Decisions.

Reach for Something more Stable,

Hope for happier times.

Interlude

Your spending most of your life
Looking for the adult you are well good luck, okay, all right
And your spendin' the rest of your life,
Lookin' for the child you never were well good luck, alright
And your spendin' the rest of your life
Lookin' for the adult you shoulda' been
well okay this is alright.
And your spendin' the rest of your life

Twenty-Two

That's how it starts.

We go back to your house.

We check the charts,

And start to figure it out.

And if it's crowded, all the better,

because we know we're gonna be up late.

But if you're worried about the weather

then you picked the wrong place to stay.

That's how it starts.

And so it starts.

You switch the engine on.

We set controls for the heart of the sun,

one of the ways we show our age.

And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up

and I still don't wanna stagger home.

Then it's the memory of our betters 

that are keeping us on our feet.

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan,

and the next five years trying to be with your friends again.

You're talking 45 turns just as fast as you can,

yeah, I know it gets tired, but it's better when we pretend.

It comes apart,

the way it does in bad films.

Except in parts,

when the moral kicks in.

Though when we're running out of the drugs

and the conversation's winding away.

I wouldn't trade one stupid decision 

for another five years of lies.

You drop the first ten years just as fast as you can,

and the next ten people who are trying to be polite.

When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France,

Yeah, I know it gets tired only where are your friends tonight?

And to tell the truth.

Oh, this could be the last time.

So here we go,

like a sail's force into the night

And if I made a fool, if I made a fool, if I made a fool 

on the road, there's always this.

And if I'm sewn into submission, 

I can still come home to this.

And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand,

you can sleep on the plane or review what you said.

When you're drunk and the kids leave impossible tasks

you think over and over, "hey, I'm finally dead."

Oh, if the trip and the plan come apart in your hand,

you look contorted on yourself your ridiculous prop.

You forgot what you meant when you read what you said,

and you always knew you were tired, but then,

where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

If I could see all my friends tonight

Shock To Your System

Missed Another Boat.

2013 starts off good and bad. 

Watermark

Trying to decide my top 15 Tom Waits song is a lot more difficult that I thought it would be.
My top 15 keeps changing. 

Moments of 2012

Personal favorite moments of 2012:
(not in any particular order).

Graduating College
Seeing Henry Clay People eight times, and giving me an excuse to sing and dance
Visting Portland
Visiting Salton Sea while stopping at Bombay Beach, Niland, Slab City and Salvation Mountain.
Camping at Yosemite
Going to Disneyland for free
Bounce House graduation party
Sim's 30th birthday party
Last house party at the Grant residence
Spending the end of the year in the Bay Area
Seeing Laura Marling live
Showing my folks around in Big Sur, San Francisco, Monetary and Santa Cruz. 

Hella Lists

Records (No particular order)

The Orwells- Remember When
Boboso- Life's A Gas Mixtape
Hard Girls- Isn't It Worse
Mike Hugenor- Bardamu
The Walkmen- Heaven
Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
The Henry Clay People- Twenty Five for the Rest of Our Life
Japandroids- Celebration Rock
Joey Bada$$- 1999
Rademacher- Babyhawk III
Tim Barry- 40 Miler
Classics of Love- Self Titled
Matthew Teardrop- Drunk As Fuck
Cat Power- Sun


Movies
The Master
Safety Not Guaranteed
Bachelorette
Prometheus

Retired Explorer.

While I was in Portland this past weekend, my friend who I was staying with was on google maps and asked me where in India were my parents use to live. After a while we were google mapping every place I've ever lived at and she noticed something that never occurred to me...she noticed how I've always lived in coastal states near the ocean. Brief stay in India, couple places in Delaware, up and down California; along touching an ocean, the furthest away from Ocean I've been is a hour long bus ride.

If you look close enough, you can spot the Shark Tank.

Portland State University.

I'm not sure why I never realized this before and I wonder if growing up in coastal regions might be one of the reasons why I love the ocean so much.