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[jianantonic]

Now it's just a countdown 'til Friday. On Friday, I get to go to the OM state competition with Emily V. I'll be there with her for two days, then I work on Sunday. Sunday night, sometime in the wee hours, Jeremy will get home from Gatlinburg. I miss him tremendously. It's not that I wish he was here, it's that I wish I was there. Today at work when I was talking to Chris about it, he was like, "I can't believe Jan didn't give you the time off. This is like the slowest week of the year." Now that I think about it, it's like, "Dammit! She so should have!" And I wasn't even bitter before. But now I'm wishing I hadn't requested off the other two weeks, because I figure now that I'm going to quit by then anyway. (The other two weeks being the Richmond Regional at the end of May and Falcon Ridge at the end of July.) If I'm still working there by FRFF, I'm going to be one very sad cookie. But then FRFF would start and I'd be happy for the rest of the year and not worry about it too much again until February....

So I got this Billy Bragg CD, because it has Woody Guthrie's "Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key" on it, and it turns out I love the whole CD. I took the insert into work with me so I could read all the lyrics and the liner notes. I never knew anything about Billy Bragg except that he wrote "Way Over Yonder..." with Woody Guthrie...or so I thought. Actually, the real story is way cooler than just that. Woody was really sick with Huntington's Disease, and stopped recording around 1947 - but he didn't stop writing until he couldn't hold a pencil any longer. So there were all these lyrics, but no songs. In 1997, his daughter Nora gave 15 of these incomplete songs to Billy Bragg to put to music. That's what this CD is. I just assumed that Billy Bragg was a contemporary of Woody's. Guess he's a contemporary of mine. So these lyrics that were written sixty years ago are actually just becomming songs now. Anyway Mermaid Avenue is a really great CD and I recommend it highly.

Jeremy just called. I had to take a hiatus from the computer to talk to him. It's ridiculously difficult to be away from him. I just lit up when he called, just like when we were first dating:) Anyway...not much else to say here...peace.

"Every year we waste enough
To feed the ones who starve
We build our civilization up
And we shoot it down with wars"
~Woody Guthrie
beautiful...

Comments

[phantomsmom.livejournal.com]

at frff 2000 or 2001 dave and tracy did 'way down yonder in the minor key' and i *HEARTED* it

[artsygeek.livejournal.com]

You oughtta listen to this MP3 of Billy Bragg singing "The Internationale", the anthem of socialists, communists, and anarchists; you can download it here:
http://hymn.ru/internationale/index-en.html