Family time

Having a great time in Boston with the family.

We had amazing Ethiopian lunch and then a good birthday dinner and homemade cake.

Lots of time playing with Gus.

Great conversations with my parents, and Jeremy and Bridget.

And sitting with Cal.

LOVE my family!!!!

I go back on the bus to NY tomorrow.

Bostonnnnnn

Going to Boston later today for some serious FAMILY time.

Celebrating me and my dad's birthday, though really, his is the big one. He is now 60!!!

I also get to see my mother, brother, and Bridget, and my nephews Gus and Cal. I'm so excited!!

Bear City

Today, I went to a screening of the movie Bear City. My song, "Even So," was in the movie during one of the "love" (sex) scenes. LOL, it was a funny movie, I'll leave it at that.

I was joined by my friend Ryan James, and then we went to Rockwood Music Hall, to see Amy Crawford, and I caught a couple songs by Lucius as well before I left.

Pretty good night :-)

BIRTHDAY

Today was my birthday and it was so awesome!!!

I loved getting so many facebook birthday messages...IT made me feel so loved!

And my love Cara Scherker invited me over and cooked me turkey meatballs, pasta and salad, and even bought an ice cream cake!!! IT was the sweetest thing ever!!! (and soooo delicious) She made me feel so special!!!

Then I met up with another friend and then went SWIMMING at the Recreation Center in Chelsea. That branch is serious about the swimming!!

Had my last gig with Tori tonight. She played the midnight set at Rockwood, and she was awesome!! I'm gonna miss my buddy!!! xoxoxoxo Tori!!!

Cuba

Had a nice night with Tori, her guitar player Johnny, and Mike, who's playing drums for her in NYC.

We went and had a nice dinner at a restaurant called Cuba, on Thompson between Bleecker & 3rd. There were a bunch of chess stores there, and Mike loves chess and sat down and played a game with someone who was really good.

I bought a t-shirt and me and Tori went to a hat store, and she helped me pick out a hat :-) I love it!

Then a little Pinkberry, and we walked by all alot of music clubs, and I was pointing them out to her. We went by Bitter End, and I saw one of the guys who works there who is friendly with me. He invited us in to listen to one of the bands that just started jamming. They were great! Alot of great touring and session musicians.

Good birthday so far :-)

Happy birthday to me!

It's my birthday!! Wow, I can't believe I'm 28!!

Hereafter

Saw a great movie tonight - "Hereafter"

I highly recommend it.

Crazyyy night

Had such a long day.

Work all day and then
show at Parkside Lounge. It was a nice audience, and a great time. Band sounded awesome, especially having cara & nick singing backgrounds.

Tori did a great job, and we saw some friends from Boco who came out. Kalynn, Ben, Sarah and Stephanie.

I had to go to williamsburg to play for the bloodsugars but it was a really enjoyable set at a new-ish venue called Cameo.. Loved it

Shrine

Had my first gig tonight with Tori, playing keys with her band. She had bass, drums, guitar, and a couple horns. Sounded pretty good! We played at Shrine.

Unbeknownst to me, the band before me consisted of three guys who have played with me on a few gigs. Iakov Kremenskiy on guitar, Jeff Villanueva on drums, and Evgeny Lebedev on keys.

Good guys!

They sounded awesome

Tomorrow me and Tori play at Parkside Lounge. Wooord!

Tori Roze!

Met today with Flash, aka Bobby Brickstone, who's an awesome dancer/choreographer, and also doing music. We worked on a track which might have a lot of potential. Excited about a possible working relationship with him. He's a good writer and awesome guy. Very motivated.

AND.....TORI's here finally! Reunited at last. We're gonna have a great week. Playing a show with her band tomorrow at Shrine :-)