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james lives on fenton street down the block from the empty lot that once held the 7-11. a firehouse is going up slowly.
he’s a teenager, but you’d only know it from the library books in his backpack: salinger, the autobiography of malcolm x, arthur c clarke. his looks would [...]
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number 29, the penultimate installment of “connect the dots.”
mr. sullivan swims back to the day he lost his son. thanksgiving 1985.
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with monday song number 24, I have released as many songs in the past five and a half months, as I officially released in a decade of billie burke estate. the power of deadlines. and simplified production values. and ten years’ practice…
i was planning to head to the ’60s [...]
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[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 number. but the [...]
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[Special note: Tonight's show at the Pub at Vios has been moved to next week, March 9. Apologies for the late announcement.]
fifteen songs. four plus months. and I’m just getting warmed up…
this week’s song was a case of automatic writing as far as the music goes. i played the [...]
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[special note: i'm playing a show on monday, feb 2 at the pub at Vios. it's at 65th st and 20th ave below third place books in north seattle. show starts at 7pm. i'll be playing some billie burke estate tunes, a few monday songs and some covers. it's [...]
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the second monday song.
when i was in junior high there was a girl named nadine in my wood shop class. at some point, the boys started taunting her: “nadine, nadine, the header machine.” i never discovered the background, but, though she disappeared before high school, she was forever etched [...]
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the first installment of monday songs.
the descending/ascending piano line came first. it suggested to me a kind of hopeful melancholy. the piano part and melody came very quickly, the result of fiddling with different accompaniment styles, in this case the piano playing the guitar, something i want to do [...]
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