Boulder, CO 6.16.04
This entry was posted on Saturday, June 19th, 2004 at 5:44 pm by Stuart Davis
went down to KBCO (97.3fm in Denver / Boulder) tonight and taped another Studio C with them. i did late in the winter, and they used my song Swim from that session on a CD they put out to benefit Denver area public schools. i found out tonight they sold 12,000 copies of it, and gave the schools a check for $30,000. woo! keefer, the DJ who hosts this show, is one of the most amiable, effusively warm people you’ll ever meet in the radio world. you start having fun the minute you’re hanging out with him. i LOVE to be around people like this, he’s been in the music world for decades, he works at a big commercial station, and he is totally, sincerely into the music. there’s no way to fake that kind of enthusiasm, and hanging around with him makes me feel hopeful about the music business. in fact, KBCO kind of makes me feel optimistic about the radio world. i’ve only been living in boulder a short while, they’ve had me in studio twice, put me on their CD, and are talking about adding Sexy Messiah to regular rotation when my CD comes out nationally through Rykodisc. tonight i’m on air promoting Dhrarmapalooza, my two show DVD taping at Trilogy. we play Sexy Messiah, Ladder, and Human Girl (chad phillips on bass, mike O’neal on drums) and dedicate Ladder to Ken Wilber. keefer reminds everyone to go to my web site and check out the top five lists and says how funny they are. i remember my favorite: Top Five Things To Pee Into (one of the answers is “The Future”). while we’re off the air one of the people hanging out with us tells us about drinking absynthe in Europe a while back. i am fascinated, back in the day when i was an alcoholic drug addicted sloth i had a longing for absynthe, i always wanted to try it, but it’s not legal in the U.S. i imagined it to be sort of like peppermint schnapps laced with acid. from this person’s account i wasn’t that far off… oh well, i’ll never know directly. nothing but boring meditation for me now…but wait, OH, the COLORS, look at the COLORS….
Boulder, CO 6.16.04
This entry was posted on Saturday, June 19th, 2004 at 5:44 pm by Stuart Davis
went down to KBCO (97.3fm in Denver / Boulder) tonight and taped another Studio C with them. i did late in the winter, and they used my song Swim from that session on a CD they put out to benefit Denver area public schools. i found out tonight they sold 12,000 copies of it, and gave the schools a check for $30,000. woo! keefer, the DJ who hosts this show, is one of the most amiable, effusively warm people you’ll ever meet in the radio world. you start having fun the minute you’re hanging out with him. i LOVE to be around people like this, he’s been in the music world for decades, he works at a big commercial station, and he is totally, sincerely into the music. there’s no way to fake that kind of enthusiasm, and hanging around with him makes me feel hopeful about the music business. in fact, KBCO kind of makes me feel optimistic about the radio world. i’ve only been living in boulder a short while, they’ve had me in studio twice, put me on their CD, and are talking about adding Sexy Messiah to regular rotation when my CD comes out nationally through Rykodisc. tonight i’m on air promoting Dhrarmapalooza, my two show DVD taping at Trilogy. we play Sexy Messiah, Ladder, and Human Girl (chad phillips on bass, mike O’neal on drums) and dedicate Ladder to Ken Wilber. keefer reminds everyone to go to my web site and check out the top five lists and says how funny they are. i remember my favorite: Top Five Things To Pee Into (one of the answers is “The Future”). while we’re off the air one of the people hanging out with us tells us about drinking absynthe in Europe a while back. i am fascinated, back in the day when i was an alcoholic drug addicted sloth i had a longing for absynthe, i always wanted to try it, but it’s not legal in the U.S. i imagined it to be sort of like peppermint schnapps laced with acid. from this person’s account i wasn’t that far off… oh well, i’ll never know directly. nothing but boring meditation for me now…but wait, OH, the COLORS, look at the COLORS….
