Desoto Jones

Musing over evening coffee

Good evening,

It's your old pal Ean, here @ his new home for the past week, The Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia. As most of you have heard, my daughter Mckenna, was very ill and was medevac-ed here about a week and a half ago and underwent emergency surgery. To make a long story short, they believe she had a perforation of her bile duct. None of the doctors here have ever seen this first hand. There are only 150 reported cases of this happening...worldwide. In any case, after a few devastating days...she is now feeling and looking better. She is under tremendous care here and I am forever thankful that she is on the road, albeit a long road, to recovery.

It was absolutely terrifying to Erin and I to know that had we not brought her here...we were a day or so away from our world falling apart. I was scared to death of losing my little girl. Words can not convey to you all the appreciation I have for your thoughts and prayers about Mckenna. She is tougher than I could ever be.

There really is nothing to do here besides sit by her bedside and read. I've been reading the book by Scott McClellan titled "What Happened". Scott was the Press Secretary for the White House for the past few years. Obviously, the book is basically outlining how the Bush Administration made huge errors on various policies. This isn't news to me, but it is interesting to see how much influence Rove and Cheney had over the administration. A bit frustrating to read, but nonetheless interesting.

Anyhow, I'm done writing for tonight. Thanks to all who are reading this and supporting us. If you feel up to it, go to the "contact" section of our website and write us.

humbly,

Reposted from Myspace

Hi, it's me, Adam. Ean, Chris, Owen and Justin don't care about you the way I do and that's why they don't write to you... or maybe they're less arrogant than I am and feel that their personal opinions aren't meant for public consumption. That does not apply for Ean and his shameless display of Obama-ism though...

Anyway, I was feeling inspired again (too bad we don't have a means of recording and releasing our next endeavor at this point, but we're working on it...) I wrote a little ditty that made me smile afterwards. I hope it does the same for Owen so he can write some lyrics and melody over it... it's by no means finished, but I think it's headed somewhere neato.

I am in one of those moods where every song i listen to seems like it's hitting my ears for the first time and is touching on all different feelings that it never has before. It almost feels like when you wake up in the middle of the night and you are the most thirsty you have ever been. There's no one stranded in a desert right now that is more thirsty than you are at this point. And you stumble downstairs to the fridge and grab a drink and the moment it touches your lips it just tastes like liquid gold. Well that's how my ears are hearing music right now. and it sucks because i should be going to bed rather than sitting listening to music. BUT...

that brings me to my next order of business. i have found my way back to pearl jam. or i should say that they found their way back to me. i will never forget the way pearl jam "ten" sounded when i first heard it. i was too young and too dumb to realize the sheer genius i was hearing but i liked it anyway. then versus came out in my early teens and knocked my fucking socks off. that album makes me want to put down the guitar and quit the game and makes me want to write amazing songs all at the same time. i liked vitalogy a lot, but not as much as the first two albums. then no code came along and i just didn't get it (i still don't...) but they were experimenting which is cool. i liked yield, but it didn't blow me away and then pearl jam and i sort of took a break from each other for a few years.

i completely ignored binaural, riot act, and the self titled album. that is until owen got into self-titled and i heard the track "marker in the sand" in his car. wow. that song alone made me buy the album and the cd has been making zillions of revolutions in my cd player ever since. their songs are pure perfection. its like the songs weren't written but simply materialized as a whole. pearl jam makes writing songs seem so effortless and natural yet sound so perfect that you can't imagine how they did it.

binaural is the same way. the lyrics and music are so perfect for each other and such perfect pieces of music it just blows my mind. the two tracks that REALLY just get to me are "come back" and "thin air" on self-titled and binaural respectively.

i think i'm finished with this blog, but i just love these moments where every song i hear just sounds perfectly fresh and new to me. i hate to let these types of moments slip away...

thanks for reading. i hope i didn't waste too much of your time hehe

-adam