“We Are”…live in Austin
They say an album, a song, a performance should be like capturing lightning in a bottle…if you are lucky that is…..
Continue Reading 1 comment April 15th, 2010
Growing pains…
You sync with one soul, one body, one mind, one dream, commitment…your freedoms and purpose and that which words could never say. Every moment and facet of your existence rides in this most miraculous balance. For me, it is knowing I was a man in chaos, a jumpin’ bumpin’ atom in space, beautiful only by proxy to the random day, the passing star or moonshadow….found not suddenly, but with the last ounce of hope I had, the greatest leap…found face to face with my one in a billion.
Continue Reading 4 comments April 10th, 2010
…the light is beautiful…..
” If I clear my heart
of all I’ve known
could it feel like the first time?
And if you clear my mind
lead me down to the fire
illuminate the eyes…and steal my sorrow
Everybody wants the Same Something Different
find it hiding in the echo of your distance
come a little bit closer now….the light is beautiful
I, I have seen your love
the way your body folds in mine, I close my eyes,
and it feels like I’m home again
I, I have seen your love
and when you traveled miles away, you’d call to say,
that you wished you were home again….
There’s a ghost I used to know
many many years ago,
when I was younger, and the lights fade down…
you see there’s somethin’ you need to know
it’s mine and mine alone,
but come on closer now….and I’ll whisper it softly
Everybody wants the same something different
find it hiding in the echo of your distance
come a little bit closer now….the light is beautiful…
And I feel alright…..
I FEEL alright…..tonight….
Everybody wants the same something different
find it hiding in the echo of your distance
come a little bit closer now….the light is beautiful…
Oh and I, I have seen your love
the way your body folds in mine, I close my eyes,
and it feels like I’m home again
I, I have seen your love
and when you traveled miles away, you’d call to say,
that you wished you were home again….”
(Same Something Different-words and lyrics by Jake Walden-2010?)
7 comments April 7th, 2010
an aside…
An aside….in all the relationship talk last night, with couples, broken hearts, happy soulmates, people from all over the world really I couldn’t help but to think of all the amazing advice I have received in my own life….there was a moment when we were having a talk with someone, a girl who was at a crossroads with her fiance…she didn’t “feel it”..and yet she couldn’t understand why…I mean, he was “perfect”, all the things one would want, but there was that “thing” missing…the part, the most important where you make each other better, where you are not alone but feel inspired to be alive…it is an intangible of a relationship, that “thing” that seems to bound us and bind us and make you KNOW that this is the person for you….it comes from a place of not just love, but more important, NOT fear….
Many things were said, most of which were just nods and listens because this sort of experience, CHOICES, they are only to be made by the individual…no one can know the intricacies between two people…
I said, at the end…well, I wanted to, but someone came outside and the moment passed, but something my Mom once said to me that really has always stuck…
“Better to be alone, than to be alone in a relationship.”
Jake
3 comments April 5th, 2010
…still hard to believe you’re gone…
well, after performing in Oklahoma City and driving all night beating the snow storm, we are near Albequerque, NM, in the Tijeras canyon at my Aunts’ house. Funny we just said goodbye as our group splintered off after a week in Austin for SXSW and yet here we are, with the snow that I last saw here the Christmas we brought my Grandma here, the Christmas before she died. The place where as I, sick as a dog, carried her, The Queen of our family from room to room, to her scooter, the bathroom, to lay her down to sleep…it was here that the morning we were leaving she sat where I am right now and looked out on the courtyard to see snow for the first and last time in her life…still hard to believe you’re gone…..
I just took a picture of Joshua wrapped in a blanket out there where we looked at the snow. I couldn’t help but to wish she were here, to know him, to know so many of you…she never was able to see a concert, or to see my peaceful heart….
These are the pics from the tour so far….make sure to join me on Facebook as I am real proud of the pics and stories…and I want to hear from you….
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=402662&id=22837190435#!/album.php?id=22837190435&aid=402662&s=0&hash=6b1116f489fd5a71465515c808ef3f97
And here is a thought I had the other day…..
To LIVE! In freedom…in the light…with the only purpose being now….and the light, and the freedom….in love and the humble nature in which one can not be taught, but must be found. Fro you…for me…for someone. Dreams and not illusions, now and not then, effortless, bold, and always with kindness…
“Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure, measure a year….how about love…”
All pics and SO much more when I find the moments @
www.facebook.com/jakewaldenofficial
make sure to sign up as a fan…
Peace, be you,
Jake
4 comments March 24th, 2010
hurry, come find me on facebook so I can use my fancy new phone and let you in on the adventure ..
So, day two on the road, just showered frantically and off to Tuscon for the first show….just wanted to let you know I got one of those fancy phone things where you have “internets” and stuff and as I SLOWLY learn how to use it, I am asking you to come over to my facebook page as it is the only thing I can figure out how to upload updates/pics/thoughts along the way…..very very cool….sorry myspace and jakewalden.com but you are useless to me for the moment.
Really want to share the ride with you, so please become my friend at
www.facebook.com/jakewaldenmusic
AND very important
www.facebook.com/jakewaldenofficial
I promise it will be worth the moment of your time…..
I only have a moment here so I won’t go on and on about my excitement and joy…just wanted you to be a part of it, so here we go….
See you on “the book”…..come out to a show, tell your friends, spread the word and of course, be you, Jake
Add comment March 14th, 2010
It’s time I explain…you see there’s somethin’ that you need to know…
You see, I think a lot….so much so that a doctor has to write me a
prescription for a little something to take the edge off my raging river
of a brain every night. There have been times as the vastly stronger tide
of the raging river of my heart have caused me to flail about in the wind
and drown in my own belief in the destiny of my fated dreams….for to be
such a dreamer, as you know, requires a certain element of madness.