Dharma and Art / Linguistics
This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 at 11:17 am by Stuart Davis
my friend Vidyuddeva just told me in an email that the words ‘art’ and ‘dharma’ share a common root in their original indo-euro language. i wonder which one? sanskrit, i’m guessing. it always comes down to sanskrit with this stuff, dohn it. it makes me want to make dharma and art have the same root in IS (the language i’ve been constructing for some time), but that’s derivitive. of course you can’t avoid derivation, but one can at least lean toward invention rather than reconstitution. IS is about two years into the process, it’s very slow work, creating a language. this one is a spiritual / poetic language primarily, although it will be perfectly servicable for normal communication, it’s designed to accomodate esoteric / mystical content first. make friends with paradox, flop around in indras net, chand the mind mantra into the mirror mudra…la la la. i recently sent of my Fontographer program (given as a gift from a kind and wonderful father daughter monk couplet) to my friend Kayla. she’s going to create a font for the language which i can use on my computer, and this will accelerate the work exponentially. once i can crank out vocab on my lap top, we’ll be all set to go in three, four, five years tops. i’ve decided i’m not going to use those cheesy, lazy, flatland permutation programs, where you just plug in the parameters of your phonemes and it runs random computations to generate “Vocab”. that’s no vocab, that’s a bunch of random permutations generated by insentient software. who fucking cares? real language is inextricably woven with the way we experience, interpret, and even generate reality. that’s the point of creating a new language, to fashion a more powerful lens, cleaner filters, more layers, depths, dimensions- INTERIORS, and exteriors. people have been wondering for years just what the hell it is i write in their CD booklets when i sign autographs. 90% of the time i write in IS, and sooner or later we’ll have the dictionary up somewhere on the web, and people can go decipher it themselves. hopefully the language won’t have morphed too terribly much by then (it has gone through 2 or 3 significant stages already, and probably has at least on more developmental shift before i go public with it). perhaps we can also make the font available for download. we’ll see…
Dharma and Art / Linguistics
This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 at 11:17 am by Stuart Davis
my friend Vidyuddeva just told me in an email that the words ‘art’ and ‘dharma’ share a common root in their original indo-euro language. i wonder which one? sanskrit, i’m guessing. it always comes down to sanskrit with this stuff, dohn it. it makes me want to make dharma and art have the same root in IS (the language i’ve been constructing for some time), but that’s derivitive. of course you can’t avoid derivation, but one can at least lean toward invention rather than reconstitution. IS is about two years into the process, it’s very slow work, creating a language. this one is a spiritual / poetic language primarily, although it will be perfectly servicable for normal communication, it’s designed to accomodate esoteric / mystical content first. make friends with paradox, flop around in indras net, chand the mind mantra into the mirror mudra…la la la. i recently sent of my Fontographer program (given as a gift from a kind and wonderful father daughter monk couplet) to my friend Kayla. she’s going to create a font for the language which i can use on my computer, and this will accelerate the work exponentially. once i can crank out vocab on my lap top, we’ll be all set to go in three, four, five years tops. i’ve decided i’m not going to use those cheesy, lazy, flatland permutation programs, where you just plug in the parameters of your phonemes and it runs random computations to generate “Vocab”. that’s no vocab, that’s a bunch of random permutations generated by insentient software. who fucking cares? real language is inextricably woven with the way we experience, interpret, and even generate reality. that’s the point of creating a new language, to fashion a more powerful lens, cleaner filters, more layers, depths, dimensions- INTERIORS, and exteriors. people have been wondering for years just what the hell it is i write in their CD booklets when i sign autographs. 90% of the time i write in IS, and sooner or later we’ll have the dictionary up somewhere on the web, and people can go decipher it themselves. hopefully the language won’t have morphed too terribly much by then (it has gone through 2 or 3 significant stages already, and probably has at least on more developmental shift before i go public with it). perhaps we can also make the font available for download. we’ll see…
Elvis Costello covered by StuartDavis
This entry was posted on Monday, June 14th, 2004 at 7:48 pm by Stuart Davis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JUNE 15 2004
ELVIS COSTELLO COVERED BY STUART DAVIS
"Davis Does Elvis" released online at www.stuartdavis.com
Full download with cover art $8 or individual tracks for $1
Singer/songwriter Stuart Davis, known on the indie circuit for his Buddhist-Muslim-Hindu-Taoist-Jew-Christian-infused brand of biting pop/folk, has released an online studio album of Elvis Costello covers.
CRITICAL PRAISE FOR STUART DAVIS
"We were blown away
by Stuart’s pure genius."
- Bruce Warren, Producer of The World Cafe
"Without exaggeration,
Stuart Davis is one of the most fascinating
and exceptional songwriters
in modern music."
- San Jose Metro
"Not since Bob Dylan broke
through 30 years ago has
Minnesota produced such
a confident and creative
songwriter."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A rare genius. Whatever
you do, don’t miss his work
or his performances."
- Ken Wilber
"The greatest lyricist
I’ve ever heard."
- Ed Kowalczyk, lead singer of Live
"Davis laughs like a girl."
