Here are the lyrics to “IM me ur <3,” as well as the yet-to-be-recorded “Even #1 Goes #2.”
Also, I’ll be up in Mountlake Terrace on Friday evening to see a movie (I’m decided between ‘The Village’ and “Napolean Dynomite”) so if you’re in the area call me up and some chilling can happen.
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Song #1 from the new CD, “IM me ur <3″ is now online! Hooray!
http://www.guywiththecoat.com/immeurlove.mp3

I’m sure you’re all familiar with the classic song ‘Strokin’ by Clarence Carter, and in particular the verse that goes “One time I was makin’ love in the back seat of a car, and a police officer shined his light on me, and I said ‘I be strokin! That’s what I be doin! I be strokin!’
Well, I had been familiar with this verse, but up until tonight it had only been a song lyric to me.
Back story: My sister went to Ascend Youth Leadership Camp today (a camp I went to in high school - the camp that was the cause for the creation of both Leisure Suit Man and my classic improv dream musicals), but when she get there she “got sick” (do the quotation marks mean I think she’s faking? It would be improper of me to say…) so my dad had to drive all the way up to the camp to pick her up. Since he was away, he could not go for a walk with my mom like they do every night. Since it was after dark and we live in a part of town that’s not the safest after dark, my mom asked me if I’d like to go walking with her, and I agreed. So we were walking along and approached a park nearby the house (the park that I go when I want to make phone calls so that I can swing and talk at the same time), and at this park is where Clarence Carter comes back into the story.
So we’re walking along the street, and there are all these cars parked along the sidewalk, but this one car grabs my attention, because while it is parked, it is not sitting still. In fact, it could be described as rocking. Through the back window I can see dark hair moving back and fourth, and my first thought is that some sort of animal got into the car and was running around inside causing a ruckus and making the car rock back and fourth. However, upon reaching the side of the car where the view was better, I saw that it was not indeed some stray dog or other animal, but rather a young woman on top of a guy, and it was these two that were rocking (for a more adult description, change the first two letters of the word ‘rocking’). It took a second for it to register, and when it did there was in ‘oh!’ moment, and then when I realized that my mom was standing right there, there was an ‘OH!’ moment (I’m sure for the guy in the car there was a different kind of ‘OH!’ moment) and I suggested we alter the walking route away from the car.
We walked away from the car and through the playground, where there was a couple on the big toy that were not doing anything quite so naughty as the couple in the car, but it seemed like if we had stayed to watch a while they probably would have been in not too short a time. So we hurried along our way and continued on the walk.
The walk route is a loop, so eventually we passed back by the car, which was still rocking, and got safely back home (I considered knocking on the window and singing for them the song, but I decided against it, in favor of just thinking it in my head as I watched the car go up and down and up and down…
In other news, today I got new guitar strings, and I have the rough draft recording of ‘IM me ur <3′ finished, so I predict that the finished fancy version will be online tomorrow. Until then,
keep it long, hard, short, fast, and be strokin’
Nathaniel Jones

