Need a place to practice your songs or singing? Need a place where you can just be yourself? Want to get notice and get ready to be a professional artist? Need a place that will gave you more that 5 minutes to perform?


Well look no further. The Green Earth Cafe located on 1722 Taraval Street in the Sunset District is establishing an open mic/event on Fridays and Saturday starting in the month of June. Everyone is welcome to come. Reservation is being taken now. So please call or email us. We will help with advertising in the neighborhood and in our cafe, as long as we get advance notice. We will provide the mics and speakers and electricity. There are no instruments (yet) on site. Please bring your own.


You can invite your friends, families or strangers to listen to you play. Enjoy the organic coffees and teas, fresh mixed organic salads from the Farmers' Market, cage-free egg sandwich, homemade pastries, and so forth.



Green Earth Cafe
1722 Taraval St (between 27th and 28th ave)
San Francisco, CA 94116
tel: (415) 504-7278 or (415) 216-9029
email: henry@sfgreenearthcafe.com

accordion practice
buy some fruit
call the pharmacy
summer mix cd

if you hear of open apartments in and around castro / mission / duboce please let me know
thanks. spend a buncha time around town yesterday and we love our place now and would only move for the 'right' thing. but that said - i wanted to put it out there that we are looking for a 'right' thing.

in other news.
hubba was good last night. performers, people, it was all a lot of awesome. i kidnapped rooster from her tired and she came out too and had a great time. we left a bit early though - me in some new shoe pain and her with that whole no sleeping before her big thesis defense at school. i feel like i shot my mouth off in ways i didn't like last night. not sure where that came from. like i needed to be all puffed up about things for some reason. sigh.

now for all of you heat haters you will be glad to know that the fog is rolling into sf right as i type. bright blue skies getting covered by the soft chill of fluffy grey blankety fog. can't tell if its the burnoff kind but soon i will have to shut my windows.

in other other news.
i haven't had my prescription in 2-3 weeks i think. the effects are showing up and all of the old self medicating stuff is coming back. more sugar more coffee anything to kick start. see my thyroid is so underperforming as to be non existent. i have been on medication for this for 6 years about. this isn't good for my head or my body. emotional rollercoasters, overwhelming tired and much much more. the pharmacy has faxed the dr's office 5 times. oy. so i am going to see if my old pharmacy has the scrip on file and can fill it. ugh.

this could have something to do with the shooting my mouth off last night. or at least the paranoia attached to it.
meh.

i was gonna hit the powertool drag races today. but am feeling like something else might be needed instead. not sure what yet though.

well no lake or beach for me
that's what i thought might happen
work stuff is needing me
but at least i am working remotely
that i do like
yes i like that quite a lot

w00t.

my bones feel twitchy tonight. a big hurdle was jumped over nice and clean it appears and so we're on the other side of the scary. there are more scaries to jump over in the coming weeks, but the big one is now in the official past. interesting how as that happens the heat is on in the bay. i love heat. one of the reasons i love new orleans. even when the heat is stifling and uncomfortable and i can't even breathe in it - i like it. i like my bones feeling looser and waring less clothes and honestly i get less worked up. i start refusing on some core level to get stressed out. sure i get mad and cranky and even a little sad like i feel right now. but that arching anxiety that just eats at me... the warmer it is the less i hold onto it. so right now i am not comfortable at all. but i love the heat. a cold shower before bed yes. going out tomorrow to find food that is light and watery and helps me hydrate, yes.

tomorrow i am seriously considering  taking me and the wife to bolinas or berryessa and grilling on the water while i play my accordion and feel sand under my feets. that would be ideal. i think she has school stuff so heck i may just go solo. roadtrip by myself and rock out the music. not sure. there are some ithings that work may need me for. but i also have my cellphone on me to be on call and my computer at home and am planning to work all weekend so it's not like they would be out on the actual workload. i can be responsible and take care of myself right?

