I'm gonna check myself into to the looney bin soon. It's been getting harder and harder to cope with life. Sunday morning I fell asleep at the wheel and hit a parked car. I could have been killed, but I was okay. Ever since then I've been crying every day. People around me have told me they've been disturbed by my speech and actions. That's embarassing to me. I'm not a scary person, at least I don't think of myself as one. I met a guy the other day who was very nice and we had a great conversation. I saw him reading on the porch and asked him what he was reading and he said The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power and so we started getting into a conversation about spirituality and it turns out we have a lot in common. It was great. So I made a new friend just off the street. I think life should be full of more moments like that. I guess that was my silver lining in this cloud of depression. I'm a nice, approachable person, but then I get too needy. I need more from a relationship than I have to offer, that and my strange ideas about creativity/spirituality creep people out sometimes. Listen people! A change is coming. Sylvia Browne says the veil is thinning. The tides are turning. Saddness and despair is the first step on the journey.

Ok, I'm playing at Steel Crazy on the 30th. and then Forgotten Figures/Demons and Wizards is playing without me Thursday, July 26, 7 PM (during Kickoff Party) at Staples and then Wednesday, August 1, 7 PM (during “Organic Acoustics” showcase) at Nietzsches and then Josh Strauss is doing a live painting Sunday, July 29, 2 PM at College Street Block Party

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading--treading--till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through--

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum--
Kept beating--beating--till I thought
My Mind was going numb--

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space--began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here--

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down--
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing--then--

-- Emily Dickinson

Infringement Fest News

Aparently I'm scheduled for this:

but we'll have to see if I can get the day off of work

Dorian Grey and

Genre
live music
Description
None provided.
Admission
TBA
Venue
Steel Crazy

and the aparently I'm either playing or a tape of my accompaniment is playing these shows:

Forgotten Figures Falling Together Between Two Twigs

Presented by Joshua Strauss including recorded sound by dorian gray

Genre
live music
Description
The blend … experimental protocol music … multitude that the sound can only perform.

Thursday, July 26, 7 PM (during Kickoff Party)

Venue
Staples
Admission
Free

Wednesday, August 1, 7 PM (during “Organic Acoustics” showcase) featuring dorian live

Venue
Nietzsches
Admission
Free

Monday, July 30, 7:30-8 PM

My friend Ian played Boulderfest and I was gonna go but I was too tired since I had done an overnight and not slept. I wish I would have gone, but I'm already exhausted as it is and I showed up late to work.

Tomorrow! starting at 12 and going until 3 Art Walk Muse-A-Thon

This year's artists are:
Courtney Gruttadauria, Lisa Romanowski, James Sturtevant, James Dziubaty, Jordan Kroll, Maia Woluchem, Jolene Beckman, Kim Lesslie, Mary Beth Dolan, Elizabeth Papp-Stinson, Lynda Begy, Javier Colon and Shamara Proctor, Kate Lipsky, Karen Schneider, Michelle Brock, Sara Dankert and Jane Gefell, Karen Scibetta, Mollie Wolf with the Bahai Community, Nitza Nater Arvelo and Orlando Ortiz, Kris Dreessen, Adrien Tucker, Karin Staples, James V. DeLucia and Jen Vanden Bosch,

Joshua Strauss

, and Harold Copp.
Yours truly will also be assisting Mr. Strauss with his showing of his work as well as perhaps some performance

Also a sidewalk chalk party is gonna be happening so bring the kids.