Another week. Short work week for you guys? Thanks for stopping by. Before anything today, I had another stupid thought. I thought I'd share it with you. I just heard a radio commercial for "Sleepy's"... a mattress store here in New York. Is it a coincidence that nearly every mattress company's name begins with the letter "s"? Sealy, Serta, Simmons, Select, Sterns & Foster... Somebody's gotta look into that. (Somebody who has absolutley no life.)

Anyway, moving on...

Okay, here we go. New week. New question.

How many of you live in Brooklyn?

I know by the stats on the website that an awful lotta you live across the bridge. Well... this week...

I'm coming to Brooklyn! FRIDAY NIGHT! (Yeah, I'm leaving my zip code.)

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT I'm gonna do a night of music at:

The Good Coffehouse Music Parlor
53 Prospect Park West
(At 2nd Street in Park Slope)

Doesn't this look like a cool place
to hang and do a concert?

It's general seating (first come first serve) and all the tickets are $10. (But, there's no advance sales. Just show up.)

I'm gonna do a whole night of music and storytelling. Gonna let you guys in on how and why a lot of my songs were written... some of the stories behind them. Maybe play a few brand new works-in-progress. Oughta be cool. If you live in Brooklyn, get some friends together and hang out. The doors open at 7:30. the concert starts at 8:00. I'll post directions from Manhattan and all that stuff tomorrow, okay?

But, today, make a few calls and try to plan to come to this gig on Friday. I think it's gonna be a special night...

...in Brooklyn.

Listen, I know there are people visiting this website from all over the country and around the world. But, if you live here in New York City and you made it out to Central Park on Saturday or Sunday... thanks alot! You guys were a tonic for my soul. I played... man! I played a shitload of music, and we had alot of laughs! I played a five and a half hour set on Saturday, and a six hour set on Sunday. Really diggin' a few of the new cover tunes... Matchbox Twenty's "Unwell" and Elvis Costello's "Veronica". And I gotta say, it feels like you all like a few of the songs I wrote over the winter.

Thanks.

I've got a lot goin' on this week.

I need to talk to Dennis, Mimi and James about the benefit concert this fall. (I'll write more about that further down.) There are a few different projects that are popping up all of the sudden. (An off Broadway show audition. I wanna talk to a TV production guy about a few ideas I'd like to pitch.) But, our proposed benefit concert for the ordinary people in Iraq takes precedence over them all.

Anyway, listen... I don't have a whole lot to say here on the homepage today. I'll be in the "Forum" later. (message board) Maybe I'll see you in there. You can use the "Forum" to talk about whatever you feel like... music, Love, sex, movies, world events... whatever.

Y'know, I added a whole bunch of new names from the weekend to the email list today. So, if you're new here... WELCOME. Try to stop back everyday, okay.

But, if you are a regular here, you may have read about this next thing already. If you have, you can stop reading. But, would you do me a HUGE favor? Would you take a minute.... right now... would you go into the "Forum" (message board) and let me know what you think of this idea, or if you have any odeas of your own.

You're aware that I'm jumping in, up to my neck, in an effort to put together a concert to help the innocent, ordinary people who are taking the brunt of the hurt in the war we started in Iraq. Y'know? The most decent and reasonable places in my heart cannot fathom a WAR TIME where politicians bluster and bullshit about parliamentary procedure, the news media covers "unbalanced brides" and Michael Jackson, and military units are often placed in a "defensive" or "don't-get-killed" mode, while the ordinary, civilian men, women and children are out there getting there asses kicked. Y'know? It's like the politicians are holed-up inside a great, fortified castle called the "Green Zone", while the peasants are being slaughtered all around them. (I guess, the peasant-in-me gets pissed off.)

I'm hoping to pull something off in September or October to raise money and get help directly to these people.

This is what I meant before about doing some Good. Y'know, you can have an awful lotta fun, doing really hard work, if you know you're working toward something good. So, in the coming weeks, I'm gonna be asking for help from ordinary people... like... um... you.

Right now, I'm gonna ask you to click on this link and take a few minutes to read what's there, okay? Please?

EVERYTHING YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE CONCERT...

...so far.

So far, I'm really jazzed by the response I'm getting from nearly every one of the artists, professionals and friends I'm sharing this idea with. Next Monday, I'm going to meet with a wonderful guy who runs the BEST concert venue and production facility in New York City... to get his thoughts, advice and expertise. My buddy Dennis Riley is helping put the proposal together and all the initial grunt work. But, we're both working with a woman named Mimi Evans who, so far, is a juggernaut... such an enthusiatic positive energy. When we pull this off, it will be because of her spirit and commitment. (Well, she has one son who is in the military right now, and one son who just spent a year in Iraq as a civilian, and months in Afghanistan, helping ordinary people.)

Maybe it's time for the rest of us ordinary people in America to do something extraordinary for those people.

Gotta run right now. Look, maybe I'll run into you on the streets of New York this week. Maybe I'll see you in Brooklyn this Friday night! Hope I see you in the park all summer.

Thanks for everything.