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Celery Man

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  1. I’m not sure if I’m following the timeline exactly but I had crippling anxiety when I was trying to quit. Sweating, heart palpitations, panic, etc. That was just all the time for my last year of drinking and the only relief was to drink. I could never get 4-5 days out from a drink so I couldn’t tell you if it got better and then ratcheted back up - I kept trying to taper but couldn’t make it out, and then when I detoxed shit went sideways and I was in a coma for a while. Anyways, I think I’ve been there, kinda sorta. If the anxiety was ratcheting up that day after any time you drank, that would track as it being withdrawals related. Give it time, be careful, don’t go back.
  2. On that note, outlook calendars with global teams are all kinds of fucked today.
  3. I really haven’t paid much attention leading up to this. Giving it a first listen now and am enjoying it - i like him with just the guitar. Some of his full band recordings sound really tame to me, the stripped down thing works well. Anyways, enjoying this. I had to google what guitar he’s playing and as I suspected it’s a little Martin. Didn’t pick up that it was all hog but apparently it’s a 1940 o-17. Here’s a picture of one. I know this isn’t a guitar thread but it sounds nice and now I’m going to have to pull my ooo-15m back out.
  4. the circadias dont even come till april dummy
  5. I mean if we’re gonna do this. Just have double noon or skip 11 altogether. Why fuck with sleep?
  6. alright album title ideas Turn Your Head Fisherman's Friend Drink the Honey Sore Throat Intubator
  7. Hahaha yeah very little idea of where we were. It was beautiful though - stayed at I don’t even know whose house in Santa Cruz and they had a patio that hung over a big green valley. I think that might have been the last night I smoked weed, could barely make it to my sleeping bag. Glad I got to meet you for a bit there. That picture above was at…. The Summit in Denver. We left from there to head home, got stuck in the snow somewhere for what seemed like hours, and ate breakfast at a Waffle House in Lubbock.
  8. Haha I was trying to remember if that was you or… I feel like Champkind maybe had a similar experience. And tbone. that was an outdoor SXSW gig? Would have been 2013, that south by was a blur. i am excited about this - https://do512.com/events/2025/5/24/driver-friendly-tickets haven’t been on a stage really since this night 12 years ago
  9. Basically yeah
  10. it's the "oops i accidentally left this one functional button unbottoned on the sleeve of my tailored jacket" of playing the guitar behind your head
  11. Third fiddle. #1 is Adirondack spruce for that kind of tonewood but Sitka is next up for sure.
  12. At least when you boil a frog it eventually fucking dies
  13. Driving through the busy intersection near our house this morning. A voice from the backseat - “We passed this light yesterday. The police did not come to get mommy because they were not here.”
  14. Crazy that they’re all gone, although I guess in a way also not. If Paul Westerburg thinks you’re going too hard you’re probably going too hard (Johnny’s Gonna Die). [edit] 75 is probably a good run for Buster I keep meaning to go back and watch that New York Doll documentary.
  15. Ah man that’s a bummer
  16. do we have this on this page yet?
  17. On some little kid stuff - dads and donuts day at preschool. She missed a few things (crunchy carrots lol and I’ve never played a down of real football) but I’m proud of what she got right here and proud of her little signature
  18. this is interesting. obviously playing in a band and touring across the country in a van and doing shit like that is not "serving" but I'm often glad that I did something interesting and something that broadened my perspective a bit while I was young. At my last job I was talking to one of the sales directors and he mentioned he spent some time as a commercial fisherman when he was in his twenties and we connected a bit over having had a... I dunno, cowboy phase before settling into corporate lives. There are times when, of course I regret opportunities I missed when I was deep inside the bottle, and then related but separate I wonder "what if" about people who started with a focused direction really early. And there are also times I think about people who go off to college at 18 for career prep and go sequentially right through the steps and are in the burbs in a quarter zip and khakis with 2.5 kids in their mid twenties, and i do not at all regret fucking up and bouncing around and doing some cowboy shit for a while as I figured things out. And apart from just spice of life stuff, I do think that the broader experience and perspective is both useful and helps me enjoy life better.
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