August 25th, 2008 ///
opening for hayden 9/15
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monday, september 15 @ 7 pm
hayden, plus dennis crommett 7 pm. 5:30 doors. all ages. tickets: $12.50.
hayden links: myspace, website, video, npr interview |
August 25th, 2008 ///
August 25th, 2008 ///
cambridge this weekend
this coming weekend i’m playing in club passim’s campfire series again. details on the shows page. it’s always an interesting experience. last year lauren and i went to the franklin park zoo beforehand… it was incredibly hot that day… we walked along the cage-like boardwalk that once was part of a bird sanctuary… zoos are difficult; i care about animals a great deal, so i tend to wonder what the circumstances were that led them to a zoo, and of course hope for the best… it’s not always the case of course… anyway, this saturday will be a zoo of singer/songwriters in harvard square, all wondering what the circumstances were that brought the others here….
August 14th, 2008 ///
piano elevator
there’s an elevator i take sometimes that is also used to move pianos. sometimes i think i can smell the strings… the smell in there is very similar to that of my father’s guitar case when i was growing up… he would open the case and (especially after it was sitting in the closet for a while) i would instantly smell the bronze-wound strings that would soon be vibrating with a song like “mole’s moan” or “freight train.”
from our apartment, we can hear the highway. this morning, sitting on the couch, i felt like i could hear someone’s car stereo… or maybe it was just the cars, sounding musical in some way… i was reminded of that just now, as the air conditioner in this small, windowless room i’m in started to whistle, or hum… for just a few seconds….
August 11th, 2008 ///
80808 show recap
on friday night, i played with my bands spanish for hitchhiking and the winterpills at a show called local on the 8’s…. 8 northampton bands and a general 8 theme…. above, a picture (click it for larger color version) taken by my girlfriend lauren, of me sitting in with mark mulcahy (along with my winterpills bandmates philip and flora, and mark’s band: ken maiuri and dave trenholm). it was a fun night, and i found an adhesive #8 on the bottom of one of my shoes just yesterday. hm.