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The Lakota have a word, Inipi, that relates to a sweat lodge ceremony where one is reborn or has a spiritual awakening-like rebirth. I like the vibes this gives off. I don’t think I’m experiencing something purely spiritual, but I hate the English words and phrases that could convey. This is not an awakening, IContinue reading “Stages, Wiggling Toes, and Auld Lang Syne”

Recorded via a jambox at The Gem on 12-27-2023. I’m hoping to get board recordings but these will have to do until then. Overkill by C. Hay Stratosphere by Me with a Doobie Bros outro… Plush by STP – Because Kaeden let me play an extra tune for my visiting niece and sis…

This is probably my best outing so far. I felt pretty good in both of these. Audrey got screwed a bit so may be branching out to new venues in the near future. Although, I also may be getting to do some duet work. That’s exciting. Mad thanks to Kaeden at The Gem for theContinue reading “Open Mics of Recent – Round 4”

It was delightful to attend open mic on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and find the joint completely packed. I’ve never seen the Gem that busy. It was, as always, a good and encouraging crowd providing a wholesome experience for all. It was flannel (Grunge) night and we showed up. As per usual I did 2Continue reading “Open Mics of Recent – Round 3 (And Some Ranting About the Hubris of Humankind)”

I love The Gem. The other artists I see there are amazing. Audrey (the host) is a badass. And I owe special thanks to Savvy the GM and bartender extraordinaire for always being the biggest fan of us all. -She doesn’t know this, but her “ohowww” during Stay gave me back my memory and confidenceContinue reading “Open Mics of Recent – Round 2”

I’m really quite fond of this. I’ve said for a long time that the best works happen fast. I wrote/pulled this piece together in about 17 minutes. It wasn’t all at the same time as I pulled over to write part of it. But it was cathartic and came like a rogue wave. This pieceContinue reading “Raindrops & Pincushions”

A few nights ago, at open mic at The Gem, I had occasion to wake up an older piece of music. So Very Sly, a song written about a biblical temptress enticing souls. Think “Damn Yankees” meets “Paradise Lost.” As for the outfit, it was the final October costume night at The Gem, and IContinue reading “So Very Sly”

There’s just something soothing about some places. Pulling up to one of the adjacent paid parking spots, I see those early bird shoppers in their warm-ups and capri yoga pants trucking into the building with armfuls of reusable shopping bags. I hear the sound of a busker blowing some indistinguishable tune on a tenor sax.Continue reading “Cathartic Soulard”

There was something inexplicable about the feeling at 38,000 feet this morning. I knew there was something going on in my head from the moment I left the house at 5AM. I knew it last night when I was packing. I knew it when I was considering all the things that had to happen inContinue reading “We Don’t All Travel the Same, Products of Sleep Deprivation, the Homeland”

This song is Thick. I wrote this in the early 2000’s while in the band Third Shift. While it comes from a few different sources of life event, I leave the real motivating event(s) out as I want the listener to apply their own life to it. Sometimes serendipity happens where you least expect it.Continue reading “Open Mics of Recent – A Reawakening”