Cake Season

house show last week with Large Brush Collection

It seems like every week now I get these emails. They are dumb but getting smarter all the time. I wonder if someday I will be fooled.

They always start something like ‘I have heard Little Mazarn and WOW can I say, you make such a wonderful collaborative sound with Jefftelephone and hemlocksounds!’

Then there’s a pitch. I could really be doing better, reaching higher, streaming more and they could help me if I get involved with the app and it’s always a word that’s almost a word. Dripmo. Soundsheba.

Delete.

What I have been doing is taking online writing class with Laraaji. We are entering week 2. (The class is through School of Song which I can safely say has changed my life. I have taken a few different classes with them and come away from the experiences gobsmacked every time! I highly recommend and this is not a sales pitch it’s just the truth)

Laraaji is booming, kind, and hilarious. I surprise myself describing him as booming but it really is the best way. He begins his thoughts in contemplation, eyes closed, and then smiles, opens his eyes, and erupts in soulful laughter. Last night I shyly raised my hand for a question and he smiled with infinite moonbeams of warmth through the screen and giggled as he said my name, drawing the vowels pleasurably out ‘Lindseeeeeeeeeeeeeeey…’

I wanted to know so many things, Laraaji, but what I ended up asking was for him to describe the moment he leaned fully on his art to sustain him and what was it like and how did he do it.