No more soft drinks after I finish off the case of Vanilla Coke I bought last week.  Why do people ingest this stuff?  For years, I've allowed myself to brush aside the fact that it can dissolve nails; today, I feel it churning in my stomach, threatening to ignite the ever-present threat I face from acid reflux disease.  (The other night, I got it ( Read more... )

WAR IS OVER!

IF YOU WANT IT

Merry Christmas from John & Yoko

I'm very excited. I am now in possession of two things I desperately needed as a self-recording enthusiast. An 8-channel preamp and an 18-in/14-out multi-channel audio interface, both with ADAT Lightpipe transfer. Basically, what this means, is I will no longer have to pre-mix the drum mics on a PA and then send it onto the computer in 2-channel ( Read more... )

Well, I finally heard it from the proverbial horse's mouth. I've known it for years, but it kept me sane to at least have the capacity to doubt it. Now, however, I can't. It's been said to my face ( Read more... )

I really need money. It hits home every time I realize the back-log of music I am amassing, each release of which will cost more than a thousand dollars. Between the AFM and Til Heidurs Um, I have seven or eight solo albums in the works, and World Line has an EP and a full length in planning ( Read more... )

A friend (and inspiration) of mine recently said that on his website and it hit me in a particularly close way. I feel that way all the time.

I recently got done with the second AFM album, Promises of the Young, and after trying it out in three incarnations, I decided to scrap the whole thing. I spent a whole year recording it throughout various ( Read more... )

Did anyone in the N.E. Ohio / N.W. PA area hear what I heard at about 2:15 in the morning, Monday, November 12, 2007 ( Read more... )

I envy my friends. Their talents are endless. I sometimes feel like I lack the wit, the wisdom, the creativity that they have. That I don't perceive things the way they do, and I wish I did. I truly look up to the minds in the heads of those people I hold dear.

Now that I own a business (I started the record label, after all these years) and have taken an accounting class, I try to be a hell of a lot more careful about keeping track of my financial activities. I was not always this way. My checkbook is filled with sudden time gaps and little notes: "BALANCE AS OF..." I simply wait for my statement to ( Read more... )

I was sifting through some old boxes today and I found some things from Marysa. Like an idiot, I read them all the way through.

I know I've talked about her a lot to you, my friends, and I've tried to delineate just how severe the situation was/is. Now, I have some evidence to really bring it home.

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