December 2011
4 posts
“After a while you realize that music - the writing and enjoying of it - is not...”
– Tom Waits
AKA And is there something that you actually do or say to yourself? Are there tools that you have derived from meditation practice?
MM I just do a lengthy warm-up, and when I come onstage I ground myself, and basically, I am in that situation which is different than the one I was in the night before. As you know, if you perform very well and you are inspired, there is as much a problem getting...
I think that being artists in a time like this, we have a lot to give. It is a time that does not encourage that kind of space. It’s a time that’s very restless and very noisy, and it is unable to tolerate space and silence. If that is something you need to express as an artist, it’s a wonderful thing to hold firm to, at this time. I believe that a lot of people have a longing and a...
November 2011
7 posts
October 2011
5 posts
The Creative Process by Paulo Coelho
The Creative Process
by Paulo Coelho
Every creative process, be it in literature, in engineering, in information technology—and even in love—always respect a same pattern: the cycle of nature. A) field plowing: at the moment the soil is plowed up, oxygen penetrates where it was not able to reach up to then. The field gets a new face, the soil that was on top is now underneath and what was beneath...
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September 2011
4 posts
Vespa Ride to O’Hare
Praise, inside of me
Of the dense ivy underneath the railroad Strung all along what looks like a crossbow
These highway structures can be quite fair, but From many years ago
The drive halfway there is fairly pretty And the heavens we don’t really notice They look very real today to me…do they to you
I don’t know what you see, driving I hope we don’t get...
I Have to Go Home Again
Those tall trees along Macarthur, they must have some part
in the knowing of your hometown’s sorrowful grace
Must work for the mayor of the real town
which is a small empty meeting place.
Must see the woman waiting
by the ER doors, with an All My Children
300 piece puzzle for the crying guest she’s left there.
You decide they must still know you, too,...
Skinned Knee, Selway Bitterroot
Pinedrops are pretty parasites, as are the Indian pipes, but if torn
From the ground, their waxy white leaves blacken.
You will see this later when you lay them on the dash.
Not villainous, these—just the sick heart finally stopping.
You’ve got a skinned knee, rising up from the springs:
not sure how it happened, as all you did was rest in the water that
flows...
August 2011
3 posts
new album track listing!
darker heaven/jenny gillespie
darker heaven
paper anchors
mariposa
sunshine blood
giraffe (autographs)
wooden bench
poet’s maw
creature of our make
skull earring (backstories)
clothespin
late summer news
recording my new album “darker heaven” with shahzad ismaily in 2 weeks in brooklyn. very excited…he just produced one of my heroes, bonnie prince billy’s new album, and is a very multi-talented and interesting person who i’m sure will take my music into a beautiful sonic world. many of our musical likes intersect…from world arabic/japanese instruments to mark...
pshares:
I. Today I walk, find countless calla lilies. How anything grows its own perfect white and stays that way - unafraid of world. It is lovely, so I look. It doesn’t matter what it thinks of me. - from “What I Looked at Today” by Doreen Gildroy, from our Winter 1998/99 issue, guest edited by Thomas Lux.
July 2011
9 posts
June 2011
16 posts
“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with...”
– Roger Ebert
amazing album art designer i just discovered →
Breaking down a symbol
The Greek word symbolon means something put together-originally a coin (or potsherd) broken into 2 pieces, one of which was given to each of the parties in a legal agreement as identification. This half coin became a symbol: it hinted that something more was needed to complete its meaning.
A symbol that has to explain itself, that feels apologetic about its presence, is not a healthy symbol.
The...
Booty jam from Paris featuring me
WatchI WANT TO HUG EVERY CAT!!!!
May 2011
14 posts
