BLUE MOON #4 - Looks Like It's Gonna Rain

Written at my friend Kara's, where I was staying while being between places in San Francisco, for someone who didn't quite measure up. Because Kara loves her, I was listening a lot to Joanna Newsom's Ys at the time. The song started while I was walking around, the clouds were becoming grayer, there was some rain on the way.

Watch it with Amy's lovely voice harmonizing with me, on vimeo and youtube. (and hear the Lost Church's chairs cracking!)

BLUE MOON #3 - Like A Woman In Love

Some songs hardly need an introduction, and this might be one of them. You meet someone, everything feels so new that it's hard to put into words - is it love? or something like it...

The video is up on vimeo and youtube - with some laughter in the beginning, due to a previous false start...

BLUE MOON #2 - Bumblebee (like you've never heard it)

Written in Golden Gate Park - my friend Chantale, who was visiting, dragged my hung over ass out there on a sunday morning to take photos. I brought my guitar. After I was through playing all my songs, there was nothing left to do but figure out what was next, and this bumblebee happened to hover  by the bushes nearby, so I started singing to it. As we walked out of the park the lyrics for the second verse came to me, and by the next day I had a song. It still feels like that song wrote itself, the best feeling really.

This version features Amy's wonderful mandolin part, a rare treat. And it's up on vimeo and youtube (also on facebook of course) - enjoy!

BLUE MOON #1 - In Time

Welcome to the first installment of what I'm calling the BLUE MOON LIVE VIDEO SERIES - a series of live footage that was recorded at The Lost Church in San Francisco last June. Starting today - the blue full moon of August this year, fittingly a rare occasion - I will be releasing a song a day for the next five days on youtube/vimeo/facebook.

For the first segment, I chose a song I wrote about something I feel strongly about - how we treat women in the world, and what impact it has on said world. It started a few years ago when I realized that if only we treated women better, we'd end up with a better world. They carry on the love and if thwarted, aren't able to properly transmit it. The latter half of the song was informed by my buddhist practice and how we women have a mission to live a full, happy life - so sort of the same idea.

I hope you like it! And stay tuned for the rest of the lot...

Driving around Highland Park after the rain

A double rainbow 

(almost)

In any case, a good sign for new beginnings.

And a poem for the shifts of summer

You are tired.

You are tired,
(I think)
Of the always puzzle of living and doing;
And so am I.

Come with me, then,
And we’ll leave it far and far away—
(Only you and I, understand!)

You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and—
Just tired.
So am I.

But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight,
And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart—
Open to me!
For I will show you the places Nobody knows,
And, if you like,
The perfect places of Sleep.

Ah, come with me!
I’ll blow you that wonderful bubble, the moon,
That floats forever and a day;
I’ll sing you the jacinth song
Of the probable stars;
I will attempt the unstartled steppes of dream,
Until I find the Only Flower,
Which shall keep (I think) your little heart
While the moon comes out of the sea.

@ ee cummings

(repost from so what)

A new video for the solstice

HERE IT IS!!!! A rare treat to the masterful artistry of Zach Von Joo, done all in film and super 8. Click play!