The time is near. I can feel it in my bones that I'm due for another catastrophe. Roughly once per quarter I'm beset by some great trial. It's been about three months since my van got stolen. Roughly three months prior to that my old band's singer had a drug induced meltdown and broke into my house, nullifying a great rock and roll group and my ( Read more... )

The Christmas/New Year's season has been quite pleasant, if not altogether exciting. It has thusfar featured myself and Ben the Roommate feasting upon mashed pertaters, cherry pie and Omaha Steaks. Reminds me of home ( Read more... )

Has anyone else noticed the lack of good Christmas music in the last thirty years or so? If I'm not mistaken, the newest songs that could be considered part of the cannon would be John Lennon's Happy Christmas, War is Over, stuff from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, and the Chipmunk's Christmas Song. Classics, to be sure, but are we supposed ( Read more... )

Our show's been moved to the Art Bar (still 2pm). Right next to my house. Rock.

I can't believe I haven't been hyping the hell out of my band's debut performance. I've been busy and all, but there's always time for shameless self promotion ( Read more... )

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With about a day left in National Novel Writing Month, I'm sitting at 43,004 out of 50,000 words ( Read more... )

Well, my new rock and roll band is in full swing. We've got almost four songs done already. I'm thrilled, as we've been incredibly productive, and fairly experimental, to boot. It's different than Chief Joseph, though we do rock. We're a little more arty (we've even got a member named Art!). It sounds not unlike Remy Zero ( Read more... )

I careened in at 5:30am from the Strokes show in Boca Raton last night. It kicked some ass. It was actually one of the most pleasant concert experiences I've had. No lines, a big crowd, but a porous one, which meant you could move around pretty easily ( Read more... )

To go with my novel-in-a-month fiasco-in-progress, I'm now helping to assemble a fully-functioning rock and roll band in the same time span. Dec. 15 at the Marquee Theater is the place. The band is called Spacebar. Given that it's a short amount of time, and since these are musicians we're talking about, this may all very well explode in all our ( Read more... )