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I have a new nickname. Jammer - Destroyer of Strings. At band rehearsal I broke 3 strings. The high "E" and "B" and amaz...

Road-blocks. Dead-ends. False starts. Stones in my Passway. Cross-roads. A bump in the road. A hiccup. A blow-up. A crash. A total fuck-up. ...

I studied Psychology in College. Kind of just fell into it. I was studying literature, and realized if I was gonna write anything of substan...

Bumped into a fellow "creator" yesterday. And had an amazing, enlightening, inspiring 15 minute conversation that resonated all d...

And then you sometimes wonder, what's gonna happen next?! Like this is all some grand narrative, and you have your part, and you're ...

Lately I'm finding everything funny. Not in a cynical, sarcastic way. Really. Just funny. Like Ha, Ha funny! For instance this, "Go...

I wrote about Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift here.  Just weird enough to be interesting. But also kind of a "stunt." And if I bu...

I love it when I find out that things that I think I know, are things  that I don't really, really   know . It happens often. It happens...

The Pope vs. fossil fuels?  That is an epic battle. The Pope has no army, but he does have a flock. Not infallible, but I like that he is sp...

The Punditocracy  is waiting, hoping, expecting Trump to say something so stupid, so putrid and so horrifyingly ridiculous, that finally, fi...

Yes, Greil Marcus' great book about music and America (see previous post) , reminded me of Randy Newman's great, great song "Sa...

Dwight Garner writes about his trusty companion, Greil Marcus' "Mystery Train."   When I hitchhiked across America I carried a...

Yes, wondering about when things go wrong. A friend of mine, very good with statistical analysis and abstract thinking commented: "It i...

It was after reading Peter Hook's great book about Joy Division that I ordered up a beautiful 2 CD package of Joy Division's fir...

Childfree!  Who knew we were living like Shakers, Cathars, Skoptsy, and Manichaeans? What does it take to be a childfree couple?  Why wou...

I have been uploading some stray whitewolfsonicprincess tracks to Sound Cloud. Decided to make Sound Cloud our sanctuary for "lost caus...

Why do I think Justin Bieber is ridiculous? I don't know. Why do I think Justin Bieber finding God funny?   I don't know. I guess G...

You look for your insight, your knowledge, your hard to define cool factor where you can. You realize it can come from any quarter. You mi...

Dread lifted (see previous post), don't know why... Jean Paul Sartre (damn him) tells me that I am responsible for everything . Eve...

Can't explain the "dread."   Not a "fear" to pinpoint. More of a cloud of apprehension that settles inside, or seem...