Feb 25 2007
Directions
I'm going to be in San Francisco for the remainder of the week, but I'm still going to try posting a couple things over that time (including the next part of my narrative series — "Fall From Grace").
Although I've tapped a couple of my friends for comments and suggestions in connection with my trip, I've been actively avoiding writing about any aspects in connection with the trip, let along the specifics of same, because I don't want to screw things up. For all of you well-wishers out there, please feel free to wish me luck. As for the rest of you, please feel free to kiss my pasty-white ass (not really, though - the kissing part, my ass is actually kinda white).
In the meantime, I'm going to post the only video version of Josh Rouse performing the song "Directions," off of his 2000 album "Home." For anyone paying attention, this song was also prominently featured in one of the only "true-romance" stories to have ever successfully captured my attention — the Cameron Crowe film "Vanilla Sky" (an adaptation of the Spanish film "Abre Los Ojos").
This particular clip is from a live performance, but don't let the questionable sound quality distract you from Rouse's music, which is a sweet, swelling, twang-tinged pop that will appeal to fans of Matthew Sweet, the Pernice Brothers, and Archer Prewitt alike.
Well, then. Good luck in your secret mission. It’s snowing again, though I urge you not to make fun for fear of endangering the mission.
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Do me a favor and eat at the Fog City Diner while you’re there. I miss it so much.