I Love You, Zoooma!

Hey Zoooma, I love you!!! You are the best boyfriend ever.

Lesh Philling, Bass Grate

Grateful Dead - June 18, 1974
Freedom Hall - Louisville, Kentucky

1st Set: The Promised Land, It Must Have Been The Roses,
Black-Throated Wind, Ramble On Rose, Beat It On Down The Line,
Loser, Mexicali Blues, Eyes Of The World-» China Doll,
Around And Around

Set 2: Loose Lucy, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite-»
Let It Grow-» The Other One-» Space-» Jam-» It's A Sin Jam-»
Stella Blue, Big River, Tennessee Jed, Sugar Magnolia

Encore: Morning Dew

Hey now it's me, Smag. I have listened to this show a couple of times over the last couple of days, it's really good. One thing that really stood out for me in just about every song in this particular recording is just how well you can hear Phil, and he sounds great! It's not too much Phil (as in all you can hear is Phil) but you can really hear him and he sounds really good.

In the first set the sound was a little wonky in the first few songs, especially during Promised Land, where you can hardly hear Bob singing at times. The sound was much better by the end of the song but it took awhile before everything was just exactly perfect. It Must Have Been the Roses was nice but what I loved was Black Throated Wind. Such a great song! The sound was still a little wonky but at least you could hear Bob and he was great. Listening to Ramble On Rose again I am reminded what it is I love about this band. When I see Ramble On Rose in a set list I don't usually get too excited about it but this is a good one. I was hanging out with Zoooma the first time I heard this show, and when they started BIODTL on two beats, we both laughed. A show like this is even more fun when it's shared and the person you're listening with understands why that's funny. BIODTL, Loser, Mexicali were good (especially Mexicali, I love Bobby cowboy tunes), but my favorite part of this first set is Eyes of the World. As I was listening to Eyes I thought I heard a few Slipknot rifs in there, when we were talking about it Zoooma pointed out that this show was the year before Blues For Allah, so I guess the songs on that album had to come from somewhere. Anyway, what a great Eyes!

I love the Loose Lucy on this night, especially Phil! After that the band blazed through El Paso with so much energy, such a good El Paso! Weather Report Suite was really good, I was a little distracted the first time I listened to it, but listening to it again, wow! WRS flowed seamlessly into Other One with some nice crunchy notes from Phil. Phil didn't exactly drop the bomb the way he sometimes does, but the intro was still there. Near the end of Other One is a cool spacey jam that comes together in what sounds like a different song before It's A Sin, it sounds like Other One, Space, Cool Unidentifiable Jam =>>It's A Sin==>Stella Blue. Ah. Beautiful!

A couple of cowboy tunes stuck in there, well played, but then Sugar Mag! Some (cough cough) would say that Donna ruins it but I think she's ok and well, sometimes she ruins songs way more than that. Sometimes she sounds really good, so, whatever :). The Morning Dew encore may be the best part, Jerry's guitar playing in the end blows me away every time I hear it. I guess it doesn't matter, anyway!

A review, transcribed from: DeadBase IX [out of print] by JOHN W. SCOTT This show is another important addition to any tape collection as it includes one of the Dead's finest improvisations. There are other convincing reasons to own this tape. The first set features a showcase version of Eyes of The World, an impressive feat during a year where excellent versions were all too common. The Weather Report Suite in the second set is equally impressive, including one of the finest renditions of Let It Grow. In spite of the excellent songs that preceeded, a two-part jam is easily the most interesting passage of the evening. After the first verse, a short Other One dissolves into Space with vague hints of Blues For Allah improvisations of the year to come. As this Space matures the Bill conspires with Keith and a jam is born. Keith starts off with a great jazz flavor, Garcia picks up on the theme, and soon the whole band is bopping together. A quick, but painless, metamorphosis yields the slow blues jam of It's A Sin. Beautiful and inspired, its only sin is to be so short. These two themes are distinct distillations of two major influences on their music, providing impressive displays of jamming in its rawest form. The Morning Dew encore is wonderful. Phil introduces it with thunderous notes, and yet manages a beautifully tender touch for the quiter passages. He is able to move between these two modes frequently and effortlessly throughout the song.

Zoooma here...

