I’m 40!!!

I turned 40 last week on Wednesday. On Saturday my friends threw me a fantastic tribute of a party. Awesomeness:

  • Maile, Libby, Sam, Patrick and others conspired to make many super, secret touches
  • Patrick and Kelly flew in from Syracuse
  • Kat flew in from San Diego
  • Mom flew in from DC
  • 40′ slip n slide (with nonstop kid use)
  • retro jFro graphic, and on pins and coozies nonetheless!
  • tribute covers and requests featuring
    •  Derek’s cover of Mystical Experience #115
    • Lib’s singalong to What The Day Had To Say (and human music stand for I Have Arrived)
    • P’s poem (from jremix)
    • Jody’s cover of God Has Been Good To Me
    • Chris’s guitar and All Blues
    • Los on drums
    • Mo’s cover of For Your Lover and requested J or Jesus and Molecule
    • Tbone on fiddle
    • and Aiden on keys and maracas
  • Amy’s old pics of younger j, the Shiner crew, (not to mention the keg and assorted beer)
  • so many friends!!!
Here are a bunch of pics from Kat’s iPhone.

j slip n slide

 

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I Have Arrived

Biked home last Friday, sat down on the porch, wrote this song in one sitting. Feels Jimmy Cliff to me.

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I Have Arrived

No more waiting to be discovered
No more waiting to get signed
Discovered myself, I am surrounded by wealth
I realize how much I’ve denied

No more waiting for a favor
No more waiting for the stars to align
No more waiting, no more hesitating
Cause now I know, I have arrived

And I know, I’ve got a long long way to go
But with my fate I am satisfied
And I know that it goes so painfully slow
But that’s OK cause I got you by my side

No more waiting for directions
I’ll make a map out of the sky
I’ve waited so long for the muse to deliver this song
Thanks the Lord, it has arrived

Now I tell myself, If I only had something else
While the thing I need is right in front of my eyes
No more waiting for love, I’m loving exactly what you’re made of
Cause I can see you have arrived

No more waiting to be discovered
No more waiting to get signed
Discovered myself, I am surrounded by wealth
And now I know, I have arrived

Bob Dorough at the Alamo Drafthouse South

In spite of being a sold out show, I made it back from GregoFest and biked over to the Alamo Drafthouse South today to see Bob Dorough perform Schoolhouse Rock songs. I got in and sat front and center, as close a possible to the Rhodes at the front of the theater.

Bob sat behind the electric piano and started off with “Three Is The Magic Number,” because it was first he composed and the one that started it all with ABC. He spent the next hour or so playing his hits – My Hero Zero, I’m Just A Bill, Figure 8 – and telling stories about working with ABC as musical director and getting work for his friends Blossom Dearie and Jack Sheldon.

Afterward I got this poster and him to sign it. I thanked him for not dumbing down any of those song because they made me the musician I am.

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