I'm thinkin' I might cover a couple of Green Day tunes this summer.

Just a thought.

Thanks for showing up today.

Um... if you are new here, or reading this in another part of the country or the world... welcome. Take a look around. Browse the "Archives" and see what we've been up to. (Yesterday, I posted some lyrics to a goofy song that is a work in progress.) Jump into the "Forum" and say "Hey".

Well, I guess the "Permit-Fund Drive" is kinda gearing up already. I noticed that James Marino put the PayPal button right up there at the top of the homepage. I wasn't planning to send out an email about the drive until next week. But, James explains the reasons for the drive if you click on the button over there on the right that says "C.P. Permits". So, if you feel like helping out starting today, you can do it by clicking on that button up there and following the directions. It's just a way for you to support this website and to support "The "Hill" in Central Park this summer. (But, DO NOT feel bad if you can't help out monetarily, or simply would rather not. Just keep showin' up anyway, okay?)

By the way... before I tell you what's goin' on today, I would like all of America to have this song for FREE! Give a listen to the new song "JesusLand". If you feel like it, you can download it for yourself and pass it on to all your friends.

Here.

MP3 of Jesusland! Click to download or play.

Hey, let me know what you think of this tune. If you dig it, let me know.... and, be sure to send it to all your friends. If you are pissed off, tell me about it in the "Forum" (message board) over there on the right... and, then send it to all your friends, too!

Woke up with some powerful thoughts today. Feeling GOOD. Maybe because I had a reeeealllly cool dream.

(I almost never remember my dreams.) But, this was a strange and wonderful feel-good dream... all about a fantastically old labrynth system underneath New York City, filled with long hallways and catacomb-like tunnels that led through rooms, connecting the most ordinary places... restaurant kitchens, old church basements, abandon subway tunnels, old business record rooms. I was wandering through and discovering this maze on the night of New Years Eve. I had one of those little suitcases on wheels with me, because I was trying to get to Penn Station, which was actually down around South Ferry for some reason. I was sooooo lost and knew I was going to spend the entire night underground, walking in circles... kinda like "Spinal Tap" in Cleveland. No! Exactly like Spinal Tap in Cleveland. But, I was filled with wonder and I was smiling and laughing the whole time. Man! The wonderful people I met, dish-washers, janitors, hotel maids, maintenance workers... the things I saw, the conversations I had! Everybody, from the waitress in one of the restaurant kitchens to the plumber in the church basement, had kind and insightful things to say. Really beautiful things to tell me. I recall popping up above ground one time in a nearly-empty, modern looking office building lobby of some kind, not knowing where I surfaced. There were one or two men in business suits walking through, but they looked so vacant and unhappy... bored and devoid of dreams. I looked around and realized, although this lobby looked and felt like a Manhattan office building, I was on the other side of the East River in Brooklyn. Glancing behind me, I saw that nearby was a lovely black woman working in a subway token booth that was a part of this lobby. She was in her own little world, blissfully writing a letter to someone, because it seemed she hadn't seen a customer in a long while. So, I excused myself for disturbing her, but asked her the best way to get back downtown. She was so sweet, we just laughed and talked about life for a while, until we both decided it was certainly more fun to climb back down a metal ladder, and try going back the way I came.

I recall every conversation. Every image is so vividly clear.

Very cool.

Maybe I'll take some time and write it all down. Maybe I'll send it off to Rome... or... I don't know, wherever you think they might take short-story submissions for the Bible these days! Maybe they can put it right after the Book of Revelations. Y'know, as a "feel good" chapter to close things out. Something, y'know... a little lighter than the apocalypse.

Oh, lighten up!

Y'know, just had a thought. Today... (maybe indirectly because of that dream) ...I'm feeling like I wanna write something along the lines of "We'll Hang John Scopes Yet".

See you tomorrow.

Thanks again.