dreamin' like i'm martin luther king

Hello again. Had a dream that Stan Goman hired me back at tower records in sam fram, but he didnt tell me what my job was. Someone played a slow song and stan and i danced in the back and some of the old regulars were there saying "awww", and "ohhhh".
Then we all went out into the parking lot to watch a series of small kangaroo fights, a promotion for something or other(Jump by Van Halen? -ed.) I miss stanley; he is one of my favorite ppl ever. Click here 2 see what he's doing lately.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy following the sun.

thursday morning comin' down

Hello ppls. You'd think that after drinking a tall glass of blue bottle coffee i'd have lots2say, BUT NO.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy reading this.

somewhere in northern california

costa noa

Hello everybody. Click on the picture then click slideshow to see some very pretty light. In the winters in cali, it's all about the light.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy crying while watching Oprah.

sand dollar dude

Hello everybody. Saw my favorite Ocean Beach artist today, the Sand Dollar Dude, working outside the Cliff House. He and his partner Sarah make beautiful magnets, necklaces and chrishmish tree ornaments from sand dollars. No living dollars r harmed;only the skeletal remains r used. Each one is cleaned, then colored with wine, coffee, tea, or fruit juice, then baked to the hardness of a ceramic. No two sand dollars r the same to begin with, and after the coloring and baking they become even more unique. I love sand dollar dude! His work is also available upstairs at the Beach Chalet on the Great Hwy in Sam Fram, and at Sirens in Pedro Point, a great store right on the beach in Pacifica.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy listening to bff rich playing chrishmish songs on his all-purpose horn. :-)

out walking

in pescadero.(click on pescadero).

kindle. is that like candle?

Hello winter ppl.Not much goin' on, other than tending 2 the "neighborhood disturbance" file.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy working on netflix; gotta get mickey rourke in DOMINO.

happy birthday rich!

U got it goin' on little man. Love to u from everybody on Nov27/07.

i get online with a little help from my friends

So yesterday i mentioned that i couldnt find a certain picture to use in me blog, and quick-snap there it is, showing up in me email. Thank u little elves!

Flunked my audition today with an audio-book producer; the playbacks were brutal. I recommended hiring an experienced professional reader, and left in a huff.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy applying skin-lightener.

and now, on 2the next bloated holiday

Well, i was looking for a picture of a t-shirt i saw at urban outfitters that said "santa claus hates you" but i couldnt find one. Found one called "the easter bunny hates you" but i guess i'll save that 4 later.

Notice a new linky-dinky has been added: WFMU'S BEWARE THE BLOG (right underneath the next big thing). Whew, it's impressive, u could spend days in there.

Still no tours or shows or anything...2busy staring off into space.

dean baby dream

Whoa! Had a dream last night that dean wareham came to pick me up to hang out a little, drive around town and stuff. We were in the car on Broadway in Sam Fram, and came upon a gigantic construction site, kinda like a busby berkeley meets dw griffith scene. So we gets out and we's watching all this big equipment (oooh) and i look down at myself and see that i am wearing only underpants. What? I ask him "is this what i left the house in?" and he nods yes. Then i ask him "why didnt u tell me?" He just gave me a vague, sly dean wareham kind of smile and went back to looking at the little screen on his phone. (Then A woke up.)

No tour or shows or anything...2busy re-designing my eyebrows.

out of the tunnel

Hello fun-seekers. How u all livin'? In Sam Fram 2day, the sun is shining on the tree-tops of golden gate park, and on all the mirror balls in my windows. Crap. Why isnt this link working???? Maybe when the elves see the blog, they will help me!

No tour or shows or anything...2busy feeling toasty in my orange cashmere sweater.

got tea?

japanesegarden

Hello. It's been awhile yo! U know when u have visitors,how u end up going to places u should have gone to but havent yet? Ol' ACC has been living in Sam Fram since the late 70s but never been to the japanese tea garden in golden gate park until last week. It was fun! And beautiful. Click on the pic then click slideshow to see what i saw.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy eating pizza.

redwoods crying

They r sad about the oil spill.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy reading about vanilla ice cream served with olive oil and coarse salt.

on the couch again

That's right...not on the road, on the couch. All day. Which is way better than what i had planned 2 do 2day.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy waiting for bedtime.

puggy love

Hello. Just sitting here eating peanut butter and celery.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy recovering from riding stationary bike, doing yoga and lifting weights.

so ronery

Hello. R u the person who has stenciled this so ronery on sidewalks all over my 'hood? Nice work, wish i knew who u are! They r really cute. Or guess i should say rearry cute.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy helping a chinese lady vote ("I apleeshiate it".) and assisting a russian couple with their trash-bag selection at safeway ("sank you").

how 'bout those niners?

