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5-17-10 update gee, the 5-19th of 2010 will mark 2 years since i was released from jail, just 2 blocks away from the utah. i've never felt so hated in my life. everyone hates me. Wendy Pun won't release these very few pages and allow my appeal to be processed. There's no hope for me, no one wants to play music with me, everyone hates me. People like JJ make it clear that i'm not welcome and they don't want me around. No love for Grasshopper, everyone hates me and always will, thanks.
4-29-10 update- the Ireland's 32 open mic as hosted by Gh is cancelled, sorry, thanks, Peace
Update 2-17-2010 i want to wish everyone a happy day with your heart, and a happy new year with your tiger. Sadly, i shall effective immediately be disallowing or banning comedians from my open mic, after last night's charming performers. If you really got something funny to say and are willing to run it by me first, sure, i'll consider it, but it better be funny. I will no longer allow people who consider themselves humorous (or, are trying...) to antagonize nor intimidate my audience, that's not what it's about; i shall not provide freedom of speech just so you can voice hatred, don't bring it down to my open mic, which is thusfar ongoing, 7 months now, how'bout it... of course, this is at Ireland's 32, located at 3920 Geary blvd, at 3rd avenue, SF, and it's every grateful Tuesday , sign up at 8 or come by late and jam. I still accept poetry or spoken word, of course music, in fact, just about anything with love involved, but no hate, thanks.
you can play 3 songs or 15 minutes, or just be part of the fun. you can phone the bar at 415 386 6173
I am considering combos or performers for the 8:30 feature, if you're interested, speak with me. Thanks, peace and love to you and yours, blessing be to all...G..........
Update 1-1-10 Happy new day. i hope, but don't hold your breath. I wrote this new song, and it's basic groove is E -D- c#m, c#m- D - E and there's a bridge that goes A -G then E, followed by G, C, then B
there's actually 2 songs i wrote upon this basic groove, but for now i'll just give words to Showtime MGB, which is basically around the problem of that we are destroying our planet for all life as we know it, which i know most Americans deny, love our so-called media, but hey, global warming and sea level rise, the acidification of our oceans, these non-reversible tipping points, these are all too real, and our so-called leaders will lead us right to the Grave of our planet. So, folks, it is showtime...
Verse 1. Rain (rain) falling down, ground getting wetter, MGB (refrain, make it good, make it better)
Read your news today, tore up the letter, MGB; your mom's a real nice girl, i am so glad i met her MGB
bridge: got to make some changes today, i know we will; // changes so long overdue, it's gonna be a thrill... {Chorus/chori} it's show time, we all shine, tell everyone you know time; let your spirit shine it's showtime... it's showtime, rise up divine, Peligroso reads the sign, Let your Spirit shine, it's showtime...
Verse 2.Ride's been rough, getting rougher, we had best be lovers, MGB . Things have all gone straight to hell, let's change the magic spell...MGB...We've been hurt for so long, love sing a healing song...MGB
verse 3. Rain falling down, ground keeps getting wetter...MGB...wonder why she got so mad, i tried not to upset her .. MGB... one thing that i know, got to break these chains and fetters, MGB... {(C) GhAK 12-09
Update 12-16-09 My lawyer finally has received a certified transcript, and will be able to pursue an appeal of the Vandebos saga, below, accounted... also, i wanted to write up these words for the new song, Gaia's Appeal, which is dedicated to the memory of Paul Weiher; i've slightly revised it from the performance you can hear, so the words are current. Gaia's Appeal has an intro f#m, E, D, then the verse is D/A->A 3x, f#m E, repeat that 4x, the alt is f#m , E, D, A, 3x, then bm c#m D ; and the words are: Sing to/for me A Last Song i'm forlorn Baby/Travel torn, Move down into Unknown Maybe/ All Alone island Stone Another Voice Crazy / my Burden Heart to Impart a Deep Art within us all / All creatures Great and Small come to call Curtains {alt} save me crave me praise me raise me braisenly rape me make me disappeare'd :: House me Home Free Engender me Dearly / Extinct Country Breathe Easy Baby / i'm crying drying flying dying / Play with me Lay with me Love me Save me
{alt} Gone to Sea Calamity Save me Baby / Set Me Free Let me be Baby Save Me ::: conserve me obServe me Bravely Save me/ carefully Consider me Gravely Save me / smoke me invoke me jokingly pobre', ci / hold me unfold me cold money sold me {alt} Last Song Travel torn forlorn baby / Ground friend Lost again Long Gone Home .... thanks for reading; come to my open mic while it lasts, every Tuesday at Ireland's 32, located at 3920 Geary at 3rd avenue; phone the bar to be sure it is going at 415 386 6173 peace, love and blessings for all
Update 11-11-09 Hey now, i've got a querry, does anyone know what's become of Paul Weiher? Also, i'm wanting to put a call out for features for my Tuesday night open mic at Ireland's 32, if you are interested in a feature slot, please come play the event and speak with your host, Grasshopper, thanks. Congrats to jj on the new arrival from the stork...
