It's embarrassing to want so much, and to expect so much from music, except sometimes it happens.

—Bruce Springsteen

I think that we can all agree that California is the best state in America. If California and the United States were to break up, the United States would cry itself to sleep, wondering where it all went wrong, while California would immediately be out being courted by one of your few remaining desirable nations.

I spent one of the best years of my life living in Madison.

My website's a little off lately. By lately, I mean going on over a year now. There's probably a way to fix the problems, but I'm out of my depth as to how.

Words only come when everything is over, when things have calmed down. They refer only to memory, and are either powerless or untruthful.
—Alphonse Daudet

You have to abbreviate into intensity.

—Francis Bacon 

This year, I hardly downloaded any music from iTunes at all. Life, you know. I could just never find the time or the energy to explore iTunes like I had in years previous. I love music more than just about everything else, so I’m deeply saddened about all of the songs that I never got to hear. Hopefully, in 2009 I’ll be able get onto iTunes on a more regular basis.

(Editor's Note: Admittedly, this son of bitch is going live a little over three months after the last Poker Report. You’ve got no clue as to how much static I've gotten from various people about how long it’s taken me to post new material on my little website. Hey, man, I’ll trade you lives. I didn’t think so.

There’s not much in the world that I love. It seems like it’s basically a 24/7 disappointment machine. But it’s the things that you do manage to love that make the world bearable.