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.
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.
There's this thing that happens to me periodically- I remember something that I wrote years ago- like, 25 or even more years ago. I decide I NEED to read it because I have a sense that it was good, or…Read more
Summer, as an adult anyway, is about grabbing what fun you can. Ideally we'd all have that June to August period off with nothing to do like when I was a kid. I kind of wish I could sign myself…Read more
A couple of years ago, Christian asked me to give him piano lessons. I was wary of this undertaking, mainly because we are polar opposites in our approach to anything creative or instructive, and we’re prone to epic spats. I…Read more
So- here’s a thing. I was talking with to a friend and mentioned that I liked her dress that was covered in crosses. During a brief chat she drops this on me: “statistically the McDonald’s M is a more recognized…Read more
Here's a bit of spoken word weirdness from the latest round of songwriting. When I get stuck on something, I just move on to something else. Messing around with some noise seemed fun at the time. I'm not sure what…Read more