December 2011
1 post
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November 2011
2 posts
“Lying in bed, you tell me that I’m not your girlfriend. I’m going...”
– — J. Furman, LYRICS (see below for posted video of “Out of My Head”)
I wrote this song years ago while living in NYC, on a little Casio keyboard that I had set up at the foot of my bed. Trying to sort out what my breaking point might just be amidst an on and off again love.
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April 2010
4 posts
“Elevator to the moon…whistling a favorite tune..trying to get a closer...”
– — “Satellite” by Guster
“Let me go, boys, let me go
Push my boat from the highest cliff to the sea below...”
– -Coldplay “Now my feet won’t touch the ground”
March 2010
3 posts
“In ten thousand years, if travelers land here, to tell folks back home what they...”
– Ryan Dilmore (my fantastically talented, amazing friend, writer, musician, underwear model…human being…) (www.myspace.com/ryandilmore)
SXSW - Live Stream of my Show @ Gibson Bus →
For those of you who are missing the kick-ass music scene down in Austin at SXSW - you can catch watch my show LIVE from the web! Just check out the link on Wednesday, 3/17 at 3pm!
February 2010
1 post
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - Re-Cap
Hello and Sorry for falling off the radar! Holidays…studio recordings…all good things…
..it’s been a few weeks. The dust has settled from my Sundance Film Festival trip. My first experience at Sundance was incredible. I showed up with 2 shows booked and ended up playing 6 shows - including a showcase for Universal and the Gibson Lounge. Many thanks to the folks at...
September 2009
1 post
FREE MUSIC GIVEAWAY (UNTIL OCT 30th)
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August 2009
2 posts
5 tags
Please help my friend
NYC Shows Next Week & Emergency Aid I really need your help. This past weekend my best friend Kasey (who was just featured in the BFF episode featured below with me last month) and her family suffered a tragic loss. On the way back from a family vacation in South Carolina her family’s vehicle was struck by another driver and her father was killed. Her sister, Ally is currently...
July 2009
2 posts
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WatchMy BFF Kasey and I appeared on the BFF.TV game show (the one Pucky and I wrote the “Count on Me” theme for) - and cleaned up! All prizes were donated to DoSomething.Org.
June 2009
7 posts
MY VIDEO – IN TIMES SQUARE TODAY!
If you happen to make it out to NYC Time’s Square today btw the hours of 1:30 & 3:30pm today you will see my new music video for , “Count on Me” airing on those big screens along with slideshows of the people who submitted for the BFF/Kodak slideshow competition.
You can also “tweet” to #BFF and your personal tweets will appear up on the screens with me.
When else are you going to get a chance...
Times Square - Video Release!
“Count on Me” Video Times Square Debut
This Monday, June 8th the folks at BFF.TV are debuting my music video for “Count on Me” on those huge screens in Times Square throughout the day!! I’m going to be out in LA - so if you’re an NYC local snap some photos for me! I’ll feature the best shots in my blog and up on my site!
Thanks so much to all...
Times Square Video Debut - Press Release →
“I walked along a lonely line and said a thousand words - in my - in my mind”
– from “Made Of” by J.Furman
Party in the Hills
We rode along the winding Mulholland Drive last night. Past the mansions perched on mountain tops and breathtaking views of Hollywood with my Marshall acoustic Amp clunking around in the trunk and mic stands rolling back and forth across my Martin guitar case, my brother riding shot-gun.
I love to see how other people live. I like to imagine what it would be like to have my own compound with guest...
May 2009
2 posts
Hollywood Movie Premieres & Touching Art
I finally had the mini-Hollywood experience of getting to check out a premiere for a film at Grauman’s Chinese Theater last night. My friend, Randy Lee who owns Limbeat Studio in NYC, where I recorded my most recent album, scored the film, “Cayman Went” and invited me to it’s debut. Congrats Randy! Nice work!
I had taken friends sightseeing along...
April 2009
2 posts
“Count On Me”
Sneak peak at...
March 2009
4 posts
“Her green plastic watering can, For her fake Chinese rubber plant, In the fake...”
– -Radiohead
American Idol
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an “Idol” as the following:
1: a representation or symbol of an object of worship ; broadly : a false god2 a: a likeness of something bobsolete : pretender , impostor3: a form or appearance visible but without substance <an enchanted phantom, a lifeless idol — P. B. Shelley>4: an object of...
“I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumbling down…tumbling...”
– Carol King