Sunshine Jones – August 2007 Chart
Here’s my chart for August: Main Thing Modern Stalking – Lovebirds Milk – Dusty Kid Depth – Deeper Mix – Deep 6 Syndicate Whispers – The RASE (Ron Allen) Force of Nature – Buck Remix – Sublevel Elem – Kiko Navarro Remix – Dazzle Drums Hope – Studio Apartment Can […]
S. Jones: Chart July 2007
In no order of priority, or favorites… Tim Fuller – Get Out Joris Voorn – Blank Dennis Ferrer – Touched the Sky featuring Mia Tuttavilla – Yass Dubstramental Soda Inc. – Night Fever – Jon Silva’s Babe A Pella Gennaro Rossi – Cloe – Electro House Mix Mood II Swing […]
Sunday Soul NYC: Residence: July 29th 2007 New York City
Sunday Soul NYC : Residence Join me in person at club LOVE in New York for the July 29th Edition of Sunday Soul The debut of Sunday Soul NYC Resident DJ’s Hanik (Club 5, DC) and Neil Aline (APT, NYC) will join me from 6pm until 8pm for an open […]
Sunday Soul Comes of Age
It’s looking more and more interesting for Sunday Soul lately. A few weeks ago I did an intimate broadcast from the balcony of a friend’s house which went beautifully. This past weekend I broadcast the program from the rooftop of Club Five in Washington DC and it was absolutely unhinged […]
S. Jones : June Chart 2007
In no particular order… Reel Soul – The Warning LSB – Rodando a Carmen Manuel Tur – Acorado Microstar – 500 Degrees – Sunshine’s broken re edit Agoria – Les Violons Ivres Clarisse Muvemba – Roses – Bangana Remix Dennis Ferrer – Transitions – Sunshine’s extended version Kadena – Kawabata […]
Seven Tracks in Seven Days
My new album is just an itch away from hitting the shelves of your local record store, and the splash pages of beatport, and iTunes. After seven days of recording, and then nearly two years of preparation, promotion, an initial Japanese release and tour, this lost love letter (or is […]
tonight in san francisco, and some other stuff about my internal process and growth as an artist.
I’m playing tonight with Doc at Remedy in San Francisco. Eric Sharpe is opening up at my invitation, and I agred to play the middle set. Everyone I know is included, and it looks like it’s gonna be a great show. I’m excited, pacing around my flat fussing. Time to […]
The Swedish Girl
It was tuesday, new people always come on tuesdays. A sea of people, pale and overweight were waddling off the purple and lime green striped busses and worrying about their luggage. Brown skinned hotel staff in off white uniforms were briskly ushering the new arrivals from the stone entrance into […]
Where were you in the summer of 1981?
I know many of you were either not born, or perhaps you were playfully running around in huggies (and bless your heart) but I was playing junkie punk rocker with no feelings by day (all day every day,) and testing out eyeliner and deep blue eye shadow, textured scarves and […]
Till Human Voices Wake Us
I was bitter about this for years. No other poem had more of an impact upon my young, and romantic mind that The Wasteland, which is actually a collection of poems, and has nothing to do with those horrible Cats. The yearning of a budding intellect, broken before its time, […]
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Personal Notes: I live with the thought, and the study of Dr. King all year long. No hero of mine means more to me. Few approach the level of love, graditude, and humility which overwhelm me as I consider the depth, and beauty of this man’s great work. Every year […]
MOD: lonesome american memoirs
chapters: 1, 2, more to come… Chapter One Mike’s Not a Punk Anymore In the spring of 1981 things were going great. Punk rock was enjoying a kind of revival. Just a few months before it kinda seemed like things were coming to a close. The clubs were closing up, […]
New Year’s Eve 2006
Doc Martin, Mark E. quark and me, Sunshine have agreed to get together in Southern California on December 31st and lay down something deep, live, refreshing and personal. I am honored and delighted to get back together with my friends Martin and Mark and build something wonderful for the year’s […]
Los aguas curativas de el templo de Marques de Dos Aigues
The man climbed all the way to the top of the mountain and stood before the broad wooden door of the temple. He closed his eyes tight against the sun rise and felt the grit of dried sweat, and fine dirt in the folds of his eyes. He raised his […]
Fail Fast
A new aspiration I have undertaken in my life is the idea of failing fast. When I have a concept, or a plan, typically I nurture the idea, treating it like a delicate seedling, and fostering it’s development despite immediate response, or out right rejection. Some call it flogging a […]
Goodnight, and get out!