Hello sports fans. Hello light-deprived ppl (sunset was at 5:08 pm "tonight"). Have u noticed how it's acceptable now to make up words as u go along? No one seems to question it when it happens, ppl seem 2 be able 2 go with it. At my food co-op this afternoon, a stack of paper bags fell over and one of the gals working there said (use heavy cali accent) "whoa! a bagalanche!"

If i were as diligent a listener and recordist as dean wareham is, i'd have a special little notebook just for collecting all these new words. Check out dean and britta's tour dates...so glam.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy de-seeding pomegrantes.

is it hot in here or is it just me?

No tour or shows or anything...2busy watching this. thank u brother don. :-)

first things first

No tour or shows or anything...2busy crocheting a scarf.

yellow is the color of my true love's polenta

Dinner: roasted gypsy peppers, seeds and all; baked acorn squash on the half shell with a scoop of brown rice sprinkled with black pepper; small baked pie/quiche; cornbread with kernels of corn. The last 2 items were from Greens to Go.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy getting out of thanksgiving plans.

wcp now @ itunes

Hi hello it's me. My big news: White Courtesy Phone the cd is now at itunes. Yay!

No tour or shows or anything..2busy watching jeopardy.

h-ween 07

Hello everybody hello. A dbl-special spooky shout-out 2 our correspondent in Scotland, Mr. Lindsay"NextBigThing" Hutton who i think of extra-much at halloween. 2gether we had a whole heckuvva fuck-ed up fun san francisco halloween party at a sleazy bar in the tenderloin. Folks it was fuck-ed up4real. The ACC band played that night, the version with mister nancy and rich, and windy on electric drums. I wore red chinese pjs and little devil horns. And Lindsay, our Chief, backstage with A and R and sexfreaks of every kind...well, itsa long story, and u dont wanna know. :-)

No tour or shows or anything...2busy donating to goodwill.

hee haw

Painted a table painted a door. Paid the rent showed u the door. Dont ask me what that means i'm just rhymin'.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy gittin' jiggy with Ecstasy Mule.

new look

Hello saturday ppl. Check out my new home-page.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy sending email to geico about their noisy-ass polluting aerial advertising.

sid the yid

Red any good books lately? ha ha. Here is bff rich with a real page-turner. Honk if u wanna know what happens at the end.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy trying not 2 spend money.

4 those about 2 sparkle, we salute u

Hi. Did u notice that my link in yesterdaisie's post went to the wrong place? Click it now and u'll go to the right place. Thanks BFF Rich.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy working in my hookywooky shop at etsy.com.

i know this is blurry

Cruisin' along the coast...driving on hwy 1.
Remember the sisters of mercy video where they r driving on the very same hwy?

No tour or shows or anything...2busy countin' flowers on the wall it dont bother me at all.

take it 2 the bridge

Hello everybody. Honk if u love bike-riding. Honk if u love bike-riding over a wooden bridge, listening 2 the sound it makes underneath your tires.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy crocheting hats with earflaps.

back streets back

hi. hot enuff 4 ya? had a hot birthday brunch with bruce"he's hot" anderson. heard some of his hot new music.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy watching this.

car guys

still in davenport with the car guys. we're right across from the beach, near the the site of the mavericks surf competition.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy watching ufo abductions documentaries while riding a stationary bike.

honk if u love packards

pretty cool eh?

there is nothing exciting going on, yet i feel excited. excited about the sun coming in thru the yellow curtains. excited about the rain. excited about the pumpkin cake in the kitchen.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy putting off writing my contribution to marty thau's autobiography.

alien symptom

Hello ppl. Sorry no blahg for the last few days. Blogspot difficulties. So u would think that since it's been awhile, i MIGHT have something worthwhile to say, but nooooooo. Except our new futon stinks. Kevin Teare told me he ordered one from stinkyfuton.com and it stunk too. Oh well, nobody but the occasional touring musician will be sleeping on it; he/she/it will probably be too drunk to notice.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy looking for my usb thingy.

black angel's dress song

and speaking of the velvet underground, did u know there's now a band called the underground velvets? check them out at whyspace, listen to their cool authentic and heartfelt style.

and speaking of cool sounds, last night in the car, bff rich played alice coltrane on his phone---the sound was surprisingly good, better than the car stereo. u could hear so much detail but it wasnt too toppy. did u ever think your phone could b your sound system? hey i just had a (probably crappy) idea for an album: all songs about phones. CALL ME by blondie and al green, 6345789 by wilson pickett(?), CALL YOU by candymachine, YOU DIDNT TRY TO CALL ME by frank zappa, CALLING ALL OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT by the carpenters, oh, and another candymachine song, SPACE ("couldnt find your number, couldnt find your number baby"), LONELY GUY by mx80("I dont really have a phone but i sit where the phone would be if i had a phone, i wish you'd call me up, and say 'hi, hello, it's me'. and then, when u dont call..."), hmmm, what else? if cake radio were sitting here right now, i bet he could rattle off dozens of other titles. cake, where u at? :-) oh yeah DONT CALL US CHILD WE'LL CALL YOU. who did that song? 2lazy2google. don ciccone and tommy neale, i know u r both sitting there yelling out titles...why u dont hit my comment button instead???? :-)

no tour or shows or anything...2busy looking at the fog.

