in a perfect world

love and relationships aside, let's talk about a perfect world. love and relationships are too complicated to discuss in a 'perfect world' get-up. awesome, sure, but not for here and now.

let's talk about this.

i was riding the bus out to issy's the other day and listening to music as i did so. and as if it, my ipod, new exactly what i needed to hear, at that moment, a freedy johnston song came on. it was a track from 'can you fly', one of the great american albums of the last twenty years. really. you don't have to be a freedy johnston fan to agree to this. it was an album that came at exactly the right moment for me. a time when i was struggling with a faith of sorts, with love, with work, with being no longer young-young, but becoming more of a man. i think. but what it means to be, that album, is not what this is about, this is about something else, something really, sad to say, kinda clique. why didn't freedy become a big deal? everyone should have heard 'can you fly'. but they didn't. i saw freedy open for uncle tupelo at the old cruel elephant on cordova street - steps from where i am right now, and it was amazing. which brings me to this perfect world...
in a perfect world....

freedy johnston would have sold a million copies of 'can you fly'
mark fidrych would have pitched for at least ten years and won a world series for the tigers.

ok...i interupt this to give you am update...i am not going to buy a place in the mantra...not like you were holding your breath but, you can stop wondering. i will keep on keepin' on in urineville.

ok...oh, now i've lost my focus..

nevermind.

g. xo