2009 Tour: Part One

September 7, 2009

I left for the open road on the afternoon of Friday, September 4th.  I had meant to leave in the morning after my 8 am oil change appointment, but what with staying up too late after the previous night’s Hexagon show, and spending a lot of time saying goodbye to the new love in my […]

Untitled July 21, 2009

July 25, 2009

Final Title: Groundless/Flightless We hang up in the air over everything down here I won’t settle I won’t stretch I won’t argue with the city on my side and the rest of it in time it’s enough just to keep my mind above the surface cast a room above your head filled with people from […]

Untitled July 13, 2009

July 17, 2009

Final Title: Can of Worms A little more about this YouTube project: I always do “sketches” in the early stages of songwriting. I used to hum and form melodies on a little tape recorder, then write the song later. Some songs were purely constructed in a notebook. For almost everything I’ve done in the past […]

Untitled July 12 2009

July 13, 2009

wait for the world to line up beside you rest in the meantime, die without a reason to be connected to this light I see I’m not inclined to go on without you but I’ll do what I have to. If there’s one thing I know it’s that I’m fine all alone.

Untitled, June 28 2009

July 11, 2009

Final Title: Let Go Another one for the YouTube channel. These songs are quickly written and recorded to video via a crappy webcam and a crappy MP3 recorder, which are then manually synched in Windows Movie Maker. It’s kind of weird, but I’m going for a sense of immediacy in a very convoluted way. I […]

Tornado

July 5, 2009

the sun is cutting up the clouds and I can’t stay awake keep drifting in and out as the room settles thick to the floor I turn around I turn over I’m only alive once but i’m both right now and this spinning out of sight is a cloud from my mind a dark wall […]

Cellar Door

July 3, 2009

you can’t say what’s in the air you can’t take what isn’t there and there’s a spark between what you see inside and what somebody else is trying to hide you break yourself on the passing time I never wanted to set this light aside but everything I wanted to say came too late we […]

Untitled 6/19

June 28, 2009

More video.  I made a few more of these since the last post, but inevitably they will stay in the dark closet of a hard drive.  Here’s the second video-documented song on my YouTube channel. The saddest days come around the corner from a dream you thought came true and as the rain falls you’re […]