My Fortieth birthday was awfully quiet. The usual calls from aunts, cousins, grandma were noticeably absent. No call from mom (although we might have beat her to it with Skype – we called her so she could see Clara cruising). No writing on my Facebook Wall. I passed into phantom on that decidedly futureless birthday, 4-0.
I did get an email from Kathy Power that made me smile. Kathy and I are exact birthday mates. She is my female counterpart on earth. Her email had no subject. The body was composed of mostly white space. “We’re forty” it read.
Every so often in the past few months Tricia would mention that my birthday falls on a Saturday this year. She would suggest things we could do but I always let the conversation fizzle away. Not that I’m bummed about turning 40 – it’s more that I’ve hardly noticed and as far as birthday wishes go, I think much more about Clara’s first than my two score.
This is not to say that I no longer harbor ambitions. But I can’t seem to help that the future in my mind belongs to Clara right now. As she grows I’m sure that will change. This moment is just that and life is long.
A Ghost from the Past
The Original de Schmog Fairy Tale is now available at all your favorite online digital music stores including: eMusic, iTunes, Last.fm, Napster, Rhapsody and many many more.
This is the Rudyard’s Recording from 1992 featuring the Sprawl Horns and a dildo. I’m very excited to make this available and I hope you will download it and play it for all your friends (the cool new artwork was commissioned from Mr. John Cramer for a song. I hope you enjoy that too).
Here’s the de Schmog Fairy Tale Orchestra Performing the Flames that Were in His Heart.
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If you guys were anything, god knows you pulled it off live.
Your 40th sounds remarkably like my own. I hope you are getting what you can out of life, and I hope it isn’t quite the halfway mark. Enjoy, dad. And enjoy again.
Happy belated my friend. There is much work ahead for you for yourself and for you for Clara and for you for Tricia. And i hope a little work for me too. Ultimately, I think it’s all for all. you know like the musketeers, all for one and one for all. So don’t leave yourself too far behind… unless thats what yourself wants to do… oh don’t listen to me, i’ve been reading weird books again. happy birthday man, i’ll be toasting to you soon.
oh, and fairytale, that is a masterpiece if you ask me. killer new artwork too.
Yay 40! How many of us have turned that number this year? I count at least 3.
Dude, you have to do it FOR Clara.
Don’t forget those artists who didn’t even start pulling off their masterpieces until they were in their 60s, and for some, that’s when they started their ‘craft.’
i told tms to say HB to you during our conversation sunday! and as for the other stuff, ive kinda settled on the fact that my own international stardom will arrive late in life… but you, you ARE ALREADY a star.. and you always have been.the reward is in doing what you love.
I need to reactivate my e-music account.
You guys rock. Er, which is a good thing even though I just recently slammed the new face of rock.
I was hoping somebody would notice the funny last.fm tag. I stumbled across that link. I don’t know who put the dS image on last.fm – I’m thinking it was Clay.