to have and to have not

well......so many thing seems to be changing so fast. i often find myself quoting an oso bear song not written by myself. "when i was 17 i thought i knew everything"......know we find...we are just find ourselves.....such is life. at 31....i often wonder.....in general....i wonder if ill ever be as certain about the way things are like my grandparents and great grandparents. i wonder if i will live to be 80 and have people around me to take care of me. sometimes i wish i lived in the 1940s....well at least i have the haircut.

i find myself hanging on to lyrics from bands that i wish were still around...."in this ocean im a bag of tea...i make some clouds...but theyre minor league" jawbreaker seems to make more and more sense. simpler times perhaps....perhaps not.


billy bragg......perhaps amazing....perhaps overrated

sometimes....with the changing of the proverbial guard....or changing of the girlfriends...or  the deterioration there of....i think back to my first true love....maybe that in itself is siko......but i always think about how it fell apart so fast......all the others were doomed to begin with..whether it was me...or the other......shit.......how many years has it been and i still think about it

i think about how bad music sucks...and how everyone generations before has done nothing but talk about how bad music sucks...and here i am talking about how new music sucks. i recently found myself inspired by two dudes from portland that stayed the night with us....these dudes were on a four month tour.....granted they were younger and perhaps life didnt seem to get in the way.......there is something romantically irresponsible about leaving everything for the road......something i wonder if ill ever have again myself.
kudos to those two dudes for doing it.

i have become more and more detached from lousville....my hometown.....and i often wonder if i even care. do Midwestern cities just have a certain blandness to them.....if cincinnati is a modest step up....then what do the big cities hold?....more people.....same scene.

i also wonder if i will ever not be so awesome. like....just a normal dude with a house...and kids....working 9 to five.....watching the biggest loser......attending graduations and......what not....... prolly not.

i feel like deep thoughts by jack handy.....seems much like the weather changes here from day to day.....so does your surroundings.