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Weekly Ramblings

• Hello square one. #
• heroine addict. #

Weekly Ramblings

• No no no. There is too much courage in this morning mist. There are explosives in my soul and they're wired to your smile. #
• Beautiful morning. There are explosives in my soul and they're wired to the sunrise. #
• A homeless lady is singing along with the music playing in the sandwich shop. Of course it's "Just The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby. #

Weekly Ramblings

• You'll still hear me knocking on your door when my bones are rolling in the wind on your porch. #
• I want you to be your alibi. #
• Don't you know, who I am, you've looked into these eyes so many times, the ones that say yes, you, can. #
• I can't say any more, but I learned these words just to say to you, watching the moon as it sets, waking to diamonds of morning dew. #
• Don't you know, I have something for you, just rest your eyes, and I'll make your smile true. #
• Don't you know, who I am? You've looked into these eyes so many times, I'm your mirror in a man. #
• I can't say anymore, all my words are waiting for you, watching the Sun as it sets, only you could improve my view. #
• Don't you know, this'll all come around again, come around, I've been locked away, 'cause I'm the most hopeful of men. #
• Heaven is the sound of your footsteps on wet asphalt, stopping, turning around, and coming home. #
• I poured the cup of tea, the least I could do is drink it, it takes a lot to make this hope, so let's pause before we sink it. #

Weekly Ramblings

• Shhhh, don't mind me, I'm harmless. #
• Me and my public execution, sentenced to a smile's electrocution. #
• Ed Sullivan Presents: The Immortal Poets and Endless Optimism #
• Without you, any house I live in may as well be a hotel. #
• The universe has made quite a fuss over us. #
• Out of fashion out of time, I'll show her around this empire of mine #
• I'd come with roses, but that is what every simpleton supposes #
• There is no evidence, very few clues, I might be insane, but that isn't exactly news #
• Howling, laughing, wailing, whispering, stomping, shuffling, tapping, singing. But all you should hear is your name. #
• Another day of reckoning. #

Weekly Ramblings

• It looks like Orion is leaping into the ocean. #
• Many men have been led to their deaths from the singing of the siren Lorelei. I don't know why I've decided to start writing songs for her. #
• I like what you've done with the extra-dimensional light refraction triggered by 1000 year old karma. #
• Did I summon these demons or did they just appear #
• I don't know the laws here #
• Grabbed my cutters to get through the barbed wire #
• Devouring fuel for the fire #

Weekly Ramblings

• Come with me, Persephone #
• Women have two types of smiles. One that says "get in while you still can". And the other that says "get out while you still can". #
• Born. Again. #
• That tambourine is ridiculous. #
• There is one more thing that is supposed to happen. #
• If you help me put one foot in front of the other, I can be your higher power. #
• If you turn up my microphone too loud, I will go to jail. It is my patriotic duty. #
• Happy ghosts don't mind old guitar strings. They don't mind the whisky on your breath. They're still feeding you when you should starve. #
• Yes, I still feel that in my chest too. #

Weekly Ramblings

• I want you at my deathbed confession. #
• The god of 1008 faces, tied to your bedroom wall with red licorice laces, scratching out my sins with with anxious nails, forgiveness fails. #
• Take courage, young souls, not from your gods, your fathers, or heroes. Take courage from the marrow of fear, from inside, know it, and win #
• Happy Boxing Day comrades! #
• You can't see me when I've put the universe in my chest. #
• Impatient Supernova #
• One drop of rain, falling in the desert sky, I will not touch the ground. #
• On my way back to Venice. They won't let me take my parachute as a carryon bag. It's ok, I have my flying squirrel wings sewed on my jacket. #
• "All that I was looking for was somebody who looked like you" #

Weekly Ramblings

• All I want is a lifesize globe. #
• Sometimes the best way to enjoy something is to take it for granted. #
• I know it's impossible, that's why I'm doing it. #
• I just met someone from the planet Starka. #
• I will have everything. Except that. #

Weekly Ramblings

• All I want is a lifesize globe. #
• Sometimes the best way to enjoy something is to take it for granted. #
• I know it's impossible, that's why I'm doing it. #
• I just met someone from the planet Starka. #
• I will have everything. Except that. #

Weekly Ramblings

• Poisoning arrows with the sweat off your skin, we'll take full advantage of our late night sin #
• We don't know where it all went wrong, we keep peering out waiting for the dawn #
• "Baby when you walk you shake just like a willow tree" #
• Daggers for feathers, wings spread wide, they might glimmer in the sun, but they can't cross this divide. #
• Delightful curses, heavy blessings, you once knew, but now you're guessing. #
• it's not because you sold your soul, it's because of how little you got for it. #
• Who is the god and who is the mortal? #
• Too much red wine and your lips were too close. #
• A billion suns out tonight. Space pollen. #
• Bringing coal to Newcastle. #

Weekly Ramblings

• I need something to do. I keep getting myself into trouble. #
• Ha! They're not ghosts, I am. It's making more sense now. #
• The house is on fire, but she's so calm, twirling her hair in her fingers, it reminds her of prom. #
• mind experiments, memory tsunami, hard to breathe, clear out your past, clean up your soul, make contact. Soon. Now. It's still you and me. #
• A pretty girl with freckles laughing in the sunshine can cure any bad mood. #
• Taking the long way home. The moon has this little town lit up like daytime. #
• I eat Patak's curry sauce straight from the jar. #
• The Cure "Secrets" will be accompanying me for sunset today. And my black jelly bracelets. #
• She was a sweet reminder that I could be adored. #
• It's a blind date with planet Earth. Have some breath mints. #
• It's not a suicide note, just a notice to the postman of a serious change of address. #
• I heard their voices and I leapt. Heard their echoes in the chasm and thundering across the sky. I haven't landed. Falling or soaring? #
• One small bit, less than an atom, controls all of this, and we stamp our feet and curse a prayer for bliss. #
• These are my perfect metaphors I can't explain. #
• It's not important, but it does mean something. #
• I'm just a lie that you sometimes told, that I scratched in stone, afraid to be true, and afraid to be unknown. #
• I don't know how it happened, AND, I have the extra advantage in that I also don't care. #

