2008

Apocalypse Not

Posted by stuart davis 23Sep

I grew up during the cold war. I was also raised in a fundamentalist Christian family. This combination provided strong values, community, and a crippling fear of Armageddon. I'm not sure exactly when I became convinced the World might end tomorrow, but it could have been around the time my mother told me, "The World might end tomorrow."

I was twelve.

Thanks, USA Today!

Posted by stuart davis 26Feb

The new album is in stores March 25th. In today's issue, USA Today ran a teaser saying the first single Already Free "shimmers with pop savvy." -Elysa Gardner / USA Today

Glee
http://www.answers.com/glee
Lively joy, gaiety, merriment.
Shawn Mullins

Top 20 Spiritual Pop Songs

Posted by stuart davis 09Feb

My top twenty fav spiritual pop songs as of today:

20. King Of Pain / Police

Favorite Lines:

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

19. One Of Us / Joan Osborne

Favorite Lines:

Mystagogue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystagogue
One who initiates or counsels others in mystical matters

¿What

Posted by stuart davis 08Feb

What's what is
we're gonna make a million
A million what?
A million what?

What's more,
we're to do it for the children
The children's what?
The children's what?

¿What lit up
the lamps and candles
till the sparks were
scattered in the sky

Is it ¿What we can feel
in the beat of an open heart?
or ¿What we leave
buried in a question mark?

¿What is kicking
at the bottom of a casket
I wanna save It
but I'm too afraid to touch It

Stuart Davis

KBCO / Already Free

Posted by stuart davis 05Feb

It's official. Yesterday at about 4pm KBCO played my single Already Free as part of their New Music Monday. So it begins. First station in the World to play the single! It would be hard to overstate my excitement. I literally squeeled like a field mouse when I heard the news, and spent a good hour bounding around the house. Could there be any better way to start the week? The single and album went out to radio last week, and this news put a perma-grin on my face all day.

Salvediction
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cics/opticon1826/Volume1Issue1/TableOfContents/salvediction
A greeting upon meeting
Depeche Mode

No More Either / Or

Posted by stuart davis 04Feb

I sit on the roof at night and stare into the stars. Is that cliche', because billions of people have done the same over the last million years? Or maybe the momentum of all that focus makes the experience more powerful?

Macrotous
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/weird/ears.jpg
Having large ears
Howard Jones

Tour Dates Coming Soon

Posted by stuart davis 30Jan

I'm happy to say in the next few days I'll be posting confirmed concert dates for spring. I'll be with a full band for all shows, and we will be in these cities on the first leg of the tour in March:

Minneapolis
Duluth
Milwaukee
Madison
Rockford
Chicago
Des Moines
Iowa City
Omaha

I'm quite excited to be back on stage. More soon!

Peradvertence
http://books.google.com/books?id=pILuGwYv5JYC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=Peradvertence&source=web&ots=xnHydj10HZ&sig=ioQJxCCAwd_LVR-DLmyE3tLwmJ4
Extreme care in attention
Willy Porter

I Ate Some Glass

Posted by stuart davis 29Jan

Yesterday I was helping my wife unload groceries. We dropped the bag with olive oil and pistachios. The glass bottle of olive oil hit the pavement and broke, soaking the pistachios. I love pistachios. AND olive oil. I knew we could not salvage the spilled oil, but I saw no reason to throw out those nuts.

Sorbile
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/how-olive-oil-works-3.jpg
Liquid (and therefore drinkable)
Matthew Sweet

The Focus

Posted by stuart davis 25Jan

It's 3am. Can't sleep. I wouldn't say I have insomnia. Just went to bed at 10 and woke up at 3. Woke up after dreaming of Egypt. Thousands of years ago.

Why?

Xenagogy
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenagogy
A guidebook for visitors or strangers
The Fray

Carpenters Crush The... (insert your favorite band here)

Posted by stuart davis 22Jan

It's Carpenters, by the way. Not "the" Carpenters. Just Carpenters. And yes, they thought about it. A LOT. Let's honor their choice. Carpenters. Maybe your 'fraidy cat band needs a definite article to pave the way for their moniker, but not Carpenters. Their name stands free, unqualified. It's that strong.

Carpenters.

Mordacious
Biting or inclined to bite
Carpenters

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