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February 2009

  • February 26th, 2009.

    Ugh – weird dreams last night (or wyrd, which is weirder than weird? – no, not THAT weird).  Perhaps it comes from sleeping on floors for weeks at a time, but I’m awake and it’s late and my brain is still muddied from gig-dreams. The beautiful interior of Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse in Pittsburgh, PA.…

  • February 19th, 2009.

    Heather making her statement on Valentine’s Day. Says it all, really. Excerpts from letters to a friend: So, Thursday nights at home, I help run a weekly open mic I’ve mentioned to you before. We run a monthly songwriter’s challenge, also open to poets, instrumentalists, comedians, performance artists … whatever. Everyone can throw topics into…

  • February 19th, 2009.

    The sun is waging war and is finally winning some sweet advances against the grey, but the snow is still coming down thick, blowing in dense drifts that are beginning to blaze in the light. Ancient Ani Difranco tunes that I haven’t listened to since my senior year of college are pounding through the stereo…

  • February 18th, 2009.

    Kristen of Pan Masters adding cello to Baliset for my birthday show. Absolutely beautiful. On the new album (tentatively titled “dustbunny”) the cello adds a huge new dimension to the song and what was originally probably a simple solo acoustic guitar song has blossomed into one of the things that I’m most proud of on…

  • February 17th, 2009.

    It’s always great to get back together with old friends. Since the College Perk coffeehouse died, there’s been less cross-pollination and general jamming. Heather and I invited a couple of friends to join us at the newly reincarnated Old Bowie Town Grille open mic (in Bowie, MD) on Tuesday night and it was really good…

  • February 11th, 2009.

    Upon returning to Maryland, I’m just in time to help out at the House of Musical Traditions with inventory. Which means helping Amelia count her frog army. Tonight I was a fool and watched “Some Kind of Monster”, the documentary about Metallica. I Love that band for what I Love it for and generally don’t…

  • February 8th, 2009.

    The stairs at HMT in Takoma Park, MD as they try and hide the snow from the sun. My birthday was wonderful. Many of my peeps done gathered around me and we had a Lovely time wandering the Aquarium, the Harbour, watching movies and generally being silly for a night. Me and a group of…