i need a day. for reals. to bask in this few days of summer. one of my biggest sads about living in sf is the summers i don't have anymore. the way heat and humidity make you pray and want for the snow and the rains. the way thunderstorms kick all of the electricity and charges through the air. for a little while we have this heat. i don't want to hide from it in an air conditioned office. i want to lie around and soak it up like that first weekend with a new lover where you're sore and you're tired and you're sloppy messy and full of sex. yet you still don't stop. you still don't leave. you run that train for as long as you can and when you come up for air that first weekend lust drunk is gone. sure you can keep on fucking and it can be grand but you only get that first messy weekend once. ah shit it's lush and gorgeous and holds on in the muscle memory. likewise. the first real heat of summer comes only once a year. and living in sf - it's like once every few years. so i am raising my glass to fucking this weather all weekend until the fog rolls in. seriously.

so the california supreme court just overturned the gay marriage ban
which means - cali homos - we are likely to be able to haz marriage

this is a big deal.

i know not everyone wants to support the patriachal whooha that is marriage
but damn it's nice to make that decision for yourself and not have the state make it for you

so this feels like it isn't work safe - but it is
it feels like it was directed by lynch - but it isn't

so amazing. so pervy. so delicious.

stuff i am doing, wanna do, or think you might like doin

Friday May 16th
Hubba Hubba Awesome at DNA Lounge

Saturday May 17th
Power Tool Drag Races - Ace Speedway
www.powertooldragraces.com/

Sunday May 18th
Dresden Dolls @ Fillmore

Wedesday May 21
Vagabondage Show @ Skyline College (daytime)

Wednesday May 21
Gypsy Jazz at Amnesia (night show)

Thursday May 22
Me and other folks readig at Inside Storytime at Edinborough Castle

Friday May May 23
Queer Open Mic with Meliza Banales

Saturday May 24
RUBE WADDELL FREE STREET SHOW
LIVE AT LEEDS!!!!! 9:45pm at Sketchers 22nd and Mission
www.rubewaddell.org/
www.myspace.com/httpwwwmys...rubewaddell


Friday May 30th
Bohemiem Carnival at DNA Lounge
Extra Action/Gooferman/Shitloads more
www.bohemiancarnival.net/

Saturday May 31st 7pm
Laughing Squid Lucky 13 Anniversary Party!!!!!
CELLspace 2050 Bryant Street
laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-2008/

Thurday June 5
Leah's awesome show at NQAF

Saturday June 7
I perform at the Best of SFinX show

so we just launched that whole free streaming thing up over on jaman. how this is way cooler than other shit is that its free instant watching of artsy, classic, indie movies that are FEATURE LENGTH. stuff you can often only see at film festivals or overseas. so that cool doc wildlife photographers, or night of the living dead, or the udrey hepburn classic charade, or the buster keaton classic go west, or or or... there are 100+ up now and we're adding more weekly. Oh and there is good techie mumbo jumbo that means the player adjusts to your connection to give you the highest quality image. it works in all countries. it rules. i think its pretty exciting.

here's a link to the list of all of the films

i like that i am being forced to slow down this morning
i do not like that the slow down is at this point looking like i will be late for work
like later than the late i had planned for
i got some great art news this morning which is big with the happy making - more details as they are realized
i feel like - lucky and blessed and like shit hold on hold on hold on to how that feels because how my mind works it can fall away and feel invisisble so fast. i am out of my medicine for like the past week. my emotional rollercoaster is in full swing and i am trying to stay on the upswing of the hill and not let the dips get me down, pull me down, make me trainwreck.

i keep thinking lakes and trees. one of the things i forgot to mention was that the park in fairfax on sunday. there was some tree somewhere made it smell just like michigan. broke my heart in the good ways. it was my second crying of sunday. the first was when i heard the voicemail from my mom. crying from the wishing that here and there could be in the same place. crying from the longing and the missing. crying from the beauty and the love wrapped up in my family of origin and wondering why when i am so close and full of love for people i start pulling away. feet in the grass looking over a stream smelling michigan in fairfax i shed some tears for both what i can't have and the beauty of what i got.

drinking vs incredible responsibility

so tonight originally i was planning to do a work bonding thing after hours. but lo and behold the cohort and i couldn't make it work. raincheck. so i get home and rooster is still at school planning for her thesis defense. so i practice accordion for an hour. then i do all of the dishes. then i dust. then i watch some trashy tv which just feels annoying and so instead i shut that off and work out.

