asphalt mariners: southern fried goodbye |
may 4th, 2008baltimore to nycit's about ten minutes to eleven and we don't have to leave till noon but i'm wide awake although we were up to close to five am watching "when we were kings" on jon's loy...
Posted by chris barron on Mon, 05 May 2008 04:55:00 PST |
the sweet smell of asphalt |
april 30th, 2008charlotte, nc to chapel hill, ncon the road with the time bandits. 85 north slips under the wheels of the van and the day is bright blue. the white dogwoods are in high bloom and the p...
Posted by chris barron on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:13:00 PST |
stuck inside of birmingham with the nashville blues again |
bob dylan and i sit in a hotel room high above birmingham with the all lights quavering in the warm evening air. his harmonica splits the dim sky with a whining that pulls the strings inside my blue h...
Posted by chris barron on Fri, 02 May 2008 03:30:00 PST |
easter sunday |
march 23, 2008there is a moment when extreme disappointment sets in.a tearing sensation in the heart, or rather, a premonition of a tearing sensation because sadness is a black flower in the dark, dir...
Posted by chris barron on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:50:00 PST |
semana santa in malaga continued |
wednesday, march 19, 2008let me kind of explain semana santa in malaga a little better.there are all these processions. they each have two tronnos or thrones that are these kind of parade floats that ...
Posted by chris barron on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:39:00 PST |
madrid airport |
march 17, 2008here in madrid the airport is something of a wonder. brightly colored steel beams in long thin cones, i suppose you’d call them, hold up high a ceiling made of long wooden slats ar...
Posted by chris barron on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:44:00 PST |
stavanger to new york |
march 9, 2008i woke up today and i had these glorious bruises. without going into to much detail for those who have followed these norwegian chronicles yet not leaving those who are new to the adventu...
Posted by chris barron on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:42:00 PST |
finse, norway |
march 8th, 2008when i woke up this morning the light of the blazing sun was tearing it's way out of heaven and striking the snow blind like long lightning on a white anvil but when i woke up long ago ...
Posted by chris barron on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST |
this is me stopping typing |
march 6th, 2008here in stavanger in my hotel room i'm tired. i've written six songs in three days. my brain feels like an old tire. today i wrote three songs in as many hours. these guys are really go...
Posted by chris barron on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:18:00 PST |
stockholm airport |
march 4, 2008i'm sitting here in this lovely terminal with the blue scandinavian sky out the window waiting for sas flight 853 for oslo, norway with the sifty light on the wood and stone and glass and...
Posted by chris barron on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:35:00 PST |
