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WED MARCH 31, 2010 // BLUE SIX SETLIST

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

-A Song is Swallowed By a Fish (michael piano.)
-Your Child's Leaving Home (michael piano. nineteen seventies)
-I Have No Ring Around My Finger and Nowhere Else to Be (key of D. Play percussion if u don't know the tune)
-The Bluebird Canyon Road (half time verses, full time chorus, full time third and final verse.)
-Telling the Story of the Evening Sun (sparse. seeds in the wind.)
-There is No Need to Name the Moon (Michael plays intro. Band comes in slow. Builds to crescendo just before end of B section. Todd concludes.)
-The Dictionary is the Book of Love (Start lightly, let come what will)
-The Awakening Spirits Dream a New Day (front porch.)

Options for Extras:
-Translating the Birdsongs
-Each Creature Dreams a Peculiar Dream
-Coyote Recaptures the Stolen Jewell and Returns it to the Sea
-The Spellbound Traveler Loses All Possession
-Playing the Violin with Broken Strings
-When I Fall in Love with You Again

Michael MusikaMarch 31, 2010

SAT JAN 30, 2010 // ONE NIGHT MUSIC VIDEO PODCAST

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Michael MusikaJanuary 30, 2010

FRIDAY DECEMBER 25, 2009 // SPELLS RESEARCH

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Here is a passage I underlined while doing research for what a leader would say before being assassinated:

"I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect...Truth being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you understand that, then you will understand how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is a purely personal matter and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop the valley. If you would attain the mountaintop you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices. You must climb upwards to truth...I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality...The moment you follow someone you cease to follow the truth...I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free."

(-remarks from Krishnamurthi's address in 1929 in which he renounced being annointed by the theologically elite as a guru. I came across these words while reading: "Health, Healing & Beyond. Yoga & The Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya." by T.K.V. Desikachar with R.H. Cravens.)

Michael MusikaDecember 25, 2009

THURS NOV 12, 2OO9 // THE RICKSHAW STOP - INDIANNA HALE / QUINN DEVEAUX AND THE BLUE BEAT REVIEW / THE LOYD FAMILY PLAYERS

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

The Rickshaw Stop. 155 Fell St. 7:30PM

Indianna Hale. Michael Musika. Quinn Deveaux and the Blue Beat Review. The Loyd Family Players

Concert Photos by Patrick Wymore

The band for the evening was Sleepy Todd, Kacey Johansing, and Indianna Hale (singing), Eric Kuhn (piano and guitar), Dina Maccabee (violin and singing), Jesse Olsen (drums), Matt Adams (bass), Mike Perlmutter (saxophone), Darren Johnston (trumpet), Joshua Sirotiak (tuba), and Jeff Giaquinto (trombone).