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." #

Video: ‘Hear Me Now’ (Apollo Version)

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. #

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. #