Whenever I meet someone from way back in my past who briefly hung out with my core group of friends I always get asked this question: "What happened to Tommy?" It makes sense because Tommy was a strange character whose mannerisms and appearance are almost impossible to describe. He was about 6'2 but only weighed about 130 pounds. He was a petty ( Read more... )

After a couple of weeks of being sick as shit, I'm finally starting to feel normal again. I was willing to go on Saturday before last, but was pretty glad that we didn't in hindsight. Work for the next three days was complete hell. It sucks trying to fight a nasty lung infection when it's cold and rainy outside. It got so bad that I thought I was ( Read more... )

March has been a pretty interesting month so far. Once again I'm in two bands, I decided to join forces with Ryan and Eric from Ursa in the quest to bring the songs of J.D. Reager to life in full band form. For me it'll never be more than a side project, just an opportunity to sit down and play some songs on piano. I've also been writing some tunes ( Read more... )

It's been a rather eventful weekend, a party one night, the next night I went to see my friend Ryan play at Otherlands, they've got a great sounding room there and a very intimate environment that's just big enough to not feel cramped. Been doing some stuff musically, writing some new tunes for a yet too be decided project, stuff that's way too ( Read more... )

It was cold today, that bitter cold where the winds torture every bit of exposed skin, making it feel like the blood beneath is in the process of turning to ice and your hands feel like blocks of frozen meat. Normally I shrug off the discomfort, but it's a bitch when you're fighting through sleep deprivation. Anyways, this day sucked like most days ( Read more... )

That's what I really need right now. Something journal worthy, something cool to happen. There hasn't really been a whole lot of that going around lately. I've played a few shows, but nothing too exciting happened at any of those. Work has been really boring aside from the tornado a couple of weeks ago. However, I will begin bartending again in ( Read more... )

That storm was pretty damn intense. Around 5 yesterday I was inside the uppers compartment of an A310 Airbus trying to finish up the last airplane of the day. On the ramp you can see things that are miles away and I thought I'd seen a funnel cloud forming off to the northeast of us, now that I've seen the pictures taken by people on the channel ( Read more... )

I'm resting and recouperating from fun but draining road trip over a three day weekend. The Adversary played a show in St Louis with The Soul Descenders, a trade from a previous show we had booked with them in early December. We packed and left early Saturday morning, I was running on about an hour of sleep, but I was still pretty alert from the ( Read more... )

So there is one more night of this holiday season and we can put 2007 to rest. For me it's been an eventful one, and quite honestly I'm not even sure if I'll bother with participating in the fun this evening. The last several nights have been one continuous blur of socializing and drinking. The year has been interesting and eventful, and for me not ( Read more... )

So this is how it works. Last night I have a good fucking time hanging out with some friends who I don't see very often, play a gig for an attentive audience and pound a few beers along the way. Then today I have to get rained on for almost seven hours straight, tired as fuck from the late night out. I guess the scales had to be balanced out, good ( Read more... )