On Friday March 2nd, I will return to the stage at Billie’s Black to bring you some new sounds I’ve been stirring up with the help of some awesome noisemakers.
Please join me and my new friends for a night of exploration and experimentation. Just trust me…
Hope to see you there!
i read don miguel ruiz’ book “The Four Agreements” a few years ago and it helped me out a lot. the agreement that hit me hardest was “don’t take ANYTHING personally”
this means compliments, arguments, chides, asides – all of it.
my mother used to say, “it’s not what i say, it’s how you take it.”
and i always had a problem with it because it inherently dissolves the responsibility of the speaker to use his or her words with intention and with an intention born of love.
are we ALWAYS happy? of course not!
are we ALWAYS considerate. no. and that’s the problem.
i believe we should always STRIVE to be our best and to be that towards others. through our words and actions. i know it’s hard to say with love “you’re getting on my nerves,” but it’s possible. it’s one thing to sit alone in a room and be disappointed in yourself. to beat yourself up* about something unpredictable that happened in life or that turned out differently than expected. but it’s yet another thing to take that disappointed attitude out on someone else, based on YOUR view of how things should have gone.
i think the conversation all stems from listening to ourselves. hearing the voices inside our own heads. thinking before we speak. visualizing the golden rule in practice: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
it’s as if we’ve forgotten to teach this to children these days. we speak to each other carelessly and then expect them to do differently. we can do better. and so we shall…
*Note: i do not believe in self-deprecation. though we CAN control our outlook and the way we attract things to us (through words and thoughts and actions) we CANNOT control everything around us.
i feel like the world has opened herself up to me and i’m in the mode of learning right now. i have so many goals and so many things to accomplish, and so many people to be thankful for – for their encouragement, kind words, constant push, presence…
THANK YOU
and now, I feel even more amped to move forward and forward, cause i got an avid proooo
i actually got it with my citibank thank you points! who knew i could actually reap rewards from such a force??!
first off, i feel like i can do anything i want now. of course i can admit i did do some of this with garageband, but i guess i feel more legit now. (no offense apple! i love you!)
but i have been recording references at home for days now and i’m excited to get time in with the band (and to keep growing it – who’s on keys…??)
i’ve been carrying it wherever i go…along with my microphone, mic cord, compact hard drive…. this stuff is HEAVY and my shoulders hurt 
BUT it’s so worth it!
i’m feeling so good about the sounds happening in my head – i really and truly cannot wait to share it all with whoever is in he audience in the coming months!
harlem (and TORONTO!!!) here i come 
get yo’selves ready – this is fair enough warning…
