Its been a long time.

Let's see, how much has changed in a year?
-I moved, quit my job and retired at the early age of 26
-I moved into my car and onto couches for several months
-I made plans to move to the pacific northwest then didn't follow through
-I came out of retirement like Michael Jordan, except now I'm better
-I somehow settled in downtown Denver, where I guess I was heading all along -

Strange, after all of the moving around only thirty miles and three hundred days separate me from my last blog post a year ago. No matter how far you travel in a day when you're back in your bed you're back where you started.

It's kind of like playing certain songs, they're always in the same time and when you play them you're back where you were long ago. I used to associate those songs with the time and place they became so meaningful to me, and I'd feel nostalgic over the growing distance between now and then. Now I see that some songs don't have their context in time, but in something much bigger than that. I wonder how it felt for Joe Strummer to play this next one some decades after he played it with The Clash. This song will likely be on my top five favorite songs list for the rest of my life.

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - White Man in Hammersmith Palais


If you get the chance you should check out "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten", which I sadly can't find a good link to at the moment.