Welcome to the website.

Listen, you're gonna hafta check back all this week. If I met you downtown yesterday, if we shared common thoughts or even if we just spoke briefly you might wind up right here on the site in a photo or in a video.

But I'm gonna try to spend the day today shakin' off the fear and ugliness that I experienced downtown yesterday afternoon, after the sweet commemorative ceremonies and remembrances were finished. Today I'm gonna focus on the Good people I met on Friday night and those in my life, and on the music.

Usually, on a Sunday morning in September I'm updating this page with words of gratitude and total amazement at the power of music and laughter. I'm usually thanking you guys for another typically amazing day in Central Park.

Usually... on a Sunday morning following a beautiful day like yesterday in September, I'm quietly jazzin' in the middle of memories of a grassy hill by a Lake in Central Park where pretty girls, young men, old men, beautiful women of every age, people from all across this country and different parts of the world all hung out and sang and laughed and shared another f*ckin' amazing afternoon.

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Let me welcome any newcomers with a little photo gallery of this year's season so far.

Click to visit this year's gallery

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Like I said, man! We have a lot of fun around here.

Today is a little bit different.

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Yesterday and the night before I had a series of experiences and encounters I will never forget.

You all know how I feel about the Power of music to make a difference in this world. Well, that Power has a wider gate to enter this world when it's coming through a group of beautiful friends. That's another reason why I always say that I feel like the luckiest man alive. The people in my life are good-hearted, strong, thoughtful, intelligent, Creative, funny, caring people.

Now... on Friday night, I was asked to open a candlelight rally with a song I've recently written. The crowd of over 2,000 stretched for two city blocks and it was an uplifting and exhilarating experience of good nature, Reason and Love. (I'll tell you about that this week.)

But I headed downtown yesterday with copies of the same song. I had hundreds of copies of my song "Hey American" made into single CDs and I made 50 DVDs of the music video to give out for free to the people who, I thought, were assembling to stand up for the principles upon which this nation was founded while supporting the renovation of Cordoba House on Park Place. (We were deliberately deceived about that particular event. I'll get into that evil duplicity later this week. What occurred was, for the most part, a really twisted, reprehensible, unAmerican and just plain fucking disgusting display of small-mindedness.)

I, of course, was also aware that yesterday there was to be a rally one block over on West Broadway to raise the banner of intolerance, fear and boastful ignorance just as high as they could... maybe higher. (They're voices always tend to be louder.)

My aim was to give this song out, without comment or confrontation, to people no matter how they felt or where they stood. But I didn't have to go alone. I was joined by a small army of beautiful, thinking, Good people... Laura, Dean, Andrea, Dave, Brendan, Mary, Mimi, Robert, Teresa and Nathan.

What we encountered during the day was both beautiful and ugly. But I am obliged to say with all honesty... the people and the spirit down there were mostly very, very ugly -- the absolute worst and darkest side of human nature. It was twisted-religion and perverted-patriotism dressed in red, white and blue on parade.

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But y'know what?

I'm gonna get to that toward the middle of this week... so you'll hafta check back.

Today I'm gonna focus on music and laughs. And TOMORROW I'm gonna focus on the wonderful people I met on Friday night.

Okay. Okay, the song that I was spreading around yesterday is a very simple song that asks a very simple and straightforward question.

You can watch it by clicking on this image.

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO

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NOW!

Just a little fun to shake it off.

Here's a song about "Facebook... Idiot" is still rocketing around the world. As of today, over a quarter of a million people all around the planet are passing it around. (Must struck a chord inside a few people.)

If you haven't seen it yet...

Click to watch the video of the new facebook song

Pass it on to all you friends. Post in anywhere you want!

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Here's one about the upcoming final installments of the Harry Potter series of movies. It's a song about the character, Hermione Granger.

Here... click on the image to check out the song and watch the video.

Click to watch the video

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Now one more thing about that song!

IT IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD!!!

I'm serious!

Now you can download the song itself, and walk around with it in your ipod or mp3 player and sing it to yourself on the bus, in the subway, in the car... while you're on facebook.

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OKAY!

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Here are a couple of different galleries.

Here...

CLICK ON THIS PHOTO TO VISIT
A LITTLE PHOTO GALLERY
FROM SUMMER 2009

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I'll be back tomorrow with another update.

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Thanks for everything.

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PEACE