AM on IMDB for composing and song licensing.

www.imdb.com/name/nm2267512

AM’s songs have appeared in the following:

(partial list)

TELEVISION
ABC Family’s “Greek”
ABC’s “Kyle XY”
ABC’s “Life As We Know It”
ABC’s “Men In Trees”
ABC’s “What About Brian”
HBO’s “Big Love”
MTV’s “Cheyenne”
MTV’s “Reunited: The Real World Vegas”
MTV’s “The Hills”
MTV’s “The Real World: Austin”
MTV’s “The Real World: Key West”
MTV’s “The Real World: Philadelphia”
MTV’s “The Real World: Sydney”
MTV’s “Road Rules: Viewers Challenge”
Nickelodeon’s “Drake and Josh”
Nickelodeon’s “iCarly”
Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101″

Oxygen’s “The Bad Girls Club”

FILM
Spread (Starring Ashton Kutcher to be released 2009)
“Flakes” (Starring Zoey Deshannel)
“Butterfly Effect 2″ (movie and trailor)
“Life With Fiona”
“Man Maid”
“Dreamland” (Starring Gina Gershon)
Nickelodeon TV movie “Chasing Zoey”
Sony Pictures “The Naked Ape”
“Wake” (Starring Danny Masterson and Bijou Phillips to be released 2009)

OTHERS
Borders Books Website – Open Door Poetry Program webisode
Hard Rock Café/ World Hunger Compilaton, SERVE 2
Paste Magazine Compilation CD
Lexus.com

LYRICS FOR AM’s ALBUM SOUL VARIATIONS & ENDINGS ARE BEGINNINGS EP

Endings are Beginnings

I tell myself
That I’m not who I’ve hated
And when I do
I’m like an old record playing back
And I want to start
But it’s so hard to begin
Everybody’s racing
But nobody’s winning

I’ve tried to forget you
But you just are not leaving
And god I wish
That I could just be at peace with it
Because I’ve done my best
To believe that endings
Have something
To do with beginnings

Stepping Stone

Take on what you will
But I still
Believe what I do
And I was your stepping stone
And I knew

So take your hand in mine
And all you will find
You’ll find what you need
And I was your stepping stone
And I couldn’t leave

Oh now my head keeps spinning
Oh now I’m right back in it
Oh now I was your stand in
Oh now I guess this will pass in time

Take things as they come
But you know that is so hard
Yeah you know what I mean
To take your piece of ground
And let what will be just be

Oh now my head keeps spinning
Oh now I’m right back in it
Oh now I was your stand in
Oh now I guess this will pass in time

I was your stepping stone
I guess this will pass in time
I was your stepping stone
I guess this will pass in time
I was your stepping stone
I guess this will pass in time

I Want Someone

C’mon don’t fill your plate
Loneliness will be up late
Backbones can’t stay straight
When all you do is take and you take

Yeah how the sun shines
When I’m making you mine
You give me half yourself
Say you’re taking your time
I want someone
You want everyone else

There’s one thing I do know
We all want someone to own
But things aren’t much better alone
I’m coming back to you I know

Yeah how the sun shines
When I’m making you mine
You give me half yourself
Say you’re taking your time
I want someone
You want everyone else

Yeah how the sun shines
When I’m making you mine
You give me half yourself
Say you’re taking your time
I want someone
You want everyone else
I want someone to stay

Old Song

Keep saying that you’re somewhere you’re nowhere at all
Now you’re running on habit hanging plans on the wall
It always seemed like the tables turned easy for you
Now there’s all these people tellin’ you what to do

But I know that you once were somebody that had so much to say
Now you’re nothing but an old song rearranged

When you’ve got all you need sometimes you can’t tell
I wonder if those big hands are holding you well
This wasn’t what I had hoped for I wanted you to shine
Now it seems that you’re moving down the narrowest line

But I know that you once were somebody that had so much to say
Now you’re nothing but an old song rearranged
Now you’re lost cuz you’ve got yourself in the way
Now you’re nothing but an old song rearranged

Now they’re stuck on their new found
Soon you won’t be around
God I wish I was wrong

But I know that you once were somebody that had so much to say
Now you’re nothing but an old song rearranged
Now you’re lost cuz you’ve got yourself in the way
Now you’re nothing but an old song rearranged

Live a Lie

All around me now
There’s nothing but pain
And I’m giving nothing back
That you gave
My house is crowded now
And I just can’t convey
Just how much you meant to me