now i am sweaty with a clean house and parts of a new song written.  (its the c triangle pattern at the top moving down on the treble)
plus i am not out any extra cash. plus from working out and wearing decent shoes today my shins feel better.

the main theme running through today is the nature hangover from yesterday. i know i am idealizing but i want more fairfax. more berryessa. more fields and farms and strange musical people banging on things in sheds. i want to bang on things in sheds. one of my friends in oakland has sheds and things to bang and i just wish i could live in her sheds and bang on things all of the time.

i want to lose days to making music and getting sunburned. i want to take off and just drive and not worry.
and then i want to worry and make big salads and lose all of my stress in gardening and tea and coffee on my front beat up wooden porch.
i want you to come over and drink wine out of a clean jar or coffee cup with me while the air gets night time cooler and the crickets start rocking it out.

so now. i figure out. how does moving to new york fit in with all of this. how does the travel need fit in. and i can tell you in some ways. i think its touring. its just travelling and letting the adventures be and letting home be and not working so hard to define and make plans. see i spend so much time making plans that i don't end up sticking to them. it's just want want plan plan and then here i am with no movement years later. this time. she offered. i accepted and tada i was in seattle. and soon tada i'll be in atlanta. and then tada in milwaukee. see. there is a way of just doing it that makes it happen more easily. the new job and better money helps with all of that. easier to buy plane tickets with decent income. but also. there are ways to make it work.

i feel like i am waking up again.
i guess we all need naptime.
but damn - i am just so... ready for this shit.

i bought the soft toothbrush

smallstages - i owe you

things i am asking the universe (and my friends) for help attaining
you can help even just by sending good thoughts my way

+ physical health
       this means more walking, more dancing, more jumping around like a crazy.
+ more music
       hearing it, seeing it, making mixes of it, receiving mixes of it, playing it, practicing it, recording it, discovering it. more!!!
+ more music pals
       players of both guitar and accordion to talk shop with and be somewhat taken under their wing by. need a mentor. need help. can't learn the         ropes in a vacuum
+ more random happy
+ more collaborations
       yay a new zine collarboration is in the works. want more like this
+ more shows. i heart performing for other people
+ more rowdy
+ more picnics and almost naps under the sun
+ less focus on the bad stuff
+ less getting stuck in my own head
+ more singing along
+ more dumb goofy ridiculous corny happy

the qualifiier is that i know i am my own worst enemy in terms of this. i often am overbooked, overtired, and just not very available. that doesn't mean these aren't good goals to have.

docbrite - if i could have commented on that post i would tell you that it totally made me laugh out loud - a quite literal LOL.
awesome.

i am driven crazy by not yet having the skill to do what i have in my head on my accordion
GAH
SO FRUSTRATED
just practiced for an hour and literally banged my head in frustration so many times
figured out something cool for the throw the goat song
(e backwards stuff on treble) in case i forget later
but GAH

i did though figure something out about a friendship i have been looking for though

in other news
today the wind blew me over to marin. i tried very hard to get lost and did not succeed. i did succeed in buying a very cool pair of earrings and losing one of them between the store and the car. i also got a cuppa coffee and sat in a gorgeous park in fairfax.



then i went to target and ran into folks from my old job that it was amazing to see
AND THEN i got the wife and i takeout from our favorite mexican place in berkeley and brought it home to her

it was after all of that that me and my accordion bonded, argued, laughed and cried.

plane ticket WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
fall midwestern tour is fucking ON!

ok it's becoming clear to me that i need to invest in footwear. and i don't mean just go buy shoes because all of the shoes i am drawn to have no support and leave me with shin splints after a night of happy stompy. so here is what i am looking for. can you help me interweb? i need shoe help.

i like ballet flat style shoes. a modified maryjane is ok, but i prefer if it be a maryjane its strap is more old school ballet shoe styled than traditional maryjanes. i have fallen out of love with keens stylistically. kenneth cole reaction pinch my feet in ways that seem more suited to folsom than to shoe pavilion. but really i am just looking for a cute ballet flat esque shoe that doesn't look horribly boring and in fact maybe even looks kinda quirky and weird but still has enough support that it doesn't just feel like i am walking barefoot.

ideas?

for the purposes of gathering information - cost and materials are not an issue.