03 16 05 repeat anything more than twice, and it's music

It’s amazing how memories can bubble up. Yesterday, a student was playing ‘Blackbird’, which brought me right back to High School and Eric Higbee playing in on the back porch of my parent’s house. Amazing. He could really play that song. Today a student told me he was planning on going to the Philmont Scout reservation in New Mexico this summer. I was there 13 years ago. Time flies. Had a bit of writer’s block the last few days. I’ve been staying out of the studio. The teaching has been good. It’s nice to have the guitar in my hands everyday.
So we’re going to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Amazing. Billions of dollars spent on a war in Iraq(I wonder how that’s going by the way, seems to have fallen off the 11 o’clock news radar), and we get $2.08/gal gas and a wildlife refuge turned oil pipeline. As Herbie Hancock said, “greed and malice”. Amazing.