I had this idea about talking about art.

The first idea was something about the imagined versus the self and when and how does one become more aligned in one than the other.

The one and the self.

The next idea was about the physicality of art and how much of its need to be an object taking up a discreet number of atoms to create and carry a message through the human consciousness

How big is the box?

The next idea was about the length of the idea in relation to the artist, how many different sizes of boxes related to the real and imagined.

I had this idea about graphing all of this.

But then I had another idea.

Brooklyn band the Loyales and a giant host of guest performers will pay tribute to the great Willie Nelson with a program of Willie songs.

DOORS 7PM | SHOW 8PM

The Brooklyn band the Loyales, called “a living, breathing jukebox” by New York Magazine pay tribute to the great Willie Nelson with a long list of some of Brooklyn’s finest singers and players.

The band includes:

• Steel guitar master Raphael McGregor
• Fiddler Philippa Thompson from M. Shanghai String Band
• Accordion virtuoso Will Holshouser
• Eddy Zweiback from NYC’s Losers’ Lounge on harmonica
• Guest singers include native Texan and Austin City Limits veteran Kat Edmonson
• Brooklyn Jazz chantuese Tamar Korn
• Stage and studio guitar great Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman)
• Alex Battles, Brooklyn Country singer and long time host of the Cash Bash, Jonny Cash Show and many, many more!

Tickets available at littlefieldnyc.com

I heard that they are closing down Tom Sawyer’s Island at Disneyland. I can’t say I’m suprised. When the Pirates of Caribbean franchise took off, Disney added Jack Sparrow to the island. Since Tom and Huck were pretending to be pirates when they ran away from home, this seemed reasonable. The Island was still there when I last visited. The kinship I felt with everyone else willing to make the journey to the Island inspired me to write the song you see linked above.

Here’s a clip of Louis Armstrong playing on The Mark Twain steamboat from Disney After Dark in 1962. Johnny St. Cyr, Armstrong’s original banjo player from the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens served as the bandleader at Disneyland for many years.