Ladies and Gents, I have returned from my adventures in Colorado. And what adventures they were! Yow!
After a few days of worry and confusion during which my grandma was not doing too well in the hospital and there was discussion about canceling the family reunion all together, we flew to Colorado Springs, CO this past Wednesday (at crazy early o’clock).
We had been scheduled to fly US Air from Seattle to Denver to CO Springs - but at the airport, they said that US Air doesn’t fly from Seattle to Denver to CO Springs, so we would be flying united. The interesting thing with that was that when we got to Denver, we realized that because we were on United, we were on the same plane as one set of aunt, uncle and cousins. Hooray!
When we all landed in CO Springs, we were met by another set of uncle and aunt, and we all rode from the airport to the Eagle Fire hotel. I was rooming with my brother (who was hitchiking in later that day), and my cousins Jim and Matt. The hotel room was not really a room so much as it was a house - two stories, two bedrooms, a kitchen… much nicer than any of the apartments I’d been looking at in Los Angeles. Plus, as an added bonus, we were in the Duck Lodge, which meant that everything was decorated with ducks (and if you know me, you know that I’m just nuts about ducks).
The first night we went to dinner at the Swiss Chalet, a nice restaurant a few blocks away from the hotel. I had the red bell pepper soup and the glazed salmon. It was so delicious, I said ‘Yippee!’ Afterwards we went back to the hotel and visited and enjoyed the company of the extended family.
From then until Sunday was non-stop excitement. Thursday and Friday were The Days of Large Rocks, with visits to the Cave of the Winds, Pike’s Peak (via the cog train), the Garden of the Gods, and the Cliff Dwellings. On Friday, we also visited the Flying W Ranch (AKA the Flying Nazi Ranch, so-called because of the swastikas on one of the Old West buildings and the very conservative Christian nature of the Authentic Old West Cowboys) where we had a tasty old-west style BBQ. It was interesting there because dinner was in a huge room, and at the start they listed off all the large groups there - there were many groups of Boy Scouts, Air Force Academy, Focus on the Family, the American National Socialist Movement (okay, not really that one), and a family reunion group even larger than ours. The cowboy band they had was very entertaining, as well - I considered getting their CD, but opted not to.
Saturday was the day when most of the family went rafting, but my branch of the family and one of the Aunt/Uncle sets went up to Castle Rock to the Colorado Renaissance Fair - the best Renaissance Fair I’ve ever been to (even tho it was the first one I’ve been to, I assure you it was impressive). All the buildings were actual buildings, rather than tents they put up for the weekend. Unfortunately I was not in appropriate medieval garb on account of not knowing aforehand that I would be going to a place where medieval garb would be a good idea. Oh well, next time, next time…
After the fair was the dinner and talent show, where I unveiled the song ‘IM me ur <3″ for the first time in public. It went over well, but I still need to work on it before it’ll be recordable. The recording will be postponed longer because one of my guitar strings broke, and it will need to be replaced before I can work on any of the new songs.
Sunday we flew home, and today I went to work, and I am crazy tired, so now I go to sleep.
Pictures from Colorado will be coming later on. Stay tuned!

See, because ‘red car’ is like ‘color auto’ which is like ‘Colorado.’
So if you look closely, you’ll see that I’m still a genius and stuff.
Riiiight…
So today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday. That means in two days, I fly to Colorado (because wednesday is travel day in Partyville (where I live)). I need to do the laundery, and then put the washed clothes into a suitcase. And I need to finish polishing ‘IM me ur <3′ so that I can perform it in the talent show later in the week. I’ll probably record that song when I get back if it’s sounding Up to Par. And I’ll post the lyrics then too, because they are still changing.
In other news, I’m quite the sunburned on account of working in the sun. I look a bit like a red car myself. Remember that? From before? In the title?
Yup. Quite the genius am I.

You may be wondering, ‘why hasn’t Nathaniel updated this new blog in a couple days?’
If you are, you have probably come up with the three possibilities: I have either been lazing around, and therefore have nothing interesting to write about; I have been running around naked so much that I have not had any time to write; or I have been kidnapped by terrorists (and that whole long thing from ‘Amelie’). Well, as it turns out, it is none of the three.
Rather, I have been in Bellingham, WA, spending some time at my new school, Western Washington University. It all began a few days ago…
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Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen - we are currently in the middle of National Nude Recreation Week!
The odd thing is, just a few days ago I was talking about how I wanted to, at some point this summer, visit a nudist colony, or some other naked activity. And then what do I find out? That this is the perfect time to do it!
Unfortunately, there are laws around here that say I’m not allowed to run around the neighborhood without any clothes on. But after some looking around online, I discovered that the main part of National Nude Recreation Week is the National Nudist Weekend (this coming weekend), and one of the highlights is the annual Bare Buns Fun Run (which I’ve heard of before, on account of the Mountaineer’s sound man always wearing t-shirts from previous years when he’s participated) this coming Sunday.
People go up to this nudist lodge place on Saturday, have some fun nudist camping, and then Sunday morning there’s a 5k run (or walk), and then relaxing naked in the pool.
Does this not sound excellent? The only trouble is, it costs $20 to register for the race, another $10 for the day membership to the lodge, another $10 for the place to put your tent, and then there’s driving there and back and all that (it’s about an hour and half drive away). So I don’t know if its worth it to go all the way up there, but I don’t want to miss out on NNRW completely, so I say ‘lets have the nudist weekend in Federal Way!’ (or somewhere else closer, and less costly).
So here’s the question to anyone reading this that lives nearby: do you know of any place where I (and anyone else that wants to join) can run around naked for a while this weekend? Perhaps you have a vacation cabin, or know of some secluded camping area where people wouldn’t mind having naked people nearby? My first thought was to rent out Wild Waves and have a naked swimming party, but I think the logistics of that would be too much of a hassle (unless you are somebody who works there that could sneak us in or something…).
In any case, I’ll be running around naked this weekend, even if it’s just in my own back yard, and I encourage you to partake in the chance to free yourselves from the confines of clothing as well.
“Wheeeeee! It’s NAKEY TIME!”