It had been over five and a half years since the Dead previously played a show in the Kentucky (12-7-68 Bellarmine College) and I suspect it was finally time to come back in order to get some Venusian Spy to reveal him or herself. (Stage Banter, I don't know, ask Bobby!)

Anyway, twas time to graduate from the small college scene and play in the larger Freedom Hall located out at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Used also for other events, this arena is where the University of Louisville Cardinals' basketball team plays their home games. Judging by some Phil sarcasm after Promised Land, they perhaps could have played Bellarmine again or some other smaller venue in town: "Well, we're sure glad y'all could make it here tonight, all hundred thousand of ya." Sounds like Freedom Hall had some room for a whole lot of freedom of movement without bumpin' into your neighbors too much. And if memory serves me correctly, there was a similar occurrence four years later in the college basketball arena in Lexington, Kentucky when the place, well, wasn't quite full. I guess it took awhile for the GD to catch on in the Bluegrass State.

The sound here is yuckily muddy for the first minute and forty-five, and some other mix problems persist through the first few songs, but stick with it 'cause it's just momentary and I think by the time BT Wind is through, it clears up nicely and becomes nearly Dicks Pick's quality for the rest of the show.

Sugarmag named this post appropriately: Phil is so prominent in the mix. Mannn. You love Lesh? This is a grate show for ya! And not just lots of grate Phil but great versions of every song. Loser is a standout for me in the first set and of course Eyes-> China Doll. Mmmm!!! Unfortunately, the quality lessens for a little while (a dropout or maybe a patch from a slightly inferior source) but it's not for too long. For the most part this is just another splendid rendition to carry you away. Donna's subtle background vocals add such a beautiful touch while Jerry, Phil and Keith each play perfectly. I love the short passages of King Solomon's Marbles in these early years Eyes and the roll into China Doll, while not the smoothest here, is nice and what a pleasant China Doll it is. Around and Around is blistering by the end and is such a great way to cap off the first set.

Coming back from Halftime, Lucy is a little sloppy thus maybe a little too rigid, but some nice Jerry & Phil throughout. The energy is definitely UP in the following El Paso. Like Around and Around, it starts out normal enough but Holy smokin' hot Texas barbeque, Sam Houston!

WRS/Let It Grow is just as picture perfect as you'd want the most perfect picture to be. The playing out of it is simply outstanding. When I was first listening, as Let It Grow finally gave way to the Jam before Other One, I looked at Sugarmag and just went, "Wow." She nodded and simply replied, "Yeah." Why try using more words than that?!

It is too bad the It's A Sin Jam is so brief but everything around it is so nice with just this little short blues jam wedged in. As the band shifted gears from classic Dead jamming to the blues, I remember being like, "Mmmm, wow, that's so cool." And it is. Stella Blue is wonderful before Big River and Tennessee Jed are, in my opinion, awkwardly stuffed in there before the closing song. On the plus side that means a nice amount of extra Phil! I find when the band is all out jamming he's heard slightly less than on songs like TN Jed which almost seems like one big Phil Fest. That continues right on through the rockin' Sugar Mag to close the second set. Some (cough cough) would say Donna doesn't ruin the song in the end but if you thinks he sounds good than ok, whatever. She does sound good sometimes but that wailing and yelping of hers... oi. In any case, it's still a great end to a great show and the Dew encore is just Dewlicious! Again, and Whew, especially at the end, why even try to describe it? Just Press Play and Dig It!

6-18-74 a.k.a. 06-18-74 a.k.a. 6/18/74 a.k.a. 06/18/74 a.k.a. 74-06-18

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Rainy River City

Hey. What's up?
I think we'll have 2 or 3 shows posted in the next 5 days...
so Hang Loose...



...in the meantime, here's a shot of Louisville, Kentucky
from Jeffersonville, Indiana, across the Ohio River.



January 10, 2009 . . . rainy
(click to see bigger if ya want)

Unfortunately, I don't have a shot of Robert Plant's tea... but I saw some! Well, it wasn't his his but it was tea that was purchased specifically per his request for his stay where I was... but I forgot to grab a few bags to bring home. Oh well.

A most exciting post, eh? Yeah... I thought so, too!