Weekly Ramblings

• Sleep, boy, just sleep. #
• Remarkably quiet and clear this very early morning. Many many stars. #
• Welcome to the Universe: http://twitpic.com/qxy9z #
• Summer in Wintertime music: Red Rose Speedway. #
• But there is still time to make amends, and we can together aspire to greater ends. #
• They tried to climb up here and claw me down, but hear my chorus of laughter as they were struck to the ground. #
• There's really not much holding the Earth in place, please step a little lighter. #
• We'll cross that bridge when we burn it. #

Weekly Ramblings

• Writing on the rooftop. Hold on, shoulders back, I hear the drums, they're coming down… #
• I'll be colliding my own hadrons today. #
• Hell is my big cathedral, their empty smiles are my porn star, I won't have to taste this gun, or get in the flaming car. #

Ramblings for 2009-11-22

• Writing on the rooftop. Hold on, shoulders back, I hear the drums, they're coming down… #

Ramblings for 2009-11-21

• I'll be colliding my own hadrons today. #

Ramblings for 2009-11-18

• Hell is my big cathedral, their empty smiles are my porn star, I won't have to taste this gun, or get in the flaming car. #

Ramblings for 2009-11-15

• Same as it ever was: http://twitpic.com/plzy0 #
• We Never Close: http://twitpic.com/plz9a #
• About to drive to Orange County for my show in San Clemente tonight. I have my passport and forged Republican voter registration card ready. #

Ramblings for 2009-11-13

• It's a pretty good gig, Mr GreenJeans #

Ramblings for 2009-11-12

• Door locked, light out, retreated into bed, I'm not up for entertaining the living tonight, not ready to join the dead. #
• The sky painted dark with this winter storm, you still clutch to him pretending he keeps you warm #

Ramblings for 2009-11-10

• Why Venice?: http://twitpic.com/oxv93 #

Ramblings for 2009-11-09

• If you knew what was right with me, you wouldn't have to ask what's wrong with me. #
• The mirror is one my least favourite inventions. #
• Please don't let your existential crisis get in the way of your workday, the economy is counting on you! #

Ramblings for 2009-11-08

• Fundamentally…yes. #

Ramblings for 2009-11-07

• Mescal? Already? #
• Pre- El Tarasco: http://twitpic.com/oju92 #

Ramblings for 2009-11-06

• Ack! I just realised we don't have any more shows booked. I think it's the first time in a couple of years we haven't had an upcoming show. #
• I wonder if it's late enough to slip some lyrics in while everybody is asleep. #
• I'm playing tonight at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel at 9:30PM. Free. With cello and grand piano. #

Ramblings for 2009-11-05

• That'll do: http://twitpic.com/oaz52 #

Ramblings for 2009-11-05

• That'll do: http://twitpic.com/oaz52 #

Ramblings for 2009-11-02

• It was the silence, the pauses, between your words, that's where the hope was hiding #
• Easing your shame: http://twitpic.com/ny6hf #
• Waxing gibbous 99%: http://twitpic.com/ny4yt #

Ramblings for 2009-11-01

• Moonset and quesadillas: http://twitpic.com/nutlu #
• I ain't fraid a no ghost #

Ramblings for 2009-10-31

• I am Galaga savant #

Ramblings for 2009-10-29

• You only dream in truths, no hope to warn you, that you might be better, than all the shit you've been through #

Ramblings for 2009-10-28

• naslfraq paston hakgabn. unr? #
• Use your lungs like hands to touch the air as you breath. That's my spontaneous Twitter meditation lesson. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-27

• Just enough time for a quick nap before moonset. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-26

• To my friends in LA, if you're up I recommend you go out and look at the sky, it's the most stars I've seen from the city in a long time. #
• with your face painted bright, asking what you had done, your love still smelled of gunpowder, to you it's all a test run #
• I'm a toddler with a flamethrower in a crib made of straw in a napalm house #
• This is the last breath for you, I will inhale after this with hope that doesn't know you, I'll step in a direction that doesn't lead to you #

Ramblings for 2009-10-24

• "Well well well well, boom boom boom boom." #

Ramblings for 2009-10-22

• It's interesting to watch my songs evolve right in front of me. They all seem to change meaning, what/who they're about, etc #

Ramblings for 2009-10-21

• Fat Elvis avoided eating chips right before his midnight nap. #
• Al Gore would be very proud, my tea is Solar powered: http://twitpic.com/mb0hb #

Ramblings for 2009-10-20

• Today is the clearest day. From my place I can see Catalina, Malibu, Palos Verdes, the Getty, Downtown, and the Hollywood sign. Beautiful. #

Video: Parallax (slow version)

Ramblings for 2009-10-19

• Your bones nearing zero degrees, floating away, what were you here for?, what did you have to say? #
• Eating a bite of a dark chocolate bar while figuring out what to have for breakfast. #