Beacon

Blog,

You are always there, like a patiently waiting dog, unlike the one that ripped my Vans last week.

So it's Friday (enter reason to celebrate here____________________).

or

Mad Lib...

I am very _______(adj) today because Friday is _____________(adverb) to be the ________ (adj) Friday ever.

I am very happy today because Friday is most likely to be the newest Friday ever.

My show is coming up and I am thrilled. Hopefully the 4 people that peep this blog will show up.

[Tangent] Do I ever have a thing to report? Is this a cheap thrill for my daytime self? Does this take away from my pen to paper writing? Well, this certainly isn't prose...

People say journalism is over, as are the physical newspapers, and the record industry and the lucrative i-bank jobs, and MTV, and retail, and our democratic government, and Yahoo...

Ok maybe not that last one, but where's the permanence? Who or what is our beacon of hope? Is Barack REALLY that hope? I am not saying he isn't, but really, what is on the up? Tech? No brainer... Concerts? Possibly. Grad school admission? YUP.

Maybe this really is what a recession dictates, substantial change and restructuring. Isn't that the name of the game anyway? Maybe my ears hear the junk out there, but certainly too many people hypothesize about what's dead instead of what's living.

And the beat goes on (and on and on and on...)

+DS

UPDATE: I neglected to mention that Friday is in fact alive. And Saturday. So is Sunday...

B.O.B.

Yello,

Chris Cornell's new album is awesome. a stretch at first, but yes.

So it's the birthday. 24 years complete. I did decide to celebrate it, albeit modestly, and I'm happy I did! Birthday's are inherently enriching. The ultimate upper. Great friends, great convo, peripheral family members chiming in. Fantastic.

I wanted to post some pictures from some wandering in BK this week. Perhaps I'm bonkers over brooklyn, but there's a reason why people love it so much. The strength of the community, the curiosity of each person there, the low decibel level! Sift through the hipsters and it's the place to be...

So I go, but below are photos.

+D

---


Metropolitan Ave G-L Stop

El Beit!!

The World Wide Web

But she don't care!

Help! dominates. The backing vocal on Help drove me wild in elementary school. Ok, uncool, I think that's two early school references in two days...

What did I learn today? Crunching numbers does nothing for credibility if it creates more variables and more room for error. Yeah, I guess I don't understand this whole, do as little as possible thing until some do-gooder makes a stance so that said person can get blamed were something to go wrong. If the numbers I crunched today pays off, people will think I was just doing my job. I get to start touring when? Yeah...

So I mentioned at the renaissance of this blog, I mentioned songs. I feel as though I will post one as soon as I can F-ing blink over here. Ok, so my lack of Internet MAY be a hindrance right now. Also, "Internet" is capitalized on the iPhone. SOOOO nerdy but I kind of love it.

Soy Milk,
Dexter

5--1

Conclusion in the house...

Blog, you're the one. I swear, I couldn't love another. You are a pair of jeans first worn. You are the sun at 5am in Miami. You're like french kissing for the first time, sexy but still wholly innocent.

To the point! Straight ahead drums forever please.

I want what works. It doesn't have to be normal, orthodox or avant-garde in it's fundamental nature just so long as it works it for me. As I said before, ice cream works for me right now. Short hair works for me right now. Hip hop works for me right now. Specifically Midnight Marauders or Beats Rhymes and Life. Or biggie. You'll most likely never see me "spit" my "flow," as evidenced by my quotes on said slang. But right now IT WORKS for me.

Will that work for you?

Thanks blog, I knew you'd understand.

A four day work week for America also works for me.

Con Cariño,
Dex Mex

ok.. so this is hilarious...

Point of Possible Hilarity #4:



So in case you need to clean your hands, this company has liquefied ALL OF NATURE into a plastic bottle to better serve YOU. Stop being so industrial, get some liquid nature!!

you can do what you want to do...

"in living color..."

Anyone into that show? I so was, watched it on FOX when it was out, I was like 8...

So hello! I'd like to report a spike in team morale and as of Sunday morning, could be Presidents Day, could be that valentines day is over, as is my TMing...

