I came to the Dresden Dolls party a little late. They were still a band and touring. I didn’t know that tour was going to be their last major one as a band. I was sucked into their music completely. Even more amazingly, so was my wife (who never ceases… Read the Rest »
I am starting to make a career of seeing Zoë Keating play her cello in unusual places. I have seen her in the airport, in a small club, opening for Imogen Heap, at a music festival in a small theater, and now the most unlikely place of all, a church…. Read the Rest »
It is hard for me to explain the emotions I am feeling right now. There are a lot of things in this world which send my thought process spinning off into an orbit of pain and dread. I want to believe somehow, someway, humanity will pull its collective head out… Read the Rest »
So we survived the floating tin can. While I completely love the ability to climb into the belly of the massive steely beast on one side of the country and exit on the other, I don’t think I will ever enjoy flying again. It just isn’t natural. My brain starts… Read the Rest »
I have always found a certain irony in my joy of singing being hampered by genetic inability to hold a note. I am sure if someone who really knew what they were doing got a hold of me they could make me less unbearable. Listening to me sing is cruel… Read the Rest »
Music transforms us. Makes us more than the sum of our parts. It has the ability to make us cry, smile, love, remember. There are not an infinite amount of musical notes in the world but there are an infinite amount of sounds which can be created with them. We… Read the Rest »
Tapping into my yesterday’s blog, there is a growing population that likes to attach the word geek to hobbies or passions. I am certainly no different. I am just amused it has become so acceptable. With that in mind I am about to blow my indie music street cred right… Read the Rest »
> I have been Mister Grumpy Pants this last week. It seemed like every time I turned around something in the news or on TV was ticking me off. It showed in my blogs. It isn’t that I think my blogs were bad, but damn I think I might need… Read the Rest »