And you take
A little time
Those mistakes
You know they were mine
And all the plans
That we made
Turned to stone
Walking away to live a lie

Now you found an open place
Where you wanted to be
And there’s nothing better than
What you need
And all those lonely eyes
Keep searching the streets
To find the things you gave to me

And you take
A little time
Those mistakes
You know they were mine
And all the plans
That we made
Turned to stone
Walking away to live a lie

And you take
A little time
Those mistakes
You know they were mine
And all the plans
That we made
Turned to stone
Walking away to live a lie
Walking away to live a lie
Walking away to live a lie

Pulling Triggers

I don’t know what you’re saying
Don’t bother explaining
Your reasons are old
Hoping somebody’s listening
Can’t you see that you missed them
It’s taking its toll

All good things have gone under
Continue to lumber
So bright and so loud
Just forget all you wanted
It’s time to move on here
We’re lost in the sound

Wander Wander
Backwards you wander
Think you know my name

You’re pulling triggers
On anything bigger
Than yourself
Everyday

Windowpanes are all broken
Don’t speak cuz you’ve spoken
I won’t hear a thing
All or nothing defeats you
My god can’t we please you
It’s some kind of game

Wander Wander
Backwards you wander
Think you know my name

You’re pulling triggers
On anything bigger
Than yourself
Everyday
And all your troubles
Just blame them on your double
As you walk away

Wander Wander
Backwards you wander
Think you know our name

You’re pulling triggers
On anything bigger
Than yourself
Everyday
And all your troubles
Just blame them on your double
As you walk away

Streets You’ll Never Know

Through your window
You say people are feeling pain
Looking out at the streets
you’ll never know
You’re taking pictures
Of the things that you want to see
Looking out at
The streets you’ll never know

You always find a reason
You’re keeping out of season
Tell me something I haven’t heard
You’re keeping down
You’re waiting
And time just keeps on fading
I think it’s time you took your turn

Speaking softly
You say things are the worst they could be
Never touching the streets
How could you know
Those timeless answers
Now you’re not fooled and you don’t agree
Looking out at the streets
You’ll never know

You always find a reason
You’re keeping out of season
Tell me something I haven’t heard
You’re keeping down
You’re waiting
Time just keeps on fading
I think it’s time you took your
And I think it’s time you took your turn

The walls you put up they won’t crumble
Cuz you just won’t let them
And lonely roads are not the only paths
That you can tread on
And tables turn but you just have to go ahead
Let them turn

And speaking softly
You say things are not what they seem
Looking out at the streets
How could you know

You always find a reason
You’re keeping out of season
Tell me something I haven’t heard
You’re keeping down
You’re waiting
Time just keeps on fading
I think it’s time you took your
And I think it’s time you took your turn

Stop

They told your story backwards that’s what you say
It doesn’t matter cuz nobody cares anyway
All the moments choking can’t get em down
Keep on looking but I can’s see what you’ve found

But I’m not gonna stop till you see me lonely
I don’t want to know all the tables you’ve turned
Say that you just want me to see your answers
But I’m watching them burn

I’m not gonna pour more salt in your wounds
But I’m not gonna move any mountains for you
Can’t you see that you have already won
Don’t want to fight but you have loaded the gun

But I’m not gonna stop till you see me lonely
I don’t want to know all the tables you’ve turned
Say that you just want me to see your answers
But I’m watching them burn
But I’m not gonna stop till you see me lonely
I don’t want to know all the tables you’ve turned
Say that you just want me to see your answers
But I’m watching them burn

What I’m seeing is wrong
You can’t change what’s already done
And I don’t know what to say
Anymore

But I’m not gonna stop till you see me lonely
I don’t want to know all the tables you’ve turned
Say that you just want me to see your answers
But I’m watching them burn
But I’m not gonna stop till you see me lonely
I don’t want to know all the tables you’ve turned
Say that you just want me to see your answers
But I’m watching them burn

We Will Remain

I know it won’t be the same
Two figures meeting in the middle
Hold onto something
Now that I know this
I know that I’m gonna change

I know it’s easy to say
Two made us two is what we will remain
All that I wanted
Is right here before me
I know that I’m gonna stay
All that I wanted
Is right here before me
I know that I’m gonna stay

Back-story is that nobody knows for sure
What will remain
And now I know I am sure about where I stand
I’m not afraid

Back-story is that nobody knows for sure
What will remain
And now I know I am sure about where I stand
I’m not afraid

