Hey Y'all,
Admittedly I fell out of integrity with my commitment to blog once a month but I'm now back in the saddle with a functioning laptop. This initial re-entry into the blogosphere will be brief as the completion of my new EP has me feeling a bit restless, all the more reason to meditate before I sit down to write the next one.
In short...
Though I know we're behind our first timeline, the record is sounding fantastic and I look forward to getting it out to y'all!
All that donated can expect a digital download by the middle of next month and hard copies by October's end.
We're shooting for an official release in November.
I've promised myself to write again soon and this I will do.
In the meantime, let us all dissolve yet another batch of old imagined fears
with the passing of Elenin into the depths of this universe.
Love Y'all,
p
Monday, September 26, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Flowing between two banks of studio time...
It's amazing how emotional waves shift beneath us so quickly and how important it is to remember that we inherently float. After such a beautiful outpouring of support, I immediately went to record for two days in a gorgeous lil spot just north of SF and within the breadth of a day I was noticing hints of old familiar shadows dancing on the walls and creeping alongside the cables on the studio floor. Thought's like "don't eff up!", "am i worth this much faith?" and "everyone's gonna realize I'm some kinda fake" kept peaking their head into the session and by the time I returned to LA I felt I'd been worked over somethin raw.
Despite this component of my experience there, I feel I did my best to be present and interacted with this self sabotaging facet of my self to a lesser degree than ever.
What made this easier was the tool of watching the shadows more than identifying with them and in my observation I saw again that they were born out of a desire to feel safe, to protect me from the unknown...
As these songs rose from a space very close to the bone, that too has been a factor in this medicine journey. I'm grateful to say that they're being birthed in divine timing and that I'm choosing to stay out of their way and allow them to live free of me.
Birthing is such a magical process and though as a man I will never know that first hand, I imagine it's uncomfortable to say the least yet simultaneously the most visceral experience of beauty one can have in a lifetime.
I know I'm a part of the penultimate stage of creation on this earth and I fully recognize the possibility and potential y'all have seen in this music that comes through my person. I'm so grateful for your reflection of Divine Love and committed to remembering that this Love is ceaseless and everpresent.
Looking forward to sharing what we deliver in a couple months.
Love Y'all,
p
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Wrappin up and Movin on
As some of you may know, I began workin on a second EP last Sept after returnin from burnin man. Titled "Leave on the Lights" it started as a set of songs that guided me through the greatest shift I've known this lifetime. After some preproduction at a very generous friends studio, I wound up cutting all five tunes in a single day this past December with Mona Tavakoli and Becky Gebhardt of Raining Jane. These magical women held such a beautiful space for these songs to be born into, a space the EP floated within till I got the download that it was time to complete it. Initially discouraged by a perceived lack of funding, I was inspired to generate a fund raising campaign to bring these songs out to share with the world after watching my friends successes on indie go go and kickstarter. The final piece of the puzzle came into place when a very talented friend, Peter Harding, volunteered to make a video to promote the campaign. This video is such a gift, words cannot convey the gratitude I have for it's contribution.
We are now on day two y'all and I've got good vibrations surrounding what's to come.
Scope out the video and the campaign here!!!
Love and Blessings,
p
We are now on day two y'all and I've got good vibrations surrounding what's to come.
Scope out the video and the campaign here!!!
Love and Blessings,
p
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Thoughts on what is now
The universe showed me a metaphor that really brought it all home for me as I waited in my car yesterday. Though it was rather disturbing, I would like to share it with you all now and if you know yourself as one who is easily upset, please do not read any further.
I saw a boy hugging a leashed dog on an empty street corner.
The dog was restless and the boy held the animal harder.
The boy stood up and tied the free end of the dog's leash around his own neck. Inevitably, the dog began to move and the boy cried out yet did not untie the leash which was now effectively strangling the boy. In fact, the boy turned to face the opposite direction of the dog's motion and began kicking and screaming as the dog, increasingly alarmed by the boys flailing and yelling, moved faster and faster. Eventually, after almost a whole city block, the boy untied the improvised noose and beat the dog violently with it.
There is nothing that we fear and hate that did not begin with ourselves.
May we now look into our own roles, invest in life and bring our forces home to renew and rebuild this country.
It all starts and stops here.
Let there be peace,
p
I saw a boy hugging a leashed dog on an empty street corner.
The dog was restless and the boy held the animal harder.
The boy stood up and tied the free end of the dog's leash around his own neck. Inevitably, the dog began to move and the boy cried out yet did not untie the leash which was now effectively strangling the boy. In fact, the boy turned to face the opposite direction of the dog's motion and began kicking and screaming as the dog, increasingly alarmed by the boys flailing and yelling, moved faster and faster. Eventually, after almost a whole city block, the boy untied the improvised noose and beat the dog violently with it.
There is nothing that we fear and hate that did not begin with ourselves.
May we now look into our own roles, invest in life and bring our forces home to renew and rebuild this country.
It all starts and stops here.
