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Sep 22.2010
It’s the night of the Autumn Equinox, and I’m home alone with my buddy kitties Max and Calibomosh. Apparently tonight there will be a “super harvest moon”, which should be stunning. Full effect (and I’m not sure what that will be, I’m hoping to be stunned!) occurs at 11:09 PM precisely!
Anyway, first an apology - I know I haven’t written in this blog for ages. It’s been quite a summer. I took 2 trips - one to France for two amazing, and amazingly different shows (one in a quarry in which I sang acappella with the wonderful singer Scalde, and the other one in a country festival where me and the members of I Am Your Autopilot gave the best performance we ever have!!!) PHEW! That’s a runon! Then I did a performance in Venice as a peripheral part of the Venice Film Festival. It was a small but warm audience, and the Venice… well, it’s really amazing. But I won’t get into that now because I’m just trying to apologize!!!!
I have secondly some news - there’s a new track of mine released in a comp culled for Marc Weidenbaum and his newborn child. Marc is the man behind the Disquiet blog on ambient music. I was asked to do this by my good pal Erik Schoster for his netlabel Luvsound. The tune I chose to submit is a short movement from an improvisation I created called The Garden. I invite you to check out Lullaby, but The Garden hasn’t been released yet. It’s very different from my pop.
More good news - I got shortlisted for the vimeo festival and awards with my Wood Smoke video! This meant that David Lynch and a very small panel of judges watched my video. It didn’t make finalist (!!!) but that’s ok. I’m just happy to have creeped into David Lynch’s eyes.
OK, promise to be more connected during the autumn! Enjoy the Equinox, folks!
who’s that knocking…Jun 29.2010
Strange experience I had at bedtime last night and early this morning… I was sitting in the upstairs of my house. My kitties were downstairs and down the hall, the doorway that leads to the stairway was closed, so no chance they could have been up… So I’m lying there making ready for sleep when I hear quite clearly “knock knock.” Two confident taps on my bedroom door. I got a little weirded out - there’s nothing in the hall that could have done that. It wasn’t a windy night. I got up and opened the door… nothing. Nobody there. I figured, ok, maybe two acorns fell on the skylight close to the door and promptly went to sleep.
The really odd part was at 3:30 AM I was awoken from sleep by some troubled feelings… I wasn’t quite wide awake, but half-conscious, embroiled in a mesh of thoughts. What completely woke me was the sound of two taps on my door. Knock knock. Again. Confident, dispassionate, but clearly meant to wake me. I turned on the light and opened the door… again, nobody there. And I think if had been another couple of acorns from the roof in the exact same place and the exact same rhythm that would be magically bizarre.
Well, I made it through the night. But what were those knocks?
My super inspiring friend Miran KimMay 24.2010
Miran is a woman who I met while I was living in Williamsburg. Our friendship deepened, as is often the case these days, through the internet after she moved away to California. I found out that Miran is an artist and comic book illustrator, and an amazingly talented one at that!!!!
Anyway, Miran is having her first shows in Belgium and Paris. I’m so very excited for her I decided I wanted to blog about it and invite any of my friends in Belgium or France to look into it. These two shows look to be really excellent!
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BRUSSELS: TAROT AN ARTISTS’ VISION OF THE FUTURE (May 27th till August 21st)
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Thursday 27th May - 18.00 hrs: Opening of Tarot art exhibition
(including live Tarot reading performance and burning of Sam Kieth’s art)
Petits Papiers - 1 Place Fontainas - 1000 Brussels
http://www.petitspapiers.be/
Friday 28th May - 15.00 till 18.00: Signing session at Brüsel -
Boulevard Anspach 100 - 1000 Brussels http://www.brusel.com/
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PARIS: AMERICANS IN PARIS (May 29th till August 21st)
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Saturday 29th May - 18.00 hrs: Opening of Group exhibition at Petits
Papiers - Village Saint-Honoré, 91 Rue Saint Honoré- 75001 Paris
http://www.petitspapiers.be/
Sunday 30th May - 14.00 - 17.00 hrs: Signing session at Petits
Papiers - Village Saint-Honoré, 91 Rue Saint Honoré- 75001 Paris
Exhibition organized by Graphicnovelart & Petits Papiers
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dream collaboration
May 16.2010
I dreamt last night obsessively about remembering the name of this female band me and the band intersected during last autumn’s tour. I couldn’t remember the name and was toiling about it for… well, it seemed all night. Finally I remembered, Mansfield Tya.
And by the time I remembered it we were collaborating with them on stage. I’m not sure why collaborations scare me a bit. I guess it’s a healthy fear. When you collaborate with another artist you open yourself up in a pretty raw way. You have to trust each other. So Mansfield Tya were there on stage and they were making this lovely sound with soft, strange harmonies and some kind of… well, it seemed like harps or some such unusual instruments to see on a stage.
I began to sing a counterpoint, and it was strong and confident and worked really well. The guys joined me. I remember hearing Jasper beat the tom, and suddenly Charlie started playing this windy, deep analogue synth and I was just ecstatic! We were making such wonderful music. And some part of me knew I was dreaming, and knew that I was finding this music within myself. Sometimes I go through periods, probably like all artists, when I am not sure if I have more within me, and clearly this was proof that there is more, eternally more.
In the audience I spotted a beautiful French girl and she was crying from the beauty of the music. But as I looked around the theatre more than half of it was empty, completely empty.
After the show I burst into the dressing room, still ecstatic and congratulated Jasper who was equally inspired.
my friends, FM CAMPERSMay 14.2010
Two of my friends from em411 have a band called FM CAMPERS and their music is really great! Very original, soulful, creative and thrilling. (Yes, all those words!)
They just released an ep and I thought I’d take this opportunity to draw folks attention to them. They are wonderful!