Here we are, Folks. Alone with our flab. It’s been a long few days of eating and no purging. It is time to begin the great unbuttering. Is turkey even good? I don’t think it is. I never eat it. Once a ...
Read More →Dispatches
Turkey Day Cage Match.
Here it comes, People. Another Thanksgiving. How’s your hope holding up? I have none. I’m okay with it. I guess hope isn’t necessary to experience gratitude. It would seem almost the opposite would be a ...
Read More →Sugar and Meat.
Sugar and meat, People! I haven’t been to NYC since the before times. I didn’t know what to expect but it was great. I talk to my friend Lipsyte every day so I had a sense that things were opening up ...
Read More →Pumpkin Pie.
Right, Ladies? Right, Fellas? We all…I don’t know. I don’t know what any of you do. I don’t know your lives. I’m glad I can understand most people’s peccadilloes and weird habits but I don’t have to ...
Read More →Existential Rage.
The deep, Folks. Things come around. Bad things mostly. Sometimes good things. When I think about the idea of coming around it always relates to patterns. Cycles of behavior, feelings, a return back ...
Read More →We Need the Water.
Let it rain, People! I have never craved rain before living in Los Angeles. It gets to a point out here where I don’t even know how any vegetation is persisting. When I go on a hike, it all just ...
Read More →Purging.
Getting shit done, People! I mean, kinda. I’m purging my house. I’m trying to get rid of anything that brings me sadness or seems useless. I finally went through the cabinets with the remaining ...
Read More →Vessel Repair.
How are you, People? I’m in pain. Physical pain. Like, all the time. It’s my own fault. I have to choose between beating the shit out of myself mentally or beating the shit out of myself physically so I ...
Read More →Dark Frequencies.
Indiana, People! I’m back from Bloomington and home for a while. The material is coming along fine. I’m still riffing stuff out and need to lighten it up a bit. Shit is dark. I usually go to Bloomington ...
Read More →Grievance Addiction.
Home for a couple of days, People. The Seattle and Portland shows were great. I scheduled them so I could get a day or two in each town as well as the shows. Dean came with me. We did the Seattle show at ...
Read More →The Catch.
Back for a couple of days, Folks.I have to say I haven’t changed my mind about Missouri but St. Louis is great. When I travel I don’t always know where I am. I remember some things from some places. ...
Read More →A Nagging Feeling.
Jazz, People!I know it’s ridiculous but I’m just now getting into Bill Evans. I don’t want to hear anything about it. There is no more late-to-the-party. Some people will go through their entire lives ...
Read More →Freaked Out.
No more good news, People!It really feels that way. I guess I’ve said it before. I just seems like there’s not going to be any good news about anything ever again. Now we have to grade the news on a ...
Read More →In the Music.
I rocked it pretty well, Folks!The combo played Largo. We have no name for the band because I wasn’t sure we were going to be a band for the long haul and obviously we may not be. I do think we will do it ...
Read More →A Nice Theocracy.
Back from Utah, Folks! I did five great shows in SLC. I mean it. Really connected, wild shows. With a lot of exploring, riffing. I loved to riff on the Mormons and they seem to like it as ...
Read More →Evolution
Panic, People.Am I the only one on the edge of total panic most of the time? I’m surprised I haven’t lost my shit, like at all, in terms of panic. Not in years really. It must be because I’m older and I ...
Read More →Structure and Themes.
The smoky, orange haze is upon us, Folks.I was in Denver for three days. There are no fires in the immediate vicinity but the fires that are tearing through Northern California are generating so much ...
Read More →The Edge of Tension.
The heaviness, People.Rodney called it the heaviness.That weight in your chest that you are trying to pull up with your mind. That sinking heartache. It’s depression if it’s depression. It’s sadness if ...
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