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Hey, nothing hurts. It's a little song as he was singing the other day. Yeah, she was just belting that out over and over again. It sort of worked for me because I was thinking of it in terms of how you're supposed to feel, apparently, if you're like a spiritually enlightened person.
Nothing hurts. Nothing hurts. You just somehow just are glad through it. Well, I don't know if that's true if a spiritually higher person would say that nothing ever hurts.
I would say they maybe have the tools to get back to no hurt. Maybe simpler, faster than we do. Indeed, that was a simplification on my part. Well, I'm reading this meditation book right now.
She's considered a teacher. I don't remember her name. Pema. Pema is her first name.
Pema, Shodron. Oh, well, there you go. I have seen the book. Okay.
I remember things occasionally. So I'm working my way through the book and I am taking meditation zoom classes once a week as well. And I'll say that she's very kind of reminding us that we're trying to make friends with our mind and that that's a process. So, you know, when you kind of like anything fall off the wagon, you just got to get back on.
I have to say, I've been sort of congratulating myself lately from making spiritual progress. You know, I do a lot of time inside my own head listening to my very severe tinnitus, but also the thoughts in my head. Just thinking about breathing deep and I feel like I make progress and then these old voices start to creep in again. You know, I do.
I do. And then you slip up. And I slip up and it I don't know. Maybe it's that in combination with I just got back home from a long bit of touring.
You, you, as you and myself did, what was it like? A month. Well, like a whole month. Yeah.
At least. Well, it was yeah, it was about that. So then I was only home for three days. And which I worked on a film soundtrack during those days.
Can you say that? I can. Oh, okay. I think it's further.
I think it's progressed enough now that I can just say. Okay. That was a film soundtrack. Yeah.
And then I left right away for another kind of almost three weeks. Yeah. And so I've gotten home and I don't know what to do with myself. I feel a little bereft.
It's been a bumpy landing. Yeah. Like bumpier than usual, it feels like. Yeah.
Maybe because we, when I was home for those three days, I was working. So we didn't really sort of reconnect and land here together. And then I was just whisked away again on the bus with my bros, my dino bros. Yeah.
And I think that when you come back from, well, you know, the thing is like, it's an odd life, right? Because touring does give you this opportunity to forget life for a while, in a way. You know what I mean? It does.
Like you don't have to open the mail. You don't. Just another reminder. Just closing your eyes and grooving to that.
I was just trying to really vibe it there since you put it in there. I was just thinking, you know, so touring can really give you this like sort of false sense that like everything's fine because you can't really do anything about your domestic life that's still carrying on while you're gone, right? You just, you're like, hope it's all going okay back there. You know, good luck with that.
And it's not to say that touring doesn't have its own challenges, but there is a thing when you come back home then and you're like, everything is still there waiting for you and you have to unpack it and you have to still do everything. How was your landing coming back from our hard to end? Obviously, you know that it was very challenged for me. I also had a very, very bumpy land.
And I remember I was talking to you about it. I'm like, well, you know, it can be really difficult to come back from a tour. And I was sort of saying this very knowingly and then I landed on this one. I'm like, God, you know what really struck me is the feeling of overwhelm because it made it hard for me to know what tasks to do first because they all seem equally urgent and pressing that then therefore I couldn't do anything.
So. Wow. That's everything is so deeply important and it must be done right now. I think I got to go lay down.
Turns out that's not how you chip away at that to do list, but it's how you sink into a depression, folks. That's how that just, I really just cradles you out. The little depression blanket goes right up to your head and you go like, okay, goodbye for a while. I got to ignore all these things.
But then you do have to pull back the covers eventually, put your feet over the bed, put your feet on the ground and go, okay, what next? I had another kind of step back. I went to the country music hall of fame and I saw lots of amazing stuff and there was these suits. They have a, there's actually four of them on the cover of the record.
The record is Gilded Palace of sin by the flying breed of brothers. And when I first went to the country music hall of fame, there was not much sort of, there was no cosmic country in it. That's what they call it. This is the, you know, the birds, a lot of the late 60s, early 70s, a lot of that seem to be missing from the country music hall of fame, but that has changed.
Hmm. And they know how to. I didn't think of the birds as country. Maybe that's why I don't automatically think of them as country.
They did a record called Sweetheart of the radio and there's a lot of very, and Grand Parsons actually was a member of the birds for a record. So anyway, I took a picture of, or as a grant, Graham has had a very, very cool nudie suit, which is a sort of country suit, but it had pot leaves on it, which was super cool for us record collector types, you know, as underground, the things that sort of, anyway, that suit was there. So I took a picture and I posted it on Instagram and then I intimated or I said straight up that I thought that Graham Parsons was a teensy overrated, which triggered then like a bunch of comments. And then I found out why did I even, I felt like I was, I really regret it saying anything remotely negative about about Graham.