The Show With the Playin' In the Band That Makes Me Blush

100 Days of the Dead Day 22

31 Years Ago Tonight...

Grateful Dead ~ October 14, 1977
Hofheinz Pavilion ~ University of Houston
Houston, Texas

1st Set: Jack Straw, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo->
El Paso, Brown-Eyed Women, Minglewood Blues, Loser,
Passenger, Friend Of The Devil, Me & My Uncle,
Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped

2nd Set: Bertha-> Good Lovin', Candyman, Playing In The Band->
Drums-> The Wheel-> Wharf Rat-> Around And Around

Encore: Brokedown Palace-> Playing In The Band

Hey now it's me Sugarmag and I wanted to tell you about this here show. Something that you may have figured about me by now is that I am not the most critical of listeners and you already know that I'm going to tell you it's good. Well, bite me! It's a good show! Listen to it and it'll make ya' feel good! This show is special to me for personal reasons that I can't tell you about. Well I could tell you, but than I'd have to shoot you;). I can't listen to Playing In the Band without blushing. Anyway...

This show starts out with Bob saying, "We're trying to get everything just exactly perfect" and that always makes me smile. I wonder if it says in a Deadbase somewhere how many times Bobby said that? Jack Straw makes me want to dance, they played it a gazillion times (actually I think it was like 430) but it always makes me think of summer and Deer Creek. Half Step is nice, Jerry's guitar is awesome but it always is (unless you can't hear it). Donna sounds good singing on this song, really she sounds good on this whole show. Friend of mine can't stand Donna and she won't listen to any shows with Donna, but sometimes, like on this night, she sounds good. El Paso is one of my favorite cowboy tunes and this is a good one. Brown Eyed Women is good too and Jerry's guitar playing is beautiful. I really dig Passenger it rocks! It has such great energy and Donna sounds good. In fact I'm realizing that Donna sounded good more of the time than she sounded bad. This is just a good night, every song is good and I am running out of time and verbage to do it justice. I can't end my comments without telling you how much I liked Wharf Rat. The truth is that sometimes I am a little bored with Wharf Rat but they played a grate one this night, it has a long beautiful jam, it is just exactly perfect. Check it out, it'll make you smile.

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I Have Seen Where the Wolf Has Slept By the Silver Stream...

Hey now it's me, Sugarmag. Today is a sad day because Zoooma's dog Cassidy died today. Our dogs bring us so much happiness but they don't live long enough, and it is such a painful loss when they are no longer with us. My heart goes out to you, Zoooma.

I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream.
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream.
Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas.


What are you, what are you meant to be?
Speaks his name for you were born to me,
Born to me, Cassidy.

Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac.
I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back.
Come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched ground green.

Blow the horn, tap the tambourine.
Close the gap on the dark years in between.
You and me, Cassidy.

Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart,
There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry.

Flight of the seabirds,
Scattered like lost words,
Wheel to the storm and fly.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by its own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.
Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by its own design.
Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, I'm done with mine.

Everything will be okay

Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams
to another land
Maybe you're tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted
with words half spoken
and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do
to do for you to see you through
A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through

-Robert Hunter-

"Box of Rain"
Grateful Dead, March 24, 1986
The Spectrum, PHILadelphia, Pennsylvania
(doesn't start until about 1:25 ... wait for it!)

Jerry Garcia Phil Lesh Bob Weir 3-24-86 3/24/86 86-03-24

Here Comes Sunshine!!!!

Alright, it's time to get back to normal 'round here!

This darkness got to give?

Yup, it did got to... it did... and now it's gone!

Here comes sunshine!!!!!

This afternoon marks the beginning of a new day, a new life in a way, so much pure goodness and pure love! I've still got to process it all!

It's been a ride that's been up, down, and all around... but I wouldn't trade a second of it for anything!!

I love you, Amy!!!!

6:35 p.m ... hot, so hot, better than the bright, sunny afternoon, but still about 84° here in the SC Lowcountry

Thursday Evening Run: 14 minutes 10 sec

+ ???

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5 runs in July: total time about: 1 hour 21m June: 1 hour 47 minutes May: 4 hours 46 minutes

I had another unblogged about run a few days ago. That evening I set out for a hike/walk (more of a walk since it's flat and not challenging) but I had the urge to run and I did. Since I had no run-specific playlist, after I got back I figured out I ran about 13 and a half minutes, give or take some.

