../melody in chaos
21 December 2024
GreenAcres, FL
Squeezed this recording in and among requisite holiday obligations. This track’s always cut right through me in the best way. Christmas songs are tinged with sadness. Not Frosty The Snowman, of course, but a lot of them. The nod to sadness, I think, is what makes so many holiday songs universal.…
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This spaced-out Someone To Watch Over Me is a late morning take, on the heels of a night that saw Luna cluster 3 epileptic seizures between 8:30p and 5:30a. It was a long night. We were all a bit drawn.
One of my fav Eno tracks off my fav Eno record, Before & After Science. Performed in an April 2021 livestream from my fantastic temporary living situ in the converted Hood’s Sarsaparilla Soda factory in Lowell, MA.
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One final ride on the Q, to and from my Brooklyn apartment of 17 years, through my home city of 30 years. On to the next, now, far away.
Recorded a bunch of tracks in the almost-vacated apartment leading up to my final departure, as I readied the space for a final showing and handoff to new owners.…
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under the cold and darkly sky / you trip the light and go…
the cars were my fav band growing up. in my high-wire suburban teenage days, their records and lateral solo projects not only were desert island discs, they were my desert island.
the band (driven by ric ocasek’s all-lowercase, overdriven-jangle, and quirky-jerk writing) catalysed my adolescent desire and urgency to learn guitar and to write songs.…
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Tom Petty’s “You & Me” played to Luna, our 5-month old Westie, intercut with footage from a few of her first trips to Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
an evolving project since 2006.
1: The Psychedelic Furs
2. Neil Young
3. The Sonics
4. The Grateful Dead
5. The Cure
6. Credence Clearwater Revival
7. The Replacements
8. George Harrison
9. Kris Kristofferson
10. The Postal Service
11. Tom Petty
12. Landon Pigg
more to come…
inside you the time moves and
she don’t fadedon’t you go it makes no sense…
Inspired by the version on the Psych Furs’ Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live.
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wonderin’ what to do
And the closer they got
The more those feelings grew
There’s sometimes nothing more fun – or necessary – than channeling Crazy Horse.
there are too many people
who can’t see we’re all the same
George Harrison’s Isn’t It A Pity. Recorded Halloween 2006.
