I said I was done for the week, well one more. I’ve been getting up at 5 and writing before work the past two weeks, but something has happened and I’ve been accidentally waking up at 3:30 and 2:00. It’s 6:30 now and I’ve been on a rampage, scouring this blog for the pertinent details [...] Continue Reading »
about writing a blog
6making excuses
0There is construction happening next door, we are dog sitting a second dog and a third, whom we are trying to find a home for, is outside guarding the house. We have chorus of tiny, medium and large barks. The construction guy’s radio bleeds through the wall and his drill is every 11 seconds. These [...] Continue Reading »
la cienega just shuffled
2I started out listening to Jay Z, the Blueprint III album. Maintaining a tough attitude is required to get this paint job accomplished and over with. For years we stumbled around ladders in the house and I refuse to relive that. Jay Z reached its end at some point and I can’t recall exactly when. [...] Continue Reading »
resisting inertia
2[ from addair who is listening to The Beatles (White Album) ] Levon found a book in a trash pile on Madison Ave of Harlem (the beneficial aspect to the NYC custom of garbage removal via sidewalk littering) and brought it home to me. I’ve learned to adopt this library collection philosophy. I use to hem and haw about bringing [...] Continue Reading »
and we’ll play a new game
9(from addair) Today I’m feeling underestimated and underappreciated. I say this not to inspire pity. Please, don’t pity me. Rather, I’m saying to that emotion, “Thank you for the alert, I’ve taken notice. Now will you kindly leave so that I can go about growing”. Though it isn’t pleasant to feel this way, it is [...] Continue Reading »
back to the hills
0A week from today we’ll be living the other extreme of our city existence. Working on the farm in Virginia. For now I’m spending every minute writing songs and trying to perfect the newest ones. There are many of them, like six little kids running around and I have to remember what [...] Continue Reading »
like bonny and clyde
3Ashley met me at Starbucks with a change of clothes at 6:30 and we walked the rest of the night away, from the Upper East Side at 85th and Lex down to the East Village and Soho, back to Union Square, and then trained it back to Harlem where we walked our usual route home [...] Continue Reading »
make that a quad
0(from Levon) Last night was a showcase at Crash Mansion in SoHo and then saying good bye to the band for a while. Brent is headed to PA, OH, and VA for some accoustic shows over the next week or so and we reconvene after that to play some dates scattered across the [...] Continue Reading »
recovery
3(from ashley) Yesterday was grim and taxing but my friends and family were there to pluck me out of despondency. And a sweet southern wind found its way to Harlem. First, Levon saw a double rainbow on his way home from work. He said that it was so incredible, the natives smiled. When he couldn’t [...] Continue Reading »
to rebekah and tanya
2Even though I can’t be with you today, I find you in New Yorkian ways I can find you here or right by your side, Because your love is far and wide. Happy Mother’s Day