Cavalier night walk

An elegant young woman, in a bright summer dress,

heads to her condo, fast food burger bag in hand.

She pauses

spins slightly

and  heads for the fenceline

Separating

her living space

from the world. 

She leans…

Since I see Jim Morrison flooding all my feeds, here’s a thought.

Isn’t it weird you rarely see mention of the Doors influence on alternative rock music? Is it because they are too jazzy, or because Morrison was kind of…

2:30 am. Almost at the front door. The dog pauses, staring to my left. 

About 50 feet away a large coyote, at the edge of the sidewalk staring back. 

Coyote starts to cross the street, freezes momentarily in…

Here's a thing I wrote in a feverish hour or so, last April, at the start of the current mess. There's more, in my head, as yet unfinished as motivation has fallen by the wayside this year, and the writing…

One of my new favourite things is this little Zoom recorder I grabbed for taping stuff in the rehearsal room. Sometimes the iPhone just doesn't cut it.

I wanna be able to edit and screw around with songs kind…

I’m a traditional kind of guy when it comes to rock bands. A guitar, bass, drums and keyboards kind of guy.  You can make a lot of noise with that line up, a lot of different glorious noises. 

Now…

When you start a new band, it’s really important to find that one guy.

You know, the one who believes in it, and is driven to make it happen.  It’s invaluable, because when you have doubt, or get discouraged…

And by Perversion Live, of course I mean the upcoming live e.p. The Perversion of Something Good.   

Once again, I get to do a project in my favourite way, old school, live off the floor. As a sort of…

It is 4 a.m. New Year’s Day.  

A new year? Well, that’s what they tell us.  Somehow even in my advancing age, I feel more tied to the school year. Those last weeks of summer actually feel more like…

I remember the first time I saw someone write a song.  I’d written stories and poems and just, stuff, since I was a kid. Writing words was something that I just did.  

I already knew that sometimes the words…

So here’s a new one. I’m working on a new song, a slow atmospheric dirge.  

I’ve got the headphones on and fall asleep with the thing on a loop.  

Vivid dreams occur… 

I’m in a 50s  Land…

One of my favourite parts of a show is the time after sound check, before the doors open.

It's quiet, private. It's you and the bands, the bar staff, the sound guy. Everyone is just hanging out, relaxing, enjoying…