July 22nd 2008 my life changed…but you see, as you WILL see, the point
of this random morning post show “poetry” is to let you know that I can’t
tell you about that…how I have hidden so much from you….as I look back
while packing and unpacking bags yesterday, cleaning the crevaces of old
ones to put in the new and finding scraps of notes and scribblings….as i
look back, as I often do, I realized how much I had shared before this
date. “Alive and Screaming” being a literal self portrait and guided call
for the raw truth and screaming hope I carried in that moment, it was
me…it WAS me…and I lived that era of my life for a long time…and
sometimes I miss it, but only because of what it gave me…WHO it gave me,
meaning you reading this, and HOW it gave me a sense of myself, a vessel
to my calling in this life…
July 25th 2008 I had what we called my L.A. Freedom Party….I had quit my
day job, gave up my apartment, my hobbies, my daily friendships and
routines….anything safe…anything I was no longer wanting to be
ME..The well had run dry and I had become comfortable in the
numbness of my life. I guess I couldn’t feel all THAT so fresh and raw
every day anymore…and I KNEW, as every true artist does, when that
fight, for LIFE as us traveling poets are supposed to aspire to live and
preach, well, I knew I wasn’t going find it there anymore.
So I left, first on one tour, then another….each day, each week, month
and eventually the entire next year were spent in absolute chaos. I went
everywhere, slept anywhere, and lived every moment to share “alive and
screaming” from every corner I could find….but most of all I had to
find my next story, my next ME…and I had to let go for a
while what I found July 22nd for what seemed an eternity, when after I
sat at the piano the months of June and July with the windows all open
and the warm wind blowin’ in as I would
smoke and slide my barefeet across the wood floor as I let it all go, and
became honest with myself….and I guess, dared myself to believe after
too long that I wasn’t broken, that everything I could have ever imagined
could BE…and
“as the wind was blowin’, on an L.A. evenin’, I remembered when that
record played, and he sang us Hallelujah hallelujuh hallelujah”
And I knew that if I were to have another story to tell I had to say
goodbye and start all over….I knew that my story was not Alive and
Screaming, but a franchise of LIFE, one that I had to LIVE it’s next
chapter, to sacrifice and struggle and earn my way to find what it was
that could follow up THAT…..
“I just want a little peace, another soul to look over me in wonder…”
Today we leave for the Great Austin House to House Tour. Life is good.
The stars are aligning for me, I see it every day now and I am gonna TAKE
IT….I so respected the darkness, all the pain and struggle, I wore it
like a badge of courage…and now, for this moment, to get to THAT place I
have always believed I would be lucky enough to find, that platform of
success in every area of my life that would give me the greatest gift of
all….to share and inspire love….been said, been done..yes I know…but
not like this….We all have to believe that our story, the way WE do it,
the way WE see it is unique to the universe and so fucking special that it
is our duty to fulfill that which each and every one of us universally
knows we can.
You see, I started writing this as an apology, an explanation this
morning…for keeping so much of the
depth of my work and story the last year or so very close to my
heart…..you don’t
know this…but maybe you wondered…where are all those five page bloody
mess of a blogs that Jake Walden guy used to pour out….I hear from him
every
day, but not like that….hmmmmmm….
Well, the answer is……drum roll please…..
I have spent the last year and a half LIVING the story I am getting ready
to tell…I love you all so much, for so many reasons, that if in some way
something I produce matters to you, I want to give you the best I
got…..and I don’t make creations that trickle down to your feet, I am
filling my river so deep with EVERYTHING so that i may, God willing,
one day soon be able to
tap on that visceral dam and let the floodgates rage open….and
hopefully, you will FEEL….and this tree will be happy.
Thank you for everything,
I am honored and HAPPY….what more can I ask for…see you on the road…
so much to come,
Peace, be you, jake
p.s…I sent you here to the website to make sure you see that on the homepage I am giving away the song “alive and screaming” to you for free….hope it means something to you…hope to see you real soon….hope a lot…
15 comments March 13th, 2010
A thought from my sweet Brenda….miss you my friend…love…love…love
Thank you sweet Brenda…always…..Jake
“I thought of your parents and how this sounds so beautiful. Read it outloud, it’ beautiful to say! GOD I miss you!!
TAURUS horoscope for Mar, 09, 2010
Do you know someone who is lucky in love but doesn’t seem to appreciate it? You know… someone who seems to meet all kinds of wonderful people, yet doesn’t maintain long-term relationships? Are you envying this person? First, let’s look at the concept of being lucky in love. Wouldn’t that… or shouldn’t that mean that a person finds lasting happiness with one individual who is perfectly in step with him/her.? Don’t envy someone who has a parade of love interests coming and going. There’s something missing there. Instead, learn from someone who has made one beautiful relationship last a lifetime.”
1 comment March 9th, 2010
The Great Austin House to House Tour…
All I can say is that I am leaving this Saturday for a tour/adventure of which the possibilities are endless and my hope is only for you to join me, be a part of the night…and give me a HUG!!
Event info @
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=378793190762&ref=mf
Please sign up on my facebook page if you haven’t already as it is where I post most of my day to day work/thoughts/music/creations….
ALL info @ www.jakewalden.com/shows
1 comment March 8th, 2010
Christopher Dallman’s INCREDIBLE new music video!!
This is my friend Chritopher’s new video…I am blown away, so proud
and want EVERYONE to see it…my second favorite of his songs, my
favorite video and one of my favorite talented people….
Add comment March 4th, 2010