This week we’ve been doing a contest to share my music video about Quakers getting Naked in Meeting for Worship:
Lots of folks shared the video on Facebook. So many, in fact, that it got a bump of 2500 views! Well done!
And its time to announce the winners!
bump bum bum bummmm!
Heyo!
After wrapping up a successful month of giving away the Mixed Vice Work Ep, its time for me to give away some more stuff! This time, it’s:
A $200 Gift Certificate to American Apparel!! (1 winner)
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A Clothe Yourself in Righteousness t-shirt, pamphlet, and CD (3 winners)
All you have to do is share my music video on facebook, and get your friends to like and comment on it!
When I was recording A Few Songs Occasioned my senior year at Guilford, I had a moment where I was driving to the Meetinghouse which housed my studio and a song came on the college radio station. I only got to hear the last half of it, but by the end, my fists were pumping in the air and tears were streaming down my face.
I made a point to look up the artist, and spent the remainder of my senior year being obsessed with that band, hours sitting in my room at the Keiser house studying their album “A Heart Made of of Art”. Hope for a Golden Summer, a sister duo out of Athens, GA (with a rotating third member) is a deep and deeply creative songwriting group.
I am lucky enough to be sharing a stage with them here in West Philly in a couple of weeks!
Jon Watts/Hope for a Golden Summer/Dang Girl
$5
7 PM
April 25th
Greenline Locust
4426 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
I have been trying to get back on my bike ever since last Summer, when I was working around the clock to try to finish Clothe Yourself in Righteousness, and ever since I have been on the go non stop trying to promote it.
Needless to say, I am not at my best when I never take a break. My schedule has simply not allowed, however, for the type of trip that I did in 2010 on the Two Wheel Tour. But all of my art would be so much better if I did!
There are so many reasons to be excited about slow travel, but the one that really stands out for me (above all the reactive reasons) is joy. I have been thinking back to this blog post that I wrote for the Two Wheel Tour.
It would be easy for me to spout off a guilt-based justification about how quickly our society is killing the Earth, and how each of us is individually contributing a great deal to that destruction by owning and over-using personal vehicles. And it would be true. I do feel guilty and hypocritical about simultaneously mourning the destruction of the natural world and contributing to it.
But the deeper reason why I am riding my bike the 600 miles to Boston: I find driving, for all of it’s convenience, to be spiritually deadening.
So I’ve figured out a way to ride from Richmond, VA to Philadelphia on my Xtracycle Radish in between mine and Maggie’s upcoming shows. You are totally welcome to join me for any leg of it, just contact me.
I think I’ll be leaving:
I’m familiar with these road now so don’t need a guide! But I always love having company!
Ever since I got a looping pedal, I have sat with my guitar and meditated to a loop, letting the loop build around me. I have saved many of these loops, thinking that they might come in handy in the future.
Now that I have my new computer and the internet capacity to upload videos and songs relatively easily, I’d like to share them with you!
Here’s the most recent one I’ve put together:
And you can find the rest at the new youtube channel: