"I know I have to search the universe its true I'm sure there's no one else on Earth quite like you. Love like yours is hard to find.  And I'm over the moon that yours is mine." I was talking to someone

It's been a crazy couple of months, starting a freelance gig that equals out to a hundred mile commute every day, the frenzied holidays with relatives in town, lady with bronchitis, and now me staving off a cold four days before I'm about to fly to

On Christmas Eve we braved the Grove crowds to go to the farmer's market. Luckily the crowds weren't that bad. But we had a fun experience. Hanging out in a French spot,  a mariachi band showed up to sereande everyone. After the obligatory Feliz Navidad, they

After picking up a freelance job with a long-ass commute each way, it's eaten into any extra-curricular activities, let alone the activities I'm most driven to do, like writing.  But on Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the cash flow, as much as I am spending

Eighteen years seems like such a long time ago. But I can tell you exactly where I was in Pittsburgh when a man went on a killing spree, killing five and wounding a sixth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Baumhammers]. I know where I was because some of it

A friend of mine retweeted something from McSweeney's [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/let-us-help-you-kill-your-loved-ones-impractical-and-unattainable-dreams] that read, "At Dream Killers Ltd., we help our clients kill the impractical dreams of their loved ones and shepherd their naïve dreamers towards stable career paths such as accounting, chimney sweeping, or

Yesterday was day one of Music Tastes Good [https://mtglb.co/], a festival down in Long Beach that features musicians and duh, food. But not just food. They have cooking demonstrations by notable chefs in a very large hangar-sized tent, as well. While I wouldn't call it Oldchella,

I can tell you the exact place I was when I first heard Morphine. It was 1995. I was at school at Ithaca College, and my mom dad and brother were coming to visit and then go up to Montreal for a vacation. This was around the time of the

In New York on day four of a six day work trip. It took a few days of humidity to finally explode in a proper rainstorm, the kind that brings lightning and thunder and endless rushes of rain you somehow think you might be able to dodge if you run

Friday: Left at noon, thinking we'd beat the Labor Day traffic. The trip to Palm Springs is "normally" one hour and forty five minutes. It took us four hours. At least the first hour or so __  Facetimed with ___ so it was a nice little family moment.

Just started reading Closer You Are [https://www.amazon.com/Closer-You-Are-Robert-Pollard/dp/0306825767/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535220738&sr=8-1&keywords=closer+you+are+robert+pollard] : The story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices by Matthew Cutter last night, and am already more

Pittsburgh was under construction the week in August that I buried my father. The roads were dotted with orange cones. Buildings adorned with scaffolding. I flew in from L.A. on a flight that was delayed by four hours. I drove from the airport in a rented red Nissan Sentra,

Last night, someone tipped me off to the fact I go another Amazon review for New Roman Times [https://www.amazon.com/New-Roman-Times-Evan-Brown/dp/1732010129/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534081026&sr=8-1&keywords=new+roman+times] . It was hilarious. The person who hasn'

This is a fascinating, if languid documentary from 1956 explaining the process of making music. From recording it, to putting it on vinyl. What impressed me was how much care went in to the process, and yet how many they were able to make. The narrator tells us that one

It's a quiet Sunday morning in La-La Land. Birds are chirping, and my cat is making that weird chirp noise right back which is less of a "how do you do," and more of a "c'mere so I can tear your throat out.

I woke up today to the news that Frightened Rabbit's [https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8455547/frightened-rabbit-scott-hutchinson-dead-36] lead singer songwriter, Scott Hutchinson has been found dead after having gone missing on Wednesday. His struggles with mental health were well-known, and the band members (which include his

David Bowie's '...hours' is one of those often overlooked late-career albums that came after both the inscrutable, half-baked but awesome Outside, and the Bowie-discovers-drum-and-bass album Earthling. At first glance the album sounds incredibly direct, almost shockingly so. But recently I was reading that '...hours'

It took a few more months than I'd hoped, and it took a lot out emotionally and mentally, but I'm happy to say New Roman Times, the book based on the novel, is finally published and available for purchase at fine retailers everywhere, aka Amazon [https:

Got up for the usual early morning 5km walk to discover the street outside was flooded. I then ran into a maintenance man who lives in the building, out walking his dog. He told me there was a water main break and the entire neighborhood was without water. They'

I've had a Finnish penpal for close to 20 years. She introduced me to some amazing music over the years, including Jolly Jumpers, Black Audio, Sweeheart and 22-Pistepirkko. This song takes me back to one of the first few years we wrote each other and she put this

It's hard to believe there was a time when something could go viral without there being Twitter or Facebook or Reddit but back in 1998, Evolution Control Committee did just that with a little ditty called "Rocked By Rape." [http://evolution-control.com/index.php/discography/past-releases/