who's gonna drive u home 2nite

my friend george earth has a goal 2 drive every kind of vehicle once. i sure would like2see him pull up to the house in this. i dont think we could go crusin' tho...looks like it's a one-person kinda dealeeo.

had a brilliant idea for a cover song. we'll see. sayin' it and doin' it, such a different thing. do u know who used 2 say that? the godfather of soul hisself, james brown. itsa good line isnt it.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy trying to link to pictures of george and james. phooey.

fishy in sausalito(again)

hello here's our lunch...from FISH in sausalito. this is chilled beet soup, very silky smooth, and bff rich. not pictured: one spicy salmon sammich and a big bowl of brussels sprouts. and of course, affogatto(espresso with 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream. ) livin' large on mastercharge in full effect, know im sayin'? then took a quick bike ride in the presidio. the light 2day is soft and dreamy.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy trying to figure out what that weird smell is in the kitchen.

raccoons @ twilight

hello everyone. the blue angels r gone (yay!) but the raccoons r here. after u watch this, look at another one at youtube..."raccoons steal carpet". (hopefully, by this time next year, we'll all be watching HAGGIS IN A BLACK LEATHER JACKET.)

no tour or shows or anything...2busy missing my bff. see u later today rich!!!

i dream of iggy

sweet dreams r made of these who am i 2 fuckin' disagree booey? last night i had an on-going tableau of terrific times with the igster, doin' different things 2gether while he was in town for some shows/rehearsals. one of the funniest was, i was at a rehearsal, and the new drummer was, in my opinion, going too slow. i said "i know u r new and everything, but u r playing this song 2 slowly." then i pointed to a glass of beer that was sitting on an amplifier and said "the level of beer in this glass is where u r playing the tempo, which looks like around 130 beats-per-minute." i used a pencil to indicate higher up on the glass, and told him " u need to be playing it here, which is 152 bpm."

another sitch was (uh oh bff rich, dont read this part) we were sorta making out and some band members were hanging around and one of them said to iggy something like "she's cute but have u asked her how old she is?" and iggy made a "that's not nice" face at him. way 2 stick up 4 me homeboy! so that's what happened to me last night. how about u?

No tour or shows or anything...2busy putting on my running shoes.

bite my pink ass, blue angels

come fly wit me

good morning. good afternoon. dont ya hate when u sit down 2 blog and nothing comes out? hmmmm. maybe i'll try again later.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy on craigslist looking at houses in half moon bay.

half moon bay

halfmoon 07

hello. took a trip down the coast to half moon bay. here's some pix. click on the pic then click slideshow.

no tour or shows or anything...2busy doing cake radio i.d.

white courtesy phone at cdbaby

hello. guess what? WHITE COURTESY PHONE the cd is back on the scene like a sex machine. looking for the song "dim the lights"? or
"john cassavetes"? or maybe u'd like2hear hear herb alpert play trumpet on "lazy"? i love 2 remember the day herb came to the plant studio in sausalito where we were recording. he got set up in front of his mic, reached into his trumpet bag and pulled out the sheet music (which bff rich had sent him). on the pages he'd written notes and made little marks , and i realized that he'd been practicing our song at home and i just about BLEW UP! wayway back in the day, i'd had a huge crush on herb, he was so sharp. i had a poster of him above my bed! ha ha. years later he'd pay to make this cd. now THAT'S hot! at cdbaby.

no tour or shows or anything, 2busy drinking hot chai with rice milk and honey and black peppa.

golden hour(not shower)

Hello. I like seeing all the hanging wetsuits in my neighborhood. And speaking of surfers, this afternoon i saw a surfer heading out toward the waves,but he was standing up, using a long-handled paddle for balance. The handle was longer than a broomstick. And he was standing up straight, not in surfer stance with bent knees and arms out.
And speaking of the color orange, while blogging i'm having a pumpkin scone from Bovine Bakery in Pt. Reyes Station, and a very tall glass of hot ginger tea with rice milk, honey and black pepper. Hot and creamy. Oh yeah hell yeah.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy looking at twinkly lights of twin peaks and golden gate heights.

happy fall smackdown slideshow

flowers

Hope u like all these flowers. Click on the pic then click slideshow. Shout-out paul dodd--i know u like dem sam fram posies.

So anyway, last night the moon was shining on the ocean i just about plotzed.

No tour or shows or anything...2busy reflecting on my day-trip to inverness 2day.