Getting a little busier on the violinning side of things. Some of my activities these days:

1. Just did some recording with composer Chris Houston, for his score to the Aurora Theatre production of The Busy World is Hushed.  It's pretty violin-heavy. And pretty. That sawing noise you hear over the pretty music from the speakers during set changes? Me.

2. I'm playing a duo show with Odessa Chen next week in SF. Odessa is the haunting, ethereal singer-songwriter against whom all other haunting and ethereal singer-songwriters gauge their haunting-and-etherealness... and find themselves wanting. Come, and be etherically haunted.

3. Recently started playing in romantic-angst-popster Aaron Stone's band. While Aaron and the rhythm section are rocking out, breaking your heart, or both-at-the-same-time, I will be frantically hopping between the fiddle, the keyboard, and the second vocal mic. The comedy that ensues is entirely by design: it's there to keep the audience from spontaneously combusting while being emotionally pummelled by Aaron's ever-so-expressive wail and fine songcraft.

4. Emily Bezar's new record is nearly done, and the release show is next month. It's an epic of sound and fury and deep significance, and I'm proud to have been a participant in its creation. The live show will employ a small orchestra of monstrously talented musicians. I will be there with them if I can find my monster costume.

I am not, at this moment, obsessing about politics.