Happy Autumn

Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003 - 7:49 a.m.

Well.

It begins.

I handed off one of my songs to Todd Thalimer yesterday.

Emotionally, it was a little daunting, but he's somebody I trust, so I guess this is the first test to see if the collaboration will work. I have high hopes, because when we were both playing so the other could hear, we sounded enough alike.

Remember when you were in school and you came back from Yulexmas Break and forgot your locker combination for a day or so, and then you went to classes without your books and felt like a doof but then FINALLY you remembered it? -- This whole week, I've felt like at last I remembered what the combination was, and hearing Todd's playing was the equivalent of spinning around to the third number and pulling and having the lock finally relent.

The last person I wrote with was Fake Andy, and all -he- did was crib a melody from an Erasure song.

Fingers crossed!

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I should have relayed this sooner:

John was in rare form when he got back from Chicago; He'd travelled light, with a carry-on and a briefcase. As he was packing, I had worried that the security was going to confiscate his razor, but he looked up from what he was doing and said "Oh please! It's a SAFETY RAZOR. What the fuck do they think I'm going to do with it? Break into the cockpit and dry-shave the pilot against the grain?!?"...

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So far, the month of September has repeatedly picked me up and shaken me like an Etch-A-Sketch.

Yesterday, it happened again -- yet another do-over in a little red frame with the horizontal knob and the vertical knob waiting for me to take them again and try to make yet another picture.

But it's fall now. A time of balance and rest.

I couldn't do the egg trick. Balance, my spotty fat ass.

If anybody else out there is as unbalanced as me? I weep for you, I really do.

And yet -- it's the kind of unbalanced that gets me through the worst of times. The -good- kind of crazy, that I'm positive at least one of you out there understands and appreciates.

Thank the gods.

Happy Autumn.

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