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. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-18

• Jalapeño cheese puffs and http://twitpic.com/lyja9 #
• I'm a sore winner, wearing strands of your noose as shoelaces, hands behind my head, closed eyes to the Sun, in love with honest faces. #
• I need to wash the ocean off. Will somebody please make me a cup of tea while I have a shower? #

Ramblings for 2009-10-17

• I forgot to mention that I saw Where The Wild Things are yesterday. Besides the stuffed animals being a bit shoegazer, it was very good. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-16

• early morning plundering #
• There are a kazillion stars out tonight and LA looks quiet from the rooftop. I guess I should get back to recording. #
• Midnight geisha, whiskey, relentless scribbling into songbook. #
• summoning #
• Situation normal: http://twitpic.com/loi63 #

Ramblings for 2009-10-15

• the sky opened up spilling all your secrets, all of your shame, but your relief knowing there's now room for more, planning more of the same #
• all of your words start to decay, the lies and the love were never meant to stay #
• sunk my teeth into your heart, in the dark leaving your insides out is not very smart #

Ramblings for 2009-10-14

• If you see me out, no matter how loud the music or conversations, I give you explicit permission to whisper something beautiful. #
• On the inside of my skull, scribbled with a little boys hand, an image of who I pretended you were, I laugh while I demand. #
• Drunk with confusion, realisation, my world spinning with shame, collapsed in the doorway, clawing out your name. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-13

• I'm hoping we get a lightning and thunder show over the ocean today. #
• I have made a terribly indecent proposal, the only type of proposal to which anyone says yes. #
• Still. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-12

• Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends. I hope your harvest this year has kept your table heavy. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-11

• Where are all the pretty girls tonight? #
• Ask me, be real, relax, but hurry, we don't have much time left, yes I'll laugh, but so will you, tonight, tell me, it's not ok, but it's ok #
• Setting up my inner demon on a blind date with my better angel. #
• Destroy your mirror, it's doubting your intentions. #
• Arms wide, antagonising consequence, eyes locked, suffocating silence. #
• I killed my guardians and escaped through the shadows, before I come for you I burn down the gallows, we'll both be free, soon enough. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-07

• Tinkering with my jetpack. Humming the songs I'll be playing tonight. The jig is up, wiseguy. #
• The ghosts have given their advice and have stepped outside to give me a little space to swing my guitar around. #
• Bard's Tale #

Ramblings for 2009-10-06

• Responded to a text message but it was to the wrong person. It's going to make me laugh very soon. #
• Threading the needle with nuclear dreams, stitching you back together, Technicolor scars warm to my lips, halflife of me, half of forever. #
• Interstellar travel makes a comeback. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-05

• Pretending I'm asleep. #

Ramblings for 2009-10-03

• Did I get what I deserved? Were you my love of reckoning? Or my fears that kept my knees on the ground, with freedom outside beckoning. #
• Cup of tea in hand. Surveying my empire. There is trouble out there somewhere and I am going to find it. #

Video: ‘Too Soon’ live at Time Warp Music

Ramblings for 2009-10-01

• In the span of human history, never has there been a more important moment as now, to free ourselves from tyrannical oppression. Nap time. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-30

• You have overstepped your bounds, Sub-mariner. #
• On tsunami watch. http://twitpic.com/jopw0 #

Video: ‘Parallax’ live at Time Warp Music

Ramblings for 2009-09-29

• I hear Ray Charles in the other room and it makes me fucking happy. #

Radio Show 3

Ramblings for 2009-09-28

• Every word is just a breadcrumb, hopefully leading you to what I mean. #
• Challenge of the Universe, survive. Challenge of the stars, wonder. Challenge of the Earth, explore. Challenge of your soul, liberate. #
• Oh Dexter, welcome back. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-27

• "yellow lorry slow nowhere to go" #
• Motown is my liberation theology. #
• Yeah I prefer the Earth when it's spinning. #
• Venom. Venom. Venom. Freedom. Unintentional beautiful freedom. #
• We're making a Peter Pan Pandora station. #
• These three peroxide blondes should just kill themselves. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-26

• Check out this video: Saint John and the Revelations – Supposed To Be – live at Time Warp Music – http://iLike.com/t/FtHx #

Video: ‘Supposed To Be’ live at Time Warp Music

Ramblings for 2009-09-24

• I know who I'll marry, I know at what pub we'll have the wedding, I know what laughter we'll have, as we destroy the bedding. It's good. #
• Be good to my ghost. #
• So how was she? Delicious. #
• I no longer consider these things as possibilities. They are now foregone conclusions. #
• While you are asleep, I hope somewhere in your subconscious you are dreaming of liberation. #
• For the same reason they amputate, I'd been paying you the bargain hooker rate. #
• You need this, twitching for bliss, arms crossed and shoulders hunched, but you knew what you'd miss. #
• Disco Nap. #
• Check out this video: Saint John and the Revelations – 'Mercy' – Live from Time Warp Music – http://iLike.com/t/Fgfj #
• "We've gotta take the walls of Jericho, put your lips together and blow" #

Radio Show 2

Radio Show

We recorded a few songs for a syndicated radio show at a beautiful mansion. Here are a few photos:

Video: ‘Black Venomous Snakes’ live at Time Warp Music

Ramblings for 2009-09-19

• Where to now? #
• Peanut butter filled pretzels dipped in dal makhani. Beautiful. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-18

• Playing at the talking stick on Lincoln Blvd for the next hour. Come and check it out. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-16

• She could not redeem herself, the damage done. She let every man have her and then could not elevate any man for having won her. #
• The Big Bang Theory doesn't just work on the Universe, it also works on souls. #
• I painted over every street sign, burned every map, obscured the stars with clouds. How is it you still found me here? #
• I have swayed, I have plundered, I laugh above the thunder, even with my dark words rising up from the ground, here we lay, bliss bound. #
• Oh dear, there is no comparison. You are better in every possible way. The past is mercifully forgotten. The system upgrade is complete. #
• Pick your meaning: "It seems I just missed you." #
• Close your eyes, lean forward, laugh so you cannot hear the burning fuses, lower your hand with the finger that accuses. #
• The same words, the same tone, the same hope. Different ears, purer soul listening. #
• I could wait for you at the edge of the wrong ocean, willing the world to break the laws of motion. #
• Trying to find you using echolocation. #

Video: ‘Hear Me Now’

Ramblings for 2009-09-12

• Check out this video: Saint John and the Revelations – Hear Me Now (Official Video) – http://iLike.com/t/Eah8 #
• My mandolin just created a sonic boom. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-11

• Yeah she was a huge waste of my time, but mostly she was just a sad waste of her own time. #

Ramblings for 2009-09-10

• "His name is Robert Paulson." #

Ramblings for 2009-09-09

• Check out this video: Saint John and the Revelations 'I Know' (Official Video) – http://iLike.com/t/EJdp #
• I'm not asking forgiveness for my sins, I'm trying to improve upon them. #
• I don't mean to remind you of anyone, least of all me. #

Early September 2009

I’ve been a bit quiet the past couple of weeks because I’ve been moving and playing a couple of shows and moving (it was a massive hassle), but my new place is pretty cool. I pretty much have the best views in all of Venice.

Ramblings for 2009-09-07

• Painting with rattlesnakes for brushes. #