Comments on: California Stars

By: josh

josh — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:00:30 +0000

That's a good point Jed. I just used the amazon attribution to Billy Bragg and Wilco because I link to the amazon page for the album, but you are probably very right that most people won't know that Woody Guthrie wrote it all.

I believe I will change that.

By: Jed Wood

Jed Wood — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:55:55 +0000

Since many folks out there will not be hearing the song in their head when they read the lyrics (which is too bad, because it's a nice song), I think it's important to give credit to their original author, Woody Guthrie (both the Mermaid Avenue albums are all his lyrics).

I'm jealous. I don't know how many times my friends and I threatened to just keep heading to Vegas as we drove back to Provo from Salt Lake. Even now in Chicago, my wife and I talk of spontaneous trips to some cozy spot along the lake in Wisconsin, but unfortunately the only short-notice trips we've managed are to the grocery store or PotBelly's...

By: jack

jack — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:13:29 +0000

this a great song isn’t it? i haven’t heard in a while… pulling the cd out right after this. you got to love wilco and mr.bragg.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:30:53 +0000

Thank you for the truly beautiful entry and slideshow. My wife and I are facing a decision that would potentially put us in different cities for a year, and, thanks in part to your words, I realized this weekend that we just can’t do it. Law school can wait; being together is what matters.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:26:34 +0000

Since I moved to B.C. from Texas I’ve been breathing fresh air ever since. I love getting out of my office. It’s the best thing. There is something about air that is close to the ocean, it’s better.

By: martin

martin — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:18:18 +0000

Hey we were at Sunny Hills High school on Saturday. When can we see you guys?

By: old prof

old prof — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:56:05 +0000

Ok, I've read it and gone back to bed and can't get two songs out of my mind. I guess I'm going to have to get up and dump them on you before I can sleep. It took looking up the first song and seeing the lyrics in their completeness to see all the references that kept it chasing itself in a hampster wheel after I read and empathasized with your post (which I love,by the way).

California dreaming.

I'd love to rest my weary head on somebody's shoulder I hate to grow older all by myself

all by myself, in the mornin' all by myself in the night I sit alone with a table and a chair so unhappy there, playin'solitaire

all by myself, I get lonely watchin' the clock on the shelf (!) I'd love to rest my weary head on somebodys's shoulder I hate to grow older all by myself.

And ...with apologies for the emendation:

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey I've been for a walk On a winters day I'd be safe and warm If I was in L.A California Dreaming On such a winters day

...Stopped ...[in for gas]... as I passed along the way ...If I didn't tell her I could leave today."

For antithetical reasons I'd love to leap into the car and drive to Provo but old profs have promises to keep, and a wife asleep [in the next room] and .... ah well....

"I'm done with the report now and sleep is calling."