Hallelujah!

So last night was a very special night for me. Yang-En and I went out for a really nice dinner. It was at a place called fish on the rocks and Yang-En managed to find the only meal with beef on the menu. It was deceptively named… (grain fed scotch fillet) After dinner we were going to go to the Aquarium (where we went on our first date) and get ice cream, but dinner went late so we had to bag those plans. That was a little disappointing but we had a nice walk through the city and finally ended up at home.
At home I had fashioned a kind of sheet fort out of the awning in our back yard. Inside were, a couple of cushions under a blanked for us to sit on, gently flashing Christmas lights, some candles and a bottle of sparkling wine on a small table. Music was playing and the effect was perfect. So I recited a poem by W.B. Yeats to her.
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

After I had finished saying the poem, I kneeled up close and said, “Yang-En Elizabeth Jane Hume will you marry me?” and revealed a small ring made out of paper with an origami rose on top. She laughed and said yes.
This caught me a little off guard, as it was a paper ring and quite small. I back tracked a little and said oh… I was a little nervous so I made you a big one as well. Then I revealed the exact same ring but close to twice as big. Then I told her that there was actually a present inside of the big one and she’d have to open it to find out what the present was. She didn’t want to open it because she liked it, but I anticipated that and gave her another big origami ring. After seeing the second large ring she opened the first one to find her actual wedding ring, small and simple diamond ring.
The rest of the night was spent talking, making phone calls and the like. That’s my story.

We sing with our hero's 33 rounds per minute! - The Gaslight Anthem

Hey kids, I know it's been a while and i'm not gonna lie i haven't read any of your blogs for a while... I'm sorry but i think that if and when we see eachother again we'll have to catch up the old fashioned way. Speaking with eachother over coffee or some booze. Probably coffee the way its going because it's too expensive to drink here. I seriously feel more sorry than average for alcoholics in Australia, so expensive...

mmm.... for those of you who didn't know i'm in australia. Sydney in fact to try and be in love. sorry guys cuz i'm lazy i'm going to copy part of an email that has some of an update.

Life is good i've got a consistant job now making sandwiches and taking orders in a cafe. before i worked a couple of days here and there working for a food delivery service in the sydney food markets and selling goat cheese at a smaller farmers market. They've all been fun and very interesting jobs. I just can't get away from food apparently...

Other life events include purchasing a turntable and already accumulating an (i think) impressive vinyl collection. I should have owned a turntable years ago!!! the sound quality is significantly better and having a multichannel amp helps me demonstrate this and i seriously think that i'm starting a vinyl revolution in the land down under. Suddenly everyone around me is really interested in getting a turntable or at least getting a hold of some vinyl to take over to my place to play.

well, despite my laziness in blog reading i really do love you guys and i wish you the best. If something reminds me of you in particular i look you up read your blog and all that.

hearts!!!! jeff

I fall in love like a fool

So, I've noticed that at least i've become a huge fan of roots/bluegrass music. It's probably due to the relative novelty of it, and the (in my opinion) funly complex musicianship that is usually apparent. that's right funly fun + ly it's not a word as the little red line informs me but i like it!! I'm trying to think of how this came about.. I mean it's roots music, it's stupposed to be old fashioned and passionless, but there are some sweet bands that are breathing new life into it. My band opened for a band called cutthroat shamrock, who are an irish "punkgrass" band, we've also opened for Jason and the punknecks, another punkgrass band. Both are supercool but i'll admit i like the cutthroat shamrocks a little better than the punknecks. supercool is also it's own word now. anyway, what's the deal with roots music!!! it's probably cuz modern "country" music is just a whole radio station of 80's power ballads with a little drawl... and maybe if your lucky the solo is done on a slide guitar instead of a telecaster. no offence to the telecaster which is an epic guitar. folk is too freakin' full of itslef I mean let's write music that will become a folk song. a timeless expression of the common people. so that can't be why roots music is seeeming to become the cool underground thing to do. It a makes senxese in the senxce that roots is probably the rathest that one will get from pop music that rapes its inspiration be it blues, punk, rock or whatever you won't see a pop star drawing from roots music and suddenly incorporation a banjo and mandolin. it'll probably happend wonce they figure out that people acutally like it because it's increadibley anti-mechanisitc and modern... non-commerical in a hypehcnated word. well, whild that hasn't happend yet you might as well enjoy the awsome rootats music that is being plays. .357string band, those poor bastards, brent amaker and the rodeo, Corb Lund, cutthroat shamrock. if you see any of these guys coming yoru way go out and support them and sdance a drunken jig for me at least. I've re-named by blog in ohonor of my new theme i hope those of you hwo still read this garbage like it. I wouldlike to personallly thank bowmore single malt scotch whichlsy , erly times kenturcky whichsy and PBR for it's suppor of this blog, which out you non of this was poasible.

