green august and a time for actual musings
i woke up delirious (after a mere 5 hours of sleep, sam had a late show and i had an early train) and wondered: why didn’t i begin this newsletter as it always meant to be? proper thoughts & opinions, in the substack style, something i could read out loud to a tiktok universe of darkness, something, i would, back in 2021, tweet about.
ideas are less daunting than business, on occasion.
ideas are less daunting than business, after 5 hours of sleep, it seems.
everything is on fire and everything will be okay. “everything is beautiful and nothing was hurt” so they say. i’m moving, packing, and changing everywhere i touch and everything is on fire and everything will be okay.
planning and executing a tour while moving my 1. home, 2. practice space, 3. office was not my smartest idea. i no longer subscribe to the mania that permits this sort of movement. i’m simply tired.
i wonder which device i should take on tour. a steamer? a nebulizer? do i need the saline solution? which cough drops are best? i didn’t know menthol dries you out. i should get a voice coach. should i invest in the expensive, but smaller keyboard? or should i just get an expensive case with wheels for my current one? i’m supposed to bid on it? where can i get my amp fixed? you said i have to get not just new tubes for the blues jr, but i have to get tubes for the pre amp? and i can’t screw them in myself? the tubes are biased? what does that even mean? should i set up my smaller pedal board to take less space? oh i forgot my battery is too big for that board. should i try anyway? i forgot to get my guitar set up. do i have to get my guitar set up? would it be the end of the world if i just changed strings two weeks before? i don’t have enough 11-gauge strings to bring on tour. i have to order new packs. can i send them to your house? i don’t have an address right now that doesn’t suffer from package theft. or i could just run to guitar center? on atlantic ave or 14th st? do you need anything? are you sure?
can i write am i stupid do i have new ideas am i repeating them can i think at all am i stuck am i stuck can i write do i have time to write do i have time to work through ideas that are new am i repeating them is it obvious is this chord obvious is this verb obvious can i think at all what am i trying to say what am i trying to say what am i trying to say?
the vegetation in north new jersey that line the amtrak rails are ridiculously green this time in the morning.
i’ve always been dramatic.
see you somewhere, northeast america <3
𝑭𝑼𝑳𝑳 𝑺𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻
8.28 - BROOKLYN, NY - baby’s all right
8.29 - MANHATTAN, NY [𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄] - the stoof
8.30 - PHILADELPHIA, PA - milkboy
8.31 - CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - durty nelly’s
9.1 - WASHINGTON, DC - the pocket
9.2 - RICHMOND, VA - the camel
9.4 - MONTCLAIR, NJ - meatlocker
9.5 - ASBURY PARK, NJ - wonderbar
9.6 - NEW HAVEN, CT - crunch house
9.7 - BOSTON, MA - the 4th wall