This evening I had run in mind, had a playlist set, had frozen water with me, and I floated... mostly. I didn't need the music what with my mind running on its own over everything that's transpired lately... and I made through my time without much of a problem, really. At the end I was just about deceased and almost wondering if my heart would stop from over activity in such heat. No worries, though.

Within a couple minutes and a few sips o' cold water, all was good again with my body and my breathing. I was on my way back and really life just about couldn't be better today!!!!

I'm not sure I can reach the (pseudo-)goal I set for running in July but so long as I keep running, I'll be happy with that. When that new month gets here... no... I'm not gonna wait until the new month to set a new goal, I'll set one starting with my next run! Like with New Year's resolutions -- why wait?!? If it's so important, why wait until that point in time to begin?

Anyway... a damn fine run! Hot but accomplished and with so much happiness carrying me along, really it just couldn't have been better! Well... if it was about 50 or 60 degrees... even 70! But otherwise -- i just got no more words!!!!

Running tunes...
	Shelby Lynne Identity Crisis 2003

Telephone
10 Rocks
If I Were Smart
Gotta Be Better
I Don't Think So
I'm Alive
I Will Stay
Lonesome
Evil Man
Buttons and Beaus
Baby
One with the Sun

This album is the first time that I've ever heard Shelby Lynn and what a great bunch of tunes! Several are quite sad and not for the broken-hearted! First time I heard these a few days ago, they weren't so easy to hear. All's different now and it's all good!

One thing about this -- it's country music? Not quite radio-friendly country music, that's for sure! Apparently this wasn't very commercially successful and that's actually what makes me like it even more. Plus there's the fact that Shelby Lynne's got such a great voice and her lyrics, they ain't fluff, not by any means.

Check out the review from www.allmusic.com: In giving Shelby Lynne's Identity Crisis even a cursory listen one has to ask the question as to whether the titles of Love, Shelby and this one were reversed by accident. While Love, Shelby, produced by Glen Ballard, was a schizoid mess of R&B, rock, and whatever, Identity Crisis is a deeply focused yet wildly adventurous look at American roots and popular musics as processed by Lynne, who is in top songwriting, vocal, and production shape here. Acting as her own producer with help from mixing engineer Bruce Robb, Lynne has penned 12 tough songs that showcase her true gift for lyricism and melody and display the real reach of her vocal prowess on a series of rootsy, souled-out -- sometimes psychedelic -- rockers and pop tunes. The sheer rock & roll abandon of "Gotta Get Better" could have been recorded by Beck, whereas the shimmering, down-tempo folkiness of "I Don't Think So," with gorgeous Fender Rhodes touches by Billy Payne of Little Feat, is harrowing in its heartbroken candor and seductive with its sultry melody that crosses Dusty Springfield with Scott Walker. Elsewhere, such as on the loopy, funky B-3-drenched "I'm Alive," Sheryl Crow's dark side meets the razor-sharp lyric sensibilities of John Mellencamp's Scarecrow-era material. But then, on "Lonesome," the classic countrypolitan-style honky tonk of Owen Bradley with Patsy Cline, or Chet Atkins with Connie Smith comes flowing through like honey in a sieve. The easy bluesy swing -- à la Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith -- on "Buttons and Beaus" is a something Bonnie Raitt might have recorded in the early '70s, if she had a razor's-edge delivery and skewed sense of humor. The tough, acoustic Chicago blues colored by a B-3 makes a standout of "Evil Man." The Tin Pan Alley-meets-Donovan touch on "One With the Sun" makes it the perfect closer, a loopy love song with clever lyrics, pastoral, romantic strings, and a melody that comes from timeless American pop music. Suffice to say, that while Lynne's career has produced many fine recordings -- I Am Shelby Lynne from 2000 being a recent case in point -- Identity Crisis is easily the most consistent record she had released since Tough All Over in 1990, and is without a doubt the most moving, ambitious, and elegant album of her career thus far. She sets a new standard for singers and songwriters with this collection, making it a candidate for any serious Top Ten of 2003. There is no identity crisis here, just the indelible mark of a mature, intense, always engaging artist.

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Souris de matin

Doing that book meme a couple of days ago... wait, wait... I need to say hi to anyone and everyone checking in here. Hi.

