i’m heading out monday for a 6 week tour. i’m so psyched to spend a month on the east coast and see all my peeps over there. i love California but i’m ready for some moodier weather. if i can only survive the packing of my suitcase…
check out my tour schedule and come visit me at one of my shows!
kyler
i like being alone. sometimes more than i should. i could easily stop
shaving my legs, take up playing dulcimer, move into a little cabin
in the appalachian mountains and become a hermit. people always ask
me about being alone so much on tour and no one seems to believe me
but i never really minded it so much. until this one day recently… (more…)
i love the burbank airport. at least as airports go. it’s 8 minutes from my home, 10 with traffic. it’s small. checking in and getting through security is about as painless as it gets. they even let you leave your tennis shoes on, unlike the big city airports. but most of all i love the burbank airport because as i was sitting here tonight waiting for my flight and trying to keep myself entertained with high tech gadgets (laptop, cell phone, iPod) something familiar started nagging at the back of my consciousness. (more…)
it hailed last night. yes, frozen chunks of ice fell all over LA in a wintery weather tease. if only it were cold enough we would be buried under 3 feet of snow by now, its been raining so much here. apparently in these last 6 months we’ve already exceeded last year’s rainfall for the entire year. and i thought i was moving to the desert. (more…)
i went to the taping of Leno yesterday afternoon. the guests were Jimmy Carter (yup, former prez), Mischa Barton (a beauty from the OC) and Sarah McLachlan (one of my musical heroes). Sarah played a song from her newest record “Afterglow.” i have to admit i didn’t know the song because i’m not so much of a fan of this album as the previous ones, but she sounded gorgeous as always. and Leno was actually funny. i mean gut-busting funny. ordinarily i’m not a fan of Leno at all. i’ll watch Letterman if i’m looking for something at 11:30pm but it’s really Conan that i can’t wait to see at 12:30am. i could watch Conan all night. his little dances, his weird bouncy irish-red hair, his self-deprecating antics…they all just crack me up and are the perfect wind-down after a day on tour. despite the fact that i lived in NYC for almost 4 years i never went to the taping of Conan. i guess i didn’t want to jump through all the hoops of standing in line with the tourists. i hate lines and i hate touristy shit so i really hate standing in lines with a bunch of tourists! (more…)
yesterday i heard Joni Mitchell interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air program. it was the first time i’ve ever heard her interviewed- i’ve read press before but never heard her speak about her life and music. it was bittersweet…Joni is an otherworldly hero of mine and she was also my mom’s favorite artist- she used to torment us kids on long roadtrips by playing the cassette of “Court and Spark” over and over. hearing Joni talk about how she gave up her daughter for adoption when she was very young and how she found her in recent years and now “has her family back” made me happy for her but deeply sad. i miss my mom so much. i can hardly believe it’s been 5 years this month since we lost her. hearing that interview confirmed what i’ve suspected for a long time: that Joni is one of my heroes that i don’t ever want to meet, i just want to admire her from a far. she’s brilliant but not very warm and even Terry Gross, the host of Fresh Air, who regularly interviews VIPS of all kinds sounded intimidated. i bet she’s a big Joni fan too. (more…)
dear you,
has it really been july since i last wrote? you must think i’m the slackest of slackers. i’ve been meaning to write for a long time and have even started letters to you three or four times and haven’t finished. by the time i got back to them they felt outdated. i’ve been just a bit busy…since mid-august i’ve been touring like mad, playing something like 40 dates in over 16 states and Canada. with the change of seasons in addition to admiring the fireworks-display of leaves along the roadside on the east coast while i’ve got the chance, i’ve been trying to decide whether to re-highlight my hair or head more in the lowlight direction, something more along the auburn line. i know, really weighty decision. autumn has me leaning towards auburn but i know when i get back to the perennial summer of LA i’ll be all about the blonde highlights. anyways, in between debating the merits of highlights vs lowlights i figure i could fill you in on some of the highlights and lowlights of my tour. (more…)
tonight i just said to heck with it all, put away my laptop and phone and rented a movie by myself. i had been in the middle of doing laundry in between emails in between trying to get my head screwed on straight and had thrown two loads to fold on my bed but i got into one of my moods and couldn’t deal and decided to have a “me” night. executive decisions like that are easy when you’re your own boss! my fave “me” night of all time was when i was living in Berkeley, CA in the summer of ‘97. i rented Breakfast at Tiffany’s (which i had never seen), pulled the TV/VCR into the bathroom, filled the tub with scalding hot water and floating candles and ate a bowl of ice cream while watching. it was the ultimate indulgence, i highly recommend it! (more…)
home…what a foreign concept to me these days. i’ve been “home” in my new place in LA for over a week now. honestly i still feel like i’m on vacation at the beach or something with all the sun and the amenitites. i mean, dishwasher, washer/dryer and walk-in closet seem like total luxury to me. (i apologize to all my nyc friends, don’t mean to brag or make you turn green) (more…)
the morning sun glints off little lakes scattered like mercury across the plains
silver strands come alive as the sunlight reveals them, echoing the streams on my cheek
why do i always think of you at thirty thousand feet?
does being skyborne lessen the distance between us?
or is it that the balance between gravity and mortality brings me closer to myself? (more…)