January 15 - Song for Mark and Joel

This song is a series of fraying loops. A chaotic, rolling guitar rhythm, the fuzz of the cassette recorder mixing with the fuzz of the acoustic guitar mixing with the repeated lyrical refrains that pointed to a life that went on and on, almost the same each time.

Trouble coming by in this song is the feeling of things being different. This leads to the hope of a special feeling, either dashed or accentuated by trouble.

The guiter refrain in this song (a moving inverted a on three strings with the rest open and droning) is apparetly from a band called Wckr Spgt who John knew, and whose singer, when he asked about the genesis of this song, was suspicious of the simple explanation John gave, which is a mark I think of how John's songs work and are received.

We're only fifteen days into the year. Trouble is coming by, and in the second month of winter it may get much much colder.