Let there be peace,
p
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Recognizing Mother Nature
Today I read one of the most inspiring articles I've laid eyes upon in some time, possibly in my entire life. In this article I learned that Bolivia is set to pass a law that gives Pachamama (Mother Nature) the same rights as an individual. It's about effin time y'all. Corporations have been reaping the benefits of such recognition for years and the results, for the most part, have not been positive for anyone/anything else, especially the environment.
We've created the most powerful and egocentric forces on this planet from our own fears of scarcity and these Titans of egoic selfishness are pummeling the very surroundings that allow us to exist. I'll take full accountability for this as the majority of these corporations were created to fulfill desires that I fueled with my own thoughts of lack/craving. Now I choose differently.
I'm 100% ready to provide the source of all that we walk through, stand upon, swim in, dance amongst, sing along, play with, breathe in and consume the same rights (if not more)than any other entity recognized by international law and I'm grateful for Bolivia's choice to take this first vital step toward a viable future for all.
Spread the word Y'all,
Mama's been recognized and acknowledgment makes all the difference.
Blessings to all beings,
p
We've created the most powerful and egocentric forces on this planet from our own fears of scarcity and these Titans of egoic selfishness are pummeling the very surroundings that allow us to exist. I'll take full accountability for this as the majority of these corporations were created to fulfill desires that I fueled with my own thoughts of lack/craving. Now I choose differently.
I'm 100% ready to provide the source of all that we walk through, stand upon, swim in, dance amongst, sing along, play with, breathe in and consume the same rights (if not more)than any other entity recognized by international law and I'm grateful for Bolivia's choice to take this first vital step toward a viable future for all.
Spread the word Y'all,
Mama's been recognized and acknowledgment makes all the difference.
Blessings to all beings,
p
Monday, April 4, 2011
...Passing, Arising and Passing, Arising...
Freshly reintroduced to the deluge of verbal communication that is my life in Los Angeles, I'm seriously appreciative that I chose to attend the meditation course I mentioned in my previous post.
In the wordless company of my cosmic brothas and sistas I entered through a passage of breath into a rodeo of focus with the bucking horse of my own wild mind.
This may of been one of the best choices I've made yet this life.
As the horse became tame enough to guide along the path, the journey became a fiercely dynamic flow of sensations, ceaselessly changing and offering the rider a rare opportunity to reconstruct unconcious reactions at the root level.
Any words I arrange on here will not do the experience justice, so I leave it at that. Acknowledging the depth of it all and voicing gratitude for the new friends I made in silence these past 11 days as I proceed along the path with Love in my heart and a clearer head.
*On a side note*
the course was taught simultaneously in Khmer, the language of Cambodia, and my awesome sister whose birthday is today will be spending her honeymoon there next month. On the last day of the course I asked the Cambodian monk who took the course with us if he'd extend a blessing in Khmer to my sister and her equally awesome fiancee. He said yes and the video below is the blessing.
Love to all!
p
In the wordless company of my cosmic brothas and sistas I entered through a passage of breath into a rodeo of focus with the bucking horse of my own wild mind.
This may of been one of the best choices I've made yet this life.
As the horse became tame enough to guide along the path, the journey became a fiercely dynamic flow of sensations, ceaselessly changing and offering the rider a rare opportunity to reconstruct unconcious reactions at the root level.
Any words I arrange on here will not do the experience justice, so I leave it at that. Acknowledging the depth of it all and voicing gratitude for the new friends I made in silence these past 11 days as I proceed along the path with Love in my heart and a clearer head.
*On a side note*
the course was taught simultaneously in Khmer, the language of Cambodia, and my awesome sister whose birthday is today will be spending her honeymoon there next month. On the last day of the course I asked the Cambodian monk who took the course with us if he'd extend a blessing in Khmer to my sister and her equally awesome fiancee. He said yes and the video below is the blessing.
Love to all!
p
Monday, March 21, 2011
More Changes
Hey Everybody,
It's amazing how much can happen in two weeks.
As the world has continued to shift ever more rapidly on deeper levels, I've found it more and more challenging to return to the space between breaths where creation lives.
Last week, during a beautiful show at The Hotel Cafe joined by some of my favorite artists, I finally began to heal some ancient wounds that had been unearthed these past 3 years. Emerging from this Love Bath grateful for my community and empowered by the direction we've collectively chosen, I felt called to go deeper within and as it just so happens I was notified the following day of my acceptance into a 10 day Vipassana meditation course.
So...
As I set off into the deep, I just wanted to check in and say Thanks for being a part of it all. There's so much more to come and I look forward to sharing it together.
Love Y'all,
p
It's amazing how much can happen in two weeks.
As the world has continued to shift ever more rapidly on deeper levels, I've found it more and more challenging to return to the space between breaths where creation lives.
Last week, during a beautiful show at The Hotel Cafe joined by some of my favorite artists, I finally began to heal some ancient wounds that had been unearthed these past 3 years. Emerging from this Love Bath grateful for my community and empowered by the direction we've collectively chosen, I felt called to go deeper within and as it just so happens I was notified the following day of my acceptance into a 10 day Vipassana meditation course.
So...
As I set off into the deep, I just wanted to check in and say Thanks for being a part of it all. There's so much more to come and I look forward to sharing it together.
Love Y'all,
p
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