Mr. Jones and me review our action items

In the foolish spirit of the day, and heavily influenced by the “songs as lists” meme that’s sweeping the intarweb, I present to you the following bulleted list Counting Crows magnum opus.

Facts about me:

  • Hang out w/Mr. Jones @ the New Amsterdam
  • Stare at yellow-haired girl
  • Don’t believe in anything
  • Considering taking up painting
    • Self portrait

      • Limited, beautiful, color pallete

        • All colors meaningful

          • blue
          • red
          • black
          • grey
            • This is my favorite color
            • Color of guitar I would buy and play if I knew Picasso
  • Felt so symbolic yesterday
  • Bought myself the aforementioned grey guitar
  • Don’t believe in anything – can’t stress this enough!

Facts about Mr. Jones:

  • Strikes up a conversation with a flamenco dancer
  • Passes a bottle
  • Wishes he was a little funkier than Bob Dylan

Facts about the relationship between Mr. Jones and Me:

  • Tell each other fairy tales
  • Look into the future
  • Stumble through the barrio
  • Stare at beautiful women and exchange comments about them
    • “She’s looking at you.”

      • “On second thought, she appears to be looking at me.”
    • “She’s perfect for you.”
      • “There’s got to be somebody for me.”
  • Gonna be big stars

Facts about Maria:

  • Black-haired flamenco dancer
  • Dances while her father plays guitar
  • Suddenly beautiful
  • Dances silence down through morning
    • Shalalalalalalalala

Things I want

  • To be someone who believes
  • To be someone to believe
  • To be a lion
  • To be Bob Dylan
  • To see me staring right back at me
    • When looking at television

Things I wish:

  • I was beautiful

Things everybody wants:

  • Something beautiful
  • To pass as cats
  • To be big stars
    • Many diverse reasons for that
    • Don’t know why, don’t know how

Things contingent upon everyone loving me/you

  • I will never be lonely
  • That’s just about as happy as I will be
  • That’s just as funky as you can be

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