Ask Me Why

I love you, cause you tell me things I want to know

And it's true that it really only goes to show

That I know that I,

Should never, never, never be blue

Now you're mine, my happiness still makes me cry

And in time, you'll understand the reason why

If I cry, it's not because I'm sad

But you're the only love that I've ever had

I can't believe it's happened to me

I can't conceive of any more misery

Ask me why, I'll say I love you

And I'm always thinking of you

 

LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!!

 

 

Tom Stoppard

Little sweetheart, the playwright Tom Stoppard has passed away. I wrote this (below) this moring and posted it on some of our socials:

Tom Stoppard has passed away.

Summer was in the first regional production of his play, "Rock n Roll" - which may have been her favorite job ever - a co-production of San Francisco's ACT and Boston's Huntington Theatre.

 

While she was waiting in the wings to go on just before curtain one night at The Geary, Stoppard ambled out the shadows and told her he loved her work on his play. She was stunned and delighted and managed to compose herself before her indescribably memorable entrance, which was akin to Cleopatra arriving on her royal barge.

 

I already liked and admired him but this made me love the fuckin' guy.

 

God bless and rest you, Mr S. I think there's a red headed siren up there waiting to greet you. Maybe you have another role for her...

 

 

 

 

Brideshead

After texting your parents and releasing the new video on your birthday today, little sweetheart, I haven't really known what to do with myself. I certainly have a lot of work to do - writing our book and working on the next BPX album. 

Tonight, after a while, I've found myself beginning to watch one of our "stories". 

How well I remember that that's what you called movies and premium serial television in our wonderful days in tandem. In those pre-streaming times, we would procure DVDs from Netflix (arriving in the mail most days in their iconic red envelopes) or one of our favorite video stores in NYC, SF or Davis. You told me that it was important to you to "end the day watching a story with my partner". I was so grateful to called yours! 

One of our favorites was a BBC series we stumbled upon at that great old video store here in NYC, in Chelsea, Alan's Alley. I think he fell half in love with you the very first time we visited the story! He always wanted to suggest something he thought we might like and one night he pointed us to "Brideshead Revisited"  - the 1981 BBC mini-series based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, starring Jeremy Irons (one of your favorite actors). We took the first disc home and loved it! So, I ran down every day or two to return it and get another. I loved how much you liked it and I loved watching it with you. 

I bought the box set a few years ago and tonight seemed right to watch it again. As usual, you gave me the answer! 

Thank you, my little sweetheart! Thinking of you now and always. Happy Birthday! Love you forever. 

Hold My Soul

Here's the new video we released today in honor of your birthday, little sweetheart. It's for "Hold My Soul" from our 12th album, Memories of the Sky. Happy Birthday! Love you forever. 

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, my little sweetheart! Thinking of you, as always, and remembering the wonderful times we had together on three of your birthdays:

The first in Boston when you were doing Rock n Roll at The Huntington. The next in San Francisco when I spent the week gathering presents for you including your main gift (surprising you with a pair of long feathered earrings we'd seen together at Needles & Pens, in The Mission) and in 2010 when I took you to the hot springs in Calistoga (picture from our dinner there that night below!). 

I stayed up late last night working on a new Bipolar Explorer video that we released this morning in your honor. It's on our YouTube channel. 

I love you with all my heart. Happy Birthday, little sweetheart! 

Always Something There to Remind Me

Little sweetheart, I think you were always rolling your eyes over how sentimental I could be about things, especially movies that made me think of you, of us. 

Tonight, again, MGM+ is airing "Almost Famous", which I often associate with you, even though I'm not sure we ever watched it together! What I most recall was those several months when I was living out in Marin with Chris & Sheri - so close to you but so far away, too. We saw each other often and spoke each day but I longed for you every night we were apart - only across the bay for once instead of across a continent, but still! 

Often, in the little guest room where I slept, I would watch episodes of The West Wing - you'd lent me the Serafin family DVD set of Season 1-4 from the family DVD collection in Davis - but I'd often end the night watching clips of "Almost Famous" in particular the one where they all sing on the bus. Where William says to Penny, what I knew so deeply in my heart.

W: I have to go home.

P: You are home. 

You are my treasure. And I love you forever.