I sit in South Orange at my rival dinner spot, which is far inferior but has a slightly better vibe. Sting is on the radio. I felt inclined to stay in yesterday and write even though I'm dying to see Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road. There is/was quite the fuss about it and her.

The bigger picture:



No really, I will soon be out of this holding pattern, I promise. I am in extreme solitude out here but I'm working my pants off. I'd like to say this blog is to document my progress as a human being but its really that I just get bored and put myself on vocal rest...

My older brother Tiger is getting married in August. That scares me a bit. Not that I expect to be married anytime soon, it's just that it's so FINAL. He's OUT of the market. I suppose it solves a whole bunch of things in his life and lays the groundwork for many more complex features of this "ride" such as luxury seating, getting to and from places, and always having a passenger. I meanwhile find myself on a bike, with all my luggage strapped to my back. BUT I can leave the bike locked up for days on end for the sake of flexibility, even ditch it with no real consequences... Which reminds me, my bike is so at the train station and it's been there for at least 5 days. Real good.

Photos below from Lowell on Sunday...

Nothing Hilarious,
+D

---

lowell memorial auditorium:

strange speaker set in hallway:

Bjork Says:

"i'm no f'n Buddhist, but this is enlightenment..."

Valentine's Day

Hi,

While I'm listening to Bobbie D live from 1964 right now, in Lowell, I feel like I've been living the first 6 tracks of The Love Below for quite some time now, maybe a year or so.

When o when will I be able to say: "my love, you are allowed to suck at everything you do"

(that's not mine, hence the ")

Wide Open,
+D

It's "conquered"

Greetings from Concord NH!

New Hampshire is indeed the inverse on shape of Vermont, I KNEW you were thinking that...

The mini tour rages on, the guys had a great time last night. Went out and sang "Workin For a Livin" with Phil. Huey Lewis!

This will be brief but I MUST clue you into a PPH... Really PPH #3 contd...

We arrive in concord, it's SO cute, we roll up to White Mountain Organic Coffee, and I purchase a coffee and a vitamin water with my debit card. The nice girl with a D.A.R.E shirt on goes "oh Dexter? My favorite COP in town's last NAME is Dexter..." (?!) Ask and you shall receive! I forwent blabbing to her about this serendipitous cop motif on the weekend (I did tell Royal), and I am telling you my faithful reader.

Also, I have not been so comfortable in probably 12 months as I am this weekend. I do in fact sleep on a twin bed in my ex-Navy Uncle's house, though there's a queen in the next room (I don't actually SLEEP there...). I also keep the wireless Internet and tv at bay, all as a means of keeping myself more productive. So, needless to say, this onslaught of audio visual and OTA data is a bit of an overload! Really good to take a break from beating myself up in the grind. This is "work" though...

Blog conquered in Concord,

Dex

---


phil vassar:

the remote from my room. can you find the POWER button? yeah, the buttons for ORDER and MENU (which leads to ordering movies) are quite visible...

royal and eddie at "The Comfort":

Moral compasses

So Phil Vassar is pretty tight. Great band he's got. Really like what he's doing. Nice guy too!

Now, this is going to blow your mind a little bit. In fact, PPH #3...

If you're up to date and everything, or happened to read the last post, I've alluded to my general lack of knowledge into the world of the cops. So I'm up here aside gilette stadium, doing my thing at the show, and I find myself standing next to, who else? a COP. A very cool cop no less. His name is Scott (yes) and immediately launched into how nobody understands "cop humor" as he likes to kid with the people that come up and ask him all "official" questions. I guess people think cops are moral compasses, "will I have time to go out to my car wrote the show starts?" I mean, truly, thats a quote!

Truly lovely stuff. Above is a pic of me and Scott loving life.

I'm also running on m&ms from 3pm, a pepsi, a coors light, and a brownie. WTF.

Luckily the girth of the expedition I'm driving will make up for any safety lost by my malnutrition. I think.

Holding it down,

Dexter Scott

wah bus fung

all kinds of macro right now...

