June 12th '10

The last week of rain and overcast had subsided and a hot newness bore down into the basement pulling me to wake. i put aside the the mars volta, aesop rock and other albums I'm akin to when the sky sings in a more down tempo rhythm and slid deftones - white pony into the discman, which after being packed away for 5 years still works perfectly. white pony was always good sunshine music when i was 17. i am now at least as old as those musicians were when they released the album. skating down the street listening to 'back to school' thinking about what a massive inspiration these tracks were then. i smiled kept my head up and pushed hard as it came to me that even though i still love the music the deftones still release that space for inspiration has been replaced with someone else, myself.