatshirts too. when I wear socks to bed, I always have dreams... my socks are like dream catchers. it's wierd. i awoke this morning to sunlight and thought I had vastly overslept when I saw brightness, but it was still an hour before my alarm was set to go off, so naturally i went back to sleep but was kind of shocked. spring is coming and I am excited. i also awoke this morning with a couple of random names in my head and immediately e-mailed my brother to tell him that these must have been possible names for his soon to be twin boys. the names are damon (or daman / damen) and denny. i think denny sounds cool only because ben folds has a son names Louie. and those names sound really similar and equally cool to me, even though these names probably only came to me because I kept my socks on last night.

i work hard. and i hate when people imply that I am a lazy musician or that i "don't have a job" I always leave the room when someone says something like that even if I know that they are joking.

i have a newfound respect for some of my friends upon reading things that they disclose about themselves on the facebook. just things I never knew even though I thought I was tight with them. i like to support local businesses but always consider myself too broke to support nearly as many as i would like. i love sleeping. i should be sleeping right now but i consider myself to be on a bit of a roll right now. tomorrow I get to jam with one of my best friends whom i seldom see even though he lives only about 20 minutes away, and who gave my my first guitar and is the reason I have a myspace music page right now. i'm excited for that. i hate the fact that some people i know are fighting to keep their jobs and they hate the grind of the corporate world. i wish i could help them.

in college i took on a position to help raise money for children's miracle network. i only ended up raising a few thousand dollars but found it very rewarding and even though I felt I was sabotaged sometimes by the people around me. i still intend to be a philanthropist one day, but for some reason I can only see myself doing it on a GRANDE scale. i don't know why. i will seldom, if ever, hesitate to donate my time, especially for music, for a good cause. i still play free shows on the road every once in a while even though I can't afford to.

i do believe i'm gonna hit the hay right now.