Category Archives: Music

It’s my life. Sometimes I rant, sometimes I teach.

Shut Up, Jim

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 Promise This Will Be My Last Self-Help Post For Awhile

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

A Forced Effort

For every week that goes by that I thank God for the inven­tion of anti-anxiety and anti-depression med­ica­tions, there are occa­sion­ally some days where it feels as though I am tak­ing noth­ing at all. Those days are pure Hell: I can’t focus, I can’t keep my thoughts together, I am irri­ta­ble, I am rest­less, every­thing

our own way

Our Own Way — Hot Water Music we’ve seen some real hard times and i hope the hard­est are behind but there will be times when it will seem like we are caught some­place in between the ocean and the storm with­out a shore we’ll find our own way home and sing out every song we