You're not mine, You're not mine, You're not mine--
that's become my mantra since the breaking of consequence and common sense
The crack in the door to the rational.  I understand it's fashionable to want to come back
After months of denial, I do.  But denial never suited me, and I, I'm not doing this for fashion.
While my head is riddled with ( Read more... )

Yess!!!! 
I've been invited to slam at the Orpheum on my birthday--- potential paying gig!!!
YAY!  YAY!

... and now back to the regularly scheduled program.

So it's really not that bad of a job, after you nix that guy at the counter who ( Read more... )

Started working on this with Josh and Jay when Deadlight holiday was together.  I have the melody and harmony laid out, so now we get to fuck around with the accompaniment.  This is the latest project-- but it's being ressurected from about a year and a half ago.  I've always liked the lyrics Josh wrote, and the melody that kinda springboarded from ( Read more... )

Don't hug me gently. You might ( Read more... )

Now for something new and different:  I'm cleaning out this livejournal.  The only thing the general public will be able to get to is my poetry, which will also be on my myspace.  Otherwise, this is going to be friends only for the reasons that ( Read more... )

Don't hug me gently. You might
crush me into a diamond, you might
squeeze out the red-hot blood and breath and anger
that keep me whole and combustible, and
I can't take that turbulent silence, not now.
I can open my mouth and the floodgates to sing about the in- or the
-Justices of the world, and I can
feel at one with a body of three-thousand; I ( Read more... )

I have a gift for UU St. Pete on my departure, which I'm still composing, but wanted to share to words to:

"May our hopes for this community
be so steadfast and resilient
as to echo through these rafters to the end of time;
That no opression shall darken our future's vision
and no hardships hinder our paths to a divine;
That this, our collective voice ( Read more... )

Music is a simple way of identifying people, perhaps even groups of people.  We do it every day: do you listen to Classical, Jazz, Rock, World Rhythm? Listen to Punk, Rap, or Kenny G?  A little Bach or Mozart or Metallica, maybe? Are your tastes compatible with mine?  What about your friends?  Would we get along? What do your songs mean to me?  ( Read more... )

The following is a response to a humanist question on the UUMN listserv--  about why so many "God-oriented" hymns are in our new hymnal.  I've submitted a response, and been asked to share it for others, so here it is.  Hope this explains a little where I'm coming from ( Read more... )