Killing the Lights

This is what Ive been up to the past few days my dear tumblers. (Is that what people call y’all? So is to “tumble” the alternative to the “tweet?”. Someone help me out here…”

I am beginning to get the hang of recording demos via Pro Tools. For someone as technologically inept as yours truly this is quite an accomplishment. I just bounced out my first mix and it sounds like dog shit. But alas! At least its working. 

Also… $1.40 for a coke? Really? Couldn’t round up to $1.50 for your absurd price?

Smooches,

-jk

But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face…
Now time to work.

Now time to work.

So I spent the day at Ocean Way Studios today. Made a bunch of new friends. Looking forward to writing with/for this girl named Shea who has had a couple of top 10 hitz on the Australian charts. 

Love n’ Snuzzles,

jk

Perhaps one of the most brilliant poems you will ever read?

Where You Go When She Sleeps 
by T R Hummer

What is it when a woman sleeps, her head bright 
In your lap, in your hands, her breath easy now as though it had never been 
Anything else, and you know she is dreaming, her eyelids 
Jerk, but she is not troubled, it is a dream 
That does not include you, but you are not troubled either, 
It is too good to hold her while she sleeps, her hair falling 
Richly on your hands, shining like metal, a color 
That when you think of it you cannot name, as though it has just 
Come into existence, dragging you into the world in the wake 
Of its creation, out of whatever vacuum you were in before, 
And you are like the boy you heard of once who fell 
Into a silo full of oats, the silo emptying from below, oats 
At the top swirling in a gold whirlpool, a bright eddy of grain, the boy 
You imagine, leaning over the edge to see it, the noon sun breaking 
Into the center of the circle he watches, hot on his back, burning 
And he forgets his father’s warning, stands on the edge, looks down, 
The grain spinning, dizzy, and when he falls his arms go out, too thin 
For wings, and he hears his father’s cry somewhere, but is gone 
Already, down in a gold sea, spun deep in the heart of the silo, 
And when they find him, he lies still, not seeing the world 
Through his body but through the deep rush of grain 
Where he has gone and can never come back, though they drag him 
Out, his father’s tears bright on both their faces, the farmhands 
Standing by blank and amazed - you touch that unnamable 
Color in her hair and you are gone into what is not fear or joy 
But a whirling of sunlight and water and air full of shining dust 
That takes you, a dream that is not of you but will let you 
Into itself if you love enough, and will not, will never let you go.

Happy Tumblin’ to all that gather here.

-jk