DanMangan

when I met him, he was just finishing a microwave burrito. Definitely, he smells like a mixture of microwave burrito and loud guitars

that's mind blowing to me that people play my songs. when i was in the open mic's, lemme see.. i used to cover neutral milk hotel's "aeroplane over the sea" and then it was the first dance song at my wedding.. that song is incredible.. one of the "i wish i wrote this" tunes. just so completely beautiful and melancholy and rich and full of amazing imagery.. we got to play with jeff mangum once and that was a real trip.. what else did i cover.. i used to cover "oh darling" by the beatles.. annd "say it aint so" by weezer.. hah.. still to this day, sometimes when my hands touch a guitar they go right to the opening riff of "say it aint so"

I love Patric Watson! Always have loved their music. Except when they get a gig we want.. Then... Fuck that guy! :)

Favourite backstage gig? Wellllll lemme tell you a story.......

30 minutes into arriving at Glastonbury, i get a text from my friend Amy Nelson. Her dad (Willie) is playing on the Pyramid stage (totally insane stage that holds like 150,000 people) that afternoon. So I BS my way backstage at the pyramid and I'm 20 feet away from Willie Nelson playing to easily 100,000 people. It was pretty nuts..

then if THAT wasn't enough, we wandered off stage with Willie and his band and ended up with Willie Nelson and Snoop Dog in Willie's tour bus and they're having the most hilarious conversation and smoking mad thrank.

life is pretty crazy. amy is so awesome, too. you guys should check out her band with my other friend cathy guthrie (yup, that guthrie) - it's called Folk Uke. They're hilarious. we toured together in Australia once

wow man i remember meeting you that night.. it means so so much to me to have people out there like yourself who have followed through the albums and find something in it to relate to. thank you.

basket was inspired by my grandfather.. actually wrote most of that song while riding the bus in vancouver a few weeks after he passed away (like 10 years ago now wow..) he got old and basically just watched tv or read the odd book and then him and my grandmother got sick and died within a year of each other.. i feel like the romance of living had left them, and they just didn't really "do" much.. and of course their mental alertness failed them - they started to get dimenstia and would confuse me and my siblings for their own siblings who had died decades before.. i mean they were really loving and good to me, and i have a lot of fond memories of them, but i want to stay alert and active and have friends and find things to love and get crazy about for as long as possible.. so the song is kinda like "your life is this basket full of memories, and what happens if the basket starts to fall apart and the memories fall out, are you still YOU?".. it's just about maintaining an appreciation for life and fighting for honesty and beauty in every moment.. because at that point, things like death aren't that scary, because it's just the next step on the journey

we'll see! something tells me it's gonna be hard!

hope that potato feels good near your anus!