For years Dirk and his various partners (notably Malloy, Miller and Klein) took the brunt of the frustrations of young people who couldn’t come to grips with the rules. Things like hours of operation, the end of a show, the price of entry, or the legal drinking age. I’ve seen […]
Let’s leave the quiet desperation to the capitalist dogs, shall we?
…If I can’t dance then I don’t want your revolution… Emma Goldman is commonly misquoted as having said this wonderful line. According to the Anarchy Review she never said anything of the sort, but she did come close by expressing that ultimately preaching to the cause soon becomes a drag, […]
Great Big Bear
Once upon a time there was a bear. He was a great big bear, and he lived in a cave by himself. He liked his cave very much. There was just about everything a great big bear could need in there. He had a warm fire, a clear stream of […]
Fear and Love went out shopping for pants
Fear and Love went shopping for new pants together. They both needed pants desperately. Fear hated to shop, and felt there was never anything that fit right, or looked good in the stores. Love was crazy about shopping, and always wanted to buy everything on the racks. Fear hadn’t considered […]
une chanson pour les pierres
He came every day. Before sunrise he would wake and dress in silence. Kissing the muslin wrap and whispering prayers, he carefully pulled the turban into place on his head. He packed his flute, a few crusts of bread, a bottle of pomegranate juice mixed with water, and a pouch […]
The Italian Woman
There was no way that she was going to marry Vittorio Amedeo. It was out of the question. So when his family raised a serious protest at his desire to marry her on the grounds that she was the daughter of a tailor, and not a woman of breeding or […]
The Czechoslovakian Chauffeur
Jan hated to drive. His brothers had convinced him, the only member of his family with sufficient eye sight for operating a vehicle of any kind, to apply for a license. He had passed, and received his documents with ease. The family beamed and gathered to discuss their collective triumph. […]
The Czechoslovakian Count
The Count was upset about the Italian woman. He had only agreed to be nice, but this was getting out of hand. It was bad enough that the officials at the Hotel had shown him to the servant’s quarters and delivered his chauffeur to a palatial suite of rooms, but […]
Chocolate Cake
I The air inside the patisserie was crisp and cool. There wasn’t any sort of tacky fan blowing cold air around, or any visible source of relief from the blazing heat outside, but the lights were low, and the walls were dark, and the air was the perfect temperature. She […]
In visceral light
His head was face down. The light from the street reflected on the glistening sweat of his torso. His strong back was flexed, haunches up, pressing backward. The muffled sounds of his voice seeped into the air through the pillow. It might have been pleasure, or protest. There was no […]
The right thing
She had been beautiful. She was still beautiful even though you could tell she didn’t think so. Her face was broad, and the lines of time creased her lips and the corners of her deep, sad eyes. When she was younger, an newly married she had made a decision to […]
Journey’s end
They walk in a line, never touching, never looking up. Each one of them carries the weight of their own hearts. Dragging the tails of the cotton robes draped around them in the muddy tracks behind them, they walk. Some carry baskets, some have cords of lumber tied across their […]
N’exist pas
We were introduced at a party that my friend Rosen had thrown at his apartment. I don’t usually go to parties, and definitely not dinner parties. I love the idea of civilized people sitting around a table sharing a meal and a wonderful conversation, but it doesn’t usually go down […]
All love comes from God
He woke up late. It was impossible to say exactly what time it was but the sun was blazing through the window and it was definitely not morning anymore. The power had gone out again. He ran into the bathroom and turned on the shower and then put the coffee […]
Deepspace
Tonight’s the night. I’m playing at Deepspace with FK at Cielo in New York City. I’ve been waiting for this gig for my entire career… I couldn’t be more excited. See you there!