I was going to title this post ‘independence day’ but I couldn’t think of how to spell it. I’m pretty sure the way I just spelled it was right.
Anyway… This has been an eventful day. I went to church in the morning, then went to ihop with the family (because Quiznos wasn’t open), then came home for a while, and then we drove up north to Lynnwood for the McCoy’s 4th of July/Stella’s Birthday BBQ. That was a pretty good time - I got to relive being 15 for a little while (although it would have been nice to have someone closer to 20 to laugh at being 15 with), and there were a surprisingly large amount of political debates (the two main ones were about the morality of eating meat and which political wing has the most dastardly propaganda — one of the fathers was going on about how rotten Michael Moore is, and how everything in Bowling for Columbine was wrong, and that M. Moore even admitted that everything was staged, including the bank giving away the guns. I said I didn’t believe that, and so just a moment ago I looked it up online, and it appears that the only thing misleading about the gun bank is that Moore had arranged it ahead of time so that he wouldn’t have to wait for the paperwork to go through - normally it would take a few days in between signing up for the account and getting the gun. But beyond that, it’s the truth, and I found no mention anywhere of Michael Moore saying that the scene was staged. So there, conservatives.
By the way, conservatives, why do you hate America so much? Especially on the 4th of July… Sheesh.
Anyway, after the BBQ we went home (leaving my sis there because she’s moving in with Stella’s family for a week), then I changed clothes because I had on pants way too big for me, and I went up to Celebration Park to meet Kathleen, Stefan and Steve for the fireworks. The band playing was not so great, but the fireworks were full of oo’s and ah’s. Afterwards we all went to Kathleen’s house for some partying. Steve had brought cigars, so everyone had a cigar (except for me - although I did hold one between my teeth and said ‘I’m a tough guy, see?’
Everyone was pretty tired - Stefan left first, and Steve fell asleep on the couch not too long after that, and Kathleen was going to bed too, so I went home, and now I am updating this journal. And now its time for bed, because it’s after 2 am and I have to get up to go to work in the morning. And it’ll be an extra long day, because I’ll be working my 20 hours in 4 days rather than five, on account of me being at WWU on Friday for the Transitions Program.
So with that, good night.
- Nathaniel

If you’ve tried to read this blog in the past couple days, you’ll have noticed that it did not exist. See, what happened was that I decided to try to personalize the blog and change the font and whatnot, so I went into the design template, changed some things, and when I looked at what I had done, I found that I had turned the whole thing to gobbledeegook, and the only way to undo was to completely erase the whole thing, so I did. But now it’s back online, so hooray.
Guess What! I got my first paycheck today. I thought I would be paid on Monday, because the 5th is the official Pay Day, but because this year The Fourth of July lands on… July 4… I got paid today. I got a whopping $129.62! And when I deposited the money into my checking account, it brought my balance up to $129.97! And I also got a $7 check for taking a survey a few weeks ago, so I have OVER $130 in the bank, baby! Yeah!
To celebrate I went over to the video store and got the DVDs “School of Rock,” “Big Fish,” and “Bubba Ho-Tep.” I hadn’t seen “Bubba” before, so I watched it just now. It was good - better than you might think a movie about an elderly Elvis joining forces with a black JFK to fight an egyptian mummy in rural Texas would be.
This is the 4th of July weekend, and the current plan is to go to the bbq with a bunch of Mountaineers folks, unless I get any better offers. To make a better offer, give me a call.
In case you missed the first entries of this blog, here they are behind this cut:
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