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A gift from The Cardinals & Leah Hayes to announce the...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:12:23 -0400

A gift from The Cardinals & Leah Hayes to announce the availability of the band’s new single ‘Fix It’. Digg!

OASIS - “DIG OUT YOUR SOUL”- Out Today. Congrats and...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:25:00 -0400

OASIS - “DIG OUT YOUR SOUL”- Out Today. Congrats and THANK YOU from the CARDINALS- we can’t wait to bus-rock this album.

Albums are art. It’s a musicians way of making a painting or a book. It’s their movie they directed and wrote (well, some of us write our own music)……anyway

us CARDINALS are all stoked to go buy this! and NOEL, I sing Wonderwall EVERY night when we aren’t humbly nervously opening for you and your brothers dream-rocket rock band. Thank You for being such a huge inspiration to us and showing us just how humble and generous huge rock icon’s can be. You set an amazing example. Thank you.

they recorded it in a studio and everything (a real record) and even made super awesome packaging because, well, they are OASIS and their records are ART like Jackson Pollock made paintings, like Edith Wharton wrote books, like Will Smith is one of the best actors of all time, like The RedSox kick ass, like the Dali Lama is so funny and sweet, like strawberry jam is super good on slightly burnt toast.

like day dreaming is perfect.

like dusk is mystifying always.

oh, and

check out “American Gangster” Jay-Z if you happen to go pick up OASIS’ new amazing record. The Live versions were OUT OF THIS WORLD beyond me amazing.

way to go guys.

See you round holidays,

CARDINALS

THE PRE-ORDERS are signed with notes inside- plus extra mini book inside-

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:12:00 -0400

just an f.y.i.

i will be sure and try and leave you fun stuff in your pre-ordered books. I spend the holidays, and the winter months alone usually (not this year) but regardless, i spend them out of country (always if possible) and I can think of nothing sweeter than making sure if you spent the money, which i understand you are ALL WORKING YOUR ASS OFF FOR with VERY LITTLE IN RETURN IN PUBLIC SERVICES RETURNED that I will try and pass along as much figurative sunshine in there as I can.

It’s a long heavy book and I recommend people having a hard time sticking to the first and last chapters as 2, 3 and 4 are, how do I say this, from the trenches, from the moments where if I hadn’t had that type-writer I would have had to have gone into someplace where they take care of people who have broken souls.

we all have them.

I learned to forgive that and see that as an indication that everybody can still feel so much and forgive that same thing. It is very human to be so upset and so in love and then so lost.

and the moment, it is infinity. we are here forever in our lives, if for only slowing that second down, and feeling the million tiny years a breath would take if you could make yourself so small as to be a speck of dust on a comet’s tail. and i was.

anyway,

i know things are starting to look scary on t.v. ( i got to stay at a luxury Holiday Inn last night and I saw those people, those people who want to run the country (they don’t- the corporations who fund them do, because they answer to that campaign money) and I saw all that talk ( it’s all talk- nobody can FIX “good” or “evil” as in, nobody can build a lamp and light up the dark space of the universe, or slow down a black hole- which, is probably responsible for our relative time/space being so close- and our “local group” moving in patterns which revolve in a circle and do not destroy us.

the balance. light and dark, night and day, these are immovable.

trust.

go with the kindness, even if it means exposing an awful thing. it too is a lesson and does not have to be repeated if observed. like trying to date me (ha)…. srsly

be brave- my grandparents lived through the Great Depression and this is not that and they managed and MY WORD they were so in love. They ate love for lunch. They had enough left-overs that I go to that refrigerator in my mind and it nourishes me even now at 33, enough so that I can manage to do things like write a book or some days just keep the faith. faith meaning- this means something that I do not understand yet and I should stay quiet and listen and look and create what I can about what I find out. its rather innocent and I am not out-sourcing.

