good times

so i'm sitting here with milty3 watching a good old episode of married with children.
bud is really funny. kelly is sexy and funny, and peg is way hotter than i remembered her being.
so just like it is here in brookline tonight, on tv, it's a billion degrees out today.
the family is complaining about the heat. al buys a huge old ww2 german kaiser air conditioner the size of a small car, and has bud hook it up to the city power outside their house.
as a result there's a blackout on their block, and their neighbors come after them with pitchforks and torches. they move their lawn chairs into the supermarket. the manager comes by to ask what they are doing. peg says what does it look like they're doing- they're shopping.
i am reminded of my childhood.

from nicole: snakes on the path

broken things, rotten things
dead but not forgotten things
you stalk me
and block my way
but can you take my breath away?

it seems
i have the realist dreams
i sacrifice myself to you
body and soul
but through and through?
there's something i can't give to you

i walk along
coal to ash
i wear your skins
you've marked me
you are my trophy
and if it seems as though i love you
it's because i do

from nicole: practice practice practice...

my finger tips and hands hurt. so does my back sort of- from crouching in the same position for so long... but i am starting to get callouses, which will help.

memorizing james jamerson bass lines- i almost gave up the first time i tried that.
i know that i still suck... but i can imagine being good....and that keeps me going.

i will stick with this....
i will not get distracted and drop it.
i know that it does me little practical good to know how to play 20% of every instrument.
i will practice my damn bass so that i am better equipped to conjure the balls to go out and play it.

my first personal blog... a little late- but right on time

these are crazy times...

everyone has a voice. everyone has a platform for spreading their opinion, if they so choose.... it's a big shift, and it has happened relatively suddenly....

i think that there is a new distribution of power and influence available to us. a new world.
what i type in here, online, might affect others...

i'm pretty sure no one is reading this now... but who knows about tomorrow??
there is responsibility in this. what i write could be like a sword. or like a kiss.
right? ok. so here we go.

nicole's blog (relationship) rules/vows"
1. lets be honest please- i promise i will never lie to you
2. honesty is important, but not more than love. lets not be hurtful if we can help it.
3. no judgment. i will talk about the stupidest shit sometimes. you can too.

ok... that does it, i think. for now

xo