Somebody wants to join the counter-culture movement! This is brilliant! There are now three of us. We can definitely conquer the world. I'm trying to brainstorm some sort of environment-friendly Magical Mystery Tour that can kick off the revolution. Maybe a virtual tour or something. As long as the bright colors and love are present, I think it will do.

Really, I am serious about this. I'm ready for some sort of change to happen, and I'm hoping that a change of political administration in a few months will launch us in that direction. But I wish it were grassroots that build up to that level... I do hold true that it will be very difficult to manage this if a brilliant protest songwriter doesn't emerge from our generation. Yes, Bob Dylan and Neil Young are still alive and making excellent music, but we need something from within the generation. And yes, there are some young songwriters that are very politically minded. R.E.M. writes very eloquent political songs, but they're a little too old, and it's not as blunt as necessary for a protest song. Death Cab has political undertones. The Arcade Fire reak of it. They're actually about as close as I know to modern protest songwriters. But I want a Country Joe and the Fish. I want a Barry McGuire. And yes, I want a young Dylan and Young.

I seem to be in the mood for random, unconnected posts. This will be another.

I'm sick of being always taking the initiative. I'm sick of no reciprocation. To the thousandth degree. I'm discovering which relationships are the most valuable, and it's not the ones I would have anticipated a year or even a month ago. Rephrase: I'm not sure I've discovered the specific relationships that are the most valuable to me right this moment, but I think I'm ascertaining the larger idea of it. Maybe I'm more comfortable with the thought that a lot of life isn't reciprocated. I don't care enough to go back and make this paragraph make sense on here because it does in my head. Well, it does up until this point. I'm definitely still preoccupied with tackling this idea, but this is the update as of now. Hopefully it will make sense both in my head and on here later.

Ben Gibbard says that music is the very most important thing in his life and the reason that he gets out of bed in the morning. He doesn't care if he ruins all relationships in his life if he makes a quality album. I love music, but I can't imagine that. I suppose that music is his God. I'd be willing to ditch all relationships in my life for the one thing most important to me, but I know that that thing is so much more than anything, even music, as incredible as that thought is. Ben also says that there's still a lot missing in his life. I'd like to have a conversation with him. Not that I have everything figured out by any craziest stretch of the imagination, but I do know what fills all the gaps.

On a totally unrelated theme, I raise a toast to connections made. I like it when little lightbulbs go off and I realize how two things are related.

This is a terrible post that I believe I'll regret, but I want to write it. If anyone reads this they'll never want to read my blog again. I promise most posts are better than this.

I've met two people that used to work at Starbucks with Chris Walla. That's brilliant. And they had connections to Ben Gibbard, too. Yay for small town people. And yay for people that reach success yet stay real.

I also learned that Elliott Smith went to Lincoln High School and that there's a memorial to him there. Needless to say a pilgrimage is in store.

LB