Total Immersion

When my friends Ted Moniak and John Sobocan arrived in town, it was the beginning of a period of almost total immersion in music-related stuff. We recorded a bunch of demos, including a nice one for my song "Janey," which might be good enough to make the CD I'm working on. And we had an amazing jam session today with Ned Watson and Larry Perlmutter that peaked with a fantastic first run-through of my brand new song "Call It, Friend-o," which I am more than a little fond of. I'm having some fun now! I'm still broke, but things are going in the right direction. We paid a visit to the home of Gretchen Hewitt, one of my most talented musician friends...John taped her singing tones at her piano to make the strings echo, and it was just gorgeous. We were all totally silent as this was going on. I sense another ambient album in the near future. I'm going to do a short set for my dad at the nursing home Tuesday nite, and then gear up for the big premiere of UP IN THE AIR at the Tivoli on Nov. 14. I'm a bit nervous, but looking forward to thanking Jason Reitman personally for picking my song. Tomorrow nite is my interview on Channel 5; that should be interesting. The gig at Fred's Sat. nite went decently, but I bloodied my thumb strumming so hard; it made the second set a bit more muted for me. But people said nice things, which is always appreciated because I tend to notice the mistakes more than anything else. All part of the deal for an evolving musician, which I certainly am...