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Well, I've always thought that this sucks and this people didn't listen to this and often. This isn't a night. I used to do that a lot and I kind of enjoyed it. And I sort of dip my toe back into that with this Graham Parsons saying that Graham Parsons was a teensy critique.
But not to say you don't love him as well. I mean, that's a thing. No, I'm a huge fan of the international submarine band and the first one, Breida Brothers, I can particularly enjoy. We can love things that we also critique.
But maybe you're saying it shouldn't have been done on social media. I don't want it just felt like just have that conversation with somebody there. Something about it, something that I did that and then something about it kind of triggered. It almost like just I just cut myself down.
It's like I felt like I just reverted. Just with this tiny thing, I mean, of course, who cares that I said that, but somehow it really triggered something in me. And I just then all of what I had imagined to be progress just started to kind of just fall away. And then I got home and a couple of days ago and I've just been kind of just stumbling around.
And I, you know, I you know, you have to remember that all your progress is not gone. I know it can feel that way when you're feeling down. I want you to know it's not and it does matter and it does build up over time. It does.
And I think even having this conversation is a testament to that because you're able to go like, okay, I identified why maybe I got a little triggered that and obviously all of the, you know, many responsibilities of coming back into day to day, parenthood and domestic life. It's a lot, you know, it's also what's also happening. It's like, this happens after I've done a record or I've played tours. Like I really, I do really enjoy playing my own songs and, but then there always has to be some moment where I go, where I really feel like in a really visceral way, like I'm not done.
I need to write more songs. I need to write better songs or I'll, like I, I don't know, the other day I heard garden, in which I'd started to, I was like, wow, that's a good song that I wrote and been really proud of it. And then I heard it the other day and I was like, it's not that good. And I, this is just me.
It's, this is just part of the process. You know, like I have to read, I have to hit these lows in order to like, really get back the mojo to really write again and, and to do better, you know, and, but it's like, ah, I have to hit these lows. And I just wasn't expecting it. Like I heard, you know, we were working on the, on the, because I do an acoustic version of garden for this film soundtrack that we're working on.
I think that's okay to say that. Okay. My eyes went big. I know, I don't know if this was, we're sort of in the, in the later stages of this.
And it's, I don't know what the life of this will be. I don't know how far this will reach. But I'll certainly make something available to people to hear at some point. But, um, but I had a really low moment listening to garden.
And I was like, oh, you know, because I kind of build myself up, you know, through shows. And I really do feel confident and I, it's a wonderful feeling, you know, and then like, I think this come down as normal. I do. I do.
I know it's normal, but I guess, I mean, it doesn't make it easier to feel, but I guess, because I, I guess I've had, I don't know, there's just like, I think when we did the tour together, there was a certain real high, high about that. It was like very high. It was like, I didn't feel isolated. Touring can feel so isolating.
And I was with Izzy. So I was with a, with a child really experiencing she's seven. So it's like, we're really. You, you're done.
You were all men and persons in my polarity. Can you do? Okay. You love my songs.
This is grammar. I should apologize. Yeah. Look, play one of the songs.
You know, play one of the songs that you know you love. You love me. Never. Several.
There are many, you love my gilded powers of sin. I'll help you with the flying great brothers and you love blue-ass by the international submarine. Okay. One, two, one, two, three, four.
Sometimes I get upset when people treat me bad. I don't have time to think. So I get real bad. I pull my hair flat somewhere so I can be alone.
When I do, I figure. And I heard, I've got shows to keep you busy. I have to keep my time. I'm pretty proud of the love being with the same message.
When the flowers will be real quick, keep us warm. I got the sun to see your green eyes. It's a night journey. Not long.
Sometimes I get up. Wow. And I see how this feels fast. When I don't get you down, I can't think it's fast.
I made my nails and get that. Fails that go get fast. So slow. When I do, I think I think I can be with the headless.
So, I got shows to keep you busy. I got to keep my time. I'm pretty proud of the love being with the same message. It's my man.
When the flowers will be real quick, keep us warm. I got the sun to see your green eyes. It's a night journey. Not long.
I got the sun to see your green eyes. It's a night journey. Not long. What?
That was a terrible, terrible version of my song. You still got grime persons and apologies. That almost feels like what you just did. It wasn't, Graham.
I changed it. The one thing I changed it to green eyes, because Adele has green eyes. I love that song. I wanted to, but I got my synthesizer back.
I got one of my synthesizers back. And I wanted to use it, sort of stretch it out and use it. So I decided to use it on your cover, Graham. I thought just doing it on acoustic guitar would be a little, it's too stock.
It's like it's normal. It's expected. What's the name of that song? It's called Blue Eyes.
