“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ “
God Bless You Mr Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut – 1922 to 2007 RIP
If through my cracked and dusty dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?
Lay your blouse across the chair, let fall the flowers from your hair,
and kiss me with that country mouth so plain
Empty – Ray Lamontagne (2007)
Turns out that Ray Lamontagne is coming to the Uk for another tour – Friday morning at 9am the tickets go on sale, I’ll be clicking my mouse in the direction of the Royal Albert Hall.
So, here I am in Germany – fairly uneventful week in the US, followed by the fun and games of a flight from Seattle to London and then a connection across to Dusseldorf. I’m pretty lucky with business travel, and then yesterday it all happened. Firstly when I got off the plane at Dusseldorf my cellphone wasn’t working – there is a line across the screen and I can’t read anything – it still receives calls, but I can’t see who from and i can’t dial out. Then, my bag didn’t arrive…I was standing at the belt when I heard my name paged. Turned out my bag was on the next flight, and after some wrestling with german customs (who didn’t like my new CD’s or the software I bought in Seattle) I finally got the bag delivered to my hotel last night at around 11pm. And finally, my Avis booking hadn’t arrived in Dusseldorf, so I had to wait ages to rent a car, and when I finally did – I got a Mercedes A-Class, which is a shocking excuse for a car.
All of that – before jetlag induced sleep and a lazy bank holiday here in Munster. I figure thats my ‘three’ for the travel problems…live should be much easier now!
New mix – next weekend…looking forward to mixing some new tunes!
First, a week in Dublin on some heavy duty training course – then, a week in Seattle at some more interesting and exciting things – some meetings, some fun with my team – the two events punctuated by a horrible weekend of coughing, spluttering and sniffing at home with a chest/throat infection, lurgy kind of event. Feeling much better now, despite the 10 hour trip. Hope you are feeling the mix tape…
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