Flying Morning Glory – A Journey Across Thailand

Flying Morning Glory Back in the early 1990′s, I made a trip to Thailand to visit my father’s relatives.  It was the first time I was back since I was 6 years old when I came for a 2 week visit.  All I had remembered was the heat, the humidity and the rain as we were there in rainy season.  This time, I was there in the beautiful month of September and the air was much drier.   I had recently relocated to Hong Kong to join MTV-Asia as one of their first VJ’s for their new satellite channel on Star TV.  Being just 2 hours flying time away was too irresistible and within a month I was there. My uncle Janjai, the third eldest, but clearly the leader of the family, decided that I must go see the north of the country and so we set off in a small...

Posted by on Mar 9, 2012 in food, travel writing | 0 comments

Music for Theater, Instinct

I wrote music for this theater production of an original play by Matthew Maguire.  It opens this weekend in NYC at the Lion Theater on Theater Row.  An outbreak is spreading and scientists are racing to save the world whilst dealing with their own troubled relationships.  The play is smart, witty, fast and very disconcerting. What’s scary is how plausible this is! Here’s an excerpt of the music from it.

Posted by on Jan 10, 2012 in art, music | 0 comments

Remixing Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro

Imagine Mozart’s opera The Marriage Of Figaro was reborn in a dark Brazilian jazz bar in the streets of Brooklyn and you get a little idea of what this track was inspired by. I created this track as part of the soundtrack for the new production of the theatrical play (as in no singing – this is the play that Mozart was inspired by from a French writer named Beaumarchais) opening on November 9, 2011 at Fordham University’s Mainstage at Pope Auditorium, Lincoln Center, NYC. ...

Posted by on Nov 4, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Yah!

Okay, after almost 17 years of having complicated websites, here’s something simple for now.  More to come.

Posted by on Aug 29, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Friday at Little Cupcake Bakeshop

Whisper quiet the city Sky powdery gray A cotton muffler enwraps the day Dims the roar a hush through the leaves a flock of blackbirds water dripping from eaves So lovely the morn beautifully bright under my boots cruncy and light

Posted by on Jan 31, 2011 in poems, poetry | 0 comments

Blood of the Earth

The blood of the earth is stirring whipping up over the edges the banks, the shores boiling up, a surge covering, cleansing wash away the scourge The blood of the earth is moving Queensland is flooded Rio beneath the waves Medellin sops up lakes Left at her door The blood of the earth is seeking Renewal, rebirth the universal solvent receding by 2012

Posted by on Jan 18, 2011 in poems, poetry | 0 comments

On The Shores of Eternity

Sitting in High Dive 5:15 on a Saturday A carbonated meditation To replay the week trial and error feeling in the dark tapping along quietly straining for the ping back tunnel of my vision Sweet action amber courage a liquid confidence arises and a murmur of the soul Through the charity of our fathers German brewmasters of note We achieve a measure of equality a sense of clarity a touching of reality A negation of the feelings a nail sticking out to be pounded down An oddball diamond waiting to be found glinting and shiny On the shores of eternity

Posted by on Jan 18, 2011 in poems, poetry | 0 comments