CAMPFIREBALL

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@deznash created something incredibly special for a really special performance I'll be doing at @ozzymo's very special "I love you David Bowie" show tomorrow night, 10:30 at UCB Sunset. If there was one word I could use to describe this experience it would be: cool. (at UCB Sunset)

To all interested parties, there will definitely be some sweet, sweet #campfireball action in year two zero one six...the when is the question. But you'll be the first to know. Actually I'll be the first to know -- then I'll immediately tell you. In the meantime forward all likes, hashtags and ats to 1543 n. Kenmore Ave Los Angeles ca 90027. Til then keep the light burning in the wolfheart. 🔥❤️

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The helium of the Campfireball periodic table, namesake of one of the only ethically sound governmental holiday's and number one suit-and-tie-as-superhero-costume wearer. Civilly disobey, and carry the fire for him today. Tomorrow too.

Didn't think I had anything to contribute to the David Bowie conversation, then I remembered we hand-belled and bleated the stars down from the sky with this rendition of 'life on mars' in a desperate attempt to elicit emotion from Curiousity, the baddest, coolest, least affected of all the Mars Exploration Rovers. Thank you for reminding and transcribing @stonegirldancing. File under: Bowiefly effect. (at Chloe's)

Starbrother @jonathandavidguggenheim doing his best junkyard James Turrell as our long December unfolds. #pilgrimsprogress #notcampfireballforalittlewhile

Putting up a revised version of one of my favorite #campfireball pieces tonight as a little pop-off for the AT FIRST SIGHT show at The Clubhouse in Los Feliz. 10:30 // Free // come out if you like stuff...I mean, come out if you don't like stuff too, challenge accepted. (at The Clubhouse)

... if you cut and glued wolf-hearts, if you went fabric shopping with me, if you played bluegrass music, if you transformed into a baby, if you read poetry, if you told stories about your stepdad, if you sang psychedelic opera, if you drove a school bus, if you met up with us at an observatory and handed out blinking lights, if you dated me and were a good sport about the strange and embarrassing ways in which I aired our personal stories, thank you. If you let me take the show, sight unseen, from a backyard to a huge amazing, extremely popular space, if you handed out ID bracelets, if you took polaroids, if you kept your new ID and/or bracelet, if you’re a navajo dancer and story teller, if you constructed and painted an entire backyard made of cardboard, if you came early to help set up, if you told us about your space library, if you were willing to break world records, if you were my senior year prom date, if you’re a government official willing to do a ribbon cutting, if you were a back up band, thank you, thank you, thank you. If you knew it was my birthday and didn’t say anything, if you let me borrow 8 baby chicks (and took them back), if you repainted the whole cardboard backyard white, if you play amazing, heart-felt, electro-rock, if you destroyed a full on roasted chicken, if you are a hyper-inspirational, radical children’s book author who didn’t know me at all and handed out 80+ copies of your book for free, if you know the release date of every film since 1993, if you pet the chickens, let me say thank you. If you are an extremely busy, high functioning rocket laboratory that let us tour your facilities, if you’re a professional whistler, if you helped me transcribe “Life On Mars?” into handbell charts, if you hand drew the first ever photograph of mars from binary, if you contacted the man who drew the first ever photograph of mars and managed to convince him to come out, if you made a beautifully metaphoric short film, if you’re in the most high quality musical sketch group I know of, if you single handedly got google cardboard to donate 100 headsets previously unavailable to the public, from the depths of the depths of my heart, thank you. If you invented and built a giant bubble that can hold 50 people, then hid that bubble behind a plastic wall, if you’re in the most hauntingly beautiful chamber orchestra, if you dressed up like a masked bandit, if you performed magic, if you’re the ruler of you’re own country, you’ve given me the best gifts. If you allowed me to fulfill a dream of putting the show on at the L.A. River, if you play didgeridoo in a backup band, if you staged a scene from “Chinatown” without ever seeing the original film, if you’re a freestyle rapper and a freestyle beatboxer, if you recorded the show with your camera, if you played your heart with your guitar, if you helped make a paper-chain fishnet that didn’t even get used, if you told us the value of a slime heart, if you came down into the river, you are beautiful and I thank you. If you actually asked me to put together this ridiculousness as part of your wedding, wow, thank you. If you sparred with me, listened patiently through endless revisions, if you wouldn’t let me put on anything less than the strongest version of the show, if you took photos and if you showed up, I love you. Thank you. That’ll do it for the year, but I hope to put together a few one-offs here and there over the coming months. More details on that to follow.

But here's the pluses, the application process forced me to examine the last 365 days of #campfireball and I couldn't be more inspired by how dynamic and full this year was. Everyone who picked up scissors or hot glue, who came out to something you that you were never certain what it would be or how to describe it to people coming with you and by the sublimely interesting and talented performers for lending their hard forged skill for free. More on that tomorrow. Secret bonus, no girlfriends were lost along the way this time! (Secret minus, that means I have no idea what the next round of CFBs will be about). See you next year #sundancenewfrontierlab.

World! Just a little hello to say this next #campfireball will be the last CFB of the year AND a special edition show for @zoejarman and @dukedoyle1's holy matrimony. But if you find yourself in Chicago on October 9th, well, come on out.

To all the good river-dwellers out there. Thank you for making last night's #Campfireball an unforgettable experience. May your slime heart breathe it's way to the next stop on the map...anybody find the treasure yet? Hashtag real treasure on the LA River?? (at The Frog Spot)

#Campfireball TONIGHT. Coming in hot at 7:00. Like RIGHT at 7:00. Start picking out your outfits now. Leave your wolfhearts at home, this ones for the slime-hearts. #LARiver @thefrogspot (at The Frog Spot)

Getting close! Speaking of pizza, come to @thefrogspot early tomorrow and get some food before the show...bands, eats, drinks start as early as 5pm with the #campfireball lighting up at 7! (at The Frog Spot)

Gun control. #campfireball style. Come play, this Saturday 7pm ON THE DOT. @thefrogspot (show up as early as 5pm for bonus fun) (at The Frog Spot)

#Hint. 8/8 7pm. Fun and non #campfireball stuff starts at 5pm. (at The Frog Spot)

#Hint. This Saturday, August 8th at the Frog Spot on the Los Angeles River. Music starts at 5. Fireball starts at 7. Yes there'll be food and drinks. #campfireball @thefrogspot

Thirsty my brothers and sisters? Come to #campfireball in exactly one week, drink from the river of Los Angeles and never go thirsty again. 8/8 7pm @thefrogspot (at The Frog Spot)