it’s been a long time since i just sat down and wrote a blog to you. it’s a thing that happens; when i tour. i get busy, i get tired, i get empty. and the last thing i have the energy to do is to peel myself off the floor and hang myself up on… Read more »

IT’S TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the “do it with a rockstar” video is finally fucking UP!! at last. sooooo. how did this all come to be? well, here’s the short story long. it started with stoya, she was my main idea. i knew if we could get me and stoya in a room together, we’d have it… Read more »

Cross-posted from my Tumblr . i’d come back to boston two days ago, instead of flying straight from vienna to toronto, to see anthony, who is sick if you missed the last blog . neil came with me. he is an amazing husband. he gets the gold medal, the purple heart, the husband of the year award, whatever. he flew… Read more »

brace yourselves for a long read. i promise you, it’s an important one. i know the last blog was all about death and becca, and i don’t mean to bombard you with sickness/morbidity/mortality, but….guess what. life’s happening in real time, ain’t no stopping it. thank you so, so much, all of you, for your incredible comments about becca,… Read more »

right before i hit stage in london the other night i was told to go to the bus, that i had to call kate, that there was bad news. i thought i knew what it was, i have a friend, anthony, who’s been really sick and is battling leukemia. i braced myself. it wasn’t him… Read more »

hola comrades! OI OI OI! just landed in the UK. as i pointed out on twitter, i was saddened by the lack of NHS representatives waiting for me at the airport with free biscuits, a variety of vaccination shots spread out like a cheese and caviar selection, and a stretcher should i feel like taking… Read more »

hola comrades so yesterday something extraordinary happened while i was diddling around on the train from philly to boston, coming home from an overnight trip to do a kickstarter house party, saturday night. i was casually reading the sunday new york times (one of my very favorite combinations in life: train, coffee, ping-ponging between reading… Read more »

hola comrades! i’m sorry such lack of bloggage – my head has been like the inside of the crumb of a piece of fried dough at the very bottom of the oil tray at a carnival that’s been closed for weeks – lost, lost, lost and likely inedible. classic tour mush-head. i’ve been twittering a ton… Read more »

hola dear comrades!! it’s been a week since my cell phone rang backstage in NYC on the opening night of the Theatre is Evil world tour. on the line was a NY times journalist I’d never spoken to. what followed has been a week-long fervid – and at times vitriolic — discourse about the nature… Read more »

Cross-post from my new Tumblr (with bonus pics at the end) _________________ my favorite worlds-collide of the week… here’s @emwhitenoise reading my letter/response to amy-the-musician before it went out: we were backstage at an NPR @allsongs -considered event called “live listening room” (which was, by the way, EXTREMELY fun and awesome. everybody sat around listening to and discussing songs and music of all genres…. Read more »

hola comrades! i am so happy that many of you are deeply loving the record, the response has been absolutely out of control….just amazing. glad that everyone’s getting their kickstarter stuff. more on that later. for now…. this is my response to a letter that was posted a few days ago from a musician named… Read more »

Cross-posted to Kickstarter  (with bonus content for backers-only) _________________ lots of info and random updates from randomsville, but first, a story from last sunday… that night, i sent this tweet: “quick, I need this for experiment! tell me in one tweet something sad/bad that happened in your bedroom. (no humor, won’t work) GO #InMyRoom” and before going to… Read more »