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January 2018

  • January 31st, 2018.

    Tonight I was booked to not just play, but to run a showcase to boot. Liz (credited with the below photo) had been looking for some new regular event at her venue in Gaithersburg – and we’d talked about a couple of things. Though I’d LOVE to be running a new open mic, and this…

  • January 29th, 2018.

    This is how every home coming ought to be. I’m tired tonight. Friday night we had a band practice, Saturday night we had a pretty massive gig. Sunday night I was at a showcase for hours and tonight was my open mic. I think my ears are tired. In school we’d have “rest periods” where…

  • January 25th, 2018.

    Our friend Colleen died yesterday of the flu. Completely out of the blue. I’m stunned. She was 41 and beautiful and stunning – so she had that effect in Life as she does in death. As far as we could tell she was healthy and fit and 48 hours ago she was posting about having…

  • January 22nd, 2018.

    My office for January 18th – doing some studio time at Asparagus Media in Takoma Park, MD. This is completely unrelated to the hate below. Also unrelated to the hate…. Heather and I at Hershey’s in Gaithersburg, MD on January 19th. I hate it. I hate how my brain just rehashes, reviews, reshows things. It’s…

  • January 17th, 2018.

    Oh, hey snow! I’d been wondering when you were gonna get here. Now I wonder how long you’ll stay. My car’s in the shop, I’ve got no place to be, the only entity in the house that seems really iffy about your presence is the neighbour’s cat, and I sort of think that some of…

  • January 16th, 2018.

    Yesterday was a not-very-funny comedy of errors. I was NOT ready to go back to my open mic mentally, and I think that that translated into the physical. I’d been chatting with a friend and my mind had been going back to all the negatives of running the open mic because – we hadn’t had…

  • January 14th, 2018.

    We’ve been focusing on making sure we highlight Rowan as a frontman more frequently. It seems to be working out well! We returned to the Old Bowie Town Grille last night and though onstage I was happy with myself, offstage I was displeased. I was funny and charming and played guitar like a motherfuckin’ FIRE…

  • January 12th, 2018.

    Oh woe is me. Christmas is dead. We took out the tree. The last week or so has been remarkably lack-lustre, plus or minus having a really fun band practice – but other than that – I mean, open mic got canceled after already being on a two week hiatus… Hell, I haven’t even started…