June 2010
12 posts
Blackhawk Up
June 25, 2010 From my Blackberry Blackhawk Up I’m sitting in a Blackhawk helicopter with the Time Bandits in Baghdad. The flash of the rotor as it slashes the dusty sheet of sunlight that is the entire sky makes everything herky jerky like a home movie. I tug on the tabs of my shoulder straps as I realize the wide open door isn’t a door at all. There is no door. The whole side...
Under the Cammo Netting, Somewhere in Kuwait
From My Blackberry Under the Cammo Netting, Somewhere in Kuwait Thursday, June 24, 2010, 1:17am Woke up 04:00 hours. (4am, my civilian friends) jet lagged and unable to get back to sleep. Around 6:45 Ben “Stretch” Burger knocked on my door and we braved the already high 90’s hot breeze and daylight bright like lightning that forgot to end and went to breakfast. I ate two ...
Somewhere in Kuwait
From my blackberry
Somewhere in Kuwait
June 22, 2010
I’m wide awake, jet lagged and it’s around 6am. Out of a robin’s egg, pale sky; through my dusty window, past the dark blue curtain, comes the tale end of the dawn’s early light and with it, faintly, bravely, the clear, staccato notes of a gallant bugle’s Reveille.
twelve minutes
twelve minutes june 21, 2010 it’s about twelve minutes before i have to be down in the lobby to catch the plane for amsterdam and on to kuwait. jon and i had a great gig here in atlanta last night. 99X has a concert series and he and i had a few jack daniels and played until the people were dancing in the aisles. it felt good. we played about two hours and got a double encore. matt,...
a memory
a memory june 21, 2010 around the time that i wrote two princes, when i was nineteen and living in my home town, princeton, new jersey, i was walking home through the weird, kind of maze like parking lot off witherspoon street with a boom box quietly playing muddy waters’ chess collection. i was loping along the cinder block wall where my friend, ben lewis, had spray painted “the distu”...
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our new "little record," songs from the summer of...
starlog - june 16, 2010
songs from the summer of sangria: chris barron and the time bandits bring you five new songs (from the uhh.. you know, the summer of sangria). produced by the great eric ambel who also plays stunt guitar, it’s receiving raves from all kinds of people who aren’t even our moms and stuff. “songs from the summer of sangria” is available like...
August 2009
8 posts
somewhere in iraq - thursday, august 6, 2009
somewhere in iraq thursday, august 6, 2009 i woke up to the air conditioning unit pounding cold air in a cone into the room i shared with phil “animal” cimino, drummer of my solo band the time bandits. the louvers on the air conditioner, one of those window jobs, were yellowed with a thick coating of fine, talcum powder textured dust. you could smell the dust and feel it on your teeth and...
somewhere in iraq
august 5, 2009 the above is the date i’m writing about but i arrived home yesterday (august, 13, 2009) and from here on i’m writing from notes i took on the trip. it just became too difficult to try to actually write over there. as i mentioned earlier, i didn’t actually bring my computer on the trip and writing stuff down in my notebook, apart from notes, seemed futile as i would just have to...
saturday, august 6th, 2009, 21:53 this is a journal entry but since i have to ration my time on the computer, i thought i’d let it double as an update to my loved ones. being over here, it really hits home how lucky we are to have love, plenty to eat and air conditioning. i’m at another base. this time were with the air force. i’m totally safe and sound and all’s well. no...
a couple of entries that were in my notebook...
sunday august 3, 2009 minneapolis to amsterdam to kuwait the chip of a moon is hanging between the rusty bed of clouds and the big blue of the sky out of the window of the plane that’s taking us to iraq via amsterdam and kuwait. i have a piece of paper folded, and jammed in to the crack above my tv because it won’t turn off and that always annoys me if i don’t feel like watching....
quick installment of "somewhere in iraq"
august 7th, 2009, 1:40am i’m exhausted but kind of too tired to feel it and surrounded by too many super bad-assed people who are working way harder than me to admit it or god forbid, whine about it. i’m covered in dust and old sunblock, my pants are destroyed as is the white cotton, v-neck t-shirt i took out of the package this morning. we were taken by convoy to a rest an...
iraq n roll
tuesday, august 4, 2009, 10:24pm
i’m in a gmc yukon under a full moon in the desert somewhere in kuwait with don the driver, who’s computer i’m using, phil “animal” cimino, and jon “gentleman” loyd. it’s a little hard to type as we cross through a kuwaiti check point, kuwaiti army guys drink tea on a berm (pile of dirt), we go over a speed bump,...