Should we stay or should we go?
(here's a hint: we left)

Reasons to stay in Albuquerque (in no particular order)

  • Friends
  • The Frontier
  • Constitution (Take the drunk way home)
  • The Mountains
  • The Dukes
  • Fav bands (The Drags, Apricot Jam, Scumbaag [although half of them live in Phoenix], The Honeys, Psychodrama)
  • The Lobo & Movies 8 (for different reasons)
  • The Plethora of Percussionists
  • The Friday Phenomenon: No one works on Friday afternoons. Everyone gets stoned, drives around and smirks at all the other drivers, thinking no one knows they're stoned.
  • Just got a lottery
  • We'll never get the band back together now
  • There's not much humidity (it's a dry heat)
  • It's a hip hip place to live (Rudy Anaya, Judy Blume, Berke Breathed, Mike Judge, Jim Morrison & others lived [or live] in the Big Q; Val Kilmer, Prince, Julia Roberts & others live [or have houses] nearby)
 Reasons to leave

  • Radio Unbound
  • Jobs
  • Rent
  • It was cold this winter and it didn't snow
  • The Golden West closed
  • Originality and creativity is ignored
  • The lottery odds are too high
  • There's no ocean nearby
  • The biggest band to ever come out of here was Femme Fatale (by way of L.A.)
  • We sell more in San Diego and Seattle and New York and Florida and San Francisco and (the list goes on‹this is not added together by the way)

While there are more reasons to stay, the reasons to leave are bigger. Well, one of them is, anyway. I've lived in Albuquerque for five plus years (not counting various stints of short absences due to jobs or getting kicked out of houses) and I know this place. After a long decision process (we knew about this possibility way back in last October) and various encouraging situations, we [Aaron & I] made our decision separately, but within the same two or three days. It was celebrated by cooking up a bunch of ribs, drinking quite a bit and listening to some Zappa. After this feast, we adjourned to the living room for a nice night of baseball on TV. Because that's what life is about. Jumping into untested waters, realizing that you'll soon get used to the temperature and then flipping the tube on for a bit of the National Pastime. We'll see you again in August, have a nice summer.