Todd Snider Road Journal:
“WE’RE THROWING SOME BLEACHERS UP OUT IN THE SUN…..”
i just got off the message board.
i loved that hippie ladies poem
and i sure didnt mean to scare the girl in colorado
they gave me drugs to kick drugs
and then i had to kick those drugs
no big deal
(so other than that mrs. lincoln…..how was the play?)
it wasnt that hard
all you gotta do is let them see you sweat.
and most of it i did on a plane with john prine
who helped me to see the humor in the situation
i’ve actually been doing well
sleeping and everything
yesterday was one of the best days on the road in awhile
we drove down highway sixty one…
which was a first for me.
we played dylans record as we drove.
the road has no signs ……….
its river and farmland…..
it made me wonder….
“do people really hate these people”
i doubt it.
i dont think this is the america that the rest of the world is sick of.
this road is what we are at our best
i think.
so I said…..
“i got forty red white and blue shoe strings
and a thousand telephones that will not ring
do you know where i can can get rid of these things?”
and louie the king said…
“let me think for a minute son,
yes i think it can be very easily done,
just take everything on down to highway 61″
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“im in a really really really great place”
tanya harding
“im in a really really really great place”
general custard
“im in a really really really great place”
richard nixon
“im in a really really really great place”
hilary clinton
“All i want is the truth….just gimmee some truth”
John lennon.
“dammit…..who let him in here????”
tom parker
“there goes the whole neigborhood.!!!!!!”
archie bunker
“these chicks dont even know the name of my band”
eminem
love,
todd
p.s.
what i meant to say last month was that
i was gonna take a month or two
off the journal entrys
then
after rereading last months
i wrote this months
as so not to leave on a sour note
so on this happy note
i begin my break
right
now
now
now
at the end of this sentence
period
ok
thats it
period.