I had a conversation with my neighbor out here at the ranch this week. He was in the middle of a sentence, when my mind silently finished his sentence. He had recently been driving his tractor all around our property cutting or "shredding" the weeds to prepare the ground for some plowing. The phone conversation went like this:
Mr. P: "...I found some c...."
Me: (finishing his sentence in my head) "...some CDs out in the field when I was shredding..."
hahaha
I thought he was going to bring up the large number of compact discs scattered about over the land. I'm sure he discovered my little "hobby" of tossing CDs like frisbees from the front porch out into the property.
"It's what we do to crappy music."
or
"Some band sent us some music and it's driven us to this."
In reality, it's just an old, useless compilation that we couldn't give away even if we tried. There's a few dozen out there, probably broken up from mowers, tractors, and the occasional hoof from a cow or horse or donkey. We had an intern named Rand who I think still has the distance record for one of those plastic discs -- almost to the property fence. One of these days I'm going to send one sailing, have it catch a drift and soar over that fence... Oh, and by the way, the neighbor was calling to tell me that he found "seed." We are going to plant some hay here, and he'd been looking at some seed to buy.
P.O.D.'s new album, When Angels & Serpents Dance, releases soon (next Tuesday). We're going to be sending out an enewsletter about it today. Five Iron Frenzy is back in business. Well, sort of. All of their songs have just been added to iTunes. We were going to announce that first sentence in Tuesday's enewsletter this week (April 1st), but one thing led to another and then I pressed the wrong button and sabotaged that plan. We were going to follow it up with another enewsletter (a dedicated one just to the FIF news) that said, "Psyche! April Fools..." The wrong button I hit was the "throttle" setting for my mass emailer. The working setting is "no throttle," which whips out the emails fast and immediate. I had it set to send out so many per second or per minute ... I can't remember, and since I waited until late afternoon to do the first send, I wasn't going to be around for the follow-up. Why did I just spend time and words explaining that? I don't know. Sometimes it might be better to ramble and leave it be, than ramble and erase.
Random thought: An old friend of mine, who worked with me on the magazine for years, as a matter of fact, met a girl online. They decided to meet. Hit it off. Started dating. Got married. That was probably about ten years ago. I believe they're happily married and raising a couple of kids. I can't vouch for eharmony.com, but aol.com sure did good for them!
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Random detail: Another former employee just called minutes ago, posing as some guy with Atlantic Records. For some reason, I thought, he was calling me to tell me, "I was wrong," then he started rambling about the new P.O.D. record, said something arrogant about being a part of getting them signed and producing their best songs, and concluding that he believed their new album would bomb. 'Wow.' I didn't know what to think. Then he told me his real name and we both laughed.
I guess it's about time to get back into the Word here. The last time we left off (before we took about a year to review/share "book club style" the Cravings book by Erwin McManus) was Exodus. According to the bookmark I left there, we should be on chapter 25. Hmmm. Looks like a good one. I enjoy reading about the tabernacle.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at April 4, 2008 08:22 AM