this is why mraz rocks. from the right kind of phrase:

post high

high on sugar that is.. what's up folkers and phrasers? pimps, players and private eyes? hows life treating you? i'm dandy eating candy in vermont. thought i'd send a quick hello and copy my recent road journal over here to give you a headstart never knowing how long it takes the web people to post it. i'm clueless to that kind of stuff..

i gotta hand it to you guys who post about howie day. you know whats up. that boy is the most genuine, non competitive, most professional and profound i've seen in quite awhile. i just thought i should mention that since we played last night and this is a message board and all. if i had a picture of us together i'd stick it right here. me wearing my australia t shirt hugging the shit out of howie day. though i may have one of toca.

it's late though and rather than go on, i'm going down and out. sleep time. enjoy the road post. i cant remember what it's about already.. i do know i'm about to brush my teeth and wash my feet though. i'm smart.

mraz road journal tell all scramble with cheese.

hello snow. thank you for keeping me cool on my day off. thanking you for being so easy to use as a weapon against the forces of Toca. thank you for snow balls, snow cones, snow angels and sledding. without you there would be no wonder, just winterland..
without you i would also just be able to wear my summerie canvas tennishoes. but instead you require a much more rugged, waterproof, and all terrain style foot protectant. and thick socks with the occasional long john extendo body sock. and hats and gloves and chapstick and stuff. but oh! , glorious snow. dont go. i throw back my head and know when i catch you on my tongue i feel myself grow. smaller into the child i was only a year ago..

escaping from rhyme scheme. vermonts finest hour.

i do my laundry while i conduct my emailing. within the several trips i've made to and from the cleaning machines, i couldnt help but dive into the candy machine as well. each time. i am powerless against the rainbow of fruit flavors shining bright in the vending light, illuminating my own reflection over the skittle display. making it look like the candy was already in my possession, i felt empty handed waiting for the elevator. so i figured mostly i'd lighten the load of silver change in my pockets and cash in for some sweets. now i'm neat. and complete.

so i'm sitting around all high on starburst and soda just thinking about this vast and spectacular vermont. thinking ice and cavity. feeling cold and full. and i thought of our founding fathers before us and recall what they've written about, feeling this same feeling i feel in vermont. i believe it was ben and jerry who said somewhere i'm sure "we know you will like this.." and they were right..

we tackled last nights show with every ounce of energy and enthusiasm we had left or could muster and had a blast as usual. good folks up here. i asked everyone if we they could hook us up with some sledding but i guess they figure i kid and the closest i got was peeling out my van in the icerink parking lot after the show. we also missed the meteor shower due to cloudy conditions. did anyone get to see it? shite! i live for that kind of stuff. i was looking at as fireworks for our completion of the week. instead we celebrated by not going anywhere today and enjoying burlington, vermont and it's merry dwellers. such a hip town, i ran into three people from the show just scampering around, i couldnt help but want to sing "silver bells" over and over in my head. that is until i started to get the feeling that this is where gremlins took place. i dont know that for a fact but at the movies this afternoon i couldve sworn those critters were behind the screen. but then again i think that everywhere. just a flashback.

i love going to see movies. i love it so much it pains me when anyone asks me my favorite film. in fact, never ask me again. i love them all. good ones, cheesy ones, bad ones, long ones, short one, animated ones, you name it. i'll pay anything to experience the movies. maybe i'm addicted to the popcorn, or the previews, i could watch previews all day. thats what i'll do. the next time anyone asks me my favorite movie, i'll say "the previews." or "the preview of men in black 2, that was great, that scene 45 seconds into the trailor that's spliced with the hook for the promo. brilliant!" or "i love the previews that came on before the ET re-release. it had "signs" in it before we knew "signs" was gonna be not so special. and it had only the ten second clip for "hulk" coming 2003. remember those? loved them."

so yeah. caught a movie tonight and had a beer over at nectars, a famous vermontian watering hole next to muddy waters, the coffee version of the same place but more like the house on pooh corner. nice town. did i mention there's snow?

i spoke with a few from the homeland today and they gave me the expected weather report. 86 and sexy as usual. i missed it but for only a moment and there is something magical about all of this sugary stuff on the ground. i'll enjoy it a bit longer. only the san diego in me is crying for a suntan.

we finished the jewel tour on this side and are looking forward to the longer sets again. though on our last night in DC she gave us a bit more running time and mad props. i feel bad though because in my business i neglected to get make her the thank you basket i had intended. you know the card and flowers routine with book and girlie stuff, including some dope lip balm/gloss combo that my good friend has designed. i sent nothing. i told my friend that jewel still received the lip balm though since i was wearing some when i kissed her farewell.. it's just on her cheek instead.

after that last show i managed to drive us all from DC to vermont, all but the last 50 miles of the entire trip. 10 hours. i get the iron man award for the week. go me. on my drive, just past daybreak, i had pulled over to refresh my tea and pee again and see the snow up close and you know.. i saw some seagulls. just hanging around the truckstop dumpster drinking off the slush and singing their beachie bird songs. maybe they were blind and the sound of the freeway is like the ocean to them, the snow and gravel their salty, sandy sea.. clueless. i once saw a cat on the beach in san diego. that makes more sense though. smart cat seeks largest aquarium to stare into. or maybe the seagull and cat came to suprise the other and just missed out.

you ever think you have a.d.d?.. how does one figure out if he or she does? by now i would think there is an online testing site or at least a humorous place to go make fun of your forgetful self.. i just seem to operate on so many different starting levels these days.. never finishing the one thing before me. although the greater one thing is getting accomplished, my thousand other things rotate while i spin to remember them and further their developement. or maybe i just want to do too much. and love too many people and try to do too many things. but do i do any? maybe it's not my attention span. maybe it's worse. maybe i've let my cavities run too deep and i've finally severed a major freeway at the spine brain interchange.. where's my soda?

next week is thanksgiving. sweet home sweet potato. haul in the stuffing. we'll be roughing it at my family's the way it should be. i'll have the whole gang from the van show in tow to throw down. mix in a few hometown friends and the family pet and we got ourselves a party. i can hear it now," jeet yet? yunk to? aight.. yeya man. your mama cooks good." we wont be barefoot or anything like that but in virginia your still south enough to talk like your always bored.

what else? did you know mraz means frost in slovakian. i remember that usually when i'm cursing it having smothered my windshield in a rich freezy lather. next time your go to a wendy's, order a mrazy and see what you get. maybe you'll have to be in the czech republic.

i'm going to get the all fellas in the frost crew to post next time so they can send love to their families and friends and all y'all for the holidays. it's our way of sending our very best rather than 10,000 hallmark cards with turkey and horn of plenty designs. you can print it out and color your own if you like. until then, use this one to know i'm alive and well and just hanging out and hanging in there.wasting time mostly. enjoying my sugar high at the motel 6. looking forward to having clean clothes in a few minutes..