my return from the dead.
Hey everybodies!
I’ve just returned from a long Greyhound trip so I’m gonna keep this short n sweet. Word on the street is my site has been down for a few days, and I didn’t even know it! Thanks to those of you who emailed me about it. I was in Northern Utah all week hanging out with friends and having good times, making music, playing disk golf, filming little skate videos and being silly! Oh yeah, and getting CPR.
I almost kinda died last night and I’m not sure why. Driving back home from a skate park with two friends, out of nowhere I started getting crazy stomach pains and waves of nausea, and there was nowhere to pull over, and before I knew it I just passed out from the pain. I’ve passed out from pain before, and come to on my own and been fine, but this time apparently my mouth clamped shut and I stopped breathing for a minute or two. All this was happening going 70 on the freeway. Thank God there were three of us, the driver was awesome and the one who wasn’t driving was also awesome and knew CPR. He did the heart-jolting thing since he couldn’t open my mouth at all, and slapped me and yelled at me until I came back. He saved my life. He’s totally my new best friend. Larry, you rule, I love you. Caleb, you too. I couldn’t have asked for two better people to have been there for me in that situation. Thank you.
Now I’m just basking sleepily in gratitude. It’s so great to be alive. I’m so lucky. I’m pretty sure that’s the closest to death I’ve ever come. I have no exciting out-of-body or near-death experience to speak of, really, but I know I was way out in space or something for what seemed like an eternity until I heard those distant voices, slowly getting closer, yelling “BREATH!” and felt myself come back from very very far away.
Anyway, I must go now. It’s great to be back. More soon.
The Intergalactic Underground!
This is the best and funniest expression of my own personal philosophy I’ve ever seen!
Mini Update and Hello!
Hello!
Well, things are better. The darkest hour, just before the dawn, and all that. At least I’m getting back into the swing of things and feeling the wherewithall to make songs and be semi-productive again. Hooray for human resilience! Here’s a couple of things I was doing in my less ambitious state, to tide you over till my next, better wave of postings:
I uploaded my Youtube covers and my 1st Bedroom Concert — (Update: and now, The Wayward Covers of 2007‘ as well) — to my new Last.fm page, where you can stream them all and/or download them all for freeeeee…
My site now has a snazzy logo, as you may have noticed. I’m going to post that JPEG somewhere handy so anyone who wants to can download it and mess with it (color it, doodle on it, collage around it, otherwise flesh it out in creative ways however you please) and send it back to me. If I dig it, I’ll totally add it into my rotating header-image folder and it will show up randomly as my header sometimes! (also, maybe stickers!). I’m a fan of randomness, collaboration and variations on themes, so I would get a huge kick out of this. It’s also a visual version of one of the things I want to do with my songs…
Speaking of which, check out what my friend Keith did with my Wobbly Boat demo. He made it all sweet and countrified in a really good way. [Download it and listen to it!]
Other than that, if you’re hankering for more frequent updates, check out my Scrapbook. It’s always a good time. That Carole King song is as perfect as they get.
Stuff’s Crazy.
That’s all I’ll say for the moment about my life these days, why I haven’t been posting anything, why I still haven’t filled in that giant blank spot with my snazzy awesome new header design yet, and why my stomach is frequently in tangles. I don’t know how long this will last, but I’m sure I’ll make a smokin’ comeback before too long. It is nearly Easter.
Have a happy one!
“21 Love Songs” Magnetic Fields Tribute Released!
21 Love Songs: A Tribute to the Magnetic Fields is at last unleashed upon the world.
To refresh your poor, ADD-inflicted 21st century memories, I made a song for it last month, and designed one of the two album covers (as seen above). My cover of “Born on a Train” is track #13 (my lucky number)! Did James do that on purpose? I don’t even know!
Speaking of the devil, once again, mad props must go to James Eric for dreaming up this idea and making it all happen, and also to the many great artists who grace this great album.
It really is great. I love these people!
Go and download the album for free at the wonderful, magical, fantasmical CLLCT!