Tuesday, July 28, 2009

8x10 show

been too long
good friends since
my keys have
been pushed, greased
from butter fingers.

8x10 show was
grande... sparse... electric...
small but happy
crowd, sold cd's
and made new
friends. yes. success.

made me re-think
the whole sense
of stage volume
loud and piercing.
some more shows
coming and looming
in the distance.

i'm looking forward
to this year.
busy year... buzzy
nights... many shows...
many bar gigs
three hours of
chugging through material
honing and chopping
the songs and
the tunes. promoting
and hoping. management
lurks in our
near future eh?

putting together the
tour schedule for
next year and
looking at certain
goals... email addresses
electronic hello's and
goodbyes... our van
will drift into
many parking lots.
i suppose. it's
true... all this
while teaching full
time next year...
hmph. looking at
a new amplifier
today, the mesa
boogie express 5 25
maybe it will
happen and then
again, maybe it
won't.

hearts and stars

grimm

Friday, July 17, 2009

such a slug

am i that
i do not
do not do
the things i
absolutely must do.

work out... get
on that contraption
that i will
travel four invisible
miles to reach
healthy city, a
rumor at best.

will listen to
marquee moon while
being tortured... that
should let most
of the other
stuff go by
quickly eh? tonight
at the el
rancho i'll be
playing with some
cool folks. my
first solo acoustic
show in a
while... i'm playing
some deep cutz.
stuff i don't
normally play, nor
june star. should
be a challenge.

predictions of the
crowd size? Fourteen
is my estimate.
maybe less, probably.

here's john cooper clarke's
song... heart disease called love:

one kiss became a weapon
and i don't want to bleed in vain
the clouds collide in the heavens
and i surrender to the rain

the death bell lit up so red
like madness from above
i'm going out with a bang
and a heart disease called love

99 below zero
and it seems like fever now
you know me i'm no hero
don't even ask me how

i'm down in the deep deep freeze
what was i thinking of
in the painful breeze by the frozen trees
with a heart disease called love

after dinner mints and new lovers
and the coffee is so bitter and black
your fingerprints they cover
this knife sticking out of my back

you overlooked the fine details
you should've worn your gloves
and now i've got a girl in jail and a house for sale
and a heart disease called love

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

the return


hey folks... now
i'm back... the keys
the keys were hot
and sweaty... oppressive
dare i say... read two books
pride and predjudice and zombies
and the road
funny and scary
in that order.

imminent collapse of society?
go for cannabalism... seems to
always bee the trick right?

cormac has got it
going on for sure...
tight succinct phrasing
seemingly unconnected images
attached to previous and post
actions serving as
commentary. good stuff.

ugh... music... getting
back onto the
bronco whom bucks.

i'll be rehearsing
today for friday's show
at el rancho... and
trying to get e.j.
up to speed for friday!

the band will be a
four piece on july 24th
as opposed to the six
piece... small issues on
that...

Friday, July 10, 2009

The keys

Sunny hot and
sweaty for sure
I am blogging from
my new iPhone
ooh ahh I'm so
up to date it's ridiculous ...
Seriously.
Let's see if I can upload a pic
nope not yet.

Grimm

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

sir thomas browne


yes lawrence... more
reading and more
in depth have i traveled
into the browne stuff...
chapter 2 of
urn buriall... yes.
now i understand
rings of saturn.

do you want
to be buried...
or burnt on up?

i think cremation
for me... i like
the notion of being
scattered... perhaps
moved by elements
in nature rather
than our human impulses...
of course i'm
writing this on the
fly without thinking
too much about it.

lawrence, sorry i
singeled you out
at the wtf the
other night... hope
i didn't cause
you too much
trouble. you know
what june star needs...?
new songs... new life...
i'm getting tire of
playing the same old
songs at bertha's
and ye wtf. i'll
have to talk to the
guys about that...

tour coming up... three
days out... if you have
friends in the philly, ny, boston
area... please alert them!

album coming along
nicely... almost done tracking...
a few things to add...

but otherwise it's
pretty cool stuff...

grimm out
but not down.

grimm