The new guitar, a bandaid, and some crazy guy trying to back over me in the Regions Bank Parking Lot...

"Our love is dead but without limit, like the surface of the moon..."

Rough times this week don't you think Lindsey?

Anyway, I don't have much to say...school needs to get over and quick. I'm tired of it. Summer will embrace me with it's humid muggy forearms...



Brandon Mader plays the bass...Andrew Douglas can be heard somewhere in the distance crying because the sound is so beautiful...

And this guy in a Grand Vitara tried to back over me in the Regions Bank Parking lot...all I was doing was trying to sit on the curb and enjoy my coca-cola...shit. Can't catch a brake...get it?

heh...

I wrote this after my workout this morning.

There's a figure in your doorway
And you can't see the light
He sees your hiding places
And where you go at night
These restless dreams
Let you know your life isn't right
I don't know how you can resist it
Only God knows why you fight

The chemicals are calling you
And the rain's come out to play
All the heart of yesteryear
Has left you here today
With a trembling hand I write a poem
But can't think what to say
There is no love for you here
You'd best be on your way

The Big Gay Star of Pennsylvania

So I recently took a trip up to PA with my friend Lindsey. The idea was to drive her up there so she could spend Easter with her family. So we did. We drove from Scottsboro, AL all the way to York, PA. After going to bed at 12:30 and getting up at 4:30 we drove 11 hours in the car...together. I was a little more than tired when we got there, but there was no rest for either of us just yet. Her parents took us out to this really great little Irish pub called the "Harp and Fiddle." It was authentic, right down to the guys in kilts playing bagpipes. I had a Jamesson Irish Whiskey and it was pretty damn good. I also had the "DUB-Lie-Nar Burgar" (that's how I sounded to everyone up there). Afterward we went back to her parents' house and I played guitar while Lindsey and her sisters watched.

The next morning I awoke to Lindsey and two of the dogs jumping on me. I'm not really used to animals being in the house so I was a little weirded out by the animals in the bed with me...and let me tell you, Lindsey is quite an animal. So Lindsey keeps on with whatever she does to wake me up...usually just hissing and cussing at me, every now and then a shake or something. And we get up and take the dogs on a walk in the state park. It was pretty chilly that morning. After the walk we came back to her house and her dad brought out this enormous plate of breakfast for us. Scrambled eggs, bagles, English sausage, toast...it was just this enormous plate of food. After breakfast Lindsey kept yelling at her little sister to get in the shower so that we could take showers(for some reason Lindsey thought her sister had to go first), but she never would get in. So it wound up that Lindsey pushed me into the shower and started berating me for being so slow. Then we went with Alison and her boyfriend Chris to their new house they've just gotten. We checked it out. Seemed okay. So then we went back to their townhouse that they have now and I was blown away at what a great little apartment it was. Alison and Lindsey put the turkey (for the big lunch the next day) into the oven, and soon afterward we left for the mall to buy Easter cards. I got a shirt at the Gap to wear for church the next morning. The deal was I'd buy it if Lindsey would iron it (probably one of the only times she's ever come through on anything). So we returned to her parents house after the mall for a little while and then we went back to Alison and Chris's to check the turkey. We played pool and drank rum for a little while (we also had macaroni and cheese...I also tried broccoli but after a few moments of chewing my gag reflex began and my eyes watered up so I spat it out). Soon we went back to her parents' house and clowned around for a little while. Then her mother asked me to play the guitar. While playing, Lindsey brought me some Scotch Whisky...pretty good. I was a little drunk but I think I played okay.

On Sunday Lindsey woke me up in the usual way and we got ready and went to church. Church didn't last long and I wasn't particularly impressed with it. No one sang very well there and those that did sang like they didn't care about singing. And the sermon was the usual. After church we went back to the house and then people (all of Chris's family) began to arrive for Easter Lunch. It was a fabulous feast that was prepared. I mean her mom went all out. It was impressive. A few drinks later, Lindsey asked me to play again (at this point I'm beginning to feel like a novelty)...but I did it anyway because I like to play. Anyway, then everyone left and lindsey took a nap. I stayed up and had a conversation with her parents about various things. And around 6pm Eastern we packed up and drove back to Scottsboro...didn't get there till 4:30am central time.

Fun trip though, I don't understand why all the houses have these big gay stars on them. Every where you go there's a big gay star on the side of a house or something. The big gay star of PA....