Has it really already been a month since Job’s Comforter was released?  Is this how it was for Rip Van Winkle?  Or maybe Sleeping Beauty?

 

I suppose after living with some of those songs for the better part of a year before even entering a studio to record them, I’ve become a bit confused when it comes to the actual album.  While I’ve had to chance to live and experience the songs for a while now, those songs have only now just begun to breathe for everyone else.  It’s a strange experience.

 

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I have this theory that when something is supposed to happen it usually happens very quickly and seems to just slide along at an even pace, neither rushed or hurried nor difficult and rough.  It just happens.
 
There have been experiences that have shaped this belief.  When I moved to Seattle, for instance.  It was a thought I had in December 2002 and in March 2003, I boarded a plane and 7 hours later landed in the Pacific Northwest and started on my way.  Yes, my first year here was a series of trips and…Read more

I know it's been ages since I updated this.  Everytime I sat down to start, something else would demand my attention and well, being a fickle creature, I would immediately move to accomplish whatever minor thing had distracted me.

So recently Kitty, Danny, and I (along with sometimes Stokely, Tommy, and Chris) have been upping our tune knowledge.  It's always great to know as many tunes as you can remember -- which despite sounding terribly difficult, is surprisingly easy.  At some point tunes become…Read more

Or Hello Everybody.

I'm more just testing out the blog feature that Scott said I should do or he'd back over my whistles with Big Willy, my big blue van.

Oh!  That just made me think of a topic of my first blog entries.  I have friends who, like me, have named their vehicles.  Kitty named her car Milly.  Tommy has an auto named Blueberry.  My friend Siobhán affectionately named her car POS.  Big Willy is named after the same man who gave the band its name: William of Ockham.  See?  I can't do anything…Read more