Saturday, June 27, 2009

BumpaBumBumBumpaBumBum…..ChooChoo
Current mood:  smitten
Category: Music
Sooooooooo Last night I went out to dinner with a friend…… First we went to this Brewery and we ordered the quail as an appetizer….after we had each eaten a piece, we realized it was accidentally served to us raw……..Disgusting………UGGGG…Quail TarTar is enough to put me over the edge!!!!! We couldn’t wait to get out of that place…… so we left and went to JTC Kitchen…..

We sat upstairs on the balcony outside, and listened to these two guys sing and play guitar….. I actually got up and sang one of my favorite Black Crowes songs with them. It was so cool!!!!! As the night progressed many trains kept coming by…. Every time the musicians would start to get into performing there music, another train would blow by…… and beep on it’s horn….. I kind of lost myself in the moment, and started imagining how much fun it would be to attach a mattress to the top of one of those box cars, get in my sleeping bag, buckle myself into the mattress…….. and see just where I would end up…. Imagining myself traveling so fast, with all that wind blowing against my face……. To wake up in a completely different state…… location unknown….

When reality woke me from my moment…….I decided to call it a night. As it would turn out, I got lost going home….On the train tracks , somewhere in the actual city of Atlanta, but seeming as remote as the desert…….Without my GPS!!!!!!! I could see nothing, but these big open warehouses, with ropes hanging from the ceiling….. Very trippy…….. I ended up on Hollywood Avenue and Boulton Avenue….. Funny little joke the Universe was playing on me…….

I finally made it home, and got ready to go to sleep. As I was waiting for my mind to rest……. I started thinking how life is a train ride into the unknown already, and how every decision we make is like jumping onto a different box car…… We don’t know for sure where we are going to end up…… But one thing I realized as I was waiting for the silence is…… It is more fun to have an end destination in mind….

For years and years I was riding the train everyone told me I should ride….. believing they new my best destination…. It was usually fun for them, but not for me….. I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t enjoying myself…. I felt like a real buzz kill!!!!!

Then I realized how with my music……. I have been on the best train ride of my life….. Strapped to the top of that boxcar with the wind, and beautiful air engulfing me……. This boxcar is a real keeper……I have met some of the coolest people in the world…… Have had so much fun learning something new everyday….. and can teach my kids a little something about riding trains. Incredible………. I haven’t made it to my destination yet though!!!!!!!!!! Not even close….. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t wait until my train visits Red Rocks, or the Gorge Amphitheater….. and Paris…… and just EVERYWHERE. It will be a blast when I play my guitar and piano in front of all those people in the audience. I especially can’t wait to see who I meet and work with at all the destinations. I love meeting other musicians….. and I love to travel….. And I don’t mind the occasional disappointing destination, because it makes me cherish the good ones even more….. I would prefer not to stop at a place serving Quail TarTar though…… but then again….. we would not have ended up at JCT Kitchen and I wouldn’t have written this blog……. And just maybe on the way home last night, I wasn’t lost at all….. Just maybe I was suppose to be exactly where I was…. I mean maybe there was a message in that Hollywood street sign…. maybe my boxcar is getting ready to take me for a visit to California and was giving me a little teaser?????????? I can’t wait to find out!!!!!!

I hope you love the boxcar you are riding on, and are finding your way to the most extravagant destination your mind can even conceive. And if you don’t like the train your on….. take it from me…… It is worth searching for a new one!!!!!! Maybe at some point ……..you and I will meet at a junction and we can celebrate!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for visiting!!!!!!!!!!

Choo Choo Choo………… SHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Love,
The Lexers (SMILE)

Currently listening:
Peaceful World/In Our Lives (U.S. 7 Inch Vinyl 45)
By John Mellencamp