Heya folks!
Here’s the second installment of our video series! It’s also an original tune that will be featured on the forthcoming album Weeds & Wildflowers.
Have a listen, tell me what you think and please, share with your friends!
Enjoy~
EZ
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New Live Video! We Play for You.
Hey folks!
Ryan and I are pledging to give you music for your earholes and eyeholes once a week, every week until the forces of nature make me a liar. But even that will only be temporary(maybe). Hopefully, with practice, these videos will become more and more solid and start to include some of our talented and generous friends. Maybe even YOU can help out! If you want(pleeeease!).
Here be the first installment! It’s one of my favorite songs to perform. Please, enjoy and share to your hearts delight!
Our next live performance will be at Harbin Hot Springs on May 24th. Come up to enjoy the pools during the day. In the evening, we will perform your faces off!
ALSO! The next Emily Zisman album, Weeds & Wildflowers is headed to the presses! We are sooooo close.
Until then, enjoy the videos!
Sociopathy at Pebble Beach
Back here, on the beach
where we fed chicken bones to the seagulls.
Where we made love and set fires and
got stoned among the dunes.
Fished hermit crabs out of
seawater and fed them to the anemone.
We were teenagers.
We were assholes.
but we were free.
Emily and Ryan join Marty Atkinson for a Bazaar Jam!
Mark your calendars for Friday, March 21st! We are excited to be sharing some original tunes at the famous Bazaar Café on California Street in San Francisco.
5927 California St, San Francisco, CA 94121
(415) 831-5620
Check out the digs and the eats: http://www.bazaarcafe.com/
In a rare, acoustic appearance, Ryan and I will be trading off half hour sets with the insanely talented Mr. Marty Atkinson.
He’ll be joining us, we’ll be joining him….We will aim to jam your face off. OFF!!
You can tell us whether or not we succeeded at the end of the show.
Show starts at 7:30pm but make sure to get there early as it’s a fairly small room with limited seating. We will sing you songs until about 9:30pm, so plan to tuck in!
There will be some new songs, some old songs and a pant-load of excitement building around the upcoming release of the second Emily Zisman album.
Come! See us! We miss you so.
It Will Be Dark (A Metamorphosis)
These words that stick out
little mysteries
They lodge
In my craw and bite
Back
Curious clues at first
Impotent
I sit with them
Until they majestically unfurl themselves ornate
Opaque passages.
Too terrible to avoid
Too insistent to ignore
And treacherous to traverse
But traversable they are.
However sheer and impassable they feel.
It will be dark.
Upcoming Gigs!
A bevvy of exciting performances on the horizon! Hope to see you at any or all of them.
Saturday, October 19th
Emily Zisman Acoustic Solo
Wine Pickup Party for Velo Vino
Cindy Pawlcyn’s Wood Grill & Wine Bar
641 Main St. St. Helena CA
1pm-4pm
Saturday, November 2nd
Americano Social Club FAMILY RUCKUS!
Club Deluxe
1511 Haight St, San Francisco
9:30pm-1am
$5 cover
Thursday, Novermber 7th
Special Appearance with Grand Avenue Soul
The Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
8pm
$7-12 sliding Scale
21+ only
Friday, November 8th
Americano Social Club FAMILY RUCKUS!
Café Revolution
9:30pm-12am
Free!
Saturday, November 16th
Fillmore Poster Room
7pm
With purchased of a ticket to see the Fillmore act: Beats Antique
Mark your calendars and come on out!
Love to you.
9/11 non-song
I didn’t feel as close to the fire as I actually was.
So I never realized how burnt I had become.
I was removed by a polarizing lack of loss. Suddenly a tourist in my own city as it crumbled around me. After it had been built before me. Without me.
This ire wasn’t mine.
I still don’t notice the char until I’m reminded by the date.
The month and day have acquired a mute reverence
More hollowed than the monotonous mark of the passing of time.
I never felt the heat of rage. But I did sink.
There was a terrible fall. There was damage.
There is now a thick layer of scar I cannot penetrate for excavation.
I tried to write about it. I tried to sing about it.
But I felt impertinent waxing poetic about a fire I didn’t feel.
Songwriting wasn’t the way in. It may never open for me that way.
I am waiting for the sting.
still waiting to feel the glow. The heat. Anything other than sheer weight.
Just to be able to write an honest word.
September Gigs!
Heya Folks!
It has been an eventful month. I’ve returned from a two-week jaunt in Ireland after falling head over heels in love with it. It’s one of the more vibrant and engaging places I’ve been in a long time. The incomparable Ryan Avery joined me for the first half of the journey and even sat in on some traditional music sessions in a few of the local pubs. Needless to say, he fit right in. I even managed to finagle my way into one performer’s blues session.
I know.
I’m incorrigible.
In any case I’m looking forward to getting back in the swing of things!
Here’s the lineup for September:
Saturday, Sept 7th
The Americano Social Club FAMILY RUCKUS!
Club Deluxe
1511 Haight St (between Clayton St & Ashbury St) San Francisco, CA 94117
9:30pm-1am
$5 door charge
*Special Note! I will not be at the Club Deluxe Ruckus in October due to a travel conflict. Come out to this one in order to stave off the withdrawals!
Tuesday, Sept 10th
Rich and the Rhythm Roustabouts @ The Dancer’s Den
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Ave (between Ellsworth St & Dana St) Berkeley, CA 94704
8:30pm-11:00pm
Dance Entry Fee
Friday, Sept 13th
The Americano Social Club FAMILY RUCKUS!
Revolution Café
3248 22nd Street, San Francisco 94110
9:30pm-12:30pm
Free
Friday, Sept 27th
Grove Valve Orchestra Benefit for Devoted to Children!
CLIF Bar Headquarters
1451 66th St. Emeryville CA 94608
info: https://www.facebook.com/events/523395367735586/?ref=22
get tickets! http://d2cbenefit.eventbrite.com/
See you at a Ruckus or dance venue soon!
Glory Hole
The vagina is under a microscope.
It’s being prodded by shallow precepts.
The tools are clumsy and stickily sharp.
The stakes are life and death.
My vagina is not a glory hole
It’s not a place to pray.
You can come inside if you want to
But I must insist that you stay.
It’s not yours to testify against
It’s not yours to undermine
It can give you a brand new set of laws
If you can sacrifice some time.
This can mean war if you insist on war
swinging your pious pens about, like swords
suturing laws with calculated ignorance
And baby, those are fighting words. In our defense
So God got it backwards, did he?
In his flawed, omnipotent perfection.
While he gave men the desire to take lives,
He gave women the power to make them.
Icarus Ascending
(For Paul)
10 years after leaving you alone on Staten Island
you are still
Grounding me.
Allowing me the wings that I’ve spouted to
Carry me over your
Old, familiar landscape
Without ever an “I told you so”
“That’s enough altitude.”
“Make a U-turn at the dead end.”
Gracious as you are in your gift of flight, you are equally as
attentive to my detail.
A reticent yet routine visitant to my stunted world view.
A benefactor without intrusion. You allow me to transcend atmospheres.
In my own time.
If there was a way to thank you for your
Benevolent buoyancy, I’d beg of you to surrender that.
I’d do my best to soar
Not too close
Not too far