take me to the river

i hereby declare a worldwide moratorium on gratuitous singing of 'the gambler'. i requilanre no advice in that regard, especially that generic. but chuck just keeps informing me... although i concede there is somethin to be said for knowin when to hold 'em. like los tigres this inning. yeah. gotta get out to detroit in the next couple weeks here.
speakin of which wound up at the whitecaps last night, and i am apparently bad luck around there; they had their worst outing of the season. which is part of what worries me about maybe going to see mr. zimmerman there next week. its his first show of the tour, way too many opening acts, fifty bucks plus some horrendous charges of some kind no doubt, and he's got a new album out in like a week or two. if anyone has heard it, let me know what you thought. either way, i hear a lot of different things about dylan live. i guess i should just check it out myself, the question is if i'm really fifty dollar curious.
so i went tubing yesterday somewhere up on the muskegon river and damn was it a blast. bunch of beers, laughs, good times. i had not realized how popular of an activity this was, lots of people around, but not too many. everyone's just there to have a good time. i was surprised at how long i was floating along for in a pretty decent current compared with the time it took us to drive to the start from the finish point. the real challenge was trying to have a cigarette. just too easy to get that stuff wet. a little sunburned, my own fault, totally worth it. some scrapes from runnin into a few branches and whatnot, not a big deal. had that great feeling for the rest of the night where you know if you're out on the water all day long you still kinda feel like you're on it later on in the night. great feeling. a lot better than the sunburn at least. what really surprised me the most was how clean the river was. i think it might just be that the current is so swift in that chunk, but either way, it was cool.
the other day i was having a discussion with a friend about "new" genres of music and they seem to have emerged at various points in the modern music industry era through a process where they start out as sort of esoteric often ethnic things and then catch on with white suburban kids interested in "underground music" and after a year or two arrive in the mainstream in appropriately watered-down form. this led me to the question of whether or not we will all be listening to reggaeton before we know it. i dont believe i've heard any, but i've heard about it for more then a year now and if it would have sounded more appealing i probably would have checked it out, but anything that always includes the word dance in its description is probably not gonna be my new favorite. but you never know, so if anyone has any good reggaeton for me to check out, but sure to let me know. or, of course, i can just wait another year, and it will have been sufficiently packaged for one and all. or maybe nothing will ever come of it. we just don't know that, do we dude?
wow. i guess i don't really have a whole lot to say at the moment.