lipstick again last night, this time with just my sis and her crew, it was really awesome to see pete and mykle dancing (which they did towards the end of the night). i am amazed that lipstick has been fun the last two times that i have gone, which just reinforces the idea that the people you are with are way more important than anything else. i have been trying to utilize this idea as much as possible, i feel sometimes that i can be too solitary. i am very content sitting in my very comfortable house reading a book or watching a movie when i could be out and about socializing with people who i feel are my friends and yet i see most of them so infrequently. my goal for this spring is to spend much more time out doing things, of course that will cut into my netflix obsession, but i think that i can deal.

jesse returns from tour today, it has been kinda a weird separation because we have been in contact but he has been travelling and playing shows and doing really amazingly from what i can tell, while i have remained here doing what i normally do. it has made me want to travel, i need to move around, i want to see the places that i saw as a little kid and hope that they are just as amazing now.

i watched a david gordon green movie last night called Undertow. i think that his films capture all that i love about the south, the scenery is so languid, yet so vibrant and all the characters are very human, prone to mistakes and yet very endearing. i have never gotten into a director so completely that i wanted to see all of his films, and i think i like green even more because at least from what i can tell he is fairly unheralded. i think he has found some acclaim on the critical level, but i brought him up last night in a car of fairly astute movie goers and no one knew the name.

i was told last night that when i talk about music that i like, i do it in a way that makes people want to listen to it. i really like hearing things like that because so much of my life in the past couple of years has revolved around music and getting people to hear music that i think is amazing. i really hope that this ability to talk about music translates into being able to write well about it. my piece in theLegend should be coming out soon, and i am kinda aching for the editor to give me another assignment. i really feel like i could do the writing thing, and my first submission wasn't anything special so i want to write more to prove that i can develop the chops necessary to do this on a bigger level.

i can't believe that after so little time here, kai is leaving again for like another three weeks. hopefully that will be the end to her and mykle's travels for a bit because i really love having them here in davis.

time to go prep for my radio show and hope that this week unlike last week i actually get to do a show. i have been told by erik that next quarter my show is moving from wednesday to tuesday, but i get to go back into the old hour and a half spot that i really like. i want to step up the content of my show a bit, i really need to work on discovering new stuff, so much of the stuff that i play week-to-week is stuff that i am already familiar with and it is chosen simply because i do not have a lot of time to prep. so that is going to hopefully end, i want to play more traditional songs, whether it was recorded recently or not, i love it when music sounds old.