I look out my window At the glimmering houses on the hill From my pretty home In pretty San Francisco The morning light sparkles off the glass in the morning mist I’m a morning person now and I need to remember to eat right and to spend more time on my kisses I see the seagulls spinning Through the light in the air Are they same ones I wrote...Learn More

Good morning beautiful city Doesn't smell so good after the rain On my way to my haircut Crossing the street in my head Cars screech between me and the curb again Famous singer-songwriter backing band friends Thanks to the tickets to your show and the conversation It was fun being backstage at the Greek with the band After me and Beau were...Learn More

I've got sunshine On a cloudy day When it's cold outside I've got the month of May I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl Talkin' 'bout my girl I've got so much honey The bees envy me I've got a sweeter song Than the birds in the trees Well I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl Talkin' 'bout my girl I...Learn More

I listened to Marc Maron's Joanna Newson interview They talked about their doctor parents and her harp and her music And the little hippie town she grew up in And how one particular dude growing marijuana Fed his weed plants special yogurt It made me laugh out loud at the gym Then something happened and someone called the paramedics And two fire...Learn More

Everyone's sick around me and I’m starting to get a cold I don't know why people want to hang out when they're sick, it’s very American No one wants to get sick after someone sits next to you on a couch and sneezes and coughs without even trying to cover their mouth Maybe I'm not getting sick and it's allergies or because there is a significant...Learn More

Here in the control room of Studio B Just laughing about numerous attempts to see The four-hour-long Tom Petty documentary Beau said he always falls asleep Just after the part Where he gets out of Florida And just before he makes a hit But my dad and I were glued to it With only a few brief breaks When my dad was here visiting last fall… Or was...Learn More

We went somewhere for brunch It took over four hours I don't know why eating breakfast takes half a day And costs over a hundred dollars Sometimes on weekends my dad made breakfast on Saturdays Potatoes and toast and ketchup and bacon from the microwave And me and my dad watching X-Men cartoons when he wasn’t busy My mom in her denim shirt in her...Learn More

The last time I saw you We were only twenty-two or maybe twenty-three Standing in the same aisle In the New Sagaya downtown on Thirteenth I told you you looked like shit You told me you were sick We both wore big poofy coats and looked like marshmallows And you asked me if I had a brother I don’t remember the color of your eyes You were always so...Learn More

I joked with the folks at Whole Foods about the drought and the winter rains Just at the point where things were going okay But here it comes, bad news, once again The familiar flood of messages on my phone taking over my brain To spread the word about the scheduled viewing Of Angie Hathaway this Sunday at Driscoll's Mortuary in the Mission Her...Learn More

A few days ago I was staring at Claude the albino Alligator now I’m staying up too late staring at the news at night I need a new ritual It’s been a fall I won’t soon forget So many good ones are gone Don’t talk to me about the president elect The Great American Music Hall I’m listening to music tonight with my dad, that’s all None of my stories...Learn More

When people talk about their dreams I sometimes stop paying attention It’s not that I think dreams don’t deserve to be thought about I simply don’t think that mine are worth mentioning A lot of people read into their dreams like it’s some kind of window to their psyche And spend a lot of time thinking about different ways to interpret the...Learn More

I kissed my girlfriend goodnight and went off to sleep Four or five hours later she woke me up to get ready to to go Monte Rio She’s gotta get up there early because our friend Christine Has to be available in person for the Comcast guy The fires disconnected some wires and her internet went down And there’s no cell service up there otherwisе She...Learn More