ok it's official

fucking rockin open mic
fuckin rockin vagabondage performance
fucking rockin accordion jam after

there's a lot more under the surface
but i am gonna bask in this while it's still fresh for the basking.

it looks photoshopped

and yet - totally not

accordion-o-rific

so last night after QOM me and my accordion weren't ready to call it a night and i just happened to know that the million fishes art collective was partnering with accordion apocalypse to have an accordion night. knowing her love for the squeezebox i asked and she agreed so mollena and i puttered our way down to the mission. it was fun. sitting with a handful of folks jammin. hearing my accordion teacher tell mollena i was a natural. aww that's nice. i dont FEEL like a natural with some of the stuff that makes me crazy but... it's nice to hear. maybe i am doing better than expected at five months in. and honestly - december and feb i basically didn't touch the thing. it was fun though. accordion jamming is fun. today it's down to moss beach to put some songs on the digital equivalent of wax. for vagabondage. good times.

bands and poems and sunshine - oh my!

today was a wacky wacky day. starting with tasty eggs and coffee without soymilk - it quickly turned into a drive down the coast with john (and rooster) to go record some Vagabondage songs. personally I was still kinda show high from last night at QOM and the subsequent previously mentioned accordion jam. so i coulda used more coffee for sure and my arm was a bit raring to go.

the drive was the stuff of legends. clear and gorgeous with all of the windows down and salty sexy air all over us. good times. quick snafu in strip mall-landia and soon we're off and running with kyle and his four track. three hours later we have four songs down and awesome. there was squeezing of boxes, kazoo mania and some damn fine singing. soon you'll be able to enjoy the fruits of our labor as we laid our first four songs onto a digital facsimile of wax. but until then - here is the photographic evidence that could be culled when one of us wasn't holding an instrument or two...



then it was zooma zoom home, quickly down some food, grab some poems and then off again to the Ackers Daughters reading at $3 Bill that Cherry Bleeds put on. Good times folks. Here is some picture evidence of that adventure. in order that's MK Chavez, Jennifer Blowdryer, and Heather Rainey. w00t.



it was a good reading and i (unwittlingly) read only road trip / driving poems. awesome. i have a new mix cd forming in my head for summer. this weather is helping. now i have the windows open and a boozy drink in a mason jar. doesn't get much better than that.