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monday cover #2: the band: the moon struck one

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download the original the credits run out and the lights come up. everyone else has left the theater, but they’re still not ready to return to reality. she blows her nose, while he presses his palms into his eyes, in an effort to stop the tears. “oh, man,” [...]

monday song #52: being with you

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] when his mother told him a month ago that they were moving to south carolina he was pissed off. beyond pissed off. “next year is senior year! are you kidding me?!” his mother’s tears killed his protest in an instant. he had never seen his mother cry before.

monday song #48: fading to grey

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] for matt margolin. we played music together for many years. back then, he was one of my closest friends. and though we hadn’t seen much of each other this past decade, i always thought of him with great fondness. a kind man, a chaotic genius on the guitar, [...]

monday song #30: the nice guy

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] thus ends the cycle “connect the dots.” i have loved “jesus christ superstar” since elementary school. after the crucifixion, there is a final number called john 19:41. i listened for years without ever inspecting what lay there, i assumed he got sucked up to heaven in a brilliant [...]

monday song #29: thanksgiving

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] number 29, the penultimate installment of “connect the dots.” mr. sullivan swims back to the day he lost his son. thanksgiving 1985.

monday song #27: the button

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] probably the most depressing song yet, but i’m sure i can top it. after two weeks of revery, mr. sullivan emerges back in his hospital room. things continue downhill. not much to say here. the battlefield has shrunk to the point of the few inches that separate reality [...]

monday song #22: a long long time

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] here’s the second installment of ‘connect the dots.’ after framing the protagonist’s delirium, we fly back through the years to a time of relative happiness. but unbeknownst to the narrator, all is not as well as he had hoped in his past. it is an escape for him [...]

monday song #21: the night sky

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] number 21. as promised, the first in a song cycle of unspecified length. in the first installment we meet the central character in the last hours of his life. it’s something of a prologue to the stories that will follow: memories and reflections of a life now past. [...]

monday song #19: high dive

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [show note: i'm playing at the pub at vios next monday, april 6. corner of 20th ave and 65th street. kids welcome. great food. and my music. see you there. 7 to 9pm. no cover. can you beat it?]   number 19. not much to say about the [...]