Cheers, Jeff

PS. I was willy wonka for halloween and it was awsome, but bozeman was crazy buysy on halloween and i hated it so many popel blehnn... and I didn't get to see my show or get to go so the partys i wanted to go do not cool...

where is my mind? -the pixies

Hey kids here is some new music i've been listening to

it's time to switch to wiskey we've been drinking beer all night - Corb Lund _

Hey kids
sorry it's been a whiel. but it's been a whiel. we've ben on tour and that was crazy. good and bad, buyt it really 2wqant to be on the road oagain. now it's the 4th and it's 0our nations birthday. it's the time to celebrat e the crzzy guys that decideed we needed liberty. it could be englands fault but we wanted it that badly. Sorry guys i wasted all my blogging on intanst messanger and now myh ands hurts.
ceers!!
Jeff

I'll cool the hottest water with my cold and bitter tears - Billy Bragg/ Wilco???

I'm not sure who said the previous (title) lyric, but it's pretty sweet. I kind of makes me wish i had actually cried in the last three years...

ah yes, more proof that i'm a cold and heartless _____ name your explitive i think just about any of them work. just choose your favorite.

I got a text the other day asking what (if i had to choose uno curse word) my word would be. I choose the word that i think is the funniest mostly because i only curse when it's funny. kinda like quoting lock, stock and two smoking barrels. Angry cursing isn't fun for anyone.

Sorry this is overdue, i usually try to keep up with other blogs before i update mine but yet again tonight this is not the case... eesh.

the other day was queens day and i was reminded that a dutch professor invented gin... i wish you could be here to hear the sounds i'm making cuz they're not very flattering. the fact of the matter is that gin is terrible. nope TERRIBLE!! If i want to taste pine tree i'll go outside and lick one. All that had not kept me from finishing off the bottle we have in our house.

somewhere in this blog will be some pictures of my hair.( the location will become more obscure as soon as i add them... ) it's a dirty mess and i'm asking you what should be done. Kroeze and I did a little hack job on it the other day but it's mostly the same.

Lots of cool and lame stuff has gone down since my last blog. I joined the band and we had our first show (it was amazing). Tonight they are recording and i'm going to write this and go to bed cuz it's been a super long week. We're gearing up for a tour from here to seattle to LA and up through las vegas so if any of you are around let me know and i'll let you know when the show is. It's super fun to be playin' agian. We've got some vids on youtube I'm not part of any of them, but it's still cool. Anyway I hope to see you at a show one day.

Wow this is going to turn into long... Alan and Company where out along with Walhof and company, but they didn't stay very long. Alan, Chris, Jess, Jane, and Karl it was excellent to see you again.

Brad and Kroeze left this week... Brad moved to fricken missoula and Kroeze is off to indiana and as a result i'm feeling a bit lonely. Tiger cat is cool, but he bites me and not in any sort of good way.

Also somewhere in here is a picture laurel did for me as a gift to my parents. I love it. So much so i show it to pretty mucn anyone that i meet. this might make laurel sick but i took a picture of it with my phone and i have it as my back ground. eesh... I think it's still a compliment. i hope so.

I've been seeing this girl lately, so that has help with the lonelyness. I've actully likes her for a while, but i've always thought that she is wild soul. not fit to be caged, which is how I view a relationship with me being... that coupled with her warnings to not get to attached have left me thinking more and more in the oppisite realm... rotten forbidden fruit, why must you be so tempting.

i've been thinking about the phrase "willful self destruction" and as wierd as it may sound i think it has some legitimate christian interpretations.

Are you restless like me? - Against me!

So, We went to missoula, had a blast
Brad went back this weekend
My Parents are in Nicaragua
Despite people's nagging I will not be going there
that means you!
I'm baby sitting my brothers
babies
We thought ghostly was going to die
poisened mice
she made it
wondering who's right
rancid vs. coldplay
"it's a wicked world we live in
it's cruel and unforgiving"
vs.
"We live in a beautiful world
yes we do, yes we do"
Contradiction never seemed to plausible
Here is Big Quinn playing "copperhead road"