But this fallout/ scare-tactic madness- This is fallout from people getting rich- realizing that if they could separate us all by thinking there were TWO options when voting, and that we were “safe” at home and at the chain-market’s where they buy all the goods from other countries that we would all become CONSUMERS- (zombies) and we would be idle.

fuck that.

i am not going to stop anything i am doing. i hope you don’t either.

keep the faith.

and keep moving.

darkness follows light-

light follows always

times infinity

thanks so much, i worked so hard on this and Johnny and Johanna...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:04:41 -0400

thanks so much, i worked so hard on this and Johnny and Johanna at Akashic for takin a chance on a ratfaced kid with some verse. xxoo.!!!!

“INFINITY BLUES” by Ryan Adams; Pre-Order Update; as...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:42:00 -0400

“INFINITY BLUES” by Ryan Adams; Pre-Order Update;

as of today, my publisher informs me, they have taken orders for more than 750 copies of the hard bound edition which comes with a smaller book inside the book (never to be re-published) and these editions are signed and numbered by moi ( me, in french). It includes one of my favorite pieces I have written called “A to Z” which is a long as fuck poem about hating the alphabet and loving things thats begin with each letter too much. i am half asleep. fuck you.

anyway, we are only taking 999 pre-orders (the 1,000 copy is going to Dave Letterman. I wanted him to have that one so he knew I did good and wasn’t a chump. The first one is going to Steve King. He really was my inspiration, and his persistent great works, in your face- like Franz Schubert’s work, was my invisable cheerleader (as was a postacrd of WH AUDEN and a Glass Jar of Marbles (to remind myself not to lose anymore- as was “On Writing” by S.King- as I wrote- Some folks just can’t help it- they love making things. This whole country was like that once. what happened? I dunno. But look around, we’re still getting up, still going to work, still giving a fuck. That is what it is all about. Listening and Learning and Experimenting. What a life we live, all of us, weak and strong, beautiful in our expressive meaninglessness and full of eternal hope. We carry that love.

There was a dedication page in my book. But I took it out. The book is the dedication.

men go crazy when they are forced to grow up. I did that by writing this. It’s undoable now and my eyes are open. Once I wrote it down I could see “me” and who i was without thinking. then i could see “it” and well, let’s just say Brad had to help do the final copy editing as I could not cry anymore over it, and I did. And I don’t mind how that sounds. It hurt. It hurt like hell to write this. But I did it. And this book is like the pilot episode for Hill Street Blues. More action than a saturday night bum bar urinal. More horses flying through the air with lazer capabilities than, well, I don’t have a reference point for that.

So Sales will probably cease today or tomorrow. just a heads up- not an advert. I am damn proud I wrote that pile of madness.

Here is a little something from S King on the book- and the url for the few remaining pre orders, that is if you have been unaffected by the economy ( or unaffected by television scare tactics- i think you are all being controlled and if yopu ignore them they will just find someone else’s souls to play chess with. what kind of bastards want to run countries…..yuck-o ) just my opinion. keep making things. keep your head up. fuck em……

INFINITY BLUES (Special Hardbound Edition)- by Ryan Adams

www.akashicbooks.com/ryanadamspreorder.htm

“Ryan Adams, one of America’s most consistently interesting singer-songwriters, has written a passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse. Fans are going to love it, and newcomers will be pleased and startled by his intensity and originality. The images are vivid and the voice is honest and powerful.”
—Stephen King

(my publisher/editor actually just edited this because i typo-ed even here ha hahahahahaha) not funny.

i am so proud.

I am currenntly working on a new book of prose called WHALESHIPS for 2010 as well as a Novel called “Revelations (Sort-Of)”

Akashic are scared, and excited and deal with me very well as I am not the craziest egg in the basket at my publishing house but I am rather neon i bet.)

Check Out “Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics” edited by Lawrence Block with pieces by Joyce Oates, Irving Shaw, Edith Wharton, Damon Runyon, O’Henry and our old pal Edgar Allen Poe ( deceased)- we miss you at weekend goth dance parties Ed- xx

www.akashicbooks.com “Punk as a PineApple on a Pizza on the Moon.”

