Hope everyone had a happy 4th of July!

In the same week I saw the reunited Police twice and  finally got to play a show with Zachary Charles Hill.  Very exciting and humbling.

Everyone's been talking about reading lately, here's my summer reading list:

Improvisation: It's Nature and Practice in Music by Derek Bailey

Here, There, and Everywhere: My ( Read more... )

On a public computer in a library in Oregon, Ohio. This tour has been really fun, we have about two weeks left. Homecoming show is August 14 at J&J's Pizza in Denton. I hope you are all doing well, I miss you guys. Tomorrow we play the Toledo Indiepop Fest. These kids that are like, 17, 18 put this big thing together to bring exposure to bands ( Read more... )

Alright, pushing 6 months since my last update, I hope everyone had a good semester, I played probably about 10 to 15 gigs with 5 different bands and still managed to pull at least one A, so I'm pretty stoked on that ( Read more... )

I hope everyone's holidays are going well, if you're looking for something to do tomorrow night, I will be playing drums for Fishboy at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton, TX. It should be a fun show.

They FINALLY started making green and white chess board Vans. I was stoked, and had Christmas money to purchase them. Rockin

Ok so after 4 months of no update and only lurking and occasional comments I thought I'd do an update ( Read more... )

I just got back a little while ago from my awesome road trip with Andrew up to Muskogee, OK for our friend Jacob's wedding. It was so rad, lots of laughs and bad singing along to the Beatles and stuff ( Read more... )

I saw the funniest Jack in the Box commercial ever today on the Spanish Channel, cos I was watching Lucha Libre. It's one of the commercials for the "Win Jack's Stuff" promotion and it had someone pitching the idea of Jack being a luchador, so it cut to him in the ring with a lucha libre mask over his giant ball head. It was awesome ( Read more... )

I just got home from one of the greatest nights of my life. My good friend Zach's band Team Sleep (featuring Chino of the Deftones) rolled into town tonight (yesterday, Sunday) to play Trees. When I arrived at the venue this afternoon I had no clue what would be instore. But it was absolutely incredible. Zach got me an all access pass which was ( Read more... )

Things have been rad lately. Over spring break I went down to Austin to see my buddies Hella tear it up. It was really great seeing them after 10 months, Spencer (the guitarist) and I had some really good conversations this time, it was the first time I'd felt like he really liked me and that I wasn't just getting on his nerves. I also got along ( Read more... )

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