[sounds] Stripped State: Laurel Canyon Recordings

April 20, 2018

From January to June 2018, my wife Cat costume designed the series adaptation of the podcast Homecoming that shot in L.A., so we decamped Brooklyn for a 1930s cottage aerie perched halfway up Laurel Canyon. I bought a knock around Seagull guitar at the perfect scaled All-In-One guitar shop in Koreatown, and figured I’d have the Gentleman of the Canyon adventure I always dreamt. Over the six months, I took a trip back to my own songwriting time zero, stripped down and raw, to that place where I just sat and thought and wrote and strummed. And listened. And learned, embracing every mistake as an intention…

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[img] A zero washed up on the beach today. He said, “I’m looking for some one who wants to get even.”

July 17, 2018

A zero washed up on the beach today. He said, “I’m looking for some one who wants to get even.”
July 17, 2018 at 11:34AM
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[img] “Welcome to Eyewitless News. Our top story: A pissed Piping Plover is pooping on posh people, and politicians and police are powerless. Our Penelope Pepperpane is positioned for a play-by-play. Penelope?” “Thanks, Preston. They say, ‘Provoke a plover, run for cover.’ Well…”

July 16, 2018

“Welcome to Eyewitless News. Our top story: A pissed Piping Plover is pooping on posh people, and politicians and police are powerless. Our Penelope Pepperpane is positioned for a play-by-play. Penelope?”
“Thanks, Preston. They say, ‘Provoke a plover, run for cover.’ Well…”
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[dispatch] 20180624.0445: Rainbows End

June 24, 2018

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[dispatch] 20180623.0543: Lili ‘Lele

June 23, 2018

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[img] one of these surfers need not worry

June 22, 2018

one of these surfers need not worry about getting rag-dolled by a shore break
June 22, 2018 at 03:31PM
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[img] “California’s been good to me…”

June 15, 2018

“California’s been good to me / Hope it don’t fall into the sea / Sometimes you got to save yourself / It ain’t like anywhere else…” – Tom Petty
June 15, 2018 at 04:07PM
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[img] Two days left…

June 14, 2018

Two days left in this canyon light. Six months was an eye blink.
June 14, 2018 at 05:17PM
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[img] “…blue sky imperfect.”

June 13, 2018

“I am grateful for… the wisps of white clouds that make a blue sky imperfect.” – Sandra O’Connell [@sandraoco]
June 12, 2018 at 08:48PM
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[track] The Last Time Up Ahead

June 9, 2018

this one’s for the ones who stop to think
this one’s for the ones who always knew
this one’s for the ones who see the absurdity

this was a place we lived in peace
a place we lived in silence
a place we lived together in light

the last time
is cloud nine
and you won’t know
you’re dead

but the saddest time
is the first time
you see
the last time
up ahead

how many days can you see through things
how frayed is a soul made of string
how many ways can a memory bring you down

what happened all the power burned out
what happened all that’s certain’s in doubt
what happened all the love turned it back on us

there’s no one around who doesn’t think they know
nowhere you’re left to be, no place left to go

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[track] Canyon Songbird Dream #7

June 8, 2018

i believe in my dream
I believe in my dream
in my song, i believe you’ll see
all the lives we are to lead

searching for answers
is a waste of precious time
destiny doesn’t ring the bell,
doesn’t tell you you’ve arrived

songbird on an electric line
only knows he’s incomplete
caught up in a lookout for love
all his faith on endless repeat

may never know magic
of a returned call
but he never sounds tragic
never sounds small

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[img] The “Rim of the World“

June 7, 2018

Looking south from the “Rim of the World“ Highway (CA Rte 18), as it winds through Skyforest at 6000 ft.
June 07, 2018 at 02:21AM
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[img] today’s 5K midpoint

June 5, 2018

today’s 5K midpoint was a living postcard / lake arrowhead / elev. 5100ft
June 05, 2018 at 01:35AM
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[dispatch.20180603.0057] seasonal dissonance

June 3, 2018

A summer hike through a ski resort is an adventure in seasonal dissonance. Ascending and descending trails stripped of snow’s porcelain veneer, you kick dust to the sky, fighting gravity up and down. Frictionless winter fun is just a quiet echo.

June 03, 2018 at 12:57AM
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[track] Paper Streets [20180601.1]

June 2, 2018

You came a long long way
just to find nothing
on the other end of a promise
from the other side of the sun

the road was mapped but never real
still the dream of a long gone man
now foxtails push up through cracked cement
and long abandoned plans

Paper streets always burn.
Paper streets always burn.
On a bridge to nowhere,
you never know where to turn.
Paper streets always burn.

Doesn’t matter where you’re from
when you see the world from the sky
Broadway to Magazine to Sunset Boulevard
They all draw the same line

You have to put your faith in strangers
or else this is a lonely life
but sometimes people are wicked and cruel
we’re not wired to be nice

I lost a fortune to a dream
but at least it was my dream
some people lose their fortune to a faith
in the world as it seems

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[dispatch] 20180531.0057 Mt Waterman Summit

May 30, 2018

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[img] 20180528.18 / All the ❤️ today, @catmthomas.

May 29, 2018

20180528.18 / All the ❤️ today, @catmthomas.
May 28, 2018 at 08:29PM
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[img] 🎼 “Malibu Ellie…”

May 27, 2018

🎼 “Malibu Ellie’s s out to have some fun / Likes her meat rare and her man well done / Malibu Ellie’s cruisin’ on the surf / Step on this pier, you’re on her turf / Malibu Ellie… 🎶… Malibu Ellie… 🎶…”
May 26, 2018 at 08:17PM
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[img] Ellie so L.A.

May 26, 2018

Ellie, in from Brooklyn for the weekend, and already so L.A.
May 25, 2018 at 08:23PM
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[img] Flim-Flam Flamingo Swanny Swan-Swan

May 20, 2018

Flim-Flam Flamingo turned to Swanny Swan Swan, pissed. “There’s more,’ you said. ‘Something, beyond this Mt. Olympus party house, beyond the infinity pool edge,’ you said. ‘Let’s float away to destiny…’ Well, Swanny, maybe the pool wasn’t such a bad place!”
May 20, 2018 at 07:16PM
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[img] Met The Queen tonight

May 20, 2018

Met The Queen tonight at the former Laurel Canyon home of Ursula Andress. She said, “The one in England’s my double for security purposes.” The crazy thing is me & her Highness are the only cut outs in the photo. // 📷: @catmthomas
May 20, 2018 at 12:41AM
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