Give My Friend Emily Your Money And I Will Give You Good Music & Books & Love

1. This is my buddy Emily Richmond, playing guitar on my couch. Emily’s sailing around the world, all by herself, on a beautiful boat named Bobbie. Right now she’s on her way from Pago Pago to Papua New Guinea and she’s got a Kickstarter going to help raise the dough she needs to take care of some major Bobbie repairs and continue her journey. Emily’s Kickstarter ends tomorrow at 8:59 p.m. Pacific standard time, and at press time she’s got $3,915 to go. Go here to back her project and get fun rewards like sailor tattoos and neon sunglasses or even a message in a bottle (!).

2. This is a little book I made, called A Hard Day’s Night. Emily Richmond is a very important character in the story, right from the first sentence. She’s kind of like my Jiminy Cricket, a “moral compass” if you will, but in a really chill and non-judgy sort of way. Anyway, if you back Emily’s Kickstarter, I’ll send you a complimentary copy of A Hard Day’s Night. And if you back Emily’s Kickstarter and link to her Kickstarter page on your Twitter/blog/Tumblr, I’ll throw in a copy of my zine Like Dreamers Do too. (Email me about how to make all this happen.)

3. This is a playlist of songs that remind me of Emily, because Emily loves them or because they sound like the ocean or because they’re about surfing (Emily and I used to go surfing together). Listen to these songs over and over and over and just let the music crack your heart (and your wallet!) wide, wide open.

4. This is Emily Richmond’s dog Sailor, aka Red Dog. I took this picture one night two autumns ago when Emily and I ate mediocre Vietnamese food at some restaurant in Venice and then got tall boys of Tecate and went for a moonlit walk on the beach and talked about dudes. If I can’t “kickstart your heart” with bromantic proclamations and good music and books, then I guess I’ll just have to play the cute-dog-pic card. So there, I did it. Who could resist a face like this?

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Tags: books, dogs, dreams, Emily Richmond, rock and roll, the ocean

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