I’m On Fire (feat. Andrea & Sunny)
G'Morning folks and Happy Sunday! I was fiddling with the new phone camera and getting it set up and running a little test video to see how it flowed, and that noise you hear in the background is our dog Sunny dancing to the music and the singing and the strumming with Andrea, who is …
I’m On Fire
it was late into the night so you know I thought I'd play on Bruce for a bit and get my punk rock on hahahoho
It’s always morning in the summer
Met with the photographer this morning in the southern parts of the city beyond Wilshire. I had little idea of what I'd see. I needed new headshots for the rolling season. His house was like a western Buddhist temple, a fresh hut with all its summer windows open and the air sweeping in like 9 AM heaven. The …
Wrecking Ball in Los Angeles
But enough about that. Man, I am already feeling a new rush coming on. It's late in the morning and late in May. For the past two months things have been a little in the dark, but we'll see how things go from here. The greatest peak in this period of time, the moment in …
Dedication
To the Pacific Coast, the Highway on the central coast of California. Valentine's Day It feels more organic now on dualcore, which is the name I will designate to my Apple laptop. It feels more natural now to be typing on it since I have been writing in my journal the past few days, in …
A Bob Dylan Concert in 2011
After searching endlessly for a spot in the ocean of a parking lot and joining the hundred or so other people who had parked illegally, I trekked over to the amphitheater. Carnival lights began to rise before the setting sun as the masses gathered before the entrance. I saw steam rising from inside, and only …
Maybe that’s what songs are for.
When I created this thing a year ago today, I had very little idea what to expect from it. Its title those first several weeks was ‘Pancakes and a Working Title,‘ and I actually had to be talked out of keeping it, which today strikes me as scary but still pretty hysterical. In that time …
Clarence
The passing of Clarence Clemons has got me thinking about the very idea of death and whether it is the sort of thing that should be mourned or celebrated in the case of any human being. Every day henceforth will exist beneath a backdrop of a world without Clarence, and the world now seems vacant or …
Who is Jude Rawling?
Jude is an old friend of mine, we went to school together in Gainesville. Waking up this morning working on songs and am noticing that converting them from Garageband files to regular MP3 files on iTunes drastically reduces the sound quality. For the most part, all of the vocal effects like reverb and what have …
a state of mind
I hear the jubilant, eternally nostalgic sound of the Ronettes, a sound that has always reminded me of some long-remembered high-school dance or 1960s Christmas party, radiating from the living room. I think I hear Bruce Springsteen. His songs often have that feel, particularly the fast-paced party songs infused with the sultry, steaming sound of …
Ren Michael 