hello dear friends. first some quick news, then the dumping of my soul. it came together fast as a slippery lady fish….i’m going to be appearing at a benefit to SAVE THE MERMAID PARADE of coney island. may 25, bowery ballroom, NYC. hurricane sandy was an absolute bitch and has threatened to shut the parade… Read more »

this is me and ondi. if you missed the announcement elsewhere, i’m heavily involved in a kickstarter project that has only a few days to go. the goal is to help filmmaker ondi timoner fund “ a total disruption “…she’s basically crowdfunding her business from the ground up, and her business is to tell stories like mine, so… Read more »

i had dinner with anthony tonight, in bedford, near lexington…a little italian joint in a strip mall. he’s been ok. alive. not great but in what we call the cancer “clearing in the woods”. still surrounded by forest, but uncertain as to where the next battle is. it’s been hard. long. annoying. but he’s alive,… Read more »

hola comrades. it’s been a hard week – but i wouldn’t trade my life for anything. i’m currently blogging from a cafe near seattle. i’m sitting next to cliff, a marine veteran. i asked him what kind of veteran, because i saw his baseball cap. we’ve been chatting for the last hour. he’s now watching… Read more »

hello from the fine old american northwest… where i just delivered one of the first series of kickstarter parties in seattle, about to do one in portland, and will blog bad-ass photos when i get a sec. AND i just bought a package of band-aids at the local QFC for the nasty blister i got… Read more »

aie aie aie. so many interesting things to talk about….where do we start? if you are a new reader to my blog, hello. if you want to see what i actually do (i’m mostly a musician, not just a random free-verse blogger), here’s a song i just released and the video that goes with it…. Read more »

warning: hateful commenters trying to hack the blog by mimicking regular benevloent users’ names. please proceed with caution and respect. given the amount of controversy surrounding this blog, i wrote about the act of writing of the poem HERE if you’d like to read it. you don’t know how it felt to be in the womb… Read more »

PLEASE NOTE: this is part 2. part 1 – my own photo gallery of this VS that, “look for the helpers 1775-2013” – is HERE (warning: contains graphic images). yesterday was supposed to be a day of at-home-in-boston email catch-up, calls with agents, and finally breaking ground on sorting out what songs i’m going to play… Read more »

i’m in boston. i’m fine. i was across the river when it happened. i’ll post a longer blog later today. [Update 3:30PM EST: Part 2 is HERE ] for now….. connect the dots. 6 am: the revolutionary war re-enactment in my hometown: lexington, massachusetts. 16 miles from boston. i went every year as a child . ……………………… (revolutionary reenactment photos by Joanne Rathe… Read more »

April 8th, 2013 7:39PM: We had a lot of people requesting a download for the song, and…why not?You can now download it for free+donation if you’d like at Bandcamp . i wrote this 3 days ago, at bard college. it came to me in the morning, while i was still in bed, and i was lucky,… Read more »

hola comrades….. it’s wonderful to watch the tour dates getting waved around and the shows selling – tickets in the UK are flying especially fast, hooray. if you missed the tour announcement, it’s HERE . i’ve been in a really strange purgatory this week…it’s been wonderful to be away from real life, even though it’s sort… Read more »

HOLA COMRADES!!!!!!!! this blog is a long one…..there’s a shit-ton to say because WE’RE GOING BACK ON THE ROAD. i know there are a lot of links of exciting things to go and check out, but just open ‘em in another tab while you get through this. it’s hard but necessary to shoot ALL OF… Read more »