Maybe you have heard about Governor Schwarzenegger’s (in)famous veto letter to the California State Assembly? You can google it for more information – “Schwarzenegger Veto Letter” will do.
The letter is claimed to contain a hidden message. It becomes quite obvious when you read the words formed by the first letter in each line of the two main paragraphs… yes?
Well, in a strange way this letter inspired the title for my next album. However, my album will spell something altogether more pleasant, of course. With the help of friends I have been working on creating short poems with three lines, in which the first line begins with a “P”, the second line starts with an “O” and the third line with another “P’. As in POP or Pop-Music.
Here are a few of these poems:
Pale moonlight reflected
on the water.
Poetry of the evening.
Peonies
Of my Little Garden
Part of Heaven
Pausing to listen-
Overture in the moonlight
Perfect symphony
Petals from a red rose
On the ground, at dusk
Path to your house
Petals float
On the water in the
Pale moonlight
And my current favorite is one that a friend sent to me, cutting down this poem I wrote:
Petals from a red rose
On the ground, at dusk
Path to your house
to a mere four words:
Petals
On the
Path
The advantage of something that short would be that it could actually serve as the title of the album. Any longer and I would have to abreviate the album title to P-O-P and that might get confusing, albeit interesting. If I use a longer poem, the poem would not feature in the title, and would only be found on the cover.
The album cover could be DM-Vision of the stepping stones of a path, with a few red rose petals strewn on the gray stone.
Maybe something like this, but with a few flower petals:
Here is another preview of a tune destined for the next album. Jon named the mp3 Up Beat Thing and that’s the name that ended up on the setlist for Florida.
It’s quite different, and yet at the same time unmistakable, I think.
There will be downloadable versions of this tune in the coming weeks/months, but for now – please no downloading. (((and there are some rough edges in this version that I would not want to be heard outside our circle)))
I see. We are already in full knowledge of the fine details of how to carry open bottles of alcohol in the state of New Mexico. Monks on cargo bikes knowing the sake laws of New Mexico… hmmm, I guess I should not be surprised.
Yes, I admit it, I have befriended bartenders and know the rules, but I do not know whether the cargo bucket of a bike would be considered equal to the trunk of a car according to the laws of New Mexico…
Now, you should let your eyebrows grow out so the snow can have something to gently land on, while you lean on your new bike and drink warm sake in the snow…
I used to groom my father’s eyebrows. They grew fiercely. Sometimes snowflakes did land on them. I would keep looking at them, will they melt, will they hang around. How long? Let’s make a bet.
It would be damn hard to capture, but would make a great album cover. Standing beside the orange Bullitt, maybe wearing this hat, the white Accord guitar case (((empty, of course))) in the cargo bucket, covered with snow. One hand on the saddle, the other lifting a steaming wooden cup with sake… maybe we’ll need a trash can fire, too, they are apparently very popular in Hip Hop videos.
