Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Try, try, try just a little bit harder / So I can love, love, love her, I tell myself / Well, I’m gonna try yeah, just a little bit harder / So I won’t lose, lose, lose her to nobody else. / Hey! Well, I don’t care how long it’s gonna take you now, / But if it’s a dream I don’t want / No I don’t really want it / If it’s a dream I don’t want nobody to wake me. / Yeah, I’m gonna try yeah, just a little bit harder / So I can give, give, give, give her every bit of my soul. / Yeah, I’m gonna try yeah, just a little bit harder / So I can show, show, show her love with no control. / Hey! I’ve waited so long for someone so fine / I ain’t gonna lose my chance, no I don’t wanna lose it, / Ain’t gonna lose my chance to make you mine, all mine. / All right, get it! Yeah!
Today is the day. The anniversary of that boring Friday before Memorial Day weekend of 2004. A day when I really just wanted to hide by myself here in the canyon. My big plan for the holiday weekend was to buy a new reclining deck chair and read a book by the pool.
Target had just opened up on La Brea and quite honestly I had never been to Target. I figured they might carry outdoor furniture. I’m not sure what the odds were that I would walk by the bowl section that late sunny afternoon.
Well, I never did find a pool chair at Target. I did bump into a friend, a special woman—and now we share a life, hopes, and dreams.
She’s a woman who puts up with my ranting about rock ‘n’ roll and waits for me to come to bed each Thursday night after I spend an hour in our garage office playing records and Googling songwriters. She loves me, feeds me. Our lil Jonah too.
Fuck man, she’s becoming one hell of a good cook! This house has finicky cats.
I love ya baby. Let’s enjoy another one…
The Idelic Hit of the Week:
Holly Miranda – All I Want Is To Be Your Girl
We’ll miss ya Don.