Damn neck...(not the red kind)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:39:20 -0400

B here…Today was the first day since last Thursday that I could turn my neck. I’m not sure if I slept weird or just pinched a nerve or what…but it sucked. Anyone at the last few shows may have noticed I had a bit of a Frankenstein thing going. Thankfully, after an intense massage the other day and those heat strip things that stick on your back, I’m about 90% better. Careful with your necks, kids… B

AHHHHHHHHsnap

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:32:00 -0400

just got a text de la were on some awards thing. guess i am going to actually do the tv thing twice today. got a pizza. sox won. all round a productive day in hotel cave. silver lines and no shades,

plus fun thoughts

goodnight foggy.

JWLZ GONE WILD sox win- jwlz goes (stays) metal

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:28:49 -0400

JWLZ GONE WILD sox win- jwlz goes (stays) metal

CARDINALS - “Come Pick Me Up” LIVEJAM clip.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:04:00 -0400

CARDINALS - “Come Pick Me Up” LIVEJAM clip.

HOTEL ROCK director’s cut of “GoodByeSunshine”...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:16:00 -0400

HOTEL ROCK director’s cut of “GoodByeSunshine” i look haggard in this. damn. what ev.

playin “Buddy FlipOff” a.k.a. the bus-rock bass...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:46:35 -0400

playin “Buddy FlipOff” a.k.a. the bus-rock bass hotel rock style. some newjams/ livejams later.

srsly lol

hour til sox do this thing

w o w

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:38:00 -0400

w o w

the dream team backstage talking cardinalspeak- me jammin...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:36:33 -0400

the dream team backstage talking cardinalspeak- me jammin winding wheel on NightWing my lute

scorpio esp twin, more passive, thinks (knows) im slightly goofy...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:08:51 -0400

scorpio esp twin, more passive, thinks (knows) im slightly goofy crazy weird love em like a bro he rocks ass. rock star in anti rock star buddha float- he shimmers this one.

you can run but you can’t hide from big papi. day off....

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:50:26 -0400

you can run but you can’t hide from big papi. day off. game night. ah snaps.

i am working on new songs today alone on the bus in the middle...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:50:46 -0400

i am working on new songs today alone on the bus in the middle of nowehere in a parking lot where scary people are buying booze and shit from this freaked out gaso.

anyway.

i would never spray paint stonehenge its a key line. key-lines mean something- jon gave me a book called Megalithic European (i think- it’s big and inside are all these weird old stones which seems placed and carved when that should not have happened in history (you all know you are being lied to most of the time 60 percent of the time when a textbook talks about the history of history and who we are right? i mean, it’s all there, it’s all factual and right there-) anyway, whatev

i was taking a picture when my stylist called. there was nobody...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:39:41 -0400

i was taking a picture when my stylist called. there was nobody on the line (again). it’s been this way for years. wha. now look at those two sweet people. good friends good times and race cars. ee cummings would be proud (and messing with margin flow) - god he is so irritating (cummings) still, lovely verses- that man made. yodaspeak.

my cave. built by Robie. i love this place. i practice dreaming...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:34:37 -0400

my cave. built by Robie. i love this place. i practice dreaming here.

this is the Wurlitzer. we run it through a delay pedal and a...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:13:35 -0400

this is the Wurlitzer. we run it through a delay pedal and a Holy Grail Reverb (love those damn boxes SO much they are p e r f e c t o ) and then into this Vox amp which is wack and has all these Star Trek control room switches that not even Robie knows what they do ( which translates as “nearly unusable weird amp”) then we run that on the WRONG impedence into two cabinets i picked up that just looked cool/stupid and sound like they are like large analog t.v. speakers turned up too loud.

when Neal plays it he turns it down and makes it sound good. I just want it to start talking madness bleeeeurp zzzt.

anyway i think i am gonna get a Steve Winwood type organ and make

Mr. Comedian… Shecky Adams.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:16:24 -0400

Mr. Comedian… Shecky Adams.