needle in the hay

I was very excited when my friend Ellen Luckett Baker asked me to do the music for the trailer of her new book "1, 2, 3 Sew." She's amazingly talented and imaginative, and discusses really cool crafty things at her blog, The Long Thread. Plus, we like a lot of the same kinds of music, so I knew it would be a fun project.

like a red rubber ball

Here's the video for The Little Red Ball that the Meet Me at the Gulf of Mexico song was used in. The pictures were taken mostly in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach AL, with a couple thrown in from the Pensacola FL airport.

“it’s a law of physics…look it up.”

If you've been following along here, you're probably aware that the MHz (Megahertz) movie's about Nikola Tesla and troubled disc jockey Brigh Montgomery as they unravel their tangled energies in an otherworldly dimension.

lower the roof beam, carpenters…salinger’s gone home

You can hate me if you want, but Catcher in the Rye is my least favorite book by J.D. Salinger. In fact, it's not even one of my favorite books by anybody. And yet, oddly enough, Salinger is one of my favorite writers.

saying goodbye to 2009

Some will say 2009 was a good year, and others will say it was a bad year. Me, I hardly noticed it, slipping by as quickly and subtly as it did. Plus - just as many folks give up meat or smoking because they're bad for you - I've been trying not to let too much concern about time into my life.