1. To live in Manhattan with Tim Dillon for the next five years, starting at the end of this summer.

2. To be paid for writing about music and politics for the rest of my life.

3. To finish my record, There's No Place Like Nowhere, this year.

4. To volunteer for nonprofit work again, but peon stuff. No calling shots.

5. To utilize my networking skills ( Read more... )

I could be anywhere tomorrow. I could be rid of my life's work, severed at the umbilical cord of life, and sent into the abortive vacuums of the American Interstate Highways. I could be anywhere tomorrow. I could be halfway to the apartment upstairs, trying to find an argument with legs and willing to persuade them that their most beloved ( Read more... )

THE RETURN OF THE TAO OF STEVE!!!

"I'm the Max Rothman to your Adolf Hitler. If I don't encourage your art, you're going to go off and ruin something." - Stephen Bailey

More answers, notions, observations ( Read more... )

Aristotlian conclusions on the art of how I've been living my life for the past 6 months:

1. What is something's nature has very little to do with it's form. The relationship is as such: form can reflect nature, but nature can not reflect form. It's genesis is something of a father-son relationship, nature being the father. The son can reflect the ( Read more... )

As usual, the better I'm doing the less I'm writing in here. Just want to log in this mix for Ariane ( Read more... )

A cheesy little poem I found while my friend and I were talking about visiting each other ( Read more... )

Some mixes I don't want to lose ( Read more... )

Blizzard Born. Kissing Almost Strangers and Busy Midnight Intersections. n Also-Ran. Why Can't They All Come Back Like You.

Oh why can't they all come back like you?
Kissing almost strangers in the avenue,
You can't stand their clothes or their spray tans,
Locking arms with your fellow also ran,

The midnight intersection looked quite askew
As the judge's ( Read more... )

I realized I loved the photograph because it showed in the Beastie Boys
the exact quality that defines maturing and becoming someone in New York
City: It’s not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself. No
one finds themself, who they really are, in New York City. It’s not
natural to cram into subways, pay a ton of money for a very small
( Read more... )