"Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time." -Trey Anastasio
"Impose rules to make life simpler. Break them to make life more fun." -Jon Fishman
Apparently bowling is the new black. Seems like a lot of my friends have been more interested in bowling in 2004. Of course, some people in the Blogging world (thinking of hesterman) never forgot about bowling, but I see a trend down here in Texas.
Saw Big Fish yesterday afternoon. I give it 2 thumbs up. It is less psychedelic than I expected, and more of a tear-jerker than I expected, but I liked it a lot.
The great beard experiement is going strong. I havent shaved since Dec 26th, and I thought that I would just keep it till last week, but the more it grows in, the more I like it. I also like very much that the beard seems to polarize people. Some people don’t like it at all- mostly stuffy corporate office type people- and they tell me so. But I don’t really like them, either. But the ones that do like it and comment on it- friends and acquaintances that are hippy indie hipster girls, are the ones that I want to get bonus points with anyway. So I am going to keep it for a little while longer. There is also talk of a really bad progressive shave-off, involving a Fu Manchu and a thin moustache, which of course will be documented here if and when it happens.
Bongo Juarez and I are in the planning stages of our next house party…right now the front runner idea is “Break your New Year’s resolutions party.” I'm thinking of a poster chart that people can sign to let everyone know what resolution they are breaking tonight, as well as a plate in the kitchen with cigarettes, condoms and bread- everything you need to break that resolution!