The Ignoramus
The sun was shining brightly, and my shadow cast out in front of me with a darkness which cooled my front feet as they swung out in front of me. To watch me walk is an amusing occupation. My knees seem to buckle for a moment, and then my round […]
On any road
He sat in the firm wooden chair staring at the peeling paint on the shutters. Hadn’t he just painted them last summer? He remembered specifically going around and around with her over which shade of green to use. He’d had his hopes up about something dark and classic, but she […]
Euphorbia Milii
Edith Louise Mulvihil sat silently on top of an oversized wooden trunk. Her eyes fixed on something in the distance as she softly chewed on the inside of her lower lip. Those awful little flaps of skin drove her crazy, and it was only a matter of getting this last […]
Sappho by way of Salinger
The house was gone. Two of the walls were still standing, but there were narrow little trees growing up from a bed of fallen leaves where the floor had been. The windows had long since fallen out, and there was no longer a roof, or any sign there ever had […]
Irresistible
He wasn’t there to hit her any more. Not that it had ever actually come to physical blows. There was the time she’d thrown the wrought iron skillet full of what might have been paella at him from across the kitchenette, but he was quick, and it only stained his […]
Sumir Shikha Shradhdha
Shikha was a difficult girl. Her parents declared when she was very young that it was likely she would never marry, and so they did not promise her to anyone. It was a matter of will. Shikha was beautiful, and often quite reasonable. Her honey-colored skin and eyes had already […]
Le jour arrive
It was very early in the morning, but the sun was already shining. Softly wiping the coffee from her lips, she collected her parcels and stepped out the door. She paused to glance back into the entrance of her home, her distant gaze unchanged as the pale orange door passed […]
Teenage sex, satan, and the subversive nature of popular music in our halcyonic days of hay
Led Zeppelin Stairway to heaven Play Forward Forward Lyrics: If there’s a bustle in your hedgrow, don’t be alarmed now, it’s just a spring clean for the may queen. Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there’s still time to change the road […]
Song of the ladybug
Once upon a time there was a very small ladybug. It wasn’t an ordinary ladybug. Not like the others who flew through the fields, munching on leaves and grass, singing happy ladybug songs and finding twigs to rest on. This ladybug liked to sit in the shade of the willow […]
PUNK: Lonesome American Memoirs
For Becky, Julie, and Everyone Wherever you are… Table of contentsChapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, […]
The orange grasshopper dreams of a life by the sea
One day near the big field, three little grasshoppers were left to attend to themselves for a while. The green grasshopper, who was the oldest, said the others, “What shall we do with ourselves for the afternoon?” The blue grasshopper shrugged, and his antennae twitched slightly. The green grasshopper smiled […]
Petunia May Tarantula
Once upon a time three tarantulas were out walking. A mother, a father and their daughter, Petunia May. After quite a while, they came to the edge of a tall cliff. Wind blew, and made the spiders shiver in the breeze. “What’s this?” said Petunia May Tarantula. “This is a […]
The Gumma Gumma
Once upon a time there was a little Boy who lived with his Mommy and Daddy in a little white house. They were very happy. One day, Daddy came home with a new car. It was a big green van. Everyone was very excited, and they gathered on the sidewalk […]
The sea turtles
Chapter one in which we meet the sea turtles, and breakfast is served. Once upon a time, just south of the island of Martinique, where the Atlantic ocean mixes gently with the white sands and the clear, blue waters of the Caribbean Sea, there was a trough trough which whales […]