CD release and Musings

Traprock Center for Peace and Justice CD release party June 12 7:00. 24 Miles Street Greenfield, MA. Come hear the songs people wrote for my Peace and Healing workshop.

Hello Hello...I'm not sure I'm up for this blog thing. Not if you have to constantly be posting. Sometimes I have much to say and other times not much at all. Don't want to just dribble. Ok...finding out some things about my old record contracts and publishing contracts. Did anyone ever tell you that the music business is corrupt? Most artist are indentured servants to the companies. So great that things are changing, in that artists can do more for themselves, on line, youtube various other ways of getting their music heard and not having to rely on the dweebs who run the music business. I still think they are the people who everyone made fun of in high school and now they are getting even... big time.

This is memorial day and I don't mean to sound un patriotic but perhaps I do. I don't like it that we have this nationalistic pride as we drop bombs on others who happen to be in an area strategic for our oil interests. Talk about corruption...and then we're supposed to hoop and holler hooray for our side, the red, white and blue? We have been bad to people we consider "the other" so easy to do and our leaders made up stores that gullible types swallowed hook line and sinker. Why I remember just a few years back when Germany did the same...figured out their was someone to blame, "the other." and lets not forget what happened in Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda, and now the Congo. It's constant. I want to be proud to be an American but only if we can bring peace and not peace with a sword. Peace and Love...still the only way.

Oh happy day!

Open Arts Studio-Spit Reunion-Chicago

Much bike riding all around Somerville for the open Art Studios. Why do you even need to go to a museum. Such wonderful artists all over Somerville. Vernon Street Studios was a highlight. I had so much fun going from studio to studio seeing such diverse art and craft work. But today was hot hot hot. Unusual and also having to deal with the broken sewer line from the Weston dam where Somerville gets it's water. We're having to boil everything here at the Soupie/Bo's. Can't even wash your hands. This is what third world countries have to deal with on a regular basis. Our time has come, but I digress. May 1 Spit Reunion Show was wonderful. I met some very nice people. Something I never would have said back in the day. Nice and sweet were words that you may have wanted to puke to. You wanted to be cool. So foolish are the young.
Two days later: I am in Chicago with Tim Jackson, staying with my daughter a lovely hostess. His film "Radical Jesters" is showing at the Anarchist Film Festival. The three of us are in and out of museums, art art art...sometimes I think shmart shmart shmart. No I love art but I love trees even more. Lots of good food in Chicago. A poster, that I have yet to create, was accepted into the annual Trauma Conference which is in Boston. I will be working on that for the next two weeks. This is very exciting. Another exciting thing is that my song When Things Go Wrong will be on the soundtrack as well as in the new Adam Sandler movie "Grown Ups."