Finished the Geoff Emerick book last week and I'm well into my yearly Beatles kick. I found the mono mixes of Sgt. Pepper on YouTube (including Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane) and they sound incredible. Having been deprived of the mono versions of these Beatles records most of my life leads me to the conclusion that I've been cheated. At a bit of a loss over what to read next because I could easily devour 15 more books on the Beatles, but I don't want to do that. Instead, I've moved onto Christopher Hitchens' short-ish bio on Thomas Jefferson before I plan my next move. I still have a stack of books on my desk that I really need to get through by the end of the year. Or else I'll have to finish them next year.

Finally got a haircut on Friday. It's been a wild year and a half. It's just too goddamn hot for long hair.

Jen and I finished up an interview yesterday with the folks at Serve The Song. I enjoyed it, because from the questions they were asking you could tell they did their homework on us. I like answering interesting questions. They'll probably post it on their site sometime in the next week or two.

In the meantime, we're gearing up for the two festival shows this week (Albany and Provincetown). Albany's going to be an outdoor thing— we haven't done many of those and it's exciting because it'll give me an excuse to wear sunglasses without feeling like a douchebag. Let's hope it doesn't rain, eh?

Anyone else getting into the 40th anniversary of the moon landing? As a kid, I used to watch a lot of shit about space and I love it. I've been looking up videos and things all weekend on the moon. Most notably, the Mythbusters episode debunking the conspiracy theories is money (it's all up on YouTube if you search for it). Just makes me wonder why the hell we stopped going after six successful attempts.

Anyhow, it's simultaneously made me realize how kickass the Earth is and that most of our leaders these days are jellyfish. Honestly, it's kinda hard to believe that taking care of our own and keeping the planet clean is so hard to pull off when 40 years ago we sent three guys in a tin can to the fucking moon using computers that had 0.1% of the processing power and 0.00005% of the memory of what I'm using to write this.

Maybe that's why we need to dive into the space game again... perspective.

Henry

Currently listening to:
Déjà Vu
by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young