new york city to boston

picked up kristin at 12:30
enjoyed a longer than usual trek
went through pennsylvania.

you know pennsylvania. the song
immortalized by robbie fulks
for scrapple! scrapple! the pride
of pennsylvania.

it was a good drive
we caught up on musician gossip
a couple of old hens we are.

made it through the holland
tunnel with little to no traffic,
truly amazing. what is truly amazing
to me is playing new york.

when me and timmy played cbgb's in 2002
it was plumb awful. two people were
there and it just sucked. now one of
those two people was jd foster, the producer
and we wanted to meet him. so it was
okay.

anyhow, googies has yet to disappoint
us with a bad evening. I was a bit rusty
I can admit my bad playing when I hear it.
I don't think it was horrendous... but i've played
better for sure.

ellen cherry's set was good... she's a good
entertainer... sometimes a bit verbose
as she would probably admit, herself. the
funny thing is that she seems nervous
but there is no need as the audience always
likes her and she pulls off her songs and banter
with a real sense of humor.

met up with my college friend, marshall.
marshall is my favorite new yorker. he is
a curator of a small museum, uptown. his upcoming
show is on modern painter, george tooker. pretty
great stuff that has found great relevance with
today's issues of isolation and self imposed
imprisonment.

look em up.

we awoke, we got cleaned up and
headed to boston. ah the club passim!

what a great show... under attended but attended
by the right people. Brett, a fan... yes
and actual fan from oregon, now situated in raleigh, nc
was in town for a conference and he brought a bunch of
friends out to see me. wow. this does not happen
often for me and it meant
much.

i find crazy that people can buy my discs
listened to them, know the words, and then
come out, from great distances to see the performance.
we chatted after the show and he revealed
that he is a super swell person!

bill malonnee... side note... ellen cherry says,
"bloggity bloggity bloggity"

bill and his wife were really great... i mean... wow.
we traded discs and chatted about the difficulties of
music.

great folks.

okay... so we're in a whole foods eating breakfast
and then it's off to Providence.

more later.

okay?