Category: hola sayulita!
postcard sorceress: 7-year reflection
My mother is Venezuelan. I spent a fair amount of time in Caracas as a kid, and then other parts of Latin America at various points of my life. When you put a fair amount of distance between yourself and your home, you learn that there are courageous and discarded lives anywhere you go, across diverse economic and political strata.
One thing I’ve come …
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Infinite Destination: A Story Of Us
Infinite Destination off Hola, Sayulita! (bandcamp | cdbaby | spotify | itunes) and Reflected.10×10 (bandcamp | freemusicarchive) finds perfect traveling companions in the writers of roughontheroad.com, an engaging, open-hearted chronicle of a wandering, motorcycle-driven life.
Motorcyclists gravitate towards my tracks for their videos. Hopefully they find in my writing kindred spirits of independence and open roads.
YouTube liner notes:…
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[vid] today i am not turning on the radio
Today I Am Not Turning On The Radio from Westy Reflector
with the kentile sign coming down, figured i’d revisit this lo-fi vid from 2011. shot w/ a nikon d90 during that year’s reconstruction of the smith/9th subway station from a manhattan-bound f-train. the video runs in reverse. coney-island bound is the other side of the tracks. everything about this track is inside out, …
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Infinite Destination
Please, don’t end world.
…Desert sunrise six twenty one
Rising just like fate
Baby you know this is never the end
If you trust the worldAll I can do is smile
As you soften your eyes
And draw curves with your questions
‘Til there’s nothing left to say but somedayInfinite destination
You’re every dream I ever had
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Sayulita
everything that’s true is you.
…Back in Brooklyn under sleeping trees
And all these thoughts of Mexico
All my dreams they have more meaning here
Cause I’m all alone
With my sleeping treesWe flew into the stars
In you I found faith to let go
And in some other time and space
We’re never apart
We wake up
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ok
Every once in a while, I write a dance(able) track.
Enjoy this layer cake.
…You never know just how long you have
Before you go
AwaySo take back life; hide it from view
It will only be us and
the windTimes are down but we’re ok
Lines are down but we’re ok
We’re ok.You never know
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Only Falling Rain
maybe lead guitar maybe not. we got a big sound from
just the drum, bass and rhy gtr and i like the open spaces.
…I will leave it to you to guess what I am thinking
I’ve got a secret and you know I never spill
Maybe I’m a spy. Maybe I’m undercover
Keeping enemies of freedom on their
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Tarjeta Postal Bruja
Postcard Sorceress in Spanish. My mother, Caracas-raised, helped me translate. The Spanish version is more hopeful because in Spanish to be hopeless is to be dead. There’s little language for the gray area. Despair is big in Latin America, but not hopelessness.
Vittorio, on a 2004 car ride from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende (where we …
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Postcard Sorceress
i always wanted to write a song about a bruja. this one’s a nod to Manu Chao and Carlos Santana via fastball.
…Nina had a dream when she was younger
Scorpions came over to play
She awoke to find herself with a daughter
And 2 tickets on the Punta Mita trainShe’s got a life
Making jewelry for tourists
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Zipline
zipline. jungle. mexico.
…I want to take a zipline
Through my mind
(But) no one speaks our language
Down here
Where’s that number?
I need to call The DoctorWe wanna get draddled
And set fire to the beach
But the dolls are at the border
And the pilot’s getting screened
I need to call The Doctor
Where’s that
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Today I am Not Turning On The Radio
last night it was joe frank with Karma – Part 6.
if you want to make the cupcake from the song, just know that the cupcake is not the serving suggestion pictured on the Addavanilla package. the picture looks like a cupcake but it’s actually a fire-roasted scorpion with addavanilla frosting. The cupcake, though it’s no Sugar Sweet Sunshine, …
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Drink In The Sky
you need to float away
leave your body
for a little while
every day
meditation blanket courtesy landon pigg
…You say
Breathe. Dream.
And as you fall away
Drink in the skyEverything about you just shines
You and I get unstuck in time
There is no line between you and meThe way you float over sand
The
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AustinTown
Austintown, OH, is the driving midpoint between New York City and Chicago.
Written election eve 2004.
…When they dig us up – they might never know
We dug deep – and left evidence as far down as they will go
They might even think we were older than dinosaursArrogance thinks we’ll see the end of the world
That
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