July 17, 2005
Cranberry, PA

At Motel 6... encore. Soooo sleepy again, but at least no odeur de wet doggy this time. Adventures have been seriously good- and highly adventurous. Left the holler this morning en route back to my home and native land. Yayyy Canada. Spent the last week at Paul Reisler and Julie Portman's Songcamp intensive in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I had the most incredible time, learned absolutely tons and met the most amazing people. Wrote some damn fine songs too... I highly recommend this experience for songwriters of all levels. It was so good for me! Next stop: Torontonia for a little Canada AM morning television... and I ask- why can't morning television be on in the afternoon? ... Zz z z z z z z z z z z z 

At the Blue Ridge School for boys... (don't ask)

July 4, 2005
Gid Brown Hollow, VA

All is well in the little cabin in the holler. A hot and lazy Fouth of July with the buzzing bees and the blowing breezes and the gurgling swamp monsters in the nearby pond. No communal fireworks display tonight in this neck 'o the nowhere woods! So we had to go buy our own like true rednecks and set 'em off ourselves in the back forty... Mmmm pretty sparkles. !(*)!

A hazy dazy 4 o' July in the holler... more photos

In Jeffersonton, VA... more Virginia self-portraits here!

June 26, 2005
Cranberry, PA

Tooo sleepy to write.... Motel 6 smells like wet doggies. Forgot how much I love television... xo nighty-night

June 25, 2005
Chicago, IL

I've been having such an amazing weekend in Chicago. This city is happening! Besides the over-the-top torturous traffic congestion (which in the 101 degree armpit-of-the-universe heat is reasonably unbearable) I've been having such fun exploring the city. Had a fabulous "Women With Guitars" show at the Abbey Pub on Friday night and met some truly fine and talented ladies. On the other side of the club the Easy Star All-Stars were playing and kickin' it up big time! I never even thought I liked Reggae but these guys certainly changed my mind. For their second set they played the entirety of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" à la exceptional reggae. It didn't even remotely suck. I loved it. Other highlights of the weekend were Neiman Marcus hat shopping and the Taste of Chicago- the city's annual outdoor food festival. I ate some superfine crab cakes and seafood gumbo... yum. And drank some truly heinous Budweiser-made beer -Don't try that at home. Will be heading off Virginia-bound in the morning... yayyy remote mountain nothingness and no traffic! Gotta make it cross the whole blasted Ohio turnpike first tho. But I know there will be Cracker Barrel hash brown casserole somewhere on the way and that will make it all eternally worthwhile....

At the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park, Chicago... more photos

 
101 Degrees in the traffic jam... more photos 

June 16, 2005
London, ON

Home sweet home... So glad to be here for some resting and eating and cleaning before I yet again hit the road. And thank the universe, our recent painfully stifling Southwestern Ontario heat wave has finally broken! My brain is once again officially functioning and that is very helpful to the cause of getting work done. I've just posted a whole slough of Europe photos from my ongoing self-portrait series... check them out here! I'm around Ontario for the next week and a bit and then off to Chicago for some Women with Guitars action. Then down the the Virginia holler... Gonna lock myself in a cabin in the middle of the beautiful nowheres for a while and work hard on finishing some new-album writing. Yeehaw! New album! It's getting closer to existing every single day... I'll keep you updated... xoxo K

The Master

May 20, 2005
Paris

Adieu Paris. I have had the very best adventure ever. Spent my last night here enjoying the sweet sounds of Lotus (you gotta say it with a French accent..."Lotou!") at my favourite bar I found in all of Paris- Le Connétable. The first night I found this place I was wandering about the Marais after going to "La Nuit des Musees" at the French archives -They lit up all the museum exhibits with coloured lights, black lights and other various Rave-y madness and let all the Saturday night street goers wander through... with live DJs and all! I got to see Napoleon's hat- Anyways, Le Connétable is a true real-thing beamed out of the 1920's artsy philosophizing speakeasy joint that sucked me in like a giant horseshoe shaped magnet in the sky. It's the kind of place where the seriously talented cute boys (all Johnny Depp-like in "Chocolat") rock out on the ragtime guitar in a stairwell till the crack of bleedin' dawn in the drippy drippy carved out stone cave bar basement like we're all gonna die tomorrow or something. There was even bad wine, French intellectual conversation, and the whole nine yardage, man. I think I might just have to move here.

But I am indeed really looking forward to my bed... and my dog... and not having to speak French if I don't want to... 

At the Hotel de Sejour, Paris

May 17, 2005
Paris

Tonight- oh!!!!! I got to go see Jean-Paul Poletti & La Choeur de Sartène sing their nouveau-Gregorian majestic chanty resplendentness in the unparalleled glory of Ste-Chapelle cathedral. I wept in awe. I LOVE Paris.

With the moon and Ste-Chapelle cathedral... more photos