Anyway... at the end of that book list meme dealie I remembered a cartoon that I've probably seen dozens of times but not in many, many years. When it comes to cartoons of the short subject variety -- 5 to 8 minutes or so vs. like The Simpsons -- I'll always completely, totally, absolutely prefer any Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies short from Warner Brothers. But growing up there was always Tom and Jerry, too. Today it might be to a lesser degree but I think I still like those... they're fun to watch! SO... to go a long with the occasional LT-MM cartoon, I thought maybe every now and then I'll check out some of these, as well...

Released: March 15, 1952
Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Won: Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoon

"The Two Mouseketeers"

Sugarmag said... I love you, Zoooma. July 17, 2008 3:30 PM Zooomabooma said... I love you, Sugarmag! July 17, 2008 3:36 PM

Through The Hell... Some Tunes...

*** ORIGINAL ***

Today has been gloomy so far -- another sad, gloomy day. It hasn't been as bad as yesterday but that doesn't mean I'm close to being back to normal. Haaa! Yeah right! So often, and I may have typed this after my run last night, I'm shaking my head and wondering why this is happening. It's not right.

It all just doesn't seem real and it doesn't make sense. We must accept but sometimes we can't agree with a decision made by someone we love. It's so much more difficult and perplexing when that decision goes against so much that was said and against everything that was talked about concerning the future. In time, things were going to be okay... together.
They still can be!

~

Taking the new path is not throwing away the past. The past is still part of a person and hopefully a wonderful part! But when it's time for a change, and that person has taken steps towards that change including falling in love with someone who is so wonderful for them, someone they so very much want to be with, someone who makes them feel soooooooo good inside, why decide to turn 180 degrees around and go right back to the same old prison? When what's better is in the distance, why decide on going back to the past?

It's right to accept that decision...
but it doesn't mean it's the right decision.

I think the right decision is to not hurt the one who has the most to lose in the end, the very same person who has the most love to give.

Isn't it better to move forward with that person and hold on to them for dear life? If hurting that person isn't just hurting them but also destroying them and leaving them with nothing, why would someone do that? Why, especially after saying that's something you would never do?

Through all the wondering if any of this hell will ever change for the better, and through knowing this is also hurting my dear friend, I've got a list of things to accomplish in the next week. This is not easy but I ran last night so one down. (The list didn't say to keep running regularly... but if that technicality was reversed after the fact, I'd appreciate it and would look forward to putting forth the effort. Otherwise I just don't have the will.)

Post a -- I'm assuming a Dead or related -- show is also on that list. Unfortunately there is just no way I can possibly enjoy music yet... so this (below) doesn't count and posting a show is something I'll still have to work on.

I thought I'd try to post some tunes anyway, something that some people might enjoy listening to. I've heard this before and I wasn't sure but yup, I've still got it... so here's a show for the taking if anyone's interested....

Today has been gloomy.

But through the gloom I've got a list of things to accomplish in the next week. I ran last night so one down.

Post a -- I'm assuming a Dead or related -- show is also on that list. Unfortunately there is just no way I can possibly enjoy music yet... so this (below) doesn't count and posting a show is something I'll still have to work on.

I thought I'd try to post some tunes anyway, something that some people might enjoy listening to. I've heard this before and I wasn't sure but yup, I've still got it... so here's a show for the taking if anyone's interested....

Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart & Friends

February 4, 2008 Warfield Theater San Francisco

also on drums: John Molo
guitar, keyboards and vocals: Jackie Greene
keyboards and vocals: Steve Molitz

1st Set: Playing in the Band*-» Brown-Eyed Women†,
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo†-»
New Minglewood Blues*, Come Together*

Acoustic Set: Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Deal, Ripple

Electric Set 2: China Cat Sunflower*†-» The Wheel*†-»
The Other One*-» Sugaree*, Eyes Of The World*†-»
Throwing Stones*-» Iko Iko*†-» Playin' Reprise*†

Encore: U.S. Blues*†%

* with Mark Karan on guitar
† with Barry Sless on pedal steel guitar
% with Hippie Bill

Recorded by: Ian Stone
Source: Schoeps mk41> kc5> cmc6> lunatec v2> sound devices 722 @24/48
at taper's section, right of center.

Back in February I pulled this off of
the now temporarily defunct Sugarmegs.org.

Fortunately, for anyone who wants to hear the show,
I didn't delete it after I listened to it.

Unfortunately, the whole show is one long .wma file
...but it's still very listenable.

