jellycream

the first day of the tour last month, i got a call from harp magazine just after we got on the road but didnt listen to the message til i was waking up in houston the next morning. they were giving me a guitar. it was an acoustic composite, or a composite acoustic that they were going to ship out to me. according to wayne at the magazine, it had been sitting in his office and he'd had the opportunity to take it out and play it and the sound was amazing. i told him id pick it up in dc since we were going to be there in a week.

turned out, when i got to dc, that i was to come round to the harp offices which were located in the hilton building on colesville rd in silver spring. i asked for the address several times and stared as we pulled up at the place: it was on the corner opposite from the building that used to be my grandparents apartment when they moved out from ft worth. it was still called colesville towers. now it was a condo residence of some kind, next door to the library where my grandmother had worked. she had an english and library science degree from radcliff; she had lived near the college in cambridge in a tiny flat with her mother back in the days of women's colleges.

ive been playing the thing at shows since then. it felt to me like a gift from my grandparents; its a very sweet sounding, completely composite-material guitar. totally back to the future. the only thing i had to do in exchange was to take a photo holding the guitar for them to put in their rag. kinda way cool really.

been one heck of a month, but things like that have interspersed the whole way with the others, tipping a crazyscale into balance just a little. still working out the selections for the next record which we'll be starting on next month. ooh, baby baby its a wild world.

and its cold now. very. not a cricket to be heard.