I know it’s easy to say
Two made us two is what we will remain
All that I wanted
Is right here before me
I know that I’m gonna stay
All that I wanted
Is right here before me
I know that I’m gonna stay

Everybody’s Jesus

You’re reaching out for the loneliest hand
The friend that you want to make
You always mention the people you know
Don’t you know there’s a time and place
You walk along and hope they will follow
Comfort is the voice you bring
You just pretend that you’re part of the plan
Till you get everything you need

You want to own all the hands that you hold
You’re telling’ stories that you’ve already told

But you care
Yeah you care

Lord knows you’re a fantasy foe
You can look but you just can’t touch
You make believe there’s a story to read
But I know that it won’t say much

You want to own all the hands that you hold
You’re telling’ stories that you’ve already told

But you care
Yeah you care

You want to own all the hands that you hold
You’re telling’ stories that you’ve already told
I know the reasons they’re not what you say now
It’s more defeating and I hope you would see

But you can’t
Yeah you can’t

What You Hide

Tell me stories tell me lies
Don’t want to know the things you hide
Take me back to where I was
Watching sunsets feeling fine

Just be careful what you say
Some things will not wash away
Now I don’t need to know it all
I just hope you feel the same

LYRICS FOR AM’s duets project SIDE BY SIDE – DUETS VOL. 1

New Road

I walk
Back through what I have known
Seams sewn but they still show
Now we’re slowly finding our way

And this
New road that we’ve made
Let it help us to mean what we say
Stand by you I will
Stand by you I will

Let the old house burn
To stem and stern
We love
Sometimes we learn
But we’re just living now
Yeah we’re just living now

I know
We all must move from our side
You’re all that I wanted to find
Stand by you I will
Stand by you I will

Let the old house burn
To stem and stern
We love
Sometimes we learn
But we’re just living now
Yeah we’re just living now

Temporary One

I’m not sure what I’m doing here
I’m wondering what this day will bring
You’re far away but you’re still near
But I think that’ll be ok with me

I’d settle things but I’m headstrong
Now it’s just easier to fake my way
It’s not that I can’t resolve
It’s just that I don’t have much to say

Looking at those photographs
I cant’ see who’s right or wrong
I was your second hand
And you were just my temporary one

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Ill be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know
Ill be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you’re home

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you’re twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you don’t know
The beauty that you are
But if you don’t let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you wont be afraid

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you’re twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
cause I see you

Hear Me Sing

I thought you might unfold
It’s me you could not hold
To love is to give in
The question is when

Sometimes timing’s all you have
Most things won’t come on your demand
Now I know you don’t agree
But I hope you can see
That I tried

So hear me sing now
Hey
Hear me sing now
Hey

Who you are is what you hide
I was yours, but you weren’t mine
So now you’ve drawn your line
But I hope it will fade
In time

So hear me sing now
Hey
Hear me sing now
Hey

Despite what we’ve been told
We’re living alone
So let us sing now
Hey
Let us sing now
Hey

Despite what we’ve been told
We’re living alone
So let it all go
Let it all go
Let it all go
Let it all go
Let it all go

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know why nobody told you
how to unfold you love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
no one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps

A Part of Something Missing

Have you noticed that I’m standing back on my feet
It doesn’t matter if you don’t feel like talking to me
Now I realize that everything was in my head
It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking if it cannot be said

Yeah you are always a part of something missing
Yeah you are always a part of something missing

I once believed in the words that you used to say
I was always moving closer now I’m moving away
I’m gonna move far away, far from it all
Nothings ever what it seems till you rise from your fall

Yeah you
You’re always a part of something missing
Yeah you
You’re always a part of something missing

Yeah you
You’re always a part of something missing
Yeah you
You’re always a part of something missing
Always a part of something missing
Always a part of something missing

LYRICS FOR AM’s Debut Album TROUBLED TIMES

GONE AWAY
I sit around
Nothing’s the same
I’m looking for answers
But I’m already late

You say you need me
One more night’
Then you’re packing your bags
Saying it’s all right

I don’t know why
I wait and I wait
I’m looking for something
But you’re not gonna change

Turn around and I see the hope fading
Now you’ve gone away

Keep on moving like you’re so unaware
You’re looking for answers but you’re already there
You see the road but you don’t the way
You’re coming around and then you’re pulling away

i don’t know why I wait and I wait
I’m looking for something but you’re not gonna change

