HAPPY SPOOKYTIME

hey all you goblins.  happy 31st.  hope everyone out there is dressed up and ready for a great fright night.

this picture is completely random, but i actually just did a test and put into google image searches, "gavin creel halloween" and this is the first picture that came up.  and....this made me very happy.  i don't know who that girl is, but i recognize that guy from the Twilight movies .....and maybe from the calvin klein underwear ads!!!  needless to say, if i met either of them at a party late halloween night....well...i'll just leave it there.

OKAY!

what's everybody doing on this cool day?  it is beautiful in new york.  stunning weather, crisp fall breeze blowing through, and i am sat on my couch, in my pig stye of an apartment, amid boxes and suitcases and mayhem from the last 7 months traveling.  there is a party tonight that i don't think i can go to because i have a gig tomorrow and i need to REST UP!  :)   but robbie and i might go catch a movie and i'll scare him during it just to keep us in the spirit.

if you have never been to new york city on halloween, it is an awesome thing.  people walking around the streets in costume, riding the subway in full bloody drag, even the two guys who served me this morning at juice generation...one was a zombie and one a pirate.  i love it when people let their inhibitions go and dress up.  why don't we do it more often?  why does everyone wait for ONE day of the year to get all freaky?

i think we should start a day...in february maybe, because that month is always so damn dreary.  maybe we could call it FABuary FRIDAY or something.  okay, maybe not that, but a day in the middle of winter where everyone dresses up again.  just cuz.

or maybe just the two in this picture would pop over to my house in their costumes and i'll make them some mac and cheese....and we can all cuddle.

:)

have a great night

peace

g

okay, so i am a poser here. i don't actually play the guitar, but one of these days....i am going to learn.  i have been saying this for years, but i WILL DO IT...someday.  i have just been busy in the meantime.  and it hasn't been a total priority i guess.  besides i have brilliant players all around me who do the job way better than i could ever dream of doing, so, that certainly doesn't help matters any (come on robbie....be a sh*ttier player and i will finally learn to jam out on the geeetrrrr)  (just kidding....please keep being amazing)

i am heading home to NYC today.  about to head to the airport in 5 minutes.  i can't wait.  seriously, it has been almost 7 months since i have lived in my apartment.  i left new york in the cold, and i am returning....to the cold.  but that is all fine because the person i was when i left is NOT the person i am now.  thank the lord.  time is a beauty like that.  one minute it is mocking me, and marching so slowly across my face, and then i turn around and it is skipping on by, calling for me to catch up and skip too.  love that. (and hate it)  but love it.

we have a FEW tickets left for the BIRDLAND shows, so if you haven't already purchased yours, get to that website asap.  here is a little link:  http://www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.venue&VenueID=68

just scroll down to whichever date you want to come (nov 1, 8, or 15)

robbie and i have been going over the tracks, and there is so much new stuff that i am psyched to get to share.  while time was marching across me...i was writing songs....so....there will be some journey there.  (not the steve perry kind....i dont' want to sing that high)

ok.  i'm off to the airport.  see you all soon.

peace

g

i'm back in T.O.

second favorite city for the gav.  totally jetlagged, but happy to be in the roth masion, getting ready to write more music and practice for the birdland gigs.  the fall is packed with so many cool opportunities.  more to come.

has anyone out there seen wanda sykes: ima be me?  holy sh*tballs that was the best stand up act i think i have ever seen.  she is freakin HILARIOUS.  smart too.  and inspiring.  but FUNNNNNNY.  go get it. watch it. laugh. and pee a little while you are laughing.

going to see will swenson in priscilla this week.  cannot wait.  i saw the show twice in london (my friend oliver thornton was incredible) and i really enjoyed it.  so, now to see it with friends in it....gonna be amazing.

i am sorry i don't have much more to say, but i just wanted to blog it out before bed and say hello to you out there.

peace

g

CAT CALLS

i have been having an interesting experiment as of late.  a phoneless experiement.

i am renting a room in a beautiful flat/house in london and the woman who owns the place has a cat.  now i have never been much of a cat person, but the minute i meet this one, i'm like....'hey you're a dog/cat' which for me is the best kind of cat.  i don't actually know if it is a boy or a girl to be honest, but its name is misa ...or meesa...or something like that.  come to think of it, i should ask.  oh whatever...it's just a cat.  

