Second only to “not having to drive a car” I envy the convenient close-proximity of quality corporate food chains like Au Bon Pain that Boston– or any major city– has to offer. (And that IS the rub when living in a major city: you want to wage wanton protest against corporate chains because you have [...]
I know dick about electrical systems. Please advise.
When Kim and I moved into our apartment last May we knew that living in an older building was going to have some idiosyncracies that we’d not experienced in the past. The primary one for us has been that, especially during the summer when we have the AC [...]
I can’t find my hat and I’m a freaking wreck over it. I know there are real problems in the world but I’ll be damned if they matter to me so long as I lost my hat. Back in 2005 I had expressed to Kim, who I’d only been dating for about a year or [...]
I really would love for them to come stateside, but if they never do I am just glad that they are doing something.
It isn’t typically my style to hotlink webcomics but if this isn’t just the perfect expression of how I, and so many of my friends, view their love-hate-love relationship with the internet.
I only tend to blog when things are wrong or when I am feeling snarky and that’s just not the way it should be.
Ten things:
Turning 30 is the best thing to ever happen to my 20’s.
Marrying Kim was one of my more intelligent decisions.
My weight is still in the mid 220’s.
While I feel like my [...]
Men of Letters is an unusual project I’ve been working on with my friend Brett Miller. The original intent was to create creative, versatile music that could be used in a commercial setting (video games, film, TV, etc.) but I think it went a bit beyond our original intentions.
This is very different stuff for both [...]
Getting home at 4AM because you’ve been out playing music with awesome musicians and eating diner food with your best friends is really all I ever want to do with my life.
I saw this video on VH-1 about a month ago and it has been haunting me ever since. I think I dreamed myself explaining it to someone last night. It’s astounding how such a joyful tune can have an entirely different meaning when put into a different context. I’m not an especially big Beatles fan, [...]
I just gave a productive lesson to a student concerning the modes of the major scale. We’d gone over them in the past but this was the first time I think he really had a lightbulb moment and GOT it. I won’t bore you with too many of the mundane details concerning diatonic music theory, [...]
