Father’s Day, 29th Wedding Anniversary, A Full House…

This weekend was a good one. It’s not often that all of our kids are back home and under one roof, so when those weekends happen they’re ones to remember. Most of last week I was dealing with some serious sinus issues. I think it was a combination of my daughter’s pooch Celeste being over […]

Songs From Childhood : Living Rent Free In My Head

There are songs that stay with you for life for very specific reasons. Hearing a tune on the radio at a pivotal point in your life; maybe a death, a birth, a break-up, a declaration of love. These songs become more than the sum of their parts to you because they’ve grown roots in a […]

High On Miles : Electric And Live

I don’t think I will ever come to the day where Miles Davis doesn’t fascinate me. Even if I didn’t connect musically, the guy is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. His phases so completely defined as an artist that there’s literally lines separating them; chapters in a book as dense as Pynchon, but taken […]

Out Past My Bedtime

Man, I’m tired. I’m a creature of habit, and that includes most aspects of my day to day. From the coffee I drink in the morning, to meal time most days, to writing and working on music, to exercise, to the beer I drink Fridays after work. And most importantly, bedtime. I’m in bed usually […]

A Cut And A Shave

The first haircut I remember was at some barber shop downtown in an old house. You had to take stairs on the outside of the building up to a small room with 2 barber chairs and a crusty old guy waiting with little patience. I imagine him as a barber in the army giddily cutting […]

Pruning

I spent about four hours over the weekend going through nearly 14 years of blog posts and cutting away at those old thoughts and ramblings. Well, to be honest my ramblings are what I kept on these pages. There were all kinds of filler, band interviews, song premieres, one-offs for random artists reaching out going […]

Breathe It In…It’s Friday

I know that Friday is different for everyone. The weekend workers, retirees, unemployed, and the off the gridders probably don’t care about Friday. Just another day, amirite? Well, for those of us that do the 9 to 5 Monday thru Friday, Friday is church. It’s Holy Ground in an unholy, corporate world. It means you […]

Comfy Synth? Dungeon Synth? I’m Here For It

Last June I posted something about the band Covered Bridges. Someone had commented on a post of mine and had recommended the band, which is under the genre of “comfy synth”. I decided to look the band up and was surprised at how little information I could find out about the person behind Covered Bridges. […]

Sometimes, You’re Just Sad

It’s been a pretty lousy last month if I’m being honest. Sick over my spring vacation, sharing that sickness with my elderly parents, one of my best friends and longtime co-worker has a heart attack and is out of commission for three months, and then there’s the month of May. May is one of those […]

“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

July, 2004. We were a family of four living a pretty great life. We’d always imagined that we would have 2 kids, a dog, house in the woods and jobs to keep the cupboards full and a roof over our heads. The year before we’d traded my wife’s 1994 Nissan Maxima in for a brand […]