the ways of a malaise, and september days in barcelona

sup everybody?....thought i'd say hey....not much going on to report unfortunately....still trying to determine who is going to be on the team this time around...publicity, agency, marketing, art design etc...takes alot longer than you'd think...i always expect things to go much quicker....and you'd think after all this time i'd know this fact by now, but i inevitably end up getting most frustrated with the lack of alacrity with regards to determining all these things....so that being said, or written...i've decided to start working on the next record..its the only thing i can do to keep my mind off of relationships, flood, famine, pestilence, disease, hunger, homelessness, lonliness, deception, the inhumanity of humanity, poverty, war, emptiness, desire, and when the record is going to come out....
recording the first official new song to be considered for the next record....called " night blooming jasmine"....so taking a break from that....you'll probably be hearing that song on myspace in about two years....so this would be a good trivia question...one i myself, will undoubtedly forget....glad to hear mary weathered the storm....as well as our buddy joe hardy in houston...no gigs planned for a while....wanna keep a low profile til the new record comes out in the new year.....hope everybody is doing good though...thanks for listening....doesn't it seem like the first few days of autumn always feel weird?
m

towers of london

so i just arrived home last night...a little conflicted. I had such an amazing time, that i wasn't quite ready to come home..
Bobby and i left wednesday...and were both able to get upgrades to business class ( Sweet !) got to Heathrow and then had a three hour bus ride to Cheltenham....so pretty beat to say the least after we got there...ended up meeting the newest of the group of angels...David that night in the pub...what a wonderful man..but i'll get to all that
Stayed in a 15th century hotel that used to be owned by the de la bears.....it was stunning,....
first gig was cool and i was nervous as hell....did it with two other songwriters and an author and steve stockman...
wounded, i shall be healed and still haven't found what i'm looking for....my voice was rough and my nerves were shot...but i think i did better with the banter than the songs...
the author on stage, alister something or another was this intense scottsman...bearded and wild eyed...but brilliant....he and i had a few funny moments...well...he was talking about the bardic tradition and how most colonizing countries, the first thing they do is to stop all the bardic tradition from the people they just defeated....well...i just realized this isnt' gonna translate but i even got the whole laughter, followed by applause...cuz of how funny it was...really i was just being a jackass cuz i was so nervous...my mouth wouldn't stop. Thankfully...it was pretty funny....could have been disasterous...
(i told a semi joke later at the borderline days later...bout big ben not being that big...that was met with silence.)

steve asked me back later to do the opening prayer of his talk on u2 and tutu....

later i had my first solo full gig...can't remember alot about that.....

next day i,...hmmm...what did i do...oh,..had another solo gig which went great....did the walk off,...closer walk with thee thing and got an encore and as david said on the paupers board...that doesn't happen too often...
then did a gig in the record store on site....

got to london and after being in the remote country was quite a shock...t'was great though...though extremely expensive...
for bobby and i ...two burgers, chips and two beers, runs you about 75 bucks american....

the borderline gig was a thrill....the sound was great...people were great...performance was pretty damned good i think...forgot to do wall...but did about 70 minutes i think...

met a guy named martin who had just left his wife and she had taken his cd's and the answering machine with 620 on it...so i took him into the dressing room and sang it on his new machine...pretty funny..but pretty cool...met some great folks from england, jacobo was there with his beautiful wife, some guys from norway, some from southern london...people were from everywhere and it warmed my heart beyond belief....thanks to bobby and david...two of my angels for making this dream come true....i'm awed by their dedication and passion for helping this music be heard...i could never repay them.,though i'm sure they want me to...kidding of course...i will repay them, i hope to repay all of you here...thank you all,,.God bless you all, and God bless the people of the southern united states...i'm just beginning to realize the magnitude of the disaster here....geez i leave for one week and you guys have to go have a disaster without me...not fair at all...not one bit.
m