NINE Playing background dinner music is one of the best places to people watch that I know of. It’s better than a bench in the mall, better than a county fair, better even than a cafe table on a busy street. When you’re on the piano you may stare all you want and no one [...] Continue Reading »
nine. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
2i’d like to say a lot about nothing and a little (but a lot) about Ashley
6Tomorrow is kind of a big day for us, our seven year anniversary. We’ve been talking about what we’re going to do for a while and it’s looking like we’re going to build a couch. Ashley has some concepts, all of them minimalist, and she feels I am qualified to make the cuts and assemble [...] Continue Reading »
happy independence day, and an invitation
6Ashley and I were reminiscing last night, thinking back to all the 4th of Julys we’ve had. With the way we rotate the big holidays, you know the winter ones, we can’t always recollect where we were, what year, what we did, or all of it. However, we accounted for every Independence day in the [...] Continue Reading »
song 9 of 14
001 Mark Your Words This is one to me feels half like a Cole Porter tongue-in-cheek number for a musical, and half like a furious Ben Folds pounding. This demo is very shaky on tempo and has some sloppy fingering, but it manages to get the song across. I play it now on a wurlitzer [...] Continue Reading »
scenes from an italian restaurant
0(by Levon who is listening to Josh Ritter “So Runs the World Away”) With the Wired Ride Shop open, we’ve got to get going. In the morning we head to the hill in Tazewell, VA to stay awhile and see Grandmother. She lives alone in the house where she raised 9 kids and Ashley grew [...] Continue Reading »
two lane highway
0(from Levon) Grace Acres farm is on Botha Rd, a country Virginia highway between Remington and Bealeton. These two country towns lie about 30 minutes south of Washington D.C. We have 2 cows, six goats, nine rabbits, and 13 chickens. New York City feels far away and long ago. No more waking up to the squealing brakes [...] Continue Reading »
buy local music too
0(from Levon) Finished the gig last night and decided I might as well take advantage of being in the Lower East Side, since I was there, and I had no where in particular else to go. I’m pretty sure anybody can play out in New York. The trick is, did you play for anyone? Last [...] Continue Reading »
mona lisas and mad hatters
1I can tell you how I spent my $35: a slice of pizza, a box of poptarts, a $7 pack of cigarettes (extraordinarily expensive for 2002), and then shamefully got hustled out of $15 in the back of an East Village gift shop trying to beat the con artists at their game. Street smarts? I didn’t have any.
steven’s last night in town
0Ben Folds has a song entitled Steven’s Last Night in Town from 1997′s Whatever and Ever Amen. Steven tells everyone he’s moving away and they throw him a big bash. Only everyday he’s still around and hangs out with someone different to keep his ”going away” party going. Eventually they realize he is never leaving and Ben immortalized him [...] Continue Reading »
we are in hiding
0We are in hiding. Its not out of embarrassment, its out of being tired of explaining the thing that is so frustrating to begin with. We need someone to contact us who’s not looking for a place in July. I’ve got 15 people to call back if we’re still here in June or July. April, folks. A good time to be [...] Continue Reading »