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like it's my birthday


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a challenge and, I hope, a compassionate response
On Friday, I received a formal email letter "introducing" me to someone I already know and who should know me, and threatening me with legal action for infringing her group's name. It's all really a tempest in a teapot but, for me, has big implications for songwriters here in LA and for my personal ( Read more... )

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12 steppin and sayin hi

As someone who used to spend many hours in 12-step meetings of different kinds (I met a certain woman named J there), I offer zis alternative en Francais which I 'av stolen from the aptly named cherie sweetestcandy. Alors ( Read more... )

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the emptiness dance

my daddy's dead
and i'm all out of bitter cynical clever things to say

i just feel empty

all my core family is dead now
weird to be the last one standing