SHEEPSHANK: chance meeting of the year...

SHEEPSHANK: chance meeting of the year...: "this one is a 'lil bit melancholy. been listening to the great DANIEL JOHNSTON lately. he always put me there...

back in late '03, i had a damn near complete nervous breakdown. 'near' complete cause i'm sitting here alive and typing this today. was having many problems and my relationship at the time was going less than swimmingly. so, one particularly miserable day, after a hard 10 spent giving 90 minute narrated historical tours to the obnoxious denizens of clueless walking checkbooks known as tourists (nothing against all tourists, but i met a lot of dicks,) i hit the KHYBER, downed a dozen shots of bourbon plus countless beers under the company of ultra kind barman and local underground cartoonist 'flip,' bounced into a tattoo shop and plunked down $100 clams to get my lady's name in a heart inked on my right wrist, went back to the bar for a few more, and staggered home over the crunching leaves of the booze soaked autumn twilight to tell her that i was too crazy for our relationship to work and that we were through. "