What's up CT? Remember me? Word, I do in fact recall your presence as a "state" and all. Nice boats you guys got here. Lots of trees too. Maritime aquarium anyone?

"things done changed" as the late Notorious once said. How have they remained the same? The sun still shines, I still think up rhymes and I still scratch my head when approaching the homestead...

Everyone passed OUT on this bus. I feel obligated as a human being to stay awake and absorb this (relatively) unique situation. I have the SAME thoughts, going to the SAME places, under the SAME routine for ages that I'll "stretch myself for new adventure" because I'm just that curious about life... Call that a crime!

I wonder how cops view the world. Do they take their job as seriously as their pop culture image would entail?

And by the way, does this blog confuse the sugar out of you? I realize it's entirely tangential and silly, but it whets MY whistle so hey...

Back to the cops... Do they get satisfaction from nailing people for speeding or just see it as a job? Again I know nothing about to cop field and would like to be clued in. Holler at me?

"sit up, 10 minutes" says this dude.

I say nothing and hit Publish.

Daytime Darkness

So unbeknownst to me, a fair amount of people take the train at 5am from South Orange... All of which are hardcore (except for me of course). Just SEConds after stepping onto the doubledecker I notice the extra chiseled face of man and woman, one of which, the man, had a freaking advertisement on the back of his laptop! This is officially a plug for "InStoreVision"... Point of Possible Hilarity #2:


Right now you may be asking yourself, "what in the heck is Dexter doing on that train so early? Is he hardcore? Cause he totally just said that he isn't. Is he trying to be a banker? Isn't that profession dead? And isn't he a burgeoning songwriter and performer anyway? What's the deal?"

Well, let me explain.. Amidst my journey to musical self-sufficiency, one has to "struggle" and while I am certainly not on my last legs, nor am I here by choice, I must in fact take a train, to the city, to the Fung Wah bus, to Boston, to hang with One Flew South, as they play dates with Phil Vassar, comma splice, comma splice.

I will note that Bjørk is along for the ride. She lives in my lap. OK that's a lie, just currently she does. Might I also add that she is the perfect soundtrack for daytime darkness. "it's not meant... to be... a struggle up here..."

I love you blog. I'm glad sex won't ever ruin our relationship.

Dexter





ps i make up words. k thanks

Photog

Yellow from Orange,

Again I kid, I have no internet in Orange. I'm reporting from my Downtown Manhattan Blog Center.

All is well? Ok cool. Details in visual form from my life in the past few days:

This is an ottoman in strange fashion. It looks as if it would be comfortable, but my legs fall asleep every time. Like, every time. Not comfy...


When I'm feeling naughty, I hang with my part time lover


the gaslight's charming dining room. they ALWAYS play classic beatles here, please please me and shizzz


highand avenue


stop for great late nights


mike the computer man and atley the gnome


scenic jersey from the train


my digitally converted tv, peep the antenna!

Steps

1 2 1 2



Two Penn Plaza is where I now sit. Aka "The Garden" to many. Such a Mecca for music and sports fans alike, a true embodiment of NYC and it's culture.

And how bout this weather? I joke because you're probably reading this at LEAST a week after I have written it, but when isn't it a good time to celebrate the weather... Anyways

Jennifer Hudson was so powerful last night at the Grammys. Probably the one time she'll be forgiven for not ripping a high note because she straight up couldn't HANDLE it. The poor woman has through so much.... So amazing she even got up there to sing in the first place.

And how bout Dave Grohl playing drums for Paul McCartney AND Kurt Cobain in a lifetime... Truly awesome for a pop musician.

So update time....

New songs will be posted on Sunday pending the weather... (joke). I'm not funny. Working on that Martin. We've been seeing each othe pretty regularly and I think it's picking up steam. I am on the rebound so I'd really like to take it slow, but there's just something about Martin that just DOES it for me. I mean, having 6 strings so beautifully laid across that fretboard.... mmm mmmm. We're gonna get married, I can tell. This is the ONE.

