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sally mccarthy bathes her daughter in a shallow tub on the kitchen table. the baby fusses but stops short of crying.
as she sponges her tiny hands, sally marvels at the soft palms, just starting to prune. and her uncle carter’s voice speaks up in her memory.
“i don’t see what all the fuss is about. if i was jesus, i would have begged to be crucified.” More »
November 8th, 2010 | Tags: christianity, death, hypocrisy, jesus, religion, spirituality | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment
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for matt margolin.
we played music together for many years. back then, he was one of my closest friends. and though we hadn’t seen much of each other this past decade, i always thought of him with great fondness. a kind man, a chaotic genius on the guitar, and a champion of the fifteen cent poker bet. he was my daughter’s godfather.
i wrote this song last weekend, before matt had the sudden and unexpected medical emergency that eventually took his life on friday. when i heard of his collapse, i had a hard time finding my feelings, there was so much confusion and shock and distance. but as i finished recording yesterday, i realized that i had hidden those feelings in this song.
i will miss him.
September 27th, 2010 | Tags: bluesy, loss, matt margolin, sad | Category: monday song | Comments (15)
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staring at the floor. frozen. scuffed wood once elegant, now dulled by years of water spraying from the kitchen sink.
it’s the eighth floor at liberty lane. frozen. looking down. familiar.
elliott came from a family that spent their lives propping up the walls, keeping the ceiling in place. his father drinking and laughing and screaming and occasionally hitting. More »
September 13th, 2010 | Tags: family dynamics, jazz influence, sad | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Comments (2)
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he paid too much for the green day tickets, but it was worth it. now they’re tucked inside the gift-wrapped book of gary larson cartoons.
it took him a week of horse-trading to convince his ex to let james spend his birthday away from her. More »
September 6th, 2010 | Tags: birthday, children, divorce, fatherhood, green day | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment
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charlotte woke up crying. her father sits at the end of the couch.
his voice is soft, his breath is sweet. the party is quieting down, but there are still adults talking downstairs.
charlotte is seven. she dreamt that the house was on fire. More »
August 30th, 2010 | Tags: a twilight cathedral, fear, news | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment
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across the street. the luchesi’s. they all have different first names. except for one of them. More »
August 16th, 2010 | Tags: a twilight cathedral, love song | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment
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cheever street, late afternoon. a muffled roar pulses from a garage near the end of the block. from outside the clamor is hard to recognize, but the roar demands attention. more than one neighbor watches their clock for the agreed upon curfew of six pm to arrive, when they can call to complain. why they ever agreed to tolerate the racket is a mystery to each. he used to be such a nice boy.
step inside and the volume increases but remains indistinct without earplugs, but when you see the source, it is instantly recognizable as an up tempo punk rock song. More »
August 9th, 2010 | Tags: buzzcocks, green day, love song, mania, patsy butterfield, punk rock | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Comments (1)
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james lives on fenton street down the block from the empty lot that once held the 7-11. a firehouse is going up slowly.
he’s a teenager, but you’d only know it from the library books in his backpack: salinger, the autobiography of malcolm x, arthur c clarke. his looks would place him in elementary school, his placement test would see him in high school. but he’s trapped in the middle world, the boiling limbo of junior high. More »
August 2nd, 2010 | Tags: a twilight cathedral, contrast, high school, lonely, rock | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment
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darkness attracts light.
the contrast can be thrilling.
but it’s always and forever darkness.
and over time, the light gets tired of doing all the work. More »
July 26th, 2010 | Tags: a twilight cathedral, drum machine, jazzy, nilsson, sondre lerche, ukelele | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment
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a couple sits on opposite sides of a dinner table, food mostly gone. muted explosions and a pumping sountrack come up through the floor. no one speaks.
they’ve been together for many years, each shaped by lifelong contact with the other, a complex jigsaw of additions and subtractions. there are crack in hidden places, but neither wants to lift their eyes to see. More »
June 28th, 2010 | Tags: a twilight cathedral | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Comments (1)
