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10 June, Thursday

a BOOK after the SIGNING
(further)


10 June, Thursday
      
       Press check at 9:00 a.m.:  'Till We Have Faces "J" Cards. 
Button search.  bAseball cap design.  Dan Porter:  Mercedes Benz for
rainy days, Porche for nice weather.  Interview with Cliff Radel. 
Thunderstorm!  Off to Zender's to design T-Shirts with Owen & Michael
Wilson 'til 2:00 A.M.

22 June

     I'm sitting at a desk in a nameless hotel in Bryn Wawr, a
beautiful village outside of Philadelphia.  We just finished a
whirlwind flurry of 5 consecutive concerts.  Jay Boberg, President of
I.R.S., spent a couple days with us.  First he came up to my apartment
and rooted around the library and chatted with us.
      He said we're the only band I.R.S. has signed that he didn't see
perform first.  He said the he had a good feeling about O.T.R.,
similar to the good feeling he had when he discovered and signed R.E.M.
     He then met us for two show in Cleveland.  We talked about (among
many things) releasing a CD-5 this fall with some unreleased songs and
maybe a "live" version of 'If I'm Drowning.'
     But right now I'm listening to Van Morrison on "World Cafe" on
MXPN and I'm happy.
     And last nite on a nite off Krin and I saw Rosanne Cash and then
Lyle Lovett and his large band.  Lyle was pure aristocracy: 
deliberate, elegant, refined by Texas fire.  Sometimes one sees a
concert and leaves with the overwhelming desire to just write som
great songs and forget about everything else.
     Right now I am so overwhelmed by the increasingly huge machinery
in which I am caught called "the music industry."  Somedays  I think,
well, we won't always be releasing a debut record.  (It's impossible
to be an artist and be two weeks away from a major label debut). 
Other days I think, this could cripple me permanantly.
     Not being able to find solitude.  Not bein able to immerse
oneself in music.  Not bein open to grace:  receiving those ideas and
gifts that work themselves into songs.
     The only other downside to releasing 'Patience' this Monday is
the fact that the songs have been around awhile and others wait in the
wings...Patience.
      The only other downside is being wrung out like a dirty dishrag.
 tIred, empty of oneself.  But hopefully I'm empty because I've given
myself away.  Hopefully only to be filled by something greater than
myself.  Hopefully this is no different than running a long race, and
running in such a way whereby winning is conceivable.
     The road beckons.  I must go.


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