ANNNNYWAY, this cat is really sweet and follows me around and comes when i call and eats DZOWN.  like, cannnnnnns of food.  it's a wonder it isn't rolling around this house like a fatcatsplat.  the other day, however, when i woke up, i grabbed my cel phone to take it with me for the day, i noticed there was no charge in it.  i had had it plugged in all night and thought, 'that's wierd...well, the switch on the plug must not have been on' (they have this smart thing here, where each outlet has a switch attached to it which actually helps save energy from constantly flowing to an unused plug....america!??  are you listening?)  

so, i just grabbed my charger and headed out, thinking i'll charge it when i get to my friend's house.  when i get there, i plug it in, and ....nothing.  at this point i'm like, 'ah screw...the connection must not be working'  i try a few different plugs....nothing.  grrrrrr, i think.  

and then i look down at the charger cord....and it is in two completely different pieces.

that little shit cat went to town on my charger cord while i was asleep and chewed right through it!  it actually made me laugh, but now....i haven't had time to go and get a new charger for my london mobile and for the last, almost week, i have been without a phone.

and i have to be honest....it has been kind of amazing.  

for starters, i haven't done that really annoying thing that i try not to do, of checking it all the time, while i am with people, or by myself.   i haven't looked for voicemails, i haven't just made a phone call that i don't REALLY need to make, just because i can.  i haven't texted (i don't text in the us, but i text here because my london phone is from 1978 and doesn't have email on it) i haven't had to excuse myself to take calls, or really.....be distracted at all by that little annoying (and necessary) machine.  

then i thought back to the time when none of us had them, and i wondered....could we all get by?  is this convenience REALLY necessary?  i mean, for cases of emergency, people always argue the importance of cel/mobile phones, but obviously there were emergencies in 1978, and no one had a phone permanently attached to their ear then....we got along just fine.  

it got me thinking....maybe i should try it.  maybe i should try to go without my cel phone when i get home.  maybe just for a month.  just for a 'communication break.'  just to see what changes, what i notice, what i engage in (or disengage from) i don't know.  just something i'm thinking about.

it will probably drive me totally crazy and i won't last a day, but....it's been an interesting little experiment i have been forced into....

by a funny little tubby kitty. 

thanks misa...or meesa....or whatever your name is.

peace

g

(ps. that is not the cat or my phone in the picture....but cute, no?)

RECENT FINDINGS

1. MOVIES: tamara drewe & made in dagenham
2. CAT: this grey one right here
3. LIFE: mine in london
4. HEROS: marathon team for BroadwayImpact

5. BEER: san miguel

6. SNACK: crisps!!!!!

7. PUB: the regent in kensal green

8. SONG: the new one i just wrote yesterday....holy sh*t you're gonna flip

9. SALVATION: zantac 150 before bed

10. NEED: sleep

peace

g 

LONDON MUSINGS

so i'm back in london town.  it truly feels so good. man i just love this place.  have you ever been here?  if you haven't, you have to come.  seriously.  i think a lot of people make a mistake of treating london like a stopping point on the way to other european cities, but there is just so much culture and history and beauty to get lost in right here, that ...well....just come and see for yourself.

i've been walking around in a sort of creative bubble too.  something so nice about not having a show to take my attention or time (or joint fluid) and just sit in whatever space i'm in, and see what comes up.  sometimes....it's just stillness.  sometime it's fear.  but most times, it's an energy that makes me shake my arms.

i used to do this before my swimming races as a kid and, i don't know why, but it immediately invigorates me.  i just walk around, and shake 'em.  i do.  i look like a total crazy person, but i don't care.  people sometimes ask me, 'are you cold' because it looks like a shivering.  and i just reply, 'no, i'm just weird.  peaceout'

well, i'm wandering around london, shaking away.  all the while, i'm in contact with my kick ass manager patrick, who is rocking my world, putting together a lot of amazing surprises for you all in the coming months.  thinking of lyrics, humming new tunes, dreaming about life and the witnessing of deeper, truer things.  it is all new and old and mine and ours.

the flat that i'm staying in smells of rose.  the furnishings are shabby chic and incredibly beautiful.  the cat that lives here is like a dog.  the seats on the tube are carpeted.  i need to buy soap.  i have two scabs on my left hand and i don't know how they got there.  i finally found a good mexican restaurant in london.  i switched to deodorant only, but i can't tell if i smell.  life is funny.  i think i like it today.

peace

g