- bemused concertgoer
STUART’S ALBUM NOTES FOR "DAVIS DOES ELVIS"
i first fell in love with elvis when i heard Other Side Of Summer on the radio. he sang "Was it a millionaire who said ‘imagine no possessions’?" i was laughing and alarmed at the same time. did he just take a shot at the sacrosanct John Lennon?, i wondered. shortly after that i owned almost everything he’d ever released. although this bootleg tribute album doesn’t really reflect it, i’m as crazy for his later material as i am for the early years. to me songs like This Is Hell (Brutal Youth), 20% Amnesia (Brutal Youth), Poor Fractured Atlas (All This Useless Beauty), and pretty much everything from the CD Mighty Like A Rose are perfect, but on this recording i ended up just throwing together songs that translated at least somewhat to acoustic guitar and voice. plus it’s just a bootleg recording, meant to be a fun little salute to one of my heros. as some may remember, for a while i was opening up for myself on tour as Elvis Costello, i would dress up in a suit, put the glasses on, use a sharpie marker to color in a gap in my front teeth, and then hit the stage and do six or seven Elvis tunes (that’s the source of the photos on the album artwork), then get off, change clothes and come back out as Stuart Davis. it was the inversion of my fantasy, opening for Elvis. no such luck yet. this little bootleg is just my way of having a good time and saying thanks to one of the greatest songwriters i’ve ever heard. i’ve spent many hundreds of hours enrapt in the mystery of Elvis. he’s had many incarnations as an artist, sometimes they didn’t work, but he’s still as cool as shit after it’s said and done. what is it with England anyway? the Beatles, XTC, and Elvis, all from that little island. if Bach weren’t German, one might suspect a conspiracy theory…
TRACK LIST FOR "DAVIS DOES ELVIS"
1. Pump It Up
2. Oliver’s Army
3. I Want You
4. The Other End
5. Brilliant Mistake
6. Beyond Belief
7. God’s Comic
8. Watching The Detectives
9. Veronica
10.Veronica (Take 1)
SAMPLES AND INFO
http://www.stuartdavis.com/elvis
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Elvis Costello covered by StuartDavis
This entry was posted on Monday, June 14th, 2004 at 7:48 pm by Stuart Davis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JUNE 15 2004
ELVIS COSTELLO COVERED BY STUART DAVIS
"Davis Does Elvis" released online at www.stuartdavis.com
Full download with cover art $8 or individual tracks for $1
Singer/songwriter Stuart Davis, known on the indie circuit for his Buddhist-Muslim-Hindu-Taoist-Jew-Christian-infused brand of biting pop/folk, has released an online studio album of Elvis Costello covers.
CRITICAL PRAISE FOR STUART DAVIS
"We were blown away
by Stuart’s pure genius."
- Bruce Warren, Producer of The World Cafe
"Without exaggeration,
Stuart Davis is one of the most fascinating
and exceptional songwriters
in modern music."
- San Jose Metro
"Not since Bob Dylan broke
through 30 years ago has
Minnesota produced such
a confident and creative
songwriter."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A rare genius. Whatever
you do, don’t miss his work
or his performances."
- Ken Wilber
"The greatest lyricist
I’ve ever heard."
- Ed Kowalczyk, lead singer of Live
"Davis laughs like a girl."
- bemused concertgoer
STUART’S ALBUM NOTES FOR "DAVIS DOES ELVIS"
i first fell in love with elvis when i heard Other Side Of Summer on the radio. he sang "Was it a millionaire who said ‘imagine no possessions’?" i was laughing and alarmed at the same time. did he just take a shot at the sacrosanct John Lennon?, i wondered. shortly after that i owned almost everything he’d ever released. although this bootleg tribute album doesn’t really reflect it, i’m as crazy for his later material as i am for the early years. to me songs like This Is Hell (Brutal Youth), 20% Amnesia (Brutal Youth), Poor Fractured Atlas (All This Useless Beauty), and pretty much everything from the CD Mighty Like A Rose are perfect, but on this recording i ended up just throwing together songs that translated at least somewhat to acoustic guitar and voice. plus it’s just a bootleg recording, meant to be a fun little salute to one of my heros. as some may remember, for a while i was opening up for myself on tour as Elvis Costello, i would dress up in a suit, put the glasses on, use a sharpie marker to color in a gap in my front teeth, and then hit the stage and do six or seven Elvis tunes (that’s the source of the photos on the album artwork), then get off, change clothes and come back out as Stuart Davis. it was the inversion of my fantasy, opening for Elvis. no such luck yet. this little bootleg is just my way of having a good time and saying thanks to one of the greatest songwriters i’ve ever heard. i’ve spent many hundreds of hours enrapt in the mystery of Elvis. he’s had many incarnations as an artist, sometimes they didn’t work, but he’s still as cool as shit after it’s said and done. what is it with England anyway? the Beatles, XTC, and Elvis, all from that little island. if Bach weren’t German, one might suspect a conspiracy theory…
TRACK LIST FOR "DAVIS DOES ELVIS"
1. Pump It Up
2. Oliver’s Army
3. I Want You
4. The Other End
5. Brilliant Mistake
6. Beyond Belief
7. God’s Comic
8. Watching The Detectives
9. Veronica
10.Veronica (Take 1)
SAMPLES AND INFO
http://www.stuartdavis.com/elvis
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Live: KBCO Studio C
This entry was posted on Monday, June 14th, 2004 at 2:29 pm by Stuart Davis
Check it out! Stuart recently made an appearance on KBCO’s Live From Studio C, which will be available for download in the archives of their website soon, so check back frequently…
Live: KBCO Studio C
This entry was posted on Monday, June 14th, 2004 at 2:29 pm by Stuart Davis
Check it out! Stuart recently made an appearance on KBCO’s Live From Studio C, which will be available for download in the archives of their website soon, so check back frequently…
STU TV is here!
