Extended Harvest Moon rising over Seattle, taken from Elliott Bay. It was such a gorgeous day today. I’m going to put the kettle on and finish up a song or two and put some of this inspiration to use.
Elliott Bay Sunset
Seattle has some really good musicians, and I’ve met some of the best of them on this trip. It also has some fun venues to play in, venues that actually respect musicians and don’t just use them to do the venue’s marketing for them. I’ve been playing here a bunch and meeting lovely fans of music too. If you’re one of them and you’ve just stumbled on my site, go here for regular updates and say ‘hello!’:
http://www.facebook.com/saintjohnandtherevelations
Fortunately for me, Seattle also has some lovely sunsets.
Well, I’m going to go back out now and see what other bits of loveliness are hiding around this city.
Don’t worry dearest Venice, I haven’t forgotten about you! I’ll be back home soon.
Love,
SJ
The snow is almost completely melted here in Seattle, and this snowman has been reincarnated to a puddle of water, and then on to wherever evaporation takes him.
Just in time for Chinese New Year, happy Year of the Water Dragon!
All the best,
SJ
This is a little pic of Seattle in the snow, you can see the Space Needle through the haze in the back. I hear that I’ve been caught in Seattle in their biggest snowstorm in decades. It’s a bit slushy for the flip-flops I usually wander Venice in, but it’s lovely none-the-less.
Keep warm!
Love,
SJ
Last night I played a super fun show at The Crocodile in Seattle, and even ran into a friend from Venice Beach. Small world, good people, and sunsets everywhere.
The other musicians from the show last night, Colin Bradford and Katie Davis, were very talented, and we had a great time. I’ll dig up some links on them soon and will post them later.
Talk to you soon!
Love,
SJ
The first album I ever bought was by The Doors, I was very young but I bought it for this song, I played my brother’s copy of it all the time and he finally got mad and took it away from me.
Happy Birthday Jim Morrison.
Love,
SJ
PS. My brother has since bought me numerous albums and more than made up for denying me this initial musical pleasure.
I now own gloves. I know you may think to yourselves, “yes, and?”, well, I admit it’s not really that monumental of a statement. Doesn’t everybody own gloves? My hands have accepted some very hot cups of tea in my life and perhaps I’ve cursed myself for not having some sort of hand protection for the occasional lava-hot brew. But I have lived in southern California for so long now I can’t even remember needing gloves for cold weather. I haven’t even owned a heavy coat since I was very young. I wear standard issue t-shirts of varying colours and flip-flop sandals almost all year round in the nearly endless sunshine of Venice Beach. But at the moment, I am more northerly than our species should probably permanently inhabit. This Canadian southern California boy is in Seattle, Washington.
Maybe I’m not mushing sled dogs through the arctic, but fekk, it’s damn cold here, especially for my SoCal thinned blood. So I bought gloves (and a scarf, and a heavy wool jacket) to survive my stay here. I didn’t want future humans to discover my frozen carcass in some archaeological dig and be designated ‘Wallingford Man’ (Wallingford is a Seattle neighbourhood, in case you needed a guide). I have my own personal mental challenge to not lose the gloves, but their loss is just as inevitable as my eventual return to the easy weather of Venice Beach.
Seattle also has its treasures that I’m starting to discover and appreciate. I’ve met so many lovely folks this time around, I’m starting to think of Seattle as a second home. I have some family here, and my legendary guitar-wielding collaborator Peter Buck records with me here, and now that I’m out exploring Seattle’s unique neighbourhoods and playing shows here, it’s becoming much more familiar to me. And I have to say it is a lovely city, with some great music talent and venues, and some very interesting people.
I just slid my new gloves off to go on the trusty laptop and look for some flights back to California, but I’ll be back to Seattle soon, and hopefully I won’t lose my gloves in the meantime.
Love,
SJ
PS. Please have a listen to our newly minted version of Make A Fuss, it’s been one of the songs I’ve played most here in Seattle, I guess it’s just been on my mind:
Veterans Day
Love and support to our military veterans today!
I’m sorry your government lies to put you into war and spends your lives for the sake of wealthy corporate interests and forces you to kill innocent people and then doesn’t provide adequate support for you when you get back home. We’re working on fixing that.
Peace,
SJ
(Source: sjatr.com)
A little reading between jamming in the studio today.
