to my friends who still have unreturned phone calls, i can assure you that it's not because you're not my friends. it's because i'm working in the most beautiful ballpark in the world now, but that requires a lot of work. it's also because i've been on the road, just about exclusively, for the past three weeks.

i think things will slow down perhaps the 10th of May...and i may have some time off the seventh of may, which is a thursday, i believe. but, until then, just call me swamp mcswamp. we're talking unreturned calls from five weeks ago, which is embarrassing, but emblematic of the awful/wonderful time i've been having lately.

in other news, i think sumo has officially moved to the top of the charts of the 'smartest person i've ever met' list. not to scoff at all of my very smart friends, but...london school of economics!? i mean, that's cool.

finally, guided by voices has announced that their next album, half smiles of the decomposed, will also be their last. i guess it was inevitable, and i have been with them for seven years of their 13-year brush with 'stardom,' but it's just a bit sad. i haven't read postal blowfish in awhile but, i'm thinking that it'll be depressing come next february. pavement-like, only. but less so, because their dvd's out already. (if gurs is still a reader, he'll get it. you probably won't.)