Adam Gnade

To-Do List

1. Figure out set-list for tour. Finish the new song and memorize all its endless fucking lyrics. Figure out a better bridge for “The Winter/Their Apartment” and a better way to end “Palaces.”

2. Edit book. Ad infinitum. All day, every day.

3. Be outside as much as possible while the weather holds. Walk in the fields. Go down to the river.

4. Find a place to buy booze in town on Sundays.

5. Finish reading Ulysses.

6. Don’t get overwhelmed.

7. Do pre-tour interviews with press.

8. Drink water. You can do anything you want if you drink a lot of water.

9. Throw out old New Yorkers.

10. Tell all of the phony assholes of the world to fuck off.

11. Pack. Leave home.