one: where in the world are you at this moment?
I am sitting in a smokey studio in San Diego, California messing around with some vocals and drums.
[see above/below]
one.01: is there any place else you'd rather be?
Probably yes.
Maybe out to coffee with mum or asleep.
two: what was the first song you ever wrote?
It was called 'cold water crash'.
I was sitting on this grassy edge of the water that looked out to a lake and these gorgeous mountains.
I just wrote down what I saw.
It came out really bad. I think that was an omen.
I'm kind of still waiting to write a good song.
And it's funny actually, my buddy and I when we are in the middle of fighting will just start singing each others music to put the other person on.
And this is the song he always gets me with, it still works every time.
three: your guitar: does it have a name?
They all totally do.
My electric is Trouble.
My main acoustic is Rose.
My other acoustic is Twain (after Mark)
three.01: is there a story behind how you acquired it?
Trouble was the first electric I ever bought.
And the same with Rose for acoustics.
Twain was my moms, I found it in the back of her closet.
She told me there was a thousand times she thought of selling it because we needed the money. She never sold it and said she thought she knew what would happen if I found it. It did.
four: top 5 vagabond destinations:
I like places were people can’t find me.
5. Kings Canyon Forest, CA
4. My bed, CA
3. San Francisco, CA
2. Tulsa, OK
1. Seattle, WA
five: top 5 songs: [could be of all time, or of this week, or whatever you feel like]
I’m gonna try top five of all time.
The only song that has made me want a dad.
My Fathers Gun - Elton John
A song about dating up, atta boy Paul.
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
I think everyone needs a savior in the form of a human.
Your Bright Baby Blues - Jackson Browne
Just the drum tracks on this song is enough.
Then you get this, “sometimes a man must awake to find really he has no one”
Lover You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell
Yer Blues - The Dirty Mac
six: do you have a favorite poem/quote you'd like to share with the vagabonders?
Man cannot be comfortable without his own approval - M. Twain
Fortune favors the bold - Virgil
seven: what's the hardest part about writing a song?
I know for every songwriter it's different. I've found that a major part of my writing stems from sadness, or things that don’t work out.
These things come in waves and to have to ride these waves becomes exhausting.
The pursuit of muse can cause me to not deal with things in a proper way. writing a song doesn't heal me and some times I
forget that.
Or, putting myself in a weird situation only for the sake of using it creatively later. I don’t feel bad about doing that, even people who work desk jobs stay up to late just to go to work tired the next day.
I’m afraid of just chasing my own tail.
The hardest part of song writing is remembering I am not a song writer, I am a human who has to exist.
eight: what's your next vagabond destination, if you're not in the middle of one right now?
Well since I started writing this I’m now in the snow of Big Bear, CA for some talking. [see above/below]
After here I just decided to move from where I’m living in L.A.
I have 3 weeks to decide where and I have no clue.
So I guess in vagabond style, I don’t know.
nine: best travel/road trip/vagabond movie:
Elizabethtown, my God. (Kristen, call me)
ten: top inspirations for music + art: [list as many as you'd like!]
Peace
Sadness
Others
Sleep
Spirituality
Everything
