PIANOS SHOW

My folks,

First NYC show this coming Friday at Pianos.  We are sooooo excited, it's been like 4 months since we played. Online tickets sold out in the first two days (big shit for us) but there will be 50 extra tix at the door so everyone come if you're in town.  Check the flyer below for all the specifics.

Also check out the link to the facebook invite.  

late night

just because i haven't done this in a while, and i'm bored.

i had a lot of meetings today and have a bunch tomorrow, everything is as it should be. Record deals being completed, tension, inspiration, me and my band mates having mutual respect and short fuses for each other. It seems like it's up to you whether you walk around content and engaged with your world, or isolated and distraught. I tend to walk the line in between, occasionally slipping to one side of the other for a few hours, never days. A good nights sleep can cure almost anything, a fever or a depression, a heartbreak or a headache....i need a few more to become a real person again....i could stop blogging at 3am. Anyways, the dreams are becoming realities and the realities are starting to feel like dreams.
fuck it

i love everything
one

P.S. "Do you feel me" anothony hamilton is my favorite song right now.

Love Poem

UNREAL MACHINES

I am a creature of another machine.
when i dream, time stops.
and i don't know when I'm sleeping

but i'm sure my love for you is real

some added dimension is created when i stare at you
some potion that allows me to feel in a way i have no way of knowing
yet in a way becomes the only thing i know

i'm not for certain that you are real
but my love can never be in question
i is a feeling that is indescribable yet so obvious
so unknown but so powerful

when you run across my mind

i die a thousand times
and am born a thousand more.


and you <> time.

Single Mother's Day

Just finished watching obama give a fathers day speech ata church in south side chicago. I have to say, he is really fucking good at what he's doing. It's really interesting watching a politician be good, in some ways it tells you that he is good at deceiving but in Barak's case i feel a truth permeate every political mask he must wear. Being at a black church he changed the his rap a little bit, he put a little more on god then he normally would have (maybe it's cause he was in a church.....i'm an idiot), he had a little more swagger, but it was real and really touching. Did you know more then half of all black children in this country are raised by a single parent, and that's double the number from the 70's. It really made me think about the kids i grew up with, who is where and how their home environment had an effect on there lives. Sometimes i like to say that people raised by single mothers are stronger, and in a way they are, but looking at my troops.....it's a sad story. I was talking to my mom the other day about how i have two sets of friends. One set is amazingly talented but never accomplishing anything, one is somewhat talented and graduating college moving to new york and working on wall street........you can guess which set was raised without a dad. Every single one, all my friends who sell drugs, are in and out a jail, fight, they were all raised in single parent homes. Makes me think.

peace
marc

First Meeting with Record folk

Had a meeting today with Myspace Records....was very good. They basically want to offer us a deal we can't do (lawyer wont let us) but just being there was dope. It felt normal, something we should be doing. Tomorrow it's atlantic, lets get this deal soon so we can move out of the cockroach den.
I love everyone.

TP2 Weekend

Tiny Porno 2 was off the hook. The people dancing, singing the songs back to us...it was magic. It was a nice way to end what has been a very trying few weeks as we have parted ways with our drummer (one of my favorite people of all time) and had to go on like everything is still the same. It's hard when you begin to feel guilt over not feeling guilty at all....that sounds crazy but it makes sense if you think about it. I know we have made the right decision, we have always been good as a band about these choices. As I get older I begin to realize that separating from a situation you know is not the best for yourself, is usually better for the other party as well...and I take some solace in knowing this.

All the record business stuff is going well, who knows if we'll all go insane. Meetings this week with Myapace records and Atlantic...craziness.

i'll start keeping up better.

check out the the video of Tiny Porno from Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_S3u2vJAUg

peace and love

R.I.P The Transfer

As we close the chapter of The Transfer and prepare for 2AM CLUB and the insanity that will accompany it, i'd like to share some fond memories of my time as The Transfer, or as we were often referred to back in the days...The Lost Boys.

Spliffs with Garan in the Garden (what we called our hot boxed room) at all hours of the night watching Dog whisperer.

Staying up so late and realizing that Micky D's was open for breakfast....walking next door to fuck up a egg mcmuffin.

SIx people in the two bedroom.

Pureic making me sing in front of 2000 people at the Magic Johnson Celebrity bball tourney.

Puric almost lighting the house on fire when the oil exploded from the pan in the kitchen.

The fried chicken phase.

Our first rocking show at Chapman where we stood on chairs and chanted their frat calling before killing It's What for the first time.

Not going anywhere in the business but never having a doubt we would.

Parting ways with our best friends when we knew it was the right thing to do.

Mr. Time moving to LA and sleeping on the couch, beginning the real grind.

Deciding that The Transfer should include T-Time and beginning to gig, traveling in the subaru 7 deep with all the equipment.

Traversing the LA BS as a band and starting to be able to distinguish it from the realness.

Starting to get good live, touring through Grants Pass or The Sherwood forrest as we like to call it.

Getting calls from email from Leor Cohen as we arrived in Vegas listening to summertime by Will Smith.

Dave Joining the band.

Drinking smoking loving hating screaming punching sexing, growing up big time in two years.

Goodbye The Transfer you were a great band.

I love you.

2AM CLUB.....prepare yourself.