Whatever

I've been obsessed with making brilliant mix c.d.s lately. I've had a lot more free time on my hands over the past week. I got dumped last Sunday morning. It's turned out to be a great thing. This last week has been very productive and fun. I haven't had weeks like that in a while. But it still kind of sucks knowing that there is a person out there you used to sleep with who you don't want to even see around because they suck.

California Stars from the Billy Bragg & Wilco album Mermaid Avenue, the collection of Woody Guthrie songs that were never written, should play at my funeral someday. And wedding, if that ever happens.

I miss being in bars with Kevin in Iowa City and spending an hour plus at the jukebox picking out music to drink to.

It's Yom Kippur. I'm fasting. Only 8 hours to go. I'm starving. I think I'll make it. I've never done the fast thing before. I'll probably end up spending a lot of time on my porch since it's apparently beautiful out.

Tentative track list:

My Slumbering Heart - Rilo Kiley
California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Stars in My Beard - T. Rex
Lysergic Bliss - Of Montreal
The Nurse Who Loved Me - Failure
Oh, Me - Nirvana
This Hand - Six Organs of Admittance
Winter's Love - Animal Collective
Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I'm a Nut) - Tiny Tim
Doin' the Cockroach - Modest Mouse
A Winter's Truce - Micah Blue Smaldone
Westfall - Okkervil River
Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
I'm So Tired - Fugazi
Spell for a Sweeter Past - Evan Miller
See The Light - Brooks Strause
The Masterplan - Oasis

I'm working on a script for a television show. Started out helping Sid and his friend Danny with writing theirs as they wanted me and Cahak to be characters. Through the gossip vine I've heard that our comedy is too dark for Sid's liking. Which is fine. I thought it was too funny for his show. So I started working on this opening scene for a show about two cynics in a world of optimists, a premise that Cahak came up with when we were at Davanni's the other night. I showed it to him. Apparently, it's too political or something. Whatever, it slays. I'm going to keep writing.