WIth Elmo

Of all the highlights in my career, I don't know of one more sentimental than getting to walk through Sesame Street. Yes, there seems to be somebody always standing right below Elmo and his friends, mouthing along to everything they're saying, but somehow I'm too filled with wonder to ever look at them. When you make contact with those big beautiful eyes, you're done. Five years old again. Life is good.

More on the Sesame Street special later. It's an important show to catch. Airs April 1.

Twitter. Maybe.

Twitter.

Still not convinced, but let's give the technology a go and see if/how we can make it organic... Heads up, I may drop it.

Heard this on the radio today, felt exactly like the day did.
What a great one.

Buffalo Springfield - "I Am a Child"

LP4

I don't want a developed web site right now. I'm not a developed artist. I mean, I was. three times now.

But to evolve you have to dismantle, and that means accepting the idea that nothing you've created in the past matters anymore, except that it brought you here.
To pick up your new marching orders.

I want to use a blog to truly tell you who I am.
I don't want to link to someone else's culture,
like a titanium dinette set with chairs that look like little tables and a table that looks like a giant chair.
That says nothing about me that I want you to know.

I want you to learn about me through the process of writing, recording and producing my fourth album.

I want to host an Open House for bright things and dark things, for lame jokes and sad chords, and for melodies that lift me off the ground.

I want to be less fun at parties, and find it hard to meet new people.
I want to be happier in the house than out of it.
I want to be fearless and remember not to compromise a thing, until the work is done and it's time to shorten it for the radio.

I want to be myself and shut the rest out. Except for the people I love. (This means you.)

Two things I'll be acknowledging more from now on...
1.Thank you.
2.I am lucky.

I'm writing my Battle Studies.
And this time you're coming with me.

LOVE
JM

Interfaith Baking, Issue 5: And The Winner(s) Is...

It looks like we have a tie... I couldn't decide which one of the following two cakes I liked better, so I've decided to give a JM Stratocaster each to...



JILL... who made a cake with a beautiful composition, delicious looking ingredients, and a nostalgic design. This one inspired the most holiday joy in me.



DANIELLE... the leg-lamp cake is clever, witty, well done, and gave a great laugh. This one was the talk of the town at the Mayer house.


Enjoy the guitars!!!

And to everyone who submitted a cake, both into an oven and to my blog, THANK YOU. I was blown away at the time you took to make such brilliant looking creations. Because of you I had the best holiday season since I was a little boy. I hope you all felt a little merrier for it, too.

Wishing you a happy, healthy and successful 2009...

With Love,
John