About me...
No one's ever heard my songs before. I've never played out with them. I'm not the guy you'll see at a show or on the street playing for anyone. Writing songs like this is just something I do when I'm alone and wondering why the hell we're here. I sing into my laptop mic. I dump the songs on my ipod, and when I'm walking my dog, or driving a long way, or sitting up late at night alone I'll listen to them.
About Wake...
I was in Chicago, waiting for the El. I'd been walking in the rain earlier. Not because I like to walk in the rain. I'd gotten stuck in the rain and eventually stopped hurrying since it was warm enough outside. As I waited on the outdoor El platform, and the rain began to dissipate, and the sky began to open up again, I had one of those moments that come very infrequently for me in life where I felt completely present, fully alive, and fully here. It was as if I was on the verge of peering into some great mystery and actually being able to understand it. I stood at the edge of the tracks and just got caught up in the world and the sky. That feeling encompassed me on the El and all the way home where I wrote Wake and sang it into my video camera.
About Evolve...
Evolve is meant to bleed right into the song Wake.
About Ben's Song...
Ben majored with me in undergrad. The last time I saw Ben, I went to see him in a hospital in New York where he was in the last stages of AIDS and suffering from advanced cancer of the lymph nodes. He ate soup with a spoon and had trouble swallowing. Even though he had very little physical strength, when we said goodbye he hugged me with an intensity I'd never felt before and have never felt since. He really wanted to stay here but he wasnt going to be allowed. We spread Ben's ashes at the base of a tree outside a Broadway theater where he once worked on a show. His ashes were very soft to the touch.
Ben's Song was recorded when I was in Brooklyn sitting in my old brownstone on a radiator next to an open window during a thunderstorm. I waited for thunder to start and pressed record and played the song.
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I’m currently into the following songs on Myspace:
Frank Atom's I Once Died A Happy Man
Jenna Endresen's Hello My Name Is Frog and Mother Has Gone
Rebekah Higgs’ Parables, Winding Watch, and Love Is
Jeremy Enigk’s Been Here Before, Canons, and River To Sea
All things The Opium Cartel
Check them out at the links below or in my extended friends list.