2/4/08 - Deadheads For Obama

No review from me.
Feel free to write your own in the comments.
Or not. Whatever.

Read a Pretty Good Review by Blair Jackson
and See More Pics at Dead.net

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Deadheads for Obama, Barack Obama, Dead Heads for Obama
2-04-08 a.k.a. 2-4-08 a.k.a. 2/04/08 a.k.a. 2/4/98 a.k.a. 08-02-04 320 kbps mp3 download & setlist

I wish it was all just an illusion

Okay, everything's all better!

Haa, not exactly. I don't know why I said that... not even close actually.

Whaddya expect? It's only Day 2.

I really don't know about things working out for the better this time... but... ya know... I dunno... maybe they will... I just have no freakin' clue right now. Unfortunately, sadly, I truly have no reason in the entire world universe to think that anything will be better, for anyone. That hurts so damn much.

All I can do is try to move on a day at a time. I'm not suicidal otherwise See Ya, I'd already have been history. That would be a quick, painless death whereas this isn't going away anytime soon. I'd need to get my will in place first... that's a lot of money -- in 7 years when the money can be released from the trust -- and since I don't see myself needing or caring about a cent of that (which could change but I don't see that happening) it then needs to be used for something very worthwhile... like college educations for a couple of wonderful kids. Once the will was done... then See Ya. But that (the See Ya part) is not gonna happen. No worries there (for anyone worried... but too bad, eh, for anyone who would have wanted that?! Sorry.)

So what does all this mean then?

Continuing Pain.
Fine. Whatever.
Nothing new to me.
Still it hurts -- like pure hell sometimes.
No desire to eat, can barely sleep.
There are moments when it's just all too much,
and I feel again like it just makes no sense,
that's it just not right, not right at all.
So often I have to stop and shake my head
because it just doesn't seem real.

All of this was so unexpected,
so unbelievably out of the blue...
this was not part of the future. It just wasn't...

but I'm really trying to get a grasp on it all.

I am.

It's something that I'm still working on trying to process and absorb... and that's not gonna be done in just a few days. This ain't no paper cut.

Still I pray for a miracle...
but it's not something I can ever expect.

I also pray for healing, not just for me but especially for my friend who is also hurting from this. I care about her so much, so very much ... and I miss her so much, too.

I've just got a lot to work on.

But while dealing with all this...
I've got a list of things to do in the next week.
One had to be done today.

Music that really means something to me, I'm not ready for. Some lesser music and a run, I thought that one I could get done today and... I got it done.

So, from the list: 1 down, 2 to go... or is it 3 to go?

after t-storms, only 74° @ 7:50 p.m ... but 100% humidity. not hot but still kinda unpleasant in the SC Lowcountry.

Thursday Night Run: 13 minutes 28 sec

not applicable today

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Run #3 in July: total time - about 54:15 June: 1 hour 47 minutes May: 4 hours 46 minutes

After my first run this month, a week ago, I believe,
I said that running in June got shot to shit.

Well, look what date it is and this is only my 3rd run. I made of a goal of 15 runs this month... that's gonna be difficult so it looks like July, already, got shot to shit, too.

There was a lot going on.

And had it not been for that list, I wouldn't have run at all. It's not something that seemed important anymore.

But thanks to the list, maybe I can get back to this.

Luckily (because I like running on trails) there's a trail nearby here. It's a lot further away than I had in Alaska -- a 3 minute walk in Fairbanks compared to like 15 here -- but still that means I don't have to run on road or sidewalk or a paved trail (not that there's anything wrong with those, just not my preference.)

Unfortunately, there are spots on the trail where, since the county, I guess, doesn't maintain it well, there's lots of tall grass and weeds growing over the edges of the footpath. What that means is when it rains -- WET SOGGY SHOES!

But that didn't stop me. Drenched feet but so what. The humidity was high but the temp wasn't bad and it went okay. I'm sure I sweated off at least a pound, maybe two.

My time out there tonight wasn't half as much as my last (unblogged about) run, and not as much as I'd like, but it'll take some time to work myself back up to, if I have the will to keep doing this, where I want to be.

In any case, I got this run done.

3 down for July, 12 to go.

I might not make it but hopefully I'll have the will to try. I just wish running was something I liked. It's not, necessarily. I like the effects of it, that's why I do it. But if I had to without music -- fahgetahboutit.

