Towards summer’s end, while careening around the wild dunes of Western Michigan with my good friend Joe Gannon and his family, he surprised me by pumping his car’s radio full of some high octane rock ‘n roll, Detroit’s favorite son Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. Joe knows. When I’m in Michigan, I listen to a lot of Seger. Over the course of the last year, the version of “Travelin’ Man / Beautiful Loser” on Live Bullet has become one of my theme songs. The singer spins the tale of the lone road warrior, outrunning his youth, always staying one step ahead. Of what, exactly? Only he knows. Until he realizes, “You just don’t need it all.” His story has become all too familiar as I course the heartland, thousands of miles of straight asphalt spinning beneath my feet like the wheel of a worn out grindstone, spending more time out there than in here.
With the second track, Joe Cocker’s take on “Space Captain,” the highly under-appreciated Matthew Moore’s tale of the spaceman who fell to “this lonely planet,” I realized, Joe dug up a mix of tunes I’d shared with him a year earlier.
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By: Wastler
Category: Music
Mom, I’m not dead. Stop sending me e-mail. You have my phone number. Just call me.
About once a week, someone sends me an e-mail with the subject heading, “Are you dead?”
No.
As summer drew to a close, I got sick. My blog did, too. A nasty virus left by a fake commenter. With erectile dysfunction. The problem’s been fixed, though I’m sure the commenter remains flaccid. After recovering from my illness, I’ve been playing catch-up with work, trying to make ends meet. These are excuses, and they’re not very good ones. Forgive me.
This post is meant to act as an update of sorts.
Over the course of the next few months, All Plaidout’s going to receive a face lift. It will have many different incarnations as I reconstruct it to best suit my aesthetic. I will be introducing my first full-time employee. I’ll act as Editor-in-Chief, and I’ll still control Twitter and facebook. He’ll be paid, as I am, in the satisfaction of hitting the “publish” button. It’s my hope that as a blog with two contributors, it will improve as we compete with one another to post new and better stories of our discoveries on the highways of life.
Please update your links. http://allplaidout.wordpress.com is no longer.
And don’t forget: in addition to Twitter, and facebook, I have an inspiration page on tumblr where I destroy any and all belief that I have good taste – particularly in music.
Thanks for your patience while I regain my footing, make some much-needed updates and changes, and introduce new content and projects to this plaid, plaid world.
- Max Wastler
