one forty plus: To The Fans →
Thank you all so much for making the Battle Studies tour such a huge success and a pleasure. I’m going to miss seeing your faces every night. Thanks for singing along. And for accepting me. You don’t know how good that feels. And thanks for the signs, the clever, funny, awesome signs. And for…
You’re Welcome, John. :)
So, I just got introduced to this awesomeness. …And naturally, I just had to share it with all of my awesome followers. Enjoy. :)
Sarcasm and a little wit: My "Autumn is here" playlist →
I’ll be honest. This playlist has nothing to do with autumn.
So, I’ve had a few requests to do another playlist, like the one I did awhile back. This one won’t be as focused as that was. I’m single and have basically nothing going on romantically so I’m not really gravitating towards any…
one forty plus: Simple. →
Very simply put, Mr Mayer.
I wish that when I was younger I could have met my current self. We would have sat down at a coffee shop so that I could explain life to young me in terms that only we would understand. It would have saved me a lot of hardship.
You can listen to all the sage wisdom you want, but things only make…
Silly’s Pizza
I’m lookin’ to get a little crazy with the order here. Ya got a meatball hero?
Chicken cutlet? What’ya got?
I now have 107 reasons why I love John. His ♥ is ginormous!!
A video reply to Zach Anner.
Sunday morning I watched and then re-blogged Zach’s audition video for Oprah’s “Your OWN Show” contest. By the end of the night it looked like his campaign had picked up considerable steam. Zach was cool enough to give a shout out for the reblog and also provide a gorgeous still shot of the two of us modeling for the Gap.
I’ve been thinking of a way to say thank you for making Battle Studies such a huge success out of the gate… I’ve also been thinking of a way to use tumblr as a means of posting some more substantial stuff… So here’s a very raw, live solo version of “Edge of Desire” I just recorded in my apartment as a way to show my gratitude to you all for extending my time in this amazing career you’ve helped me build.
I think if you were kind enough to spent the 13 bucks, you should get some free music for the next good while.
So here it is. A song about late night longing recorded at 3am. iPhone dinging in the background and all…(that’s how I knew the take was going to be worth sticking with, as the best takes always get interrupted.)
Thank you.
More to come…
John
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Love this… thank you.
Introducing “Running Changes”… sharing the songwriting process on an even deeper level than I did during Battle Studies. I’m trying to forge a new sound along with a new album. Instead of rearranging the vocabulary I’ve already developed I want to establish an entirely new one to draw from. It takes a while. Lots of guess and check. I want to think like a new artist. DNA splicing on the fly. Running changes.
This tune sort of jumped out at sound check the other day and cast a little pinhole of light over the challenge. It’s not really a song so much as a template for something. I originally shot this video to have as reference to sing along and write to but thought it might be cool to share with you. I’ll sit over the next week and listen to it dozens of times, trying to sing the words and melodies that are hiding in it.
I’m going to make an effort to write on the road, something I’ve never done. I’d like to make the Summer tour a vehicle for playing new songs. Let you guys tape them, trade them, and maybe even sing along to tunes that weren’t even recorded in a studio yet.
Playing arenas and ampitheatres doesn’t have to mean showing up and doing an end zone dance. What if it were alive and organic and I played new tunes that were constantly changing and growing up each night? It would sure light a fire under my ass to write the best song I could, knowing I’d be bumping a surefire album track for it.
Playing to 20,000 people should feel like playing for 200, just with 19,800 more people looking in.
Thanks for giving me so much to sing about and the comfort of knowing I’ll have someone to sing them to when the time comes. I feel like I’m about to make my second first record.
JM
Love, love, love this brain. XD
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