I Love Your Bones.

Omg- I literally cannot remember how to play “Favorite” anymore. FUCK.

RT @BradTrent: @LexLand goes to ‘Havana’ on the Song of the Day… http://tinyurl.com/4lhp2mh

Hi Tumblrers…

If any of you, or someone you know, are interested in CHEAP singing lessons (in person if you live in Austin, TX or near it, or) via Skype- get in touch with me! I’m looking to take on a few entry-level voice students (at super-affordable rates) to get some experience in running a small voice studio.

Would be great for younger kids or adolescents wanting to get a feel for how to use their voices correctly (and possibly accompany  themselves on the guitar or ukulele) or for more established vocalists seeking to develop their vocal endurance, tone, and style.  I’ll haply send you more info on my background and rates if you email me directly at: lex@lexland.net

It would be especially helpful, and would expedite the process, if you include your contact information and what specifically you’re seeking to gain from some voice instruction so we can come up with a plan that’s right for you.

Thanks, beauties! Pass this along to any folks you think might be intrigued…

<3

Bright Eyes. Free. Fireworks. Supermoon. Bliss.

Just got a VIP pass free to Foo Fighters at Stubb’s… Then immediately headed to my favorite speakeasy- got in for free and got my first drink free… So happy to be home in Austin, Tx!!!

Maybe it was wrong of me
To want someone just as self-effacing
Or maybe I am in fact
Just a smear of black
Only fit for erasing.
But I hoped that ghosts could see ghosts-
That a blank-page to blank-page kiss
Could mean the most.

Maybe in time I’ll find
A point where I can draw the line
And not let my HurricaneHeart’s wave
Sweep it violently away.
Although this water only wants to make things grow,
Its ebb and flow upon a stone
Only corrodes.

It’s the same old thing in a different key,
“Why not me? Why not me?”
Still 5 years to go til Saturn’s return
I’ll let the question burn
I’ll have to let it burn.

Maybe there’ll be an afterglow
Where the side of me you see won’t be my shadow
Even if I’m at best a spectre of white,
It’s at least the spectrum of all color at once combined.

If you can make it through the gate
And not just evaporate
And if my Endless woe you might abate-
Then for you I vow I’ll wait.

If you can fathom my unearthly station,
Yet still behold me, void of trepidation,
Or care to spare a moment of shared elation -
Then I’ll swear I can be patient.

But if it’s due to your weak resolve
That you simply must dissolve,
Or sink into the Swamps of Sadness of my sway,
Then I’ll look toward some other day,
Where some unknown courageous Cavalier
can with unsheathed weapon the thorned thickets clear
And bestow a kiss upon this frozen Miss and the shroud of fog from her labyrinthine scene shift…

For so many sailors who forgot to steer
Have left me quite marooned down here-
So, please, good sir, be bold at those Tragic Gates,
So this Siren and her Sailor
Might share their happy fates.

Was just within walking distance of the Califa house… Gettin lost on the way to the pharmacy landed us flippin a bitch in the parking lot of my old regular liquor store. Funny how if I still lived in LA I probably wouldn’t think it the mythical place it’s come to be for me.

Singing jazz standards, with the illustrious Kevin Lovejoy on piano, tonight in Austin, TX at my favorite speakeasy @SwanDiveAtx !!!