Author Archives: Justin

I am a musician living in Norfolk, Va. I teach, perform and play the electric bass. I have an anxiety disorder which would be considered mild by most people’s standards but I consider it a complete and total pain in the ass. I have a beautiful wife that makes me laugh and a ridiculous amount of student loan debt– accrued while attending a prestigious music college– which is kept at bay by working a 9 to 5 job in a field I don’t give a crap about.

Luke: “The owner at Gosport really loved us. He’s already asked for three more dates to fin­ish up the rest of the year.” Justin: “Wow, that’s cool.” Luke: “Yeah, we played there before, but, last night he really loved us. He was like ‘What did you guys change this time?’ and I said ‘Well, we have …

I had one of my first nor­mal gigs (i.e. not an open mic) in awhile last night. I didn’t do fan­tas­tic and it was entirely my own fault. I didn’t pre­pare as I nor­mally would. I prac­ticed the setlist half-heartedly. I didn’t make the charts I would nor­mally have made. I really slacked off and I …

I am fat again. At one point I was down to 224lbs and now I am float­ing in the 245lb range closer to 250lbs. When I was feel­ing shitty with anx­i­ety, exer­cise and diet­ing was a way to exert con­trol over my life. Now that the anx­i­ety is sup­pressed by med­ica­tion, I think noth­ing of the …

Went up to James River State Park with Kim and her cousins this week­end. We row-row-rowed out boat for 6 miles and I loved it. I could make a reg­u­lar thing out of it.