Thursday, February 7, 2008

Born into brothels

Magic, I love magic (i dont mean the card game) a couple years ago we were driving through west virginia, going... some where else... and we went into this long long tunnel that went through one of the adriondacks (I belive) we were playing the game to see who could hold there breath the longest, I lost, miserably, but it was a good thing, because as we came out of that tunnel, what I saw took my breath away. We had been driving all night, and it was about 6:30 in the morning the sun was just coming over the hills, it was november so it was cold, we came out of the tunnel onto a tall tall bridge, must have been 60 feet high, at the bottom was this sleepy little town, next to this sleepy little river that was sending a massive amount of not so sleepy steam into the air... it was unlike anything I have ever seen, it was magic.
Sometimes, when we were driving through another small town,in Arkasas or Ohio or some other place, I would think back to the small little town in the mountains, I would walk down the streets, look into the little store fronts, I would grab breakfast at the local diner where everyone knew your name. I wanted that life, a small town, a quiet get away, the same people everyday. At this point I had been on tour for 5 months, I was so sick and tired of the grind, of the road, of the faces that I didnt know, and never would know, I met so many wonderful people on that tour, but for the life of me I cant remember most of them, I think I was just to full.... to full of moments... of memories... of places... and I had not had time to digest everything that I had experienced... I wanted to sit in that diner... and think, over a big plate of scrambled eggs...

I leave for a three day weekend camp that I am playing music at, I am really excited, three nights of concerts at a sleepy little mountain lodge in oregon, they are supposed to have at least 7-10 FEET of snow, the only thing I have to do is play music for an hour each night... the rest of the time... nothing... I really cant wait to sit on the deck of the lodge with my guitar and take it all in... maybe I will finally have time to digest everything that has been going on around me... this is going to be a good weekend, its going to be magic!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

nice jon.
glad you watched the documentary.

-melinda