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Thu, 08 Mar 2007

Well, chirren, I am heading into the busiest week of the year, starting tomorrow. I get to start the season with Chris Hillman, a musician whom I utterly respect. He's been a player in many of my favorite bands; he's been a player in many of my favorite cultures; he's been a player in many of my favorite philosophies. It is a fine way to start the season.

Friday, we do Savoy Brown. Kim Simmonds is a man who knows (and has played with) every legitimate rock 'n' roll superstar you've ever heard of. He and I had a great hour-long conversation at the Armadillo in the mid-seventies; I haven't seen him since. It'll be nice to see how we've both weathered the years.

I like my life. It's a wonderful, strange, fantastic (and sometimes badly staged) thing. Odd. Perhaps I am the poster boy that illustrates the concept that "intelligent" is not the same as "wise." Even probably. But I am also an example of the fact that, if one rejects everything that is of no interest, one can find oneself in interesting situations. I represent a niche, but I am the best in the world in my chosen niches. And I am in a place wherein such things are appreciated. It is very fulfilling.

Ever the unapologetic contrarian. I know.

It's a fine, fine way to live. The road is hard sometimes, but it is a road upon which one meets only the most interesting of people. And those are the only kind of people that I can handle.

So. Tomorrow, I start this year's measure of the work that I came here to do. Stop by sometime over the next few months, say hello, hang out, and share the joy that I have in it.

I am who I am, and you don't need to know who I am, and I, at my best, help geniuses to channel their genius more effortlessly. And at its best, when I am successful, I do work in service of the Gods.

Charge the common ground, my friends; charge the common ground.

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