Tom is listening to Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Talking Straight. Tom Russo and Fran Keaney and Joe White have three guitarists and they all play at once and the result is a sound like a conversation between equals. 'Hope Downs' is an album named after a mine and it's about the cost of things. I'd like to talk straight but it's important to maintain commercial relationships. Three in the morning and the blackouts are rolling and I'm intermittently illuminated. I Ching threw Hexagram 35 which is Progress and I said I'll take it. They had a jangle that felt like optimism with reservations.

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

Three watches, three different times.