Ramblings for 2009-08-30

• Perfect. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-27

• My feet followed the moon to the ocean's edge, closed my eyes and my mind chased from there, and in chasing, I had escaped. #

Video: ‘In The Sun’ (Joseph Arthur cover)

Ramblings for 2009-08-26

• We just lost power in my neighbourhood. It's much quieter around here without electricity pumping through the streets and houses. #
• Check out this video: Saint John and the Revelations – In The Sun – (Joseph Arthur Cover) – http://iLike.com/t/DB2E #
• It's not that I don't see the "big picture", I just don't have anywhere to hang it. #
• In conclusion, we begin again. #
• Much needed Guinness at the Whaler. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-25

• In the dark, lying on the floor, sharing headphones with a pretty girl, listening to The Cure. Tonight I am 15 years old. #

Busking

Ramblings for 2009-08-23

• Hmmmmm, telekinesis would be useful right now. #
• Beautiful wickedness is in store tonight. #
• I will let you appear to confuse me tonight. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-22

• Technical difficulties. In the studio, or in general. You decide. #
• Under the lion's paw later, how am I still the dictator?, landing loudly when you let me go, you've been my creator. #

Gabriel About the House

Ramblings for 2009-08-21

• Nope, we discovered that other animals also make tools. The thing that seperates us is that we are the only species that makes excuses. #

Video: ‘Invitation’

Photos: Nice Looking Instruments

Photos: Flowery Rehearsal

Ramblings for 2009-08-16

• You laughed and mocked me while I threw stones into the sea, you didn't realise I was building a castle, rising up for you and me. #

Video: ‘Rock Me Baby’

Meet Michelle

Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, may I present to you our new cellist, Michelle Packman:

Michelle

We had our debut performances with her last weekend at the Coach House with Naked Eyes, and then on Sunday at Venice Beach Music Fest 2009. She was very very good, and the audience loved her.

We are currently booking a whole bunch of acoustic shows with just me and cello, and some full band shows with her also. She’s a natural fit for the band with a zealous interest in geeky things and an extreme music lover. She also knows how to masterfully read all the black dots that fit in-between the lines that she insists on calling ’sheet music’, while I insist on calling it ’satan scribble’.

So please welcome her into the Saint John and the Revelations tribe, you’ll be hearing quite a bit more of her soon.

We’ll also have some videos with Michelle up on YouTube very soon:

http://www.youtube.com/saintjohnvideo

All the best,

SJ

Ramblings for 2009-08-14

• If I follow, you'll run. If I run, you'll hide. If I seek, you'll hate. And If I sit, you'll lay your head on my lap, and finally weep. #
• Don't cry my dear, the Sun is not fleeing from you, she has other promises to keep. Enjoy the darkness, and she'll return sooner. #
• Pushing the food around my plate, she's just fattening me up as human bait, I won't say a word tonight, too beautiful, too late. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-13

• Check out this video: Saint John and the Revelations – Rock Me Baby – http://iLike.com/t/CFgZ #
• Sharpening my pitchfork, polishing my halo. #

Video: ‘Parallax’ Live at the Venice Beach Music Fest 2009

More Venice Beach Music Fest 2009 Photos

Venice Beach Music Fest 2009 Photos

Ramblings for 2009-08-10

• I just met Natalie Portman. I'm smitten. #
• Nacho vomitus from Cabo Cantina (post show sustinence): http://twitpic.com/dc7ja #

Ramblings for 2009-08-09

• Setting up for the Venice Beach Music Fest. T minus 20 minutes until we go on. I wonder what we forgot. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-08

• Pete Byrne of Naked Eyes sound-checking 'Promises Promises' http://twitpic.com/d3ey4 #

The Day In-Between

Comrades,

Today is the day in-between a weekend of good shows for us.

Last night we opened for Naked Eyes at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA. We debuted Michelle, our new cellist, and she was deadly good. The audience loved her, and so did we. The crowd was lovely and we look forward to seeing them again, they really made the night a lot of fun for us.

Tomorrow we are playing at the Venice Beach Music Fest in Venice, CA. The festival is FREE and is right at the beach. It’ll be a lot of fun, the weather will be beautiful, and there will be music all day. We go on at 11:30AM and we’re really looking forward to it. Ladies, wear your most colourful sundresses and bikinis and come enjoy the Pacific Ocean with some really good music! Gentlemen, come and enjoy the ladies (and the music of course!).

The festival takes place at Venice Beach right at the end of Windward Ave. There’s plenty of parking around there too.

Venice Beach Music Fest 2009
Sunday, 9 Aug.
11:30AM

FREE! BEACH! MUSIC! YES!

All the best,

Saint John

Ramblings for 2009-08-07

• Holding hands with tornadoes, swallowing stars whole, not a bad evening for this forsaken soul. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-06

• Are you taking the edge off, or going off the edge? #
• Mashed potatoes for supper. Cheap bar food saves the day again. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-05

• My ashes wait quiet and still for dawn. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-04

• I am locked in. Recording. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-03

• St. Augustine never had a Glencrest French fry. It would have been a totally different perspective if he had. #

Ramblings for 2009-08-01

• Mosquitoes are attracted to CO2. If you want to keep them away, just stop breathing. #