Wherever

Man, this is so fucking weird it's unbelievable.

Hide And Seek

Me and the other kids from the neighborhood, we played out on the street all summer long. rule was, we had to go home at night when the street lights came on. we were oblivious to the rest of the world and we'd hold up the cars in the street and we'd always play boys against girls, and both sides would cheat. strange men would stop their cars at the curb and say, "hey, sweetheart, come here." i'd go up to the window and they'd have their dick out in their hand and a sick little sneer. i'd say, "here we go again. yeah, ok, this time you win." and i'd feel dirty, i'd feel ashamed, but i wouldn't let it stop my game. we would play hide and go seek and territory would be the whole block. sometimes the older boys, when they'd find you they wouldn't want to tag you, they'd just wanna talk. they'd say, "what would you do for a quarter? come on, we don't have much time." then i'd think for a minute and say, "ok, give me the quarter first... fine." this time you win, here we go again. and i would feel dirty and i'd feel ashamed, but i wouldn't let it stop my game. i remember my first trip alone on the greyhound bus. a man put his hands on me as soon as night fell. i remember when i was leaving, how excited i was. i remember when i arrived, i didn't feel so well. i remember a teacher in school that got me so sick, so scared that i went into the bathroom and threw up in my hair. and i could go on and on, it just gets worse, and i should probably stop. girl, next time he wants to know what your problem is. girl, next time he wants to know where the anger comes from. just tell him this time the problem's his. tell him the anger just comes, it just comes.

Distracted

So...I don't know, um... I don't know if you've heard this...little album that I've put out, but it's...there's been all this...This is uh...This song is newer than it...But it's very much in that same kinda tortured melodramatic kind of self absorbed, vein... And so now like, now it's so funny, like all the, you know, all the Righteous Babe, not all of them just a couple of them that, you know, they've got their little panties on a little too tight They're like all in a twitch, um, because they're, you know they're like "Oh well, you know, now you fuckin' wench, you're just writin' about, like, love and shit, you're not write... What happened to your poltics? What, are you just gonna sell out and be like, you know, bladibladiblah... And is this a conscious move away from overtly political songwriting, blah blah blah?" And I'm like, "No man...It's like...It's just...I got kind of distracted."

Travel Tips

So okay *laughs* So last night, well, we were s'posed to be here last night. I mean not... "And you're late!" *laughs* No... We were s'posed to be in this town, sleeping soundly, in beds, with toilets really near by, and um, but... No, instead we were in a study room in a dormitory at the University of Chicago *laughs* and we were having a little slumber party. It was either that or sleep at the gate at the airport, so, we decided, well, the study room. And it was so funny 'cuz there we were in Chicago, right? And everybody was in Chicago, and they could check out any time they liked but they could never leave. *laughs* So, yeah...right, and Chicago is just infested with cranky air travel people, and they were...they filled up the hotels. But not the dorms, no. Travel tips. *laughs*