Turn around and I see the hope fading
Now you’ve gone away

PLAYING THE GAME
Give me something to talk about
Take your time
Tell me something to do without
I’ll wait in line
I don’t know
What to say
Move along
Anyway
Take it slow
Lonely road
Is the path
That I seem to follow

All I want to do is be true to my ways
Leaning back and forward we’re playing the game
All this pain I’ve cause you I know it by name
Taking this ticket walking away

Taking all that has come and gone
You know we’re wrong

Watching everyone hum along
We’re still untold

Fall in love
Let it go
I don’t know
What it’s for
Take a stand
Falling down
Dig on in
Cuz it’s all that you’ve got now

TROUBLED TIMES
Waiting
You sit alone
Feelings have all faded
You’re wondering why you have stayed
You’re looking for some answers
Hoping there’s some other way
Just tell me when you’re ready
We’ll get you far far away
Far from these troubled times

Looking at the way you stand and fall
Seems like everything you’ve had is gone
Tell me that you’ve heard this all before
I’ll say it anyway

Leave this
You’ve seen that road
Just find another city
Get this out of your way
You’re hiding out wondering
How to get rid of this pain
You talk a bunch of nothing
Seems so easy to see
You’ve seen enough troubled times

SO LONELY
You once asked me
Why did I do it
Wasn’t nothing to it I found
Cuz you stole me
Thinking you owned me
But you’re so lonely now
And you were worried
Making up stories
Hoping I would be out
And you ruled me
Saying what would be
Now I just see you around

I’ll tell you something
You’re not gonna win this time because I’m through
You’re good for nothing
You saw right through me I don’t think you knew
Who the hell I was

And I was waiting
Thinking you were changing
Hoping you’d turn this around
But you were faking
Hanging on maybe
Now you’re just lost in the crowd
And you fooled me
Saying you knew me
You were just keeping me down
And you were crazy
Thinking you’d change me
Now I’m just walking on out

RUNNING AWAY
Did I tell you I knew your name
But it seems that I’ve lost it
Did I tell you it’s my own game
This is not your problem

I don’t know if I’m gonna change
Wasting time and another day

I keep running away
Even from the good things

DId I tell you it’s not that bad
Sitting over here dreaming
Did I tell you I’m right on track
This time I mean it

I don’t know if I’m gonna change
Wasting time and another day

I keep running away
Even from the good things

MAINSTAY
I don’t mean to tell you something about you
But you’re looking unsettled
Lone riders pulling all nighters
But you’re always nice and steady
Weigh stations got your troubles parading
But the problems never seem to hang on
Unabated so you must have been hated
Everybody’s got to clean up faking

I don’t wanna tell you cuz you’re looking that way
Fine tooth combing everyone that you know
Sit around and wonder how you keep up the mainstay
Take a look around can you fight this feeling

You’re fine looking but it seems you’re undusted
Have you anything to say
And roads traveled are desires unsaddled
But you’re going all the way
And I’ve fallen so you say that I’m wasted
But you’re moving on and doing nothin’
You’re losing faith in all the things that you’ve tasted
Don’t you know what you’re missing

CITY SYNDROME
Looking out at the city so bright
Not sure if it’s imagined or real
Show me something that you’d always want to hide
And then we’ll get away
You always wanted to say what you feel
But all those right hands keep telling you wrong
Got another who’s just stepping on your heels
Got to get away
Get away from

All these troubled and all of these lies
Find yourself a reason
Leave tonight
Take your chances
Feeling alright
And then we’ll fade away
Fade away tonight

Helpless highways looking alone
Seen nothing but the worst of your times
All in all it ‘s got you climbing up the walls
You gotta get away
Get away from

All these troubled and all of these lies
Find yourself a reason
Leave tonight
Take your chances
Feeling alright
And then we’ll fade away
Fade away tonight

WAYSIDE
It’s hard to come back when you’re far from home
Up all night with all that I’ve ever known
Wish I could give you things that you need
Wish I could need you but I walk alone

But I sit by the wayside
Feeling all that I’ve lost and found
We’ re so incomplete
But I know
I know I’ll never come around
But I’ve got you on my mind

Try to catch up but I fall behind
Too busy checking out what’s on the side
Wish I could tell you what you want to hear
Wish I could tell you that it’s all a lie

But I sit by the wayside
Feeling all that I’ve lost and found
We’ re so incomplete
But I know
I know I’ll never come around
But I’ve got you on my mind

