When I graduated from Berklee College of Music I moved back to Virginia because I didn’t know what else to do. I probably should have gone somewhere else, maybe New York or Los Angeles like every other Berklee grad does. I don’t know what I would have done there either, much less how I would [...]
This is how I’ve been feeling lately. My Berklee diploma: a framed, $150,000 dollar sheet of rough toilet paper.
You tell everyone it’s a great way to meet people, a great way to find cool indie bands, and a maybe you think it’s a much-needed extra hand in the Getting Laid Dept. It’s aol for the socially elite. It’s the open source SUV of the blog world: totally uneccessary but how did we live [...]
There is a lot in the news, again, about the responsibility of tobacco companies advertising to kids. I don’t support or condone kids smoking cigarettes and I do not smoke myself. Still, I do not believe that as long as cigarettes are made legal, they will be out of the hands of kids any time [...]
For the last week the weather has been pretty awesome. Stuck in the low 70’s without a cloud in the sky. I’ve taken advantage of this beautiful weather and exercised one of my personal rituals of driving fast and rocking out Who’s Next with the windows rolled down.
Some of my earliest childhood memories involve the [...]
Awesome show the other night at Patty O’Brien’s (The Castle). The owner told Jay it was the most people they’d ever had in there. We played well, had a good time, and I saw some friendly faces. I want to play more shows in Olde Towne. That’s a totally differtent place at night. Lot’s of [...]
Sometimes I lament my adolescent years. I never did any of the stupid fashion things teenagers do: no piercings or tattoos, never dyed my hair, no mohawks, no studded belts, etc. etc. I regret it because I feel like I am now just passing the cusp of being too old to do those things without [...]
You wouldn’t believe how many of these stupid shirts I have sold.
Despite my exhaustive blogs concerning my life as a musician, “Virginia is for losers” is the second most popular keyphrase searches that will lead you to this site.
The most popular search is for “peppermint beach club.” The gig I played there with the Jay [...]
