I love reading in Newark, Delaware. 

Feature tonight (after a long and crazy day of training in Philly at Urban Outfitters, which officially wins the title of Coolest Looking Offices I’ve Been To) went well, even if I burnt my throat to a crisp by the end of the night.

Set list:

Breathe (new)
Getting Ahead
Sociology (new)
Punk (hence the shredded throat, but considering how I might have been shot if I had decided not to do it, there you go…)
Total Recall (which went over well, and I had to give a copy of it to a kid in the audience who wanted it badly because, as he said, "it’s about me…")
Americanized
Revelation(new)
Where Do You Live?
Radioactive Artist (another one I couldn’t have gotten away without doing, I think…)

No cover tonight: I did have the third section of Rilke’s "Spanish Trilogy" cued up, but decided it didn’t fit the mood after all.  I haven’t been including covers much lately, I’ve noticed.  A break from tradition…got to get back into that.

I was pretty well wrung out both emotionally and physically by the end, for some reason.

Small crowd, but a great response…gotta love this scene.  I think this makes the sixth or seventh time I’ve been there, and it’s always a trip and a good one.

And now…total collapse.  See y’all tomorrow…