It’s been a busy week. We cleaned up our rehearsal studio, it looks about 1000 times better now. It’s in the basement of one of the oldest buildings in Venice and it’s just a really fun place to play. And the ghosts are finally getting used to the ruckus.

I wrote a new song that I like, it’s another silly love song. It’s Spring, what can I do?

We’ve been flirting with adding a couple new members to the band. We’ll see how they work out, it’s a lot of work to be in this band, we are a bit maniacal.

Check our show schedule, we have a whole bunch of shows coming up in May. We’re starting to work some new songs into the set also. It’s a lot of fun to flesh them out and to see how playing them live changes them.

We have a free download this week, it’s a song from ‘Mercy’ called ‘Part Of Me’:

http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2730587

Feel free to share that link and spread it around, I pretty much owe my whole career to cool folks like you telling your friends about my music, so please keep it up, I very much appreciate it!

Best,

SJ

http://www.facebook.com/saintjohn
http://www.twitter.com/saintjohn

• Sometimes your body is a temple, and sometimes it's a stripper's pole. #
• Dearest father, who art in heaven, hallowed be this pain, the love we cannot know, only words away, starting fires in the rain. #
• The loudest rebel yell, from he that fell, it's been getting warm in here, and we know now who really created hell. #
• Will be ringing some bells tonight. #
• Did she notice when she devastated me, did she hear when I rose from the ashes. #
• I just realised I only follow three people on Twitter: a DJ, a soap star, and a yurt dwelling lawyer. Twitter is my psych profile. #
• My blood is Del Scorcho sauce. #
• Blinded. I can't see where my hope ends and you begin. #
• Here. #
• Oh man, I have a show in just a bit, if my band could see me in the shape I'm in, they'd be worried. #
• "only the good die young, that's what I said" #
• "always stop at the top" #
• "praying for the lovers in the Valley of the Gun" #

• I don't need it anymore. #
• should probably be locked away tonight. #
• No Internet en la casa. If it wasn't for my Twitter access on my iPhone I'd be back in the Dark Ages. #
• ./ xl1d #
• Hitchhiking down the high road. #
• "I was feeling no pain, feeling good in my brain" #
• Ha! I need a filter. An off-switch. Lies. Fear. Sanity. #
• It's the last bit of shameless honesty that I have. #
• Writing about things I can't write about. #

http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=9895

Saint John’s interview starts a few minutes into the playback on that link.

Cheers!

• Trampoline Master #
• Trompoline Master #
• Those are the earthquakes I like. It kind of felt like skateboarding. #
• Finally home from a glorious evening of birthday fun. Thank you everyone, that was really good. Nap time. #
• Blue notes screaming in ecstasy around me for my birthday. Good start to the day. I'm going to sing and play some guitar momentarily. #
• I'll race you home. #
• I will consider my eyes useless if they don't get to see your face soon. #
• Ok. I'll go up next song. Not because I'm fearless, but because I have no sense. I can feel the possession coming on. #
• I need some support if I'm going to play. I wish my cellist didn't live so far away, I need to give her a musical booty call. #
• Ok, get me another beer and play another couple of songs and I'll see how I feel. Biding time, a comet might still fall through the roof. #
• Ha! I'm not playing hard to get. I'm playing 'you can't really be serious, I don't really need the humiliation at the moment'. #
• No sir. Not tonight, I pushed my luck playing with a few Blues folks way out of my league a few days ago. Besides, I don't have a guitar. #
• These old black men wielding guitars are like shaman. They know why I'm here. My shoulder is in searing agony, they want to make it worse. #
• This week appears to be Blues Week for me. I'm now in the darkest and smokiest speakeasy, playing sinister and redemptive blues. Moving in. #
• I'm guarding our gear in the back alley of the Cat Club. We go on in about 20min, but I'm not sure I can hold out against all these ruffians #
• I'm not going to name drop, but Michelle and I just rocked some blues with some of the best musicians ever. I'm going to be high for days. #
• Good God Almighty, The Rainbow Bar Blues Jam is jamming right now. We don't go on for a while, which is super fine with us. Rockin'. #
• Ok, now we are on our way to show #3 Rainbow Bar and Grill Blues Jam. #
• About to go on at KWVS 101.5 live. #
• Heading over to the Whaler for show #1 this evening. Chocolate ice cream before, and then we are on at 9. #
• @claysteward you need to post that on FB. in reply to claysteward #
• @claysteward hahahahahaha, I wonder who you're talking about…god I'm still laughing. in reply to claysteward #
• is this thing on? (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/8Q2E) #
• Testing Our Webcasting stuff… (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/8Q2E) #