I’m drinking and the bartender goes: “Once you let New Orleans into your soul it’s hard to let go (of)”. This bartender is from where I’m from (almost) so the words go down easily like the blonde beer he’s pouring. I’m starting to understand the breast-centered art in New Orleans; this town is a bosom. It’s not a hit of speedy ambition like New York, or a steady stoic paycheck like DC. It’s a comforting place, at once stimulating and relaxing. It’s Yin and Yang, wholesome and sinful.
These are my last songs from DC and who knows what my first New Orleans effort will sound like. My hope is that whatever I make it is natural, beautiful and comforting. I have no rib to give, but I will create nonetheless.
Hey Martin, Best of luck in New Orleans. I was just listening to “Bigger than your Boyfriend” again. Great album, and “Monuments” always finds its way onto mix cds. Anyway, that’s what brought me to your blog; I’m going to check out the Canary tracks. Take care.
Thanks Nathaniel! BTYB is my best work to date, i’m so so so glad people are checking it out. i’m glad you got out of Arent Fox
i got tossed out of that place!
Seriously? I’d love to hear that story. I came close (i think)… the Marketing Director and I didn’t always see eye to eye. What area did you work in?
well, it was my fault i suppose. I never should have been a paralegal at a firm like that. The work was boring and there was a ton of it, and all the other kids were law school bound. It’s not that I was lazy but I definitely didn’t take the job as seriously as they did. BUT, that being said some of it wasn’t my fault. Without intending to I pissed off a partner named Dan Kirsch who transfered me out of his department and then got me fired from the department I landed in, it was sort of a raw deal. What about yourself?