And, of course, it’s the song I played least competently.  Oh, well.  At least Eloise sounds good.  And if you use your imagination, you can pretend that you hear Monkey playing something.

I’m currently listening to the one on natural history, and it’s just about the most absurd thing I’ve heard. Looks like Amazon has them for a couple of bucks each. Haven’t checked the iTunes.

DYM on hiatus. Back in July.

The joy of garage sales.

I think we might begin Operation Harass Chris Onstad Until He Let’s Us Write An Achewood Rock Opera.

I hate to say it, but this is 10x better than Castle.

I wrote it from the POV of the Sultan, from the POV of the Sultan’s daughter, from the POV of a small village at the edge of the empire that’s lost communication with the capital, from the POV of the Sultan’s daughter/wife barricaded in the room of a crumbling castle in a town at the edge of the empire whose walls had just been breached by barbarians, and from the POV of the Sultan’s daughter/wife who had been exiled to a town on the outskirts of empire that experienced a long, slow decay into barbarism after decades of being out of communication with the capital.

I wrote a goddamn novel trying to write these lyrics, and they didn’t work. Not a single line. It was all horseshit.

So after realizing that I had blown two days failing to write lyrics for one song when I need to write lyrics for four songs by Sunday, I decided “The Princess is in Another Castle (working title)” is going to be a love song that has absolutely nothing to do with Ottomans, empires, or falling.

The lyrics should be done in approximately half an hour.

But now there’s news of a new Pynchon, only three years after the publication of his previous book. An age of wonders, bitches!

Yes, I’m assuming that if Gore had won, we’d be in the middle of 24 years of benevolent Democratic rule, which means I’m assuming a Gore/Kerry ticket would’ve been more competent stewards of the economy than the Clinton/Gore ticket was…

Ah, dreams.  Beautiful, beautiful dreams.  Even though these dreams are filled with pain and regret, that pain and regret is infinitely better than looking at that photo Pennystripe posted earlier today.

Although we are busy people, although we have no time and varying levels of commitment, we all need to remember that we’re here mainly for ourselves but also a little bit for those dedicated few fans.

The fan above was so taken with Jimmy’s picture from the DYM band pic that he wanted to share this with us. To me, this picture says both “waiting patiently…” and “hope to hear from my favorite band soon.” Thank you, Fan #1.