It has been a terrible few months. Things have been rather bleak and while it might have been therapeutic to post about each little horrible detail I’ve found myself going even more numb and distant than typical in the winter months. Eventually I might share the tale but rest assured it featured all the traditional crash landings that I’ve come to ( Read more... )

for better or worse i (or at least my alter ego rien) will be playing a show at the Urban Lounge this Friday (the 13th no less) as part of

SLUG Magazine’s Localized monthly concert series with Subrosa and The Opiate Eye.

If you’re in Salt Lake swing by and at least catch 
Subrosa because they’re a noisy bunch of girls.

xoxo

Anyone interested in reading my interview with Roger O'Donnell can do so here. He was quite frank and strangely enough decided to give me a bit of "exclusive" info. It has only been on line for nearly 36 hours and already nearly has 2,000 reads. It has been the most flattering writing experience of my life.

I should have a She Wants Revenge article ( Read more... )

Mini update:

first draft of Unexpected Son “finished” and given to editor (although I’ve since added a few bits and will continue to do so as needed)

you can also begin to circulate rumors that the oft promised but perpetually delayed music entity known as rien will be playing a gig in September (perhaps a warm up or two as well)  audio ( Read more... )

You Are Kermit
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Sundance Film Festival

My Sundance experience was a bit different this year; thankfully so. My friend Maddy who is back in Utah while she awaits her visa to be approved so she can legally go back to Scotland has a friend named Reneau who was an executive producer on the film Stephanie Daily. The lot of us went to the premier and the after party. ( Read more... )

I suppose some sort of update is in order ( Read more... )

I find myself sitting in my parent's house and it's coming on 11. Everyone else is preparing for bed and I’m setting in and staring at the fact that I won’t be asleep for at least another hour. There is a constant restlessness that stirs me. No matter how tired sleep runs from me ( Read more... )

As a last minute adventure I found myself in Denver watching some band called Bauhaus at the Paramount Theater this past weekend. It was a wonderful performance, although not quite as tremendous as their Coachella appearance it was twice as long (which still isn’t long enough). Quite frankly they’re one of the best bands ever, live or otherwise and ( Read more... )

there has been a bleakness to my life for many years. all these years i’ve spent trying to sort myself out so that i could be something more… have they been wasted? there is a purpose to life, it wakes me, beats me around and then kisses me goodnight. there is progress and given a little time there will be a hope that is more than a whisper, more ( Read more... )