Oh. It's on Lee Hazlewood's record company. Oh, I love him. Yeah, Lee Lovely.
So it's somehow Lee Hazlewood is associated with the International Sun Ringman. I love his name, too. Lee Hazlewood. Yeah.
So I did kind of a deeper voice. Mm-hmm. I let, you know, I really missed my four track, because we've been doing this remote podcast. I didn't have my tricks.
I love your tricks. I'm really soaking up all that four track magic right now, just being here. I love being in your little studio, too. I'm back in my studio.
But our little spots, looking at each other. That's so nice. Yeah, it wasn't like that we were doing, we were doing remote stuff. And I was battling with new technology.
Total rooms. Total rooms. The internets. And I just started to feel like maybe people, maybe the podcast isn't as good now, because I'm only doing it remotely.
And I can't do my incredibly charming tricks on my four track, at least to me. I guess I like that aspect. What are we going to do when you're on the road in September? I don't know.
I'm worried about that. I'm a little, you know, I'm a little concerned about. The podcast? Concerned about the podcast.
I'm trying to keep it, you know. Yeah, special. Do you need to bring a four track with you? Is that not possible?
It's possible, but I don't know if I'm, I already have a lot of stuff I'm lugging around. Yeah, I know. I just got to deal with what I got just moving forward. Okay.
Well, each, oh, do you hear that? It's motorcycle, honey. Yeah, it was outside. Obviously it's not rolling through our house.
It's not Rob Halford. I'm Judas Priest. Come to pay a visit in our living room. No.
Speaking of Instagram, his Instagram account makes me smile. Do you follow Rob Halford? No, but occasionally I just like to check on him. I'll follow him.
Sure, sure. I started following Snoop Dogg after Pee-wee died. I figured I needed a... Someone to help you.
Yeah, because he posts really goofy stuff. But a lot of it. He almost post too much. Oh, Snoop.
A lot of stuff. Is that him who's posting it? Do you think? He's like five or six posts today.
It's a little much. Oh my gosh, really? It's a little much. That's a lot.
Snoop, do you have like 10 businesses to be running? He does. Who or whoever? Who, whoever?
Snoop Incorporated is posting a lot of pretty funny videos. Oh. Kind of sweet. Well, I would follow Snoop, but I can't because I am actually trying to spend the last time on Instagram.
I'm trying to do my post and then just put my phone down because I have a lot to tell you guys. And it turns out to sitting and looking at Instagram doesn't get those things done. So it's all about finding my balance. And so yeah, I'm working on finding my balance.
And I'm trying to, like I said, I'm slowly reading this book on meditation. I have dropped off as a reader so much in my adult life. I read so much when I was younger. But as an adult, it's been pretty, pretty sparse.
So I'm. She also has a child. Yeah. For me, that creates an obstacle to reading and to doing lots of things.
But while she also gives and gives so much to my life, just to be clear, I don't get you a little panties on, twisty. But I'm slowly reading a book and I gotta say, I'm giving myself gentle pads on my back. Like, OK, now you've got through another page and he didn't fall asleep and he didn't go through a different to do list in your head while reading that page. So good job.
I think today, maybe I'm starting to calm down a little bit. Yeah. Oh, good. We are late with this podcast.
Yeah, this is late. But who's also kind of like, I'm through me. Through you off, me too. I was like, we gotta get this done.
I mean, we were accepting Thursday as a date to post. No, surprise. Now it's coming out Friday. It's beautiful.
You guys. And then we have a show on Saturday. We're nervous. We've got a lot going on, OK?
And I got it. John Davis is coming to town next week. We're going to work on the full completion stuff. Yeah, I know.
My Epson printers and working. I have some orders to fill from the Barlow Family General Store. And I'm feeling very bad because my printer's not working. And I don't know how to make it work.
And I get real mad at it. And I feel like the guy in office base who takes the printer out into the field and beats it with a baseball bat. And do you remember that scene? Oh, yeah.
No, I remember that scene. Can you appreciate that movie? If you've never even worked in an officer for you, was it kind of like, huh, what's it like for these goofy guys? Like, I have a lot of feelings or empathy for people who work in offices, even though I have not personally experienced that.
No, I meant when you saw the movie, did you feel like you could relate at all to the feelings that they had? You know, like we're seeing the job. It's a mic judge film. I don't know what that means.
Mic judge is a genius. He's Beavis and Budhead. Oh, oh, oh, oh, then I love Beavis and Bud. So that explains everything.
He's an idiocracy. He's sales from the tour bus. Oh, well, I just felt like I really haven't worked on like an officer. OK.
Let me call this one. OK, that's fine. Good job, you two. I did your best.
I did. I did. 45% of them. Congratulations.
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