Running tunes...
	Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion 1 1991

Right Next Door to Hell
Dust N' Bones
Live and Let Die
Don't Cry
Perfect Crime
You Ain't the First
Bad Obsession
Back Off Bitch
Double Talkin' Jive
November Rain
The Garden" (features Alice Cooper)
Garden of Eden
Don't Damn Me
Bad Apples
Dead Horse
Coma

Been ages since I've listened to Guns N' Roses. Ages. A high school friend would play their classic album Appetite for Destruction whenever he'd drive when we went skiing. Skiing for us wasn't just skiing, it was bashing moguls and seeking out jumps to do helicopters and daffys and twisters and, no, we didn't just la di da di da have a pleasant day of skiing, we were wild. Sometimes we'd get our lift tickets ripped for being too wild on the trails.

Anyway, I guess my friend Matt thought GNR was good music to get psyched to so I heard the album a few dozen times.

Haven't heard them so much since then, in fact I can't remember the last time I heard a song of theirs all the way through. A few from this album I knew including Live and Let Die (supposedly originally written by the VW Beatles or something like that?) and November Rain. Not bad. A lot of the rest is okay, some is just... well, not my cup o' tea.

As far as running goes, it worked just fine. For the past long while music hasn't been needed as a distraction all that much ... other nice things to think about :) But that was then, this is now..... so I'm back to rolling whatever album and focusing on it to help me get through my Running Time. Oh, and music also helps me set a starting and end point (my Running Time between cues) so that's cool. While I didn't care for all these tunes, it still served a purpose and I got my run done.

find a dload @ 4metal

320 kbps mp3 download

no video... just not in the mood

Darkness Go Away!

So, the other day, like almost a week ago now or whatever, we were at the Eve of the very first day of the 2nd half of the year. Other than on December 31, what better day to post a New Year's Eve show, right? Right? It's logical. Isn't it?

Anyway, that never happened. Grateful Dead is life ... but sometimes the tunes can just seem so damn insignificant.

Due to our national holiday today, the number of people visiting here on July 4th looking for a new show probably isn't/won't be as many as on some random Friday in June or September or whenever. Still I wanted to post this up this morning for folks. It's one of those shows that once the day has past, posting it so late or tomorrow, the historical factor gets kicked down a few notches. Why? It's a show from today (but many years ago.) See what I mean? Posting a July 4 show on July 5? Lame. So lame! At least that's kinda what I've been thinking and that's why I wanted this up this morning. But that became impossible due to a little thing called sleep and then, well... life completely and utterly sucking.

***

Again, a little of New Speedway Boogie came to mind...

"One way or another,
This darkness got to give."

Somehow. But when? It's difficult as hell right now. It's all a damn freakin' rollercoaster, with way too many ups and downs to it, a ride that's just so tiring. I feel like I need a lithium-prozac cocktail or something! Actually, I don't really know what that feels like but there are the tremendously wonderful days and then there are the times when listening to a show seems so pathetically insignificant. Listening to The Greatest Music on Earth oughta be a happy thing! Right? When life sucks, finding that happy inspiration is tough. I'm just being impatient. I just need to have a better grasp on the fact that getting through everything will just take some time. And then... and then... then that right and beautiful conclusion will be in sight. So difficult, though. Just so difficult. Faith is so important right now, to be able to smile about the when rather than just talk about the want.

One way or another... and with time... this darkness will give!

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For My Amy

To My Love

Pretty soon (but not soon enough!) I'll be where I wanna be.
Long, long way to get there but the time will come.

Sugar Magnolia
3/27/88 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia
(it starts up @ about 1:40)

TLEO

Yay.

August 4, 1976 -- Roosevelt Stadium
Jersey City, New Jersey

Entwined Together

I used to hate Youtube... still do, pretty much, there's an aspect to it that's freakin' pathetic. I suppose I've partially embraced it over the past, oh, what? Month or so. Amongst all the junk there's a cool thing or two worth putting up.

I'm betting I've got a moment here at work to put up something quickly so how about some beautiful GD?

To Lay Me Down
Grateful Dead - October 1980

Sugarmag said... sweet. June 4, 2008 8:23 AM Zooomabooma said... yup :) June 4, 2008 2:04 PM