Cartoon Gold – Drive-By Truckers copyright 2011
I’m not good with numbers
I just count on knowing when I’m high enough
A mule with only two legs counting steps toward dangling carrots don’t add up
I think about you when I can and even sometimes when I can’t I do
Once the driver knows you got good sense he takes away the carrots too
Getting all excited finding nothing that was never there before
Is like bringing flowers to your Mama and tracking dog shit all over the floor
Jesus made the flowers but it took a dog to make the story good
I think about you when I can and sometime when I don’t I probably should
Tending bar in LA after dark must be like mining cartoon gold
Rocks that won’t cooperate and tools that drive you crazy must get old
I think about you when I can and sometimes when I do I still get caught
sitting in a bar in LA after dark with my sunglasses on
Man oh man I’m really digging the latest CD by the drive-by truckers, Go-Go Boots. There is just something about their style that just really moves me. Great lyrics powered by an awesome some and the lot-they rock.
Me? I’m just pushing on man. Life is good nothing to complain about really. I got everything I need and I’m grateful for it. Sometimes I screw up and wish I’d done something else but whatever no regrets. Teaching has been going well and yet sometimes I think why the hell am I doing this? There’s always two sides to everything and lately I’ve just been choosing to stay on the side that is positive and going to promote growth. I watched this really cool movie about Michael Jordan the other day and one of the things that made him so great was his ability to be present and move past his failures. Just move on and let yesterday be yesterday. Pretty powerful.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. If there is any fault it is beating yourself up for something that isn’t happening any more. I’m not shitting on reflection and taking good look at my part in things but what I am talking about is going over it again and again and hating myself all the more each time. There is a point in which reflection turns into self-deprecation and it’s no longer beneficial.
I hit a meeting tonight and it felt pretty good. I didn’t want to go. I wan’t to just stay in bed and relax but tomorrow is important to me and I know how helpful meetings are to my perspective.
Maybe I have some sort of connection to the south I never knew about. Maybe that is why I like the DBT’s so much…maybe it’s just the soulful music they write and perform. I dunno but they really rock…