What? The land of the free?
Dexter

Iced cream

Hello,

Your faithful leader here. Yes I'm talking to myself.

Hello Reader,

How are you? I write from the left seat of a now vacant two seat row of a middle car on the Dover line out of Penn Station. I just took the outside seat due to a gentleman wanting to occupy the one vacant seat to my right, once again, cause I had to get up and let him out at the very first stop. "oh no man it's cool, I'm getting off at Secacus..." was not heard by these ears.

Then again he couldve said it because I'm being marauded by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, a record that is entirely worth your time. I promise.

What to report? Well, for one I bought ice cream last night and I couldn't be happier. I've also improved significantly on my acoustic chops, thus the reward of a cold pint of ben and jerrys. I was forced to get it at CVS given the hour I was destined to purchase it, so I had to get only half of my favorite flavour in Cookie Dough. And to my befuddlement, the only two flavours CVS, maybe just this CVS, stocks are Cookie Dough and Cherry Garcia. Are those the best sellers? No phishfood or chunkey monkey? Not that I dig on them, just wondering...

Also, point of possible hilarity, would be that at Newark Broad Street, the station I am currently "changing" at has a waiting room, unheated, that is the size of a key makers store, sits like 30 feet from the INTERSTATE... Not even JOKING about the aesthetics over at NJ Transit, they don't give a damn! Maybe I shouldn't either, but how bout some safety concerns over here... Oh wait... Look at that chickenwire fence over there.....niiiiice work guys...

So yeah, my commute rules. Will post photos in the morn.

Waiting for you,
Dexter

---
(am):I mean LOOK!

booked>>>>>>>>

v
v
v
v
v
v
sat march 7th at the annex
time tbd

v
v
v
v
v
v
v
thurs april 16th at the underscore
9pm

orange new jersey

greetings from new york city

wait, what?

yes, i live in orange new jersey.

i want to share with you a bit of my life of recording and celibacy...



my green light


my audience


my late night lover


my team


view from C deck




see it all here: http://tinyurl.com/arrscs

love you,

+d

Where I am

Yello,

This is a mobile blog mission. Seems to be OK thus far. Look at this punctuation!

I sit in a midtown starbucks contemplating the wonder that is, Stevie, while watching the rest of the tables enjoy their cups and devices. The usual scene for me in the past year actually, music selection included.

See I've been lost..., in a world all my own based solely on learning. For a time I wanted to learn strictly through the medium of a significant other and the saturation of people and places. I simply have realigned myself since leaving those relationships and feel as though I've emerged better for having gone through them, although I no longer keep such a high frequency of contact with them, and not to diminish their significance either.

Stevie!!!

Sorry... Sidetracked by greatness..

I want to communicate to you the reader, and really everyone else I will come in "contact" with for the forseeable future is that, "hey, I actually feel ok, maybe even great, and you know what?that's EXACTLY how I should feel!" too many people diminish others' happiness because they cannot have it for themselves. Suuuuuuuuuuuch a bummer!

I love being me and listening to stevie wonder all the time and staying in on the weekends to write record and play simcity. So there!

Call this the ebb to my past flow...

With love from a photo-less blog until someone makes a good app for the iPhone,

+Dexter

if i fell

booked>>>>>>>>

april 25th 7pm

v
v
v
v
v
v
v
v

http://nymag.com/listings/bar/169-bar/

the end is neeeeeear (sort of)

this is GREAT

alright, every 6 months...

well i WAS blogging on my former projects myspace....

hello. how are you? are you at work reading this? perhaps in the comfort of your own home or apartment. i myself am at "work" though, my real work lies within these lines here as well as in digitized sound (for now).

i am writing to wish you a very pleasant february. in fact, it is my most favorite month for a number a reasons. one being my day of birth, another being black history month, another being that cupid birthday or whatever...

but also i am writing you to let you in on a little secret...

i will have many new tunes for you very soon! a new project awaits and i hope you will embrace what i have created, as you have done so graciously before.

if you have no idea what i'm talking about you probably don't know i'm a musician, but that will definitely change VERY soon.



love,
+d