HELP OTHERS REMAIN FREE
Instead of uploading pictures of your dog to instagram why don’t you come out tonight and help ban human trafficking. A simple thing to help thousands of people. If you woke up this morning making liberating choices to effect your life there are many would give anything to have that. So why don’t you take tonight to help others that don’t.
Teddy and I will be djing an all vinyl set of funk and soul. Tickets are 20 dollars at the door and if you come ill buy you a drink. (not a bottle a drink)
Thanks
Monty Bar
TONIGHT from 9 to 1
1222 w. 7th street los angeles 90017
I waited one week for the hullabaloo to die down about the SNL performance heard round the world. The fail that was so great even sports radio felt the need to comment. The internet generation has been duped once again and it is no one’s fault but our own.
In August I became obsessed with the…
Grow What You Eat
My mother has been gardening ever since I can remember. When I was about 5 we grew strawberrys and had a little herb garden. My mom moved out to Del Mar in San Deigo and converted her orange orchid into a full blown garden with an irrigation system. She became obsessed with it. Waking up at 6 in the morning to pick the bugs off of her corn stock. My mom has brought all of my really really really dead orchids back to life. She has a way with nature that is unlike any one I have ever seen. I am so proud of her drive and tenacity to get her dream out there. Gardening is very therapeutic and everyone should have a little garden. It’s important to know about what your eating and where it comes from. I personally do not think the FDA really cares about what we are putting into our bodies. So check out her web site and youtube videos. She has worked really hard on it. Help me spread the word!
Walk In the Sun Once More…
As a singer and as a woman who’s heart has been broken and dragged through the dirt, I cannot not explain the comfort Etta James has brought to my life. At times we feel sad to an indescribable degree and we will have few who can sing to that sadness. Etta James was one of our saviors. She taught me how to transpose my heart and soul into a song. She taught me how to love helplessly and how to deal with pain gracefully. Her forever-crying soul is so blatantly heard through all of her songs. Etta led a very traumatic life and through that pain she helped millions through their suffering.
Growing up many nights (when I was grounded from staying out to late) I would sit up in my room trying to sing like Etta. I would sit in my bathroom with my radio just to get that same echo that Etta has on her voice. I loved the way Etta would make the mic crackle when she started to scream. I grew up with Etta. When I feel in love I sang “At Last “. When I fought for my love I sang, “Trust in me.” When left love I sang“ I Would Rather Go Blind”. When I grew through my heartache I sang “Fool that I am”. Etta is not only in my prayers she in my soul when I sing, when I fall in love, when I’m heartbroken and when I am healing. I dreamt about meeting Etta one day and telling her how much she has done for me. Though that would have been great I realize I do not have to meet her to know her. The honesty and vulnerability in her voice makes you feel like you know her. That is the testament of every musician, to transcend themselves to their listeners and to make music that moves through generations creating new artist. Etta’s spirit will always be alive because we keep her here.
Now as all my Idols start to pass on and leave me struggling to find that same authenticity new in music. I think to myself I need to live and work hard. Life is what you want from it and the woman I adore didn’t get anywhere subduing their desire and passion. Let all the ghost of great female singers always ring in the hallways of our life. The beauty in her memory are those who live by it. So please make today Etta’s day and play her all day. Trust in Etta to melt your soul and broaden your heart….
TIME
And an astronomer said, “Master, what of Time?”
And he answered:
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not form love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
And is not time even as love is, undivided and placeless?
But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
You Are The One….
This morning I read the chapter “Time” from my book The Prophet over a cup of coffee. I then went to take out the trash. I ran into my friend John who collects cans and bottles. I usually give him my recycling when I see his cart on my street. I ran my recycling down to him. He was so grateful for me doing this saying thank you over and over again. Here is a man taking cans out of a trash can and he is not one bit angry or resentful of it. If anything I felt more thankful for him. Right when I was about to say “Bless your heart” he said it and took the words from my mouth. I got overwhelmed with emotion and scurried away.
I run into simple yet life changing things almost everyday. Maybe its nothing for most people but certainly widens my perspective. So I figured I should start sharing some of my life experiences. Make up some of my own quotes instead of just quoting others. I am constantly inspired by everything and most of it fades in my head over time or it ends up in the hands of friends or songs. My life is my muse and my misfortune but at least its moving.
We are truly deserving of nothing. We have no idea what will happen tomorrow. We work hard for what we want today with out any promise of the future. Some of us have our time of glory and some of us never get to see it. Is this a choice or just circumstance? On our bad days if someone makes it easier for us or smiles our way I hope it changes the way we feel. So I question everything around me and try to find it in peoples eyes. Helping those in need or those unaware is the rebirth of your soul. Even if it goes wrong and you end up getting yelled at or mistaken for a hooker. You are the one who is always trying not the one having tried. Not because of the old saying “do onto others as they have done onto you.” You do it because love is spilling over the brim of your heart and someone else needs to feel it.
My mom sent me a quote the other day saying “People will forget what you say. People will forget what you do. But what they do remember is the way you make them feel.” Help us feel again. To all 8 of you whom I follow on tumblr. k bye now.
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