Hello everyone; today is 11-01-09, the elevendy-first of the last of the old, so to speak, in with the new; What's new is , well, my open mic event at Ireland's 32 isn't getting sufficient turnout to keep operating as it stands, and i'm going to try to turn it into more of a jam/dance session, in an effort to save it. For the time being, i shall still accept solo/open mic type performers, poetry or comedy/spoken work, stories, all are welcome at this time; however, what i hope to achieve , to save the event, is something more like a jam session, where people dance. This means i'm going to start giving more time to folks who are leaning in this direction; if you bring fellow band members and rock the house, you get more time on stage. In fact, gee, i my self could use some good dance time; if you play music that makes me dance, well then you win more stage time. Ditto if you get me involved in the performance, with either my acoustic guitar playing, or electric lead (please pre-arrange, thanks.) I'm hoping that if folks are dancing, the event will continue; as it stands, it's sort of scraping the ground and they've only given me through the year to get it off the ground flying. Peace and love,
Grasshopper Alec Kaplan
8-10-09 Update: Hey now, Grasshopper is now hosting Ireland's 32 re-renewed Tuesday night open mic, and hopes you , yes you, can come out and support your local artist community. Ireland's 32 is located on Geary Blvd at 3rd avenue, 8 o'clock sign-ups, show starts by 9 pm, play 3 songs or 15 minutes, poetry and comedy welcome,every Tuesday night; come on out Thanks for reading / listening
7-14-09 update : i wrote this song recently, called Flooding, which has two sections. The first is for both chorus and verses, and it goes e minor to D major 7th . Additionally , there is a coda, which has some lyrics, and the music for the coda is b minor, C, D over f#, G . The words start with the chorus, which goes-> I'ld like to linger in your ocean / i want to swim in your sea // i've got a strange and foolish notion / you've been dreaming of me . (verses:) 1. it's been a long unwinding road/ each step to travel all alone // across the sands of the great desert/ turned my heart into stone 2. i heard some things that never happened / i saw the schemes that would not be // i watched the fall of the clocktower / after being set free ( Chorus again, then:) 3. i'll see you there in San Francisco / with a flower in your hair // we'll watch the fog come rolling over / the golden gateway there 4. i've been waiting on the sunshine / i've been listening to you sing // from the depths of your devotion / feel the joy within you spring (chorus, then coda:) {6/8} wade in the water, wander in the sea; watch out for the boats when you're swimming happily ; i'm going swimming , do you want to come ? Run into the water, flooding in the sun... [Thanks for reading + listening, Peace.]
These are the words to for your love , which i wrote a long time ago. The changes are , G->C, D 4x, then e minor to C 4 x, ; words: i'm yearning, burning for your love . i'm hoping , groping for a little bitty taste of your love. walking in circles , spinning round and round. looking for you oh sweet honey but you're nowhere to be found. Early in the morning, these feelings form. come the middle of the day, it won't go away. come about the night, i still ain't feeling right. come another dawn, i can't keep on fighting this yearning, burning for your love...
.... i know we had some shaky dealings . yes i know baby honey you're weary, of these feeling. Baby when i look at you, when i see you my heart starts to dance. I know we could get it together for some sweet romance and i'm yearning, burning for your love...
These are the words for Ebbing , which I wrote around october '08; the music is basically
A/c# , (open A off the 5th fret, c# in bass), A/D, (A/g#->) A/ A , 3 x, then 2 x of this G/G -> A/A
so, this is the verse, which is what the instrumentals are off of; after one instrumental verse, there are sung verses 1 + 2, then the chorus, c# Minor, D, E alternates with the c# minor, D, A 4 x, then another verse as instrumental, then verse 3 and 4, then the 2nd chorus, then more verse as instrumental, final (3rd) chorus, then Coda, which is A , G , D, G-> :|| (repeat)
Words for Ebbing:
1. Are you talking / Can't hear what you say // i'm busy having a breakdown / say it again later okay
[one line G->A instrumental] 2. Can you come closer? / Breathe in (to) my ear // Bear with me while I breakdown / i'm so glad you're here /.. i'm so glad you're here
Chorus : Emotional Breakdown (breakdown) i'm off far away Emotional Breakdown (breakdown ) my world's gone gray / Emotional Breakdown (breakdown) lonely as can be
emotional breakdown ( breakdown) i'm lost at sea
3. Were you speaking? / i watched your words driftstream away // Clouds melt in the horizon / sky slips into the bay ./... 4. the tide is ebbing / left a sea lion dead on the beach // Everything is empty / everything within reach /... yet everything just out of reach
Chorus: Emotional breakdown (breakdown) don' t think me unkind Emotional breakdown (breakdown) i'm not home to find / Emotional breakdown (breakdown) i hope you don't mind Emotional breakdown (breakdown) the threads unwind
Coda: pull down the blind / peel off the rind / go through the grind / the threads unwind
/ peel off the rind / go through the grind/ pull down the blind / the threads unwind...
