Beautiful You
(专辑： Jesu / Sun Kil Moon - 2016)
August 31st 2015, 2:36 p.m. Woke up at 11:30 a.m. to a
ton of e-mails A
friend from Ohio went to a
funeral Over the
weekend He's got another one to go to on Wednesday The
rest were all business plus a
piece of ambient music From Justin but I
haven't listened to it yet I
dropped some film off to be developed, That I'm hoping could be right for the
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon album art Then was planning on walking down to the
Marina When I
overheard someone say the
word “Creole” And with the
power of suggestion I
walked the
opposite way down Polk To Brenda's, where I
had a
bowl of gumbo A
waitress working there saw my iced tea cup she said “Oh I
work there” I
said “Really, I've never seen you there before” She said “I work from 6
a.m. to 10:30 a.m.” I
said “Oh, I
don't even wake up til 11” On my way back I
saw this crackhead-looking guy walking his dog The
dog's hind legs where supported by this little wheelchair type thing And he was wearing this tiny little diaper The
guy was walking the
dog pretty fast and it concerned me a
little And I
thought about saying something But the
dog's face looked happy enough And at some point the
crackhead guy picked the
dog up, wheel chair and all And they gave each other a
kiss I
could tell that the
only thing they had in the
world was each other And it was really touching My mind triggered to that horrible scene in 'Midnight Express' Where the
cat, the
pet who belonged to the
prisoner played by John Hurt, Gets hung by prison guards Then I
looked down and I
was in a
sunny spot on the
road and it felt really warm And I
looked up and I
saw my friend Roger's old apartment He moved to Portland years ago and got married He and I
used to go fishing up in Point Reyes, or Bolinas, or Stinson Beach And we'd bring fish back and I'd clean the
fish and Katy would cook them up And his girlfriend would come over and the
four of us would watch boxing matches or movies or whatever And I
thought of Katy as I
do several times a
day And then I
went into a
corner market and bought some oranges and yogurt and water I
came back to more e-mails and will listen to Justin's piece of music soon Then I'm gonna re-string my nylon string guitar, read a
chapter of John Connolly's book And see Caroline tonight for dinner Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you September 2nd, 4:45 p.m. In my green chair listening to the
kids on the
playground I
had the
most beautiful day yesterday with Caroline We went for a
walk through the
Marina and Fisherman's Wharf And for the
very first time in 28 years of living in San Francisco I
swam in the
San Francisco Bay The
water is always too cold and the
thought of swimming in it has never crossed my mind But I
saw three people out there in bathing suits, not wet suits like you see all the
time and it was a
rare sight So I
walked through the
sand at Aquatic Park and touched the
water It felt almost lukewarm and I
couldn't believe it I
said “Fuck it” and I
stripped down to my underwear and started walking out into the
water like that guy in 'Coming Home', you know, at the
end Caroline was smiling really big and she said “You're really going out there?” When I
got about knee deep into the
water, it wasn't as warm as I
thought I
kept inching my way out there a
little at a
time, until a
wave came and hit me in the
balls Once your balls are freezing, that's all that matters, the
rest of your body can handle that same amount of cold So I
dove in and when out to where my feet couldn't touch the
bottom I
swam around a
little, came back, sat in the
sun, looking out at the
boats with Caroline and I
warmed up a
little I
shook as much sand as I
could out of my clothes and got dressed It felt so refreshing to go out into that water We came back to my apartment and it was nice taking my clothes off and seeing some sand fall onto my floor A
nice souvenir from the
beautiful day Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Caroline cooked dinner and I
flipped through the
new movies on On Demand And I
stumbled upon 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' I
saw that an old cast member, Billy Crudup, was in it I
hadn't seen him in anything for a
while and so we watched it I
gotta say this was definitely one of his best But Caroline and I
were both pretty tense as we watched it The
guy playing the
"Cool Hand Luke"-style prison guard Was enjoying himself a
little too much But the
tension finally eased when the
movie ended on day 6
Of what was set out to be a
14 day experiment And after that I
stayed up pretty late, booking hotels for my East Coast tour next month And some flights as well But today has been spent paying bills, and trying to figure out an acoustic version of 'This Is My First Day And I'm Indian And I
Work At The
Gas Station' for a
tour that starts in Israel this month I
leave on the
6th The
chord changes are very weird in this song And it requires a
lot of bar chords involving all 6
strings using my index finger, Which isn't easy considering how long the
song is It's 4:58 p.m. and I
can still hear the
kids on the
playground I'm meeting Caroline tonight for dinner And the
world and everything in it is a
beautiful place Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you September 2nd, 9:34 p.m. Just back from dinner with Caroline and I
opened my mail There was a
letter and a
photo from my ex-girlfriend who I
haven't heard from in over a
year She's days away from having a
baby, wow I
thought of our time together back then and how far she's come I
remember her desk was very close to where I'm sitting now Where she did her homework and was studying to be a
child... ...psychologist and I
remember the
summer when her mother passed There's never a
summer that goes by that I
don't think about that The
times we spent in Santa Cruz hospitals and Los Gatos I
wrote her back and told her how happy it made me feel to see the
photo And I
send her my love and that I'll be back in touch After I'm home from my next tour at the
end of the
month when she's a
mother Caroline wants to watch "Cool Hand Luke" tonight, Because I
mentioned to her how the
guard in the
Stanford Prison Experiment was using the
same southern Accent and lines that were used by the
guard in "Cool Hang Luke", starring Paul Newman She's never seen it and I
hadn't seen it for probably 20 years She just told me that she ordered it and that it was released in 1967 And I
didn't realize that before I
was born that years so I'll be paying attention to the
movie more than I
ever have tonight, Knowing that detail September 3rd, 8:32 p.m. Just back from Mexican food with Caroline Today was a
lot of errands and a
walk though the
Marina I
picked up the
photos for the
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon album art Bumped into my friend Melody on the
street whose coffee shop Has recently been closed and we talked for a
while on the
corner Right in front of the
market where I've been buying groceries for over a
quarter... ...of a
century, it's all boarded up with plywood now We talked about our many friends who have left this city due to all the
new developments At the
end of the
conversation, she said “Mark whatever you do, please don't leave” I
said I'm not going anywhere. I
got back to my apartment and finally had a
chance to listen to this ambient piece of music that Justin sent, and it's beautiful I'm going to add vocals to it on Saturday, the
day before I
leave for Israel I
just went over the
chords to 'This Is My First Day And I'm Indian' again, and it's still tricky, But I'm getting it An old Sun Kil Moon song called 'You Are My Sun' is going to play on TV tonight A
show called 'Mistresses' and Caroline wants to watch it She's in bed, the
cat's on her lap, and she just told me it's on in a
minute September 3rd, 11:46 p.m. We watched the
TV show 'Mistresses' and the
song played early And after it was over, we changed it To Dateline Thursday Murder Mystery Hosted by Keith Morrison on Channel 3
The
cat is sleeping on her lap and hey, I'm 48 and I'm healthy and happy and both my mom and dad Are still alive and I
can see the
bridge twinkling like gold out my window And I
look up and Jimmy Fallon's face is on TV And just like Billy Crudup or Anna Pacquin or Jason Lee Every time I
see them on TV it reminds me of when I
was 32 Everything I've been through has lead me to this beautiful piece of music that I'm listening to While I'm laying in bed next to beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you Beautiful you
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