There Is No Lodging At The Gardenville Hotel

I wanted to say hello to the future. I hope that you are doing OK there. I don’t know where my belt is. I didn’t floss or shave. And I did not sleep. But after a nice morning of music and lunch with JB Kline and Luanne, I feel much more human.  Mr. Kline has …

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 6/20 Lawrence, Massachusetts  Abandoned Friendly’s + palatial Dunkin Donuts Front desk guy high as shit Sang Lawrence (NJ) Toyota theme song Never heard Boston accent Body wash smells like Fruity Pebbles 6/21 Ogunquit to Rockland First lobster roll of trip, served with lobster ale while beachside with new wife Wife with PhD cannot figure out …

Waffles, Boyfriends

June 8. Wedding in ten days. Walked five miles up the canal to my [current] favorite café. Feet hurting, so I’m taking an extended break. Catching up with Laura in Carrboro and Nick in Newtown. Asking Andy Keenan if he wants to record sad songs in my studio. I probably already asked him that. If …

We Like The Way You Make Us Dream

“Excuse me, sir. Do you know anything about where you are?” I collide with some stumbly, spirited women on the towpath. I point them toward downtown. These hills get spooky. The mansion on the hill’s not the one that I remember from before. It’s the only thing I can see other than the waves illuminated …

New Hope/The Old Magic

June 7. Wedding in eleven days. Walked two miles down the canal. Moseyed down the hill into New Hope and got a mysterious blue drink from a handsome young man who was playing Kurt Vile on his sound system. Two different bars are directly in front of me. To the right is the bar where …

I’ve got to take a chance

June 6. Wedding in twelve days. Out back eating buttered bread, drinking seltzer, killing nymph spotted lanternflies with a wooden coaster which depicts sassy frogs getting ready for a night out on the town. Guy walking by playing harmonica slowly and sweetly. Got dress shoes and a wedding ring in the mail yesterday. Not used …

this is my wedding gift to you

I'm sitting on a bench in the forest, facing the reservoir. An old woman appears. She asks me, "are you an angel?" I say I do not know. She asks me if I serve God. I told her I am an artist. She asked what I draw. I said songs. She asked me to sing …

Trains At Night

On the back porch with three citronella candles, a cream-colored hoodie, and a full moon. There is a chocolate almond croissant and red wine is about 37% likely to happen. We don’t know if there are more trains at night or it just seems that way because the rest of the town quiets down. It’s …

Four Songs Away From Greatness

I’ve been hanging out with those red-eyed cicadas lately. I live near Princeton University, so I go into town to grab a coffee and read a book in one of about a hundred perfect reading spots. Park for free at the municipal lot. Don’t give that town any more money! There’s even a set of …

the unknown DJ

there was an AM radio station that i found while i was walking home along the Delaware. after work, i'd go on the roof with my radio in the middle of the night and listen while i stared at the sky, watching it slowly morph, obscured just a little bit by the many giant pine …