Thanks for listening; have a good day {5/5/2009 Peace and love, blessings be to all}
These are the words for Depression Impression following:
December came all washed away
November now allready but it was just May
Maybe you're telling me a lie I should believe
may be i'm showing you the ghosts up my sleave
The memory of a crime
A memory not mine
Should we be sharing all this so soon
Jokes on me as you walk across the room
Gave my address it's nowhere now
Give my love but that's gone somehow
The memory of a crime
A memory not mine
Oh i'll be leaving as soon as I can stand
Seeing 's i'm not wanted it's written in your hand
In your eyes i see reflections of the stars
Melting in the heat of all these idling cars
The memory of a crime
A memory not mine
Depression Impression, RE: Janet Vandebos
Thanks for listening
Grasshopper Alec Kaplan updates this crap 3-1-09
Yes, it's me, Grasshopper. I feel obliged to note here how awful all these recent years of my life have been, and exactly why. First of all, I have to say that everything I've ever touched has turned to shit, so it's no surprise that things worked out as badly as they have.
I was born in Moscow, Russia, and grew up around the East Coast, speaking only English since I was very young. I came to San Francisco on September 29th, 1993, and it's been nothing but a devastating nightmare ever since. When I came here, I slept under the freeway on 5th between Harrison and Bryant, because there was decent lighting there, and you could get a shower at the shelter in the morning...
so I started working at the Hotel Utah, cleaning, door, barbacking, sound, etcetera; although most of the bartenders gave me some tips, I was not on the clock for the vast overwhelming majority of this crap, so I basically was giving away free labor...and I lived upstairs. Everyone has always hated me my whole life, but especially in San Francisco, where I was regularly slammed on the ground by people who thought they had the right to do so. Thanks for this.
The worst taxi ride I ever had was on July 26th, 2007, from SFO, I was forced to convey this rather nasty Janet Vandebos. She wanted to go to 2636 Green, at Divisidaro, but almost immediately she started shrieking and was really unfit to be transported. At this time, I was running for mayor of this crappy city. So, Janet Vandebos claims that I threatened to kill her, and testified in court that I had actually tried to kill her. I was not charged with attempted murder, but rather, PC 422 terrorist threat. This charge was dropped, but my Grasshopper Taxi business was suspended/revoked, and would not be reinstated, albeit a lack of charges. The charge of terrorist threat was re-placed upon me after I parked in Ed Jew's driveway, and no, there was no connection; so I tried to defend myself in court, and was kicked off of my own counsel; there was no opening statement allowed in my defense; to say I had a trial worthy of a kangaroo court would be an insult to kangaroos.
Without any physical evidence, on the basis of her (Vandebos') word over mine, I was convicted of misdemeanor terrorist threat, around the end of '07; I was sentenced to 6 months (to avoid probation) and served most of this time in solitary confinement, under amazingly cruel conditions, at 850 Bryant. Did you know there's a torture chamber just 2 blocks from the Utah? Yes, it was very much torture to me.
Now, no one will hire me, as a convicted terrorist. No one will come to see my shows, in fact, even brainwash won't book me because I don't bring enough people . Of course, when I was running for Mayor, everyone knew me as the homeless taxicab driver, and you may recall the purple Grasshopper taxicab which was a fabulous piece of advertising, that was taken away from me. Why does everyone hate me?
Well, I spoke out; about September11th as a controlled demolition; I ran for mayor on a platform of allowing people to legally reside in alternative housing situations, with eviction protection. In every part of the city there are commercial vacancies, now more than ever; I also was an advocate for full legalization of marijuana , and I was generally a pain in the ass to the SF Taxi Commission, feeling that I had a right to express my first amendment freedom of speech with my painted bumper sticker which read, To Impeach Is Patriotic. So, my life has been destroyed, and everyone hates me. Thank you San Fran cis co. Have a nice day
7-23-09 I wanted to add this very interesting note, as my appeal is processing, or soon to be. On these transcripts of the trial, where Judge Carol Yaggy first reads the charges against me to the jury, the only one i was found guilty of , the PC 422, should have been read as against Janet Vandebos, but instead it was read as being charged against me for purported threat upon Ed Jew. p.358 of the transcript. Meanwhile, is Ed Jew in jail yet? poor guy, he deserves it far less than some of these really astounding criminal types like Dick Cheney and his cabal. If he shoots me, it's my fault. A tortured world. Peace.
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