Hello friends,

Here's your official heads-up that I've posted a movie I made long ago on my manager's Youtube site. Manager's name is Paul Dalen and the film is called "The Beautiful World". If you go to Youtube and do a search it should come up. It's a sort of dystopic fairy tale that in no way resembles my musical tendencies. It won a bunch of awards in the NYU film festival back in '94 and was shot in the most severely blighted neighborhoods of NYC, like East New York and Bed-Stuy. I hope you enjoy it..

Link for Film: http://www.youtube.com/user/pauldalen (six part viewing)

We're about ready to release the Mama Lucky album that Tucker Martine and I co-produced. It's comprised of some especially off kilter songs that I wrote over the years that were deemed "too weird" to be on my "normal" albums. My friend Linda Delgado handles the vocals on this one and I play co-producer with Tucker (who produces big acts like The Decemberists and Bill Frisell and took on this project as a labor of love). Musically I do some remixing and play several different instruments and am joined by my friends Bishop Maples and Steve Ferry. Tucker lured several of his Seattle bandmates to play as well. It's a dark dreamy, trippy ride, for sure.


For those who are interested I'm working on assembling material for a show of my found art assemblages that will be appearing in a swanky art gallery in Dublin next summer. I been squirreling away weird objects that I dug out of dumpsters and found at yard sales and off beat places for years and now finally have a place to show it. If I can just figure out where I put that letter I have from a preacher to a porn star, pleading with her to come to the Lord. It reads like Summerset Maugham's "Rain".


I'm also gearing up for a tour of Australia with John Doe in March. I've done some shows with John in the past and always enjoy what he has to offer. Apparently we'll be playing a festival over there where I'll have to back up John, and vice versa. He's a crackerjack musician--knows hundreds of songs by heart, but me, I can't even remember how to play my own songs, much less someone elses.. I guess I'd better get to practicing.


Never a dull moment here in rural Georgia.


JW