When I went to school at Trinity in Dublin, we read a bunch of plays; one in particular that contained the following line: There is still great heat in the sun. Our professor applied this phrase to everything- the power of old Pagan ritual, the strength of a culture during famine and so on. I’ve been wanting to say it out loud so often lately, as if recalling a profound passion springing up inside of me that I had long forgotten. I am happy to be writing again. That is perhaps the only emotion I can identify right now without confusion. How humbling.

Strangely enough, I had never been in the upstairs of the Elbo Room until this weekend. Rafael, the lead singer of La Gente, performed at Blake’s open mic years ago and blew us away. He moved with an ease and joy that made the meager few feel like a huge crowd that Monday night. At the Elbo Room, his performance was no exception. We barely heard him, having gotten there so late. He rapped on Dogman’s songs. There’s nothing quite like knowing the words to what one is dancing to. There’s nothing quite like that great love of sound; that old friend greeting you with a ballroom twirl; that look from the friend onstage who is glad you came. And more, so much more that words entirely failed to explain.

The next day I somehow made it to Noise Pop’s industry conference, Industry Noise at the Swedish American Hall. I heard a couple creative innovations and ran into some good friends and mentors of the concert world. I saw a couple West Coast Songwriter judges there from the Grammy board. Miles Hurwitz was in good form.

Today I missed what I hear was a fantastic hockey game. I wanted to be watching it with my favorite people, but alas I was doing sillier things. The host of IVTV in Vacaville is zany and fun. It makes sense they have a show entirely focused on music videos (most from local bands). It’s too bad MTV doesn’t do this any more. So we talked about absolutely nothing inbetween each video. Let me rephrase. Since I had never seen the videos before, I got to make things up to say while I intro’d them. I ended up giggling a lot, distracted as I was by the tidal wave that is this weekend. I also performed a couple songs.

There is much more, but my head is somewhere else right now. Thanks for listening. Off to bed.

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