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2018

  • September 5th, 2018. The Body I Always Wanted.

    covetous glare… I covet other’s bodies. I don’t mean I lustfully desire the physical charms of someone other than my wife… I mean I covet inhabiting a form other than mine. And I don’t mean that I wish to get RIPPED. I mean, that’d be great, but patience and will and genes and desiring chocolate…

  • September 3rd, 2018. Dreaming.

    Weird dreams last night. Probably a combination of ill-advised social media browsing, almost completing Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” which in itself is an exercise in bitterness and hatred of the world, some sad texts from friends and a touch of Bulleit to boot… it was one of those dreams that put you in a whole…

  • Early for the Show.

    The Bump N Grind smells delicious. It’s a relatively large (for a coffeehouse) kind of space and with its high ceilings, glass walls and concrete floors it comes across as being physically very similar to Teavolve. I’ve been invited here as the featured artist of a local legend – but as I’m finding with most…

  • August 28th, 2018.

    I hate people on general principles. Years of touring, seeing that there are wonderful people in the world et al can be very swiftly undermined in horrible not-so-subtle ways. Every day in the world of music and art it seems like there are such fantastic people willing to go out of their way for one…

  • rob Hinkal on Sense, Songwriting and Stuff…

    Across the street from Victor Litz Music Center there’s a small museum with a locomotive from 1919. A beautiful creature. Visiting this gave me a nice cooldown before going in to speak to the Songwriters Association of Washington in Gaithersberg on Saturday, August 25th. A couple of months ago Jay Keating of the Songwriter’s Association…

  • Caliber

    Hello, my name is: Third School in Three Years.Shuffled around where there’s money to spare.New list of classes, new list of names.So much that’s different, so much the same. When did I begin studying all the latches – Could I open themif my hands were shaking? That one painted shut …Cataloging all the places a…

  • August 22nd, 2018.

    SO I kind of just enjoyed the two of these guys together. August 17th found us going to see ANOTHER show : Gangstagrass! A fabulous show – though one that made me question purpose vs artistry. Still, Kristen got a big shoutout for her 4 Lights t-shirt from the MC who also hosts a Blerd…

  • August 17th, 2018.

    Tonight was kind of a hard night. It was a great day. A fabulous evening. Things didn’t really go awry till around 9pm, but then… bah. Okay, so the drive down to Annapolis kind of sucked, but at least there was a good reason… gross crane mismanagement… But once we got to Annapolis, it was…

  • Woe is the Question, but more Woe is the Questioner.

    There are definitely plenty of things you’ve got to ask for, fight for, beg for. But there are definitely opportunities and THINGS in this world that once you’ve had to ask for them, you never know what they’re worth. You don’t know if they are then offered begrudgingly or out of guilt – and unfortunately…

  • Music Brings Us… Together?!??!

    I’m not clear-headed this day. Up till 3am, body woke me up at 7.30 – the GPU on my computer outputs a LOT of heat so though I got right down to the video editing that needed to get done, the data offload that I’d LIKE to get done, the Life the Universe, the EVERYTHING…