Cake (the band) hit on the ultimate existential question of being a musician in their song Guitar. The chorus (and the question) is as follows:

If I threw my guitar out the window - so far down - would I start to regret it? Or would I smile and watch it slowly fall?

I don't know a single professional or working-to-be professional musician who doesn't ask him- or herself that question at least once a week. If not once a day.

That is all.

p.s. Why haven't my credit card companies received the checks I mailed last Monday, when every check I wrote that day except for those two has already cleared? What's up with that?

(2000-05-09)