What are you lookin at?

For those that read my blog on a regular basis I wanted you to know that he passed away on aug 30th. I would have put it up sooner but to be honest I didn't want to type it till now.

I saw dave just two weeks ago and knew it would probably be the last time I saw him and I am glad that me and a few comics went to see him. I think that dave was touched at the number of comics who came out to see him or sent emails or phoned.

Normally when a comic passes away or a comic gets hurt, I am the one that calls everyone to let them know but for some reason I just couldn't do this with dave. It just became harder to say the words. Maybe that comes with age..maybe that is the realization of our own mortality. I couldn't bring myself to call anyone other then the four people that I went to see dave with two weeks ago. After four times the words became too difficult to say.

I don't want to get too much into it but a few months ago, we filmed an interview with dave. He still had some strength to sit through it. Dave never came across bitter with his situation and still seemed to have a lot of life left in him.

Hopefully that life will stay in our minds.

Even in his death I am still getting emails from comics talking about dave. It was sad to hear the message on my cell phone that dave had passed but I was also happy that he did not suffer any longer.

There may be a show in his honour later in the month and if I get any info on it I will let you know

I am going to go and listen to some good ol murder ballads

Tindersticks: Travelling Light

There are places I don't remember
There are times and days, they mean nothing to me
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
They don't serve to jog my memory
I'm not waking in the morning, staring at the walls these days
I'm not getting out the boxes, spread all over the floor
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
Those faces they mean nothing to me no more

I travel light
You travel light
Everything I've done
You say you can justify, mmm you travel light
I can't pick them out,
I can't put them in this saddle bag
Some things you have to lose along the way
Times are hard, I'll only pick them out, wish I was going back
Times are good, you'll be glad you ran away

Do you remember, how much you loved me?
You say you have no room in that thick old head
Well it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories
If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed

There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through
That's the place you always decide to sit
Yeah I know I'm there for hours, the water running down my /your face
Do you really think you keep it all that well hid?

No but I travel light
You don't travel light
Everything I've done
It's just a lie, you don't travel light
I'm travelling light
No you don't travel light
I travel light
No, no, you don't travel light
I'm travelling light
You don't travel light