NY - June 22 2006 - Day 2 Daylight hours
well like i said before i woke up thursday and discovered the wood rack incident, but me and jon restacked it all and everything was close to normal.
we had to get into ithaca at some point that day because i needed guitar strings and we had to pick up the sound system for the party on sat (the wedding party was the reason i was there officially) jon and terry had a party planned for friday night at their house so we weren't planning on a very big day thursday. terry had a few clients come by for haircuts and one of her clients was ted....whose last name i never did manage to find out. me and jon were sitting on their back deck (we did this a lot) drinking beer and i was holding my guitar when ted showed up for his haircut....it turns out ted is a pretty good musician so we explained the perpetual rotating vacation theory to him, that theory where whenever you're hanging out with someone who is on vacation....vacation rules are in affect for everybody present. anyway we talked ted into having a beer and he said he'd go home get a guitar and come back later. in the meantime me and jon decided to get the trip to ithaca out of the way. on the drive down to ithaca we stopped by and saw my old friend julie jordan i was really happy to see her since she had missed her annual trip to austin this past spring and it had been almost 2 years since i had seen her last. we had a happy but brief reunion and she said she would be at the party friday night.
i wasn't sure what i expected ithaca to look like. like most texans the idea of "new york" conjures up a whole mixed bag of visions, i think people mostly think NYC but ithaca is as pretty a little city as i've ever seen . jon took me to ithaca guitar works so i could grab some strings. i met the owner chris and we started talking about texas songwriters. chris let me test-drive one of the guild guitars he has in the store. he also mentioned that this years namm show was in austin so i tried to talk him into comin on down. we bullshitted for a while and then came back to hall road. we were just getting into our beers really good when terrys brother jack flint come drivin up. now i've known jon and terry for a few years now, having first met them in santa cruz CA and for as long as i've known them i've been hearing about jack, so i was pretty stoked at getting to meet him. i knew straight off that me and jack were going to be fast friends he's a bullshit artist and i have some experience in that area myself. we amused ourselves for most of the afternoon by telling each other stories and singing johny paycheck songs i was starting to wear down a little tho when ted showed back up. he had a guitar and we wanged around for a while ted knew a fair amount of steve earle tunes so we had some stuff in common. i asked him where he played and he told me about a couple of places in t-burg. as i hadn't really seen anything of the town yet we decided we'd go check out a couple of spots and maybe hear a band play. ted said he'd meet us at the rongovian embassy known locally as the rongo. ted took off and we had another beer and then jon, terry, jack, and myself loaded up and headed for t-burg.
we had to get into ithaca at some point that day because i needed guitar strings and we had to pick up the sound system for the party on sat (the wedding party was the reason i was there officially) jon and terry had a party planned for friday night at their house so we weren't planning on a very big day thursday. terry had a few clients come by for haircuts and one of her clients was ted....whose last name i never did manage to find out. me and jon were sitting on their back deck (we did this a lot) drinking beer and i was holding my guitar when ted showed up for his haircut....it turns out ted is a pretty good musician so we explained the perpetual rotating vacation theory to him, that theory where whenever you're hanging out with someone who is on vacation....vacation rules are in affect for everybody present. anyway we talked ted into having a beer and he said he'd go home get a guitar and come back later. in the meantime me and jon decided to get the trip to ithaca out of the way. on the drive down to ithaca we stopped by and saw my old friend julie jordan i was really happy to see her since she had missed her annual trip to austin this past spring and it had been almost 2 years since i had seen her last. we had a happy but brief reunion and she said she would be at the party friday night.
i wasn't sure what i expected ithaca to look like. like most texans the idea of "new york" conjures up a whole mixed bag of visions, i think people mostly think NYC but ithaca is as pretty a little city as i've ever seen . jon took me to ithaca guitar works so i could grab some strings. i met the owner chris and we started talking about texas songwriters. chris let me test-drive one of the guild guitars he has in the store. he also mentioned that this years namm show was in austin so i tried to talk him into comin on down. we bullshitted for a while and then came back to hall road. we were just getting into our beers really good when terrys brother jack flint come drivin up. now i've known jon and terry for a few years now, having first met them in santa cruz CA and for as long as i've known them i've been hearing about jack, so i was pretty stoked at getting to meet him. i knew straight off that me and jack were going to be fast friends he's a bullshit artist and i have some experience in that area myself. we amused ourselves for most of the afternoon by telling each other stories and singing johny paycheck songs i was starting to wear down a little tho when ted showed back up. he had a guitar and we wanged around for a while ted knew a fair amount of steve earle tunes so we had some stuff in common. i asked him where he played and he told me about a couple of places in t-burg. as i hadn't really seen anything of the town yet we decided we'd go check out a couple of spots and maybe hear a band play. ted said he'd meet us at the rongovian embassy known locally as the rongo. ted took off and we had another beer and then jon, terry, jack, and myself loaded up and headed for t-burg.
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