Melissa Ann Sweat (words/music on vox, keyboard, glockenspiel, accordion, and found instruments)
Influences
tom waits, aimee mann, anita o'day, sparklehorse, joanna newsom, smog, mount eerie, vashti bunyan, joe henry, yo la tengo, guided by voices, nico, patti smith, gillian welch, tindersticks, spiritualized, st. vincent...
sylvia plath, emily dickinson, anne sexton, nathaniel hawthorne, john steinbeck, henry david thoreau, dave eggers, joy harjo, jim welch, joan didion, charlotte bronte, roald dahl, anton chekov, soren kierkegaard, susan orlean
margaret kilgallen, diane arbus, kenneth anger, krzysztof kieslowski, werner herzog, cristo and jean claude, philippe petit, miranda july, richard linklater, john waters, jim jarmusch
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the eternal feminine.
having a room of my own.
Making and singing my own songs is a recent discovery for me. Creating is not. I have drawn and painted since I was a child, and have written (poetry, essays, stories) for almost as long. Now, I suppose I'm trying to fly.
I have been down and up; lately, mostly up.
Most of the time, I live in reality with a stubborn buffer of imagination/emotion. I like to be at home as often as can, with tea, creating. I like the woods. I like being alone. I like sharing and talking about creative processes with friends. I am lucky to know such giving people. I like to tell it slant. I look clean, but curse like a sailor.
I like characters, they seem to be drawn to me. I collect "crazy people," I say lovingly (b/c I am one).
Sometimes I feel like a mill house, a mole; my creative fuel is the stuff of life. That's just how I process living. That's how I live.
I've seen a bit of this country, driving, flying, by train ("ah, the best way"), and have fallen in love with it. I'd like to see more though--and over again. I want to see the world. I'd live twice, but know enough to make this one count.
try to catch me before I singe my glittering Icarus wings.
>>> "home recordings" ep availalble at www.cdbaby.com/llazarus
>>>>> booking, press, & other inquiries: missmelissasweat@aol.com
My attempts to create an Open at the Mama Buzz Cafe have failed. The will be no open mic at the Mama Buzz cafe. The "Every Second Sunday" open mic has been double booked for the second month in a row. It is clear I'm not suited to be the host of an open mic. Thank you all for your interest and support. My sincerest apologies to all musicians poets that hoped and even planned for this open mic.
hey there Lady L! Thanx for the add!Appreciate it! Wish you an awesome monday and all the best! Regards from Merlin's Company "Beware of the armadilloes whose dark shadows sweeps the streets" ..
I am holding a 4-string instrument from Thailand. Someone brought it back from there as a gift. Not much music came out of it but it sure looks interesting. I'm on Bethany Curve in Santa Cruz and the garbage can just happened! Glad you like it. I always thought this one captured something essential about Tom Bone.....hehe!!
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