:: mike errico diary ::

:: Monday, May 31, 2004 ::

Cornell graduation

My sister Melanie graduated Cornell this weekend, I was up there with the family, walking those crazy hills, watching her friends fire potato guns into the lake. In case you don't know how to make one, here you go.

Congratulations, girl. NYC will be more fun with you here.


:: mike 11:52 AM [+] ::

the WBAL Baltimore Five o'clock news piece apparently came into the label today. so psyched to see it. little kids, sitting around, singing every note of "god" and "someday"... too good to believe.


:: mike 5:43 PM [+] ::

at a coffee shop this morning, someone asked me the last CDs I bought.

1) the walkmen - bows and arrows
2) mercury program - a data learn the language
3) paul mcCartney - RAM (i think it's the record he made after the beatles ended)
4) morphine - best of morphine

playing them over and over and over and over...
:: mike 12:01 PM [+] ::

NYC

Benefit for the Lightning Strikes Theater Company, with several actors, singers, including Mary Lee Cortes, again. Funny, never met her, now it's twice in a week. She's cool, I like her work. Turns out I know her husband, producer Eric Ambel. Alt rock guy.

variety show style, bad sound, but good crowd. i'll take it.

played:
springtime
daylight
happy
:: mike 8:47 PM [+] ::

god bless christopher walken

god bless the cowbell
:: mike 12:01 PM [+] ::

writers in the raw, asbury park, nj

w/val emmich, mary lee cortes, patrick fitzsimmons

asbury is hilarious. i love it there. it's always raining on the clowns' faces that are peeling off the walls along the beachfront. they drip in a sad way, and the streets are almost completely empty and shining.

harry's roadhouse was different, though. it's very new looking, and the place was full. people have been hearing 'grace' on WBJB, so it was great to give it to them live.

i passed the Saint, and a big ol' tourbus was parked outside, violating a major rock rule: never arrive in a vehicle bigger than the venue you're playing.
:: mike 11:55 AM [+] ::

WTMD Concert in the Park Series

One of the greatest days I've had in a long time. I hope to get a gallery of shots together for it. WBAL picked up the story of a school that's been singing my stuff. I can't put into words how great it felt for me to hear a class of 3rd graders singing along with me to "someday" and "god"

THE NEWS LINK
:: mike 1:01 PM [+] ::

wolf trap, DC with da vinci's notebook

these guys are a lot of fun. they travel the comedy circuit, mostly, and do a lot of a cappella. they have a morning show hit called "enormous penis" and have cracked the code on how to find an audience. i have a lot of respect for that.

we sang "shook me all night long" together. fun.
:: mike 12:58 PM [+] ::

state college with matt nathanson

great guy, great show. i hope to play with him in the future again.
:: mike 12:57 PM [+] ::

someone smashed my front windshield with a 2 x 4 the other day. how do i know it's a 2 x 4? because it was left next to the car, along with a pointy 80s shoe.

some one-shoed junky too weak to break the glass with his best shot is now on my shitlist. if you see him, beat his ass.

thank you

m
:: mike 12:56 PM [+] ::