Journal

a week ago i had a thought(something that happens rarely, at best). the thought was: i'm going to belgium in a week, maybe it would be fun to do some acoustic songs with my friend joy at a bar in brussels. so i asked the record label to find a small bar where we could play some acoustic songs, which they did(a cafe/bar, called belga). belga is a fairly small place, and more than 75 people in belga would feel really crowded. and, well, instead of 75 people showing up around 3,000 people were there. and it was really fun. fantastic, benign chaos. we put up a little p.a on the street, the police did crowd control, and everyone seemed to have fun. joy and i had fun(even if we hadn't, um, actually rehearsed, and we had to teach each other how to play some of the songs while we were actually playing them). so, thanks everyone for coming to cafe belga tonight. in other news: why is hillary clinton still in the race? she's starting to remind me of lara flynn boyle in wayne's world(wayne's ex-girlfriend who won't leave. quote: stacy: happy anniversary wayne! wayne: stacy, we broke up 2 months ago. stacy: that doesn't mean we can't still go out. wayne: well, it does, actually, that's what 'breaking up' is.). hillary can't win. i mean, really, she can't win. it's not possible at this point. she'll never have enough delegates, she'll never have enough votes. she can't win. it's not even a fun statistical improbability, it's impossible for her to win. although she's talking about including the michigan and florida delegates even though she and obama both agreed not to campaign in florida and obama's name wasn't even on the ballot in michigan. hillary, come on, exit gracefully. your act is done, leave the stage with dignity, rather than having the 'get off the stage' clowns come on stage and pull you off in a clown car. tenacity is admirable, to an extent. tenacity when you absolutely can not win is just lunacy. sometimes we have to accept things that we don't like. i don't have hair. i accept that. stephen hawking will never play basketball. i'm sure he accepts that. george bush is a dimwit. i'm sure he accepts that(ok, i'm not so sure, to be honest). hillary, you can't win, it's done. we all know it. everyone overseas knows it. even little kids know it. or maybe hillary is like the japanese soldier on the remote phillipines island who was still fighting world war 2 up until the mid 1950's. i mean, honestly, what's the point of fighting for the nomination when it's impossible for you to win? in the meantime she's just weakening the democratic party and giving mccain a better chance in november. ah well. and again, thanks for coming to the benign chaos of cafe belga earlier. moby