Welcome to the website!

Listen guys...

I didn't hear back from The Parks Department until early, early this morning. (Not the Permit Office, but rather from the Director of Operations, Nelson.) I think it probably would have been cool to hang out there today at Cherry Hill. ("The Away Game")

But the weather doesn't look like it's cooperating.

I don't wanna be a pain in the ass. But, I'm gonna try to see if tomorrow might be an option.

If not I'll see you guys out there next Saturday. (But check back here in a little while.)

Oh HEY!!!!

Personal friends and family!!!!

I had a nightmare with Sprint since last night so I decided to cancel my account with them. I just made the jump to an iphone. (So, I've got a new personal phone number.)

If you're a personal friend of mine and you need the number, email me at my personal email account, okay?

Okay... now for everybody else. You might wanna check back here this afternoon!!!

I'm gonna try to get some NEW video on here. in the meantime... here's a little repeat of some video from this past Saturday. In this first video, what happened was this. I was sharing another typically amazing day in Central Park with a few thousand New Yorkers and people from all across this country and around the world this past Saturday. Turned into just another golden day. On those kinds of days, y'never know what's gonna go down. At one point I started becoming aware that several strangers were sharing a birthday. One of them was a pretty young woman named Tiffany, who said she wished she could share the day with her twin sister in Jacksonville, Florida. So minutes later she got her sister, Kendall, on the phone and.... well, this is what happened.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

So cool.

Listen, I know there are a lot of people checking in here this week for the first time from different parts of the country and different parts of the world. I'm gonna hafta post some of the other videos from last weekend here again.

First, the weddings!!!

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...as well as a couple of videos for which I get a truckload of requests.

It's true.

Here are 3 videos, which I urge you guys to pass along to all your friends and family across the country and around the world. I also hope you eventually take a little time to leave a comment of your own on YouTube. (You kids are crazy for the YouTube. Are you lovin' the YouTube? Are you crazy for the YouTube?)

Y'see, as an American singer/songwriter part of my job description is "to comfort the disturbed... and disturb the comfortable." As a free-thinking man who is politically a registered Independent, it's a swell place for me to write songs that speak to reason, principle and basic human decency with nearly complete disregard for partisan politics.

But, there are some buffoons in the political punditry that are just... well, I would say assholes or twinkies. But, let's just say they're fun material for a couple of hooky songs.

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Still...

Some subjects are not material for making fun.

Please check out this video. I'm not letting this go!

Why? Because torture is wrong. It's morally repugnant. And, uh... um.... IT'S ILLEGAL!

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed... it's the only thing that ever has."

And then...

Click on this link to leave your own thoughts and comments:

YOUR THOUGHTS

Back to the music!!!

THE NEW ALBUM IS HERE AND YOU CAN GET IT RIGHT NOW!

The webmaster of this site, James Marino, posted that convenient link at the top of this page on the left for you to order the CD right now. (I'll let you know the minute the individual tracks are available on itunes as well.)

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I'm gonna try to figure out a way to really celebrate it's arrival. Maybe we'll just make the "Year-End Concert" in December a kind of "release party" as well as the fun tradition that gig is every year! It's gonna be swell to get all the artists on stage with me to play this thing LIVE.

Here are A few 2-minute clips from the CD:

KEEP HOPE ALIVE

ANY OTHER WAY
Okay...

I'll be back later to see if I get the okay from The Parks Department for tomorrow. I'm workin' on it. Been doing the same dance with The Permit Office this year and quite honestly, I'm done. I'll definitely be back here tomorrow with another new update. Keep checkin' back, okay? If you're new around here, or if you're checking in from a different part of the country or a different part of the world, take a few minutes (or hours) to browse through the ARCHIVE. Lotsa cool shit in there.

Keep showing up guys.

And, I hope you guys here in NYC are already thinking about the friends with which you're gonna share the "Year-End Concert" - SATURDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 12TH. (Yeah, it's a long way off. But this is gonna be a special one this year!)

See you tomorrow.

Thanks again.