Listening to a “leaked” (KaZaa) copy of the new Cat Power album … You Are Free … actually, speaking of free, I’m in a kind of denial, I think. Plenty of time, I convince myself, to fly to pay respects to dying grandmothers, to try to make a decent CD for February’s release, to finish the website you’re looking at, to work 2 jobs, to dilly about with photographs, et cetera et cetera etc. … and suffice to say, none of this includes whatever may be going on internally, or within a more private life … yeah, as if all that wasn’t private …
It was Alert Level Orange while I was in NY last week (is it still?) and the Libertarians did the craziest thing … NYC’s poised to outlaw toy guns that resemble real guns (color of gun is not an issue since anyone can score black spraypaint), and the Libertarians, of course, say no one should be able to tell them what they can or cannot buy for their children … and besides, that “resembles an actual gun” criteria is a real gray ocean … the whole banning movement got a shot in the arm a few weeks ago when a kid in East Harlem was shot to death after aiming a watergun (painted black) at an undercover cop … so these Libs go to grade schools in this very neighborhood, still wounded and sore from the incident, and proceed to hand out toy guns to kids. As you can imagine, the shit blows up.
Cooley thinks that the first track on the new Cat Power is about Kurt Cobain. Have any opinions? Email jason@ibrecords.com.
So in case anyone was even wondering, Nana (my grandmother) is coming along. I mean, she hasn’t walked yet, and is utterly incontinent, but she’s a fucking champ. She’s gotta be, being married to Pop (my grandfather) for over 60 years … I mean, he almost broke me this past week … practically ground me into dust.
I can’t think about it. I have a 3″ to finish.
