If you hadn't already noticed, the title "Romanticizing years ago" comes from one of John Mayer's songs. I have just about almost every CD or concert DVD this muso has released (seriously). The Beatles rank second but we're not talking about the Beatles now.

Call me slow but I recently discovered John's MySpace. Some fan huh. And just because I wanted to see his photos I went and made a MySpace space so I could log in and see John Mayer's photos. Some fan huh. Photos were disappointing, but hell, I could be John Mayer's friend on MySpace!

See, in real life, John is not even going to know I exist. But on MySpace, all I have to do is request to be John's friend and all he has to do is to say "yes"! No one says "no" to friend requests on MySpace, so why would John not want me to be his friend? MySpace is the coolest thing evar. :-) :-) :-)

On a slightly different note, yes, new album "Continuum" is soon-to-be released, and new single "Waiting on the world to change" is sooner-to-be released. You can hear it on his website, and of course, I love the new single. :-)

P.S. The title of this post is a reference to one of those (incredible) things John said in Any Given Thursday:

When you first meet somebody, you find out they like you, a friend of a friend of theirs say, he or she really really likes you, and it kills you, floors you, sends you to the ground, you've got to pick yourself up off the ground.

Then you get their phone number and you call them up, and you say "Yeah, that's a really great phone conversation, can I see you some time?" and then they say this, "I'd like that." Nothing feels better than "I'd like that".

So now, your blood pressure's goin', you're six feet off the ground, you can't sleep because of "I'd like that".

So then you hang out for a while, and you call and you talk on the phone all the time, and then you drop the bomb, or what feels like the bomb, you say, "You know what, I've been thinkin about you a lot." And she goes, "Ahhhhhhh!" And you go "What happened?" and she goes, "I'm sorry, I just, I just, I just, that's, I've been thinking about you too."

Bam. Higher into the sky. But now "I'd like that." Done. Now you're up to "I'm thinkin about you."

Then number of months pass, it makes you feel comfortable saying it, you say "I gotta tell you something." They go "What?", you go "I'm in love with you." And nothing in the world sounds better than "I'm in love with you." And then maybe she starts crying, or maybe he goes "*gasp*". And all the sudden you're like "I'm in."

But now what doesn't work? "I'd like that." and "I've been thinkin about you." Now we're at "I'm in love with you." Then maybe some day it'll move up to "I love you." Fast forward, now you're like "I love you a lot. I love you more than anything in life." Now "I love you." doesn't work. It's a threshold that keeps movin up.

Fast forward, like six months, six weeks, whatever the case may be, now you're on like, "I want to marry you." "I want to impregnate you with my love." "I wanna, I wanna just send my love to you." "Damn it, words don't work anymore." And then you say this line, and you know, you know you've used this line before, "I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel."

And so now he or she starts askin, "Do you love me?" and you start goin, "Of course I love you." "Well say it." And then it becomes "Say it twice." And it goes "Say it three times." And then, you cross a really interesting point, where all the sudden it becomes "I hate you, I hate you." And you go, "Oh my god she hates me." And now it's like "I hate you more than anything." And then it's like "We're over." And then they go "No we're not." And you go "Yes we are." Now the words completely do not work at all, you're left with nothing. You're throwing punches under water. You're done. You know what the moral of that story is, if there is one. Never, ever, ever, ever underestimate the power of "I'd like that."