This entry was posted on Monday, June 14th, 2004 at 2:28 pm by Stuart Davis
MTV eat your heart out. On Monday, April 12th www.IntegralNaked.org launched its exclusive new series: STU TV: Life On The Road With An Unknown Star. Armed with one camera, two guitars, and multiple personalities, Stuart introduces us to the bizarre and beautiful World of life as a nomadic mystic. This regular new segment also features new written journals not available anywhere else, lyrics and previews of new songs, and slightly disturbing stories and montages from the Tao of Stu. Fans of Stuart’s old road journals will not be disappointed, and Integral Naked will be the only place you can put your eye to the keyhole.
Episode One is Banned In Canada, and follows Stuart on tour in the Pacific Northwest as he storms Portland, Seattle, and then gets
expelled from Canada for a year. The video, journals, and secret footage went live on www.integralnaked.org on Monday, April 12th,
and to celebrate the launch, the first 100 stuart fans to become members of Integral Naked get a FREE STUART DAVIS CD. Sign up is at
integralnaked.org; to get the free CD replace MF3 in the coupon code field with:
SD2 for 16 Nudes
SD3 for Self-Titled (Silver)
SD4 for Bell
(Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery)
Membership to Integral Naked is only $9.99 a month, and gives you full access to conversations with Ken Wilber, Zen Master Genpo Roshi, author Michael Crichton, Billy Corgan (lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins), Sara Bates, Deepak Chopra, Eddie Kowalzick (lead singer of Live), father Thomas Keating (a living saint if there ever was one…), Caroline Myss, and many many more.
New Episodes of STU TV will be added regularly. Join now to see Stuart singing show tunes naked in a hotel shower…
STU TV is here!
This entry was posted on Monday, June 14th, 2004 at 2:28 pm by Stuart Davis
MTV eat your heart out. On Monday, April 12th www.IntegralNaked.org launched its exclusive new series: STU TV: Life On The Road With An Unknown Star. Armed with one camera, two guitars, and multiple personalities, Stuart introduces us to the bizarre and beautiful World of life as a nomadic mystic. This regular new segment also features new written journals not available anywhere else, lyrics and previews of new songs, and slightly disturbing stories and montages from the Tao of Stu. Fans of Stuart’s old road journals will not be disappointed, and Integral Naked will be the only place you can put your eye to the keyhole.
Episode One is Banned In Canada, and follows Stuart on tour in the Pacific Northwest as he storms Portland, Seattle, and then gets
expelled from Canada for a year. The video, journals, and secret footage went live on www.integralnaked.org on Monday, April 12th,
and to celebrate the launch, the first 100 stuart fans to become members of Integral Naked get a FREE STUART DAVIS CD. Sign up is at
integralnaked.org; to get the free CD replace MF3 in the coupon code field with:
SD2 for 16 Nudes
SD3 for Self-Titled (Silver)
SD4 for Bell
(Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery)
Membership to Integral Naked is only $9.99 a month, and gives you full access to conversations with Ken Wilber, Zen Master Genpo Roshi, author Michael Crichton, Billy Corgan (lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins), Sara Bates, Deepak Chopra, Eddie Kowalzick (lead singer of Live), father Thomas Keating (a living saint if there ever was one…), Caroline Myss, and many many more.
New Episodes of STU TV will be added regularly. Join now to see Stuart singing show tunes naked in a hotel shower…