HOME
Waiting for the sun to rise
Was it something I said
Feeling all that is right and wrong
Mixing up in my head
Won’t you just let me come around
Cuz you know that I can
Bring me back to just what I know
A home
I’m alone

All troubled pass in time
And we can make it through
You tell me that it’s not what I say
But what I can do
I can’t make it alone
I want to come home

Blinded by these city lights
Now they just got in the way
And it’s so lonely this evening town
It makes no sense anyway
Now it’s what you say that I’m riding on
Cuz all those times I let you down
You were there to stay

All troubles pass in time
And we can make it through
You tell me that it’s not what I say
But what I can do
I can’t make it alone
I want to come home

LOSING YOU
I saw a road that had no end
I wanted you
So I followed it
And what you take is what you should give
But the stories came
And the stories went
I gave so much of myself to you
But that’s alright
I wanted to
Nothing learned don’t know what to do
There’s no lesson here
I’m losing you

Now you wanted nothing we talked about
I thought I had
You figured out
I had so much to give you now
I was sure of you
But you had your doubts
Now don’t you worry you’re not to blame
I’ve been on your side
Playing those games
Now you’re just in a different place
There’s nothing left
Let’s walk away

AM has a new band Mondo Domingo and is playing Spaceland:
November 13th, at 8:45pm.

www. myspace. com/mondodomingo

Filter Magazine Presents Mondo Domingo at Spaceland

Spaceland
1717 Silverlake Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
w/ West Indian Girl
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Doors at 8:30, show at 8:45pm

Did anyone else see Fleet Foxes perform on Conan O’Brien last night? My keyboardist, Jesse turned me onto their Sun Giant EP and I’ve been hooked ever since. I saw them at my neighborhood club Spaceland here in LA this past summer and the live show was equally as compelling. It also didn’t hurt that before the show they were playing a track from Turkish psychedelic queen Selda. I knew before the show even started that it was going to be good. This is music you can believe in. It’s coming from an honest place and it’s made by people that are fans of music…good music. I was talking to a friend of mine a while back and I was marveling at how young Robin Pecknold is, the lead singer and songwriter of the band (22?) and how impressive it is that such a young guy could come up with such sophisticated melodies. My friend replied and said “it’s not that big of a deal man. Some of the greatest records in the 60′s and 70′s were recorded by people that young…we’re just not as used to that right now. Back then that shit was commonplace.” And he’s right. The Beatles broke up before any of them were 30 years old. James Taylor was 20 when he recorded his debut, Neil Young was 23 when he released his solo debut (and that was AFTER Buffalo Springfield)…and not to mention Stevie Wonder (11?). How much timeless music is being created by people in their teens/early twenties today? Hmmm. Robin Pecknold and the rest of the guys in Fleet Foxes deserve serious props. He’s doing what many people his age can’t. Working hard towards a vision and arming himself with all the right tools…listening to great music.

Growing up in Tulsa, OK, I heard Woody Guthrie’s name often (as well as some of the other Oklahoma greats- Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, Gary Busey- no lie…he was and/or is a badass drummer). After my migration to New Orleans and later Los Angeles Woody Guthrie’s music continued to be an unavoidable force. He’s had such an overwhelming influence on songwriters we are compelled to keep his music alive. And although I am familiar with Guthrie’s music I was not as familiar with his early life, so when an unexpected opportunity arose to see “Bound for Glory” on TCM I was all over it. The film was directed by one of my favorite filmmakers, Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Being There) and I was shocked I hadn’t seen it. David Carradine plays Guthrie and simply slays the part…and a young Randy Quaid also makes an appearance sporting the same gentle giant qualities as he did in another Ashby great “The Last Detail”. The film also briefly debut’s actress Mary Kay Place (Terms of Endearment, HBO’s “Big Love”)…another Tulsa native who my mom knew in high school…crazy. The film focuses on Guthrie’s early life in Pampa, Texas and his migration to Los Angeles (via a box car). His life and the sacrifices he makes for his art are so beyond most (if not all) songwriters today…but that topic is another discussion. So if you’re itching to find out more about the great Woody Guthrie’s early life, and you want to see an amazingly beautiful film in the process, check out “Bound for Glory”.

-AM

working on this site now

Janine has been an angel

hope to have it finished soon

finishing up new AM album before I head home to new orleans for the holidays

My new Latin side project Mondo Domingo is close to my heart– here is a song Love which is a quick studio mix for your listening pleasure.

are you listening?