Damn you, John Mayer. It’s bad enough that you are a killer guitar player. It’s bad enough that you are a kick ass singer (now that you have stopped breathing like an asthmatic). It’s over-the-top bad enough that you are a wicked lyricist who writes AMAZING songs with incredible music that somehow manages to remain cool and accessible without giving up the dignity that most pop music bails on. It’s bad enough that you are turning into a killer producer.

So why, then do you have to do the nast with Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Simpson and particularly Jennifer Love-Hewett? Isn’t that just adding insult to injury?

Well, John Mayer (if that really is your name) TWO people can play at that game. This month is officially “do things as well as John Mayer” month and I plan to do JUST THAT!

But I am not gonna have sex with any of those babes. Mostly because I am married but a little bit because those babes all beg me just a little too hard and a little too often. It makes them seem pathetic and I can’t enable that kind of thing.

I am going through several life changes. First of all, I am having a kid. That’s kinda major. Secondly, I am getting in shape. That’s fun and hard and good. Third, I am realizing that there are a lot of things I want to change about my music.

I want to find the fun in the music. Sometimes it’s so freakin’ heavy. We need to get some fun and even some funny in there.

Also, I want to bring in some of the soul that I get when I am playing alone / singing melodies to myself or improvising. It’s easy to let that soul disappear in the writing / producing process.

Mostly, I want to find the space in the music. I think our arrangements are really cool but when I listen back, I hear so much sound. There is so much going on. Things need to chill out a bit and open up.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….coming up will be some songs that are fun, soulful and open.

Hopefully.