give me real don't give me fake

I was living in Los Angeles when this Coldplay record came out...my manager, who was friends with Coldplay's drummer, would meet me at coffee bean and tea leaf....he'd smoke parliaments and we'd sip our espresso milkshakes and talk about the future......was wide open......that was long ago......

there's constant distraction in our lives and it's hard to focus when your phone is constantly buzzing but when you have a moment....write down your thoughts....someone's laying on the horn outside my apartment and now I have to ask Alexa to play Dinosaur Jr....I skip to the 2nd song on Spotify.  I capitalize Spotify because I know that Blogger will change it and I don't have time for rules like grammar.....not with what we're facing....Alexa....volume 5...."I ain't telling you goodbye"....my head is going up and down now like we did when we went to shows every night when they cost nothing and you could park near Spaceland and not have to get towed.....

if Spaceland was still around I'd book a show with my new band Silent Shuffle......here's the cover art for our new single on Bandcamp:

I need to go buy my daughter a book so I'll keep this one short...people are always asking me where are you going...what are you doing....where will you be? the truth is....no one knows anything and what will happen so as long as we're doing this let's do it right and different and real and not regress into old habits.... and I'm not sure about this obsession with our phones but at least if we are on it can we get more honest with ourselves and look deeper into our thoughts and our dreams because 150 characters gets old.....there's not a lot of substance to the music and films being made right now...because it's perceived that the audience can't be deep...can't digest something more real....something organic...with real instruments....and real scripts...and real people....give the people that...and they wouldn't complain so much about everything being so saturated and fake....but this is what jerry was talking about when things got lame in the eighties...well...we're back in that now....we're back to when things that are lame are popular again....welcome back...but we don't have to go back to that....we don't have to accept what they consider to be good for us.....we know what's good for us....we're tired of people of telling us how to live our lives....what worked than doesn't work now....we can't go back.....we can be anything we want to be now...so why not be better? why not be more real?  why pretend that everything is perfect?  the best music comes from heartache.....let's stop pretending everything is all good and make some real art.....