so, björk launched a kickstarter and cancelled it. long story short (and you can read the details in the actual news, here ), she released her album “biophilia” via a series of iOS apps a while ago, and she wanted to port it to android/windows 8 devices. the cover: and that port was going to be… Read more »

hey comrades. many of you knew becca darling, aka becca rosenthal, aka the keeper of the beecharmer blog, aka melissa mahoney from the “oasis” video….and many of you didn’t. but she was a music-lover, and my friend. she died this past october. i got the news right before taking stage in london, and i blogged… Read more »

what the subject said. live at the paradise, november 17th, at the very end of tour. anthony was supposed to be there, i’d been hoping to play this and dedicate it to him live. but the cancer treatment was knocking him out and he couldn’t make the show. so this clip is for him. sarah… Read more »

hola comrades i am trapped inside a house, happily, with pope, lee and tristan as the historic blizzard of 2013 dumps down upon our heads. i’ll take some pictures – you would not believe the beauty….it’s like the world is enveloped….not in a blanket of snow, but in a huge puffy down quilt, exploding feathers… Read more »

Cross-posted to Kickstarter (mostly directed at backers but with some other stuff contained within, if you’re curious) _________________ HOLA COMRADES… how the hell are you beautiful 24,883 people? first of all, hi, i love you. i’ve missed you. in this update, i have Many Things to Share!!!: 1 -the new “bed song” video and track. 2 -what the… Read more »

so. i’ve had this blog for over ten years and i feel like i don’t know it at all. you know what i mean? i mean…that’s not true, what do i want to say? i want to say that like my digestive system, or tax returns, or the phenomenon of gravity, i’ve always been very… Read more »

hola my dear comrades. i don’t know how many of you read the lefsetz letter (by bob lefsetz)….he’s a blogger-via-email who makes passionate and occasionally grumpy commentary about culture / life / the music biz. his emails are widely read by people in the music and tech industry. i’ve quoted him many times in my… Read more »

it isn’t even fair to say the word. but i have my own version of it: i always have it used to be funny….where i was at home. more happy when alone with the doors locked tight behind me in the music practice rooms of high school 22 cubic feet of concrete and a shit… Read more »

hola my dear comrades just checking in quick-like…i’ve been buried in TED-talk-writing land. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the incredible comments you left on the TED blog – it’s the first time in my blog-writing history that i’ve been RE-READING the comments, watching the conversation so closely…figuring out this talk is much, much harder… Read more »

hola comrades! so, if you missed the announcement on twitter….it’s official. i am going to be a SPEAKER/PERFORMER at TED this year. LOOK !!! i’ll be speaking/performing to and alongside some of the fastest-broadest-craziest-wisest-thinking minds of our times. two of the the other musical guests are fucking BONO and PETER GABRIEL. no pressure what.so.ever. nope. if… Read more »

hola comrades. i hope you’re all well. everybody, all the energy, seems to finally be recovered from the holiday and new year’s madness, making room for whatever new plot is barreling towards us. i have a lot to share with you and am about to. but last night, neil’s beloved hound, cabal, died suddenly. we… Read more »

hola wonderful comrades. thank you for continuing to be amazing, godAAAMN it’s been beautiful to watch this shit blow up. spurred on by the many stories here, i wanted to share something a little risky. it’s a story called “bully” from anthony (yes, my friend-with-cancer anthony)’s book. since this conversation about bullying started, i’ve been… Read more »