My first post

Finally, my first post. I created this blog months ago but never got around to posting. I suppose I've never had something to say, the time to say it, and the inclination to do so all at the same time. Let me begin by stating that this blog is primarily a tool for me. A tool to develop my writing skills and embark on a journey of self discovery (or to prattle on and on, saying nothing).

Parrotheads will recognize my blog's title as an homage to Jimmy Buffet and my two favorite JB songs:

Incommunicado
Travis McGee’s still in Cedar Key
That’s what old John MacDonald said
My rendezvous’s so long overdue
With all of the things I’ve sung and I’ve read
They still apply to me
They all make sense in time

Chorus:
But now I’m incommunicado
Driving by myself down the road with a hole in it
Songs with no vibrato
Taking the long way home

Now on the day that John Wayne died
I found myself on the continental divide
Tell me where do I go from here
Think I’ll ride into Leadville and have a few beers
I think of "Red River" or "Liberty Valance"
Can’t believe the old man’s gone

Chorus:
But now he’s incommunicado
Leaving such a hole in a world that believed
That a life with such bravado
Was taking the right way home

So when I finished that last line
I put the book by itself on the shelf with my heart in it
Never wasting time taking the right way home
I know I’m never wasting time finding the right way home

Chorus:
Still I am incommunicado
Living next door to a leg with a pin in it
Life with such bravado
Is taking the right way home

Trying to make it
Trying to fake it
Trying to take it home

Trying to make it
Trying to fake it
Trying to take it home

I know I’m...
Trying to make it
Sometimes I fake it
Trying to take it home

All I’m doing is...
Trying to make it
Trying to fake it
Trying to take it home

But now I’m incommunicado...


Island
Island I see you in the distance
I feel that your existence
Is not unlike my own

Island they say no man is like you
They say you stand alone
Sometimes I feel that way too
Is it the need for love?

Heart and soul accompaniment
That seems to make me different from you

I've tried to build bridges
But they all fell down
I've taken to the air on wings of silver
But always hit the ground

Island I see you in all of my dreams
But I'm a man with no means to reach your distant shore
Island I see you in the moonlight
Silhouettes of ships in the night
Just make me long that much more
To be like you

Heart and soul accompaniment
That seems to make me different from you

I've tried to build bridges
But they all fell down
I've taken to the air on wings of silver
But always hit the ground


I love the sentiment and imagery of 'Island' and I love the references to John MacDonald and Travis McGee (my favorite series character of all time) and John Wayne (fellow Sigma Chi) in 'Incommunicado'.

Well that's enough for tonight even though most of the words weren't mine.