Dum spiro, spero. So, here are just a few of my goals, wishes and pipe dreams:

• My music getting airplay on KCRW (if it’s airplay on Weekend Becomes Eclectic…please, someone catch me as I tumble to the ground).
• Guest DJ on KCRW.
• Be interviewed by Nic Harcourt.
• Be interviewed on an NPR newsmagazine.
• Get published in the New Yorker.
• Try not to mess up the lives of those around me.

Okay, the following aren’t so far up in the clouds as the rest:

• Finally release a full-length album with all of my arrangements realized.
• Publish a book of fiction.
• Write a screenplay.
• Write a radio play.
• Take a really long vacation.
  » Visit all my faraway friends and their environments: DC, Houston TX, New Haven CT, A² MI, Boston/Cambridge MA, Philadelphia PA, Olean NY, Hong Kong.
  » Return to England, and see the rest of Britain, as well as Eire.
• Treat my family to a long vacation.
• Attend a "Says You" taping.
• Publish a photo exhibit.

Ten years ago I no doubt would have written "produce a film" or or "win an Academy Award." Odd how they’re not even on the list.