The Time Being | Steve Kilbey

steve kilbey sits at seattle airportflying down to texas to meet my internet guruspend three days in austintoo late for south by southwesttoo early for summerlast night in seattle was a great gigafter we had a noisy troublemaker slung outwell he was warnedi couldnt tell if he was a disturbed individualor on some weird psyche drugor a nasty fellow just foolin’ w/ meanyway seattle is really a great church town n they did us proudgreat gig great turnoutgreat audientsso portland was good tooi dunnoi cant review myself no moresomeone jump on here n review me pleaseflying to mini-apple-is after texas sojourntuesdaystart the grind over againhow you liking us so far?we’re oldies but goldiesgod i starting to look old nowjust in the last couple a weeksnew linesnew sagsnew bagsgravity working working workingpulling my face aparti wanna live forever but i dont wanna agegotta deal with it manthese things age youalcoholcigarettescheese meat no exercisetoo much worryingto much arguingnot enough oceannot enough orgy-asmsnot enough disciplinenot enough physical n mental flexibilitynot enough lovenot enough rocknrollhail hail rocknrollaint it amazing i sitting at airport writing you guyssuch dedicationsuch a nice time beingsharing with you hobbitsesnice time being wont bitenice time being wont scratchokthey calling my little planei gotta fly away away awaysee ya in tex-ass then fiendsswill keep yas posted my little dearslotsa loveysteve-0

san fran yeah that was a good showwe play like a real band with real instr. n everythingi sing like a llama ply my basesee ya little baby shes a real reptilewe wont listen to the lizard part of our brainssteve kilbey live from the fronthours n hours driving arriving all most survivingl. a. seems like a ripple in my memory nowwe move on rapid-oh babycheck incheck outwheres the internetwheres the bedwheres the showerwheres the yogawheres the rainy window that never opensunexpected winter still lingers in oregoneas we drive up to gig it starts to hail ha hasnowy mountains come out of the sky and they stand theretonight portlandits cold herei miss my bondi beachi miss my balconyits lovely here toogothicky pittsburghy feel but in the n westi like it herethe bridges n rivers n the freakswe play a nice little place i guessthey change when the peoples come ini get a soup from a vegan placedo an interview but guess what their camera didnt work so….my feet are coldmy shirt n my face is wrinkledmy skin hurts in the coldi am stiff and tirednowhere to relax here neithera tiny cramped little room backstagedont envy me its not always any funboo hoo boo fucking hooha ha ha ha * music “the kicker” by the church x 2

yeah l.a. yeahplay sing talk music music musicpluck my stringsing my wordoh my wordtravel thru time to the beginning in the endcosy little showdynamicsstops startsmakes mistakesredeems triumphantcant get to sleepmy only glasses broken nowcant keep track of stuffblind as a bat or a ballbawling into a micbowling along the highwaysup the meridians of free enterprise civilisation as lived out it the westest westgood bits surebad bits thats rightbums on seatsbums on streetsshowbiz take a shaky bow in the shadows of ruinthe titanic smoking ice cuba bound last broken flash of love still in the cameradream importers underling thats what i ami’m a man cant you see what i am a man in this big old mansuiti assemble sounds in certain patternswe humans called it musicit has a sequence and a code and a dependence on zeitgeisti sing my wordsgetting kinda nervous the way ellipses curve usits a mystery to me we dont falli fall asleep in a van driving towards san fran, ciscoand i dream of incredible things during my dozy dazei strap on the bass guitar of apolloand i come down olympus fuming in angerthe songs sweep up the empty aisles and vacant chairsmy time fall away so quicklyi can put no brakes on itit just streams away n awaylovestev-en

recorded in escondido yesterday

sitting backstage at san juan gigwas touched today to read a book of reviews that marty put togetherpeople who reviewed bw2b for possible inclusion in our programmeoh yesfor our american gigs we have a programmeand we needed reviews for bw2b n we got loadssome of them beautifully written some of the lovingly wroughti was quite teary reading emsome amazing ones never got usedthanks to all concernedvery moving sk

the man with the plan

when you get steve “killer” kilbey behind a cameranothing can go wronggo wronggo wronggo %$#&y^

leaving australia in a few more hoursstayed tuned for impressionistic tour reportsphotos videos poetry and interviewsand much much moreget it all here at the time beingi’ll talk to ya next from san diegobyesk