It’s about damn time

seriously. it’s been, like, a month. and it has been a crazy month. i might have to go backwards.

this past sunday, may 4th, i was lucky enough to host the 3rd sailing of the 3 Hour Tour!!! This is an amazing event put on by the Music Hub (www.myspace.com/themusichub), which features about a dozen incredible local and national singer/songwriters. And everyone gets on a boat and we cruise around Newport Beach for an afternoon. now, i was a performer on the 2nd 3 Hour Tour, and just a passenger on the first one, but this time i got to be emcee. and i got to announce some amazing people such as: ehren ebbage, sonia leigh, aaron beaumont, dawn thomas, joey ryan, amber rubarth, shane alexander, chris pierce, jay nash, tyrone wells, ernie halter, and josh hoge. and i think i was really holding it together, being professional and all, and then dawn thomas handed me a double maker’s mark neat, and, well, um, i may have gotten a wee silly. but i’m pretty sure that everyone there had a super-fun time. i had a great time!!!

and the night before that:

do you know about JACKIE TOHN? do ya? well you should. top friends-check her out. well, miss tohn and i had communicated via myspace a time or 2 in the past, i attended her cd release show at hotel cafe a month or so ago, wrote her a message commending her for her mad skillz, and then i ran into her in a trader joe’s. she was advising an elderly woman on the ripeness of melons. i said, ‘hey, you’re jackie tohn,’ and it’s been on since then, pretty much. well, jackie tohn played at genghis cohen last saturday, and she let me sing a song or 3 with her. it was pretty wonderful. you’ll be seeing more of the jackie & jes. oh yes.

let’s go back to last week:

TREY LOCKERBIE and i wrote a super-sweet song! we had played a couple nights previous at cafe muse and did some harmonious harmonizing, and decided to take a shot at writing. and it proved to be a good thing. you have got to check him out (top friends-duh). he’s great and stuff, but it’s a shame about that face of his…

um, let’s go back to today:

yeah. i am sooo excited to tell you that i posted a new song today. it’s called ‘these words.’ if you have approximately 3 minutes, i’d love it if you gave it a listen and let me know what you think! it’s pretty lo-fi, all recorded at home, but i think you can get the general idea. i think i like it. a lot.

big ups to patrick matera for doing the production, playing the guitars, bass, and loopy-loops. he’s also the one who made the videos for ‘mora the mermaid’ and ‘it all ends today.’ he’s in my top friends as paper airplane. you should check him out.

FAST FORWARD TO MAY 27TH:

oh my goodness i am playing a FULL-BAND SHOW AT HOTEL CAFE ON MAY 27TH AT 9PM!!! not only that, but i am playing the set right after BRENDAN JAMES!!! that’s all i’m going to say.

higgity-bliggity-bloggity-blue.

jes