July 23, 2012
Rather than continuing to post my incessant ramblings about how I can’t get my shit together, I’ve been trying to get my shit together. A few moments of inspiration around recording, philosophy or self-education have fed this blog, but other than that I’ve had a heap of things on the backburner. Every once in a […]
March 1, 2012
For a long time now, I’ve wanted to hack into a boombox, find the audio input on the circuit board and solder an input jack to it. There are so many totally functional boomboxes out there that are useless for those who keep music on an MP3 player. I tried this experiment a few years […]
November 14, 2011
My vacation from music is over, I’m happy to say. A long time ago, I started a YouTube channel where I was posting song sketches. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with it–or with the songs–but I wanted to try something different. I wanted to publish the groundwork rather than waiting until […]
October 17, 2011
Please help me distribute this zine to the Occupy movement. PDF link for digital viewing. Download this to read it on your computer. PDF link for printing a distributable booklet. Download, print and run through a copier to double-sided copies. Fold in half and staple. The blank page is there on purpose so the pages […]
October 16, 2011
Today I pulled together some loosely connected thoughts I’ve been sorting out. I’m working on a print publication–for now things will get posted here. I’m writing a lot, but mostly I do my editing on People’s Plaza, in the cold, on limited battery power, etc., behind the Teach-In booth. It’s an experiment. I’m acutely aware […]
October 11, 2011
Things are organized in such a way that anyone trying to meet their needs by making an honest living must first pay into a process that abuses the common good. Both in the work that we do and the dollars we spend, power drifts away from us, only to be applied against us. This, I […]
October 9, 2011
I saw a bumper sticker, blue and white with the little Obama logo, that read: “I’ll keep my guns and freedom, and you can keep the change.” I despise what the Right has done with the word freedom. It almost seems a dirty word, yet the concept is close to my heart. So it was […]
August 16, 2011
When I moved into my friend’s house in April there were three couches, a console TV and a dining room table in my new room. I decided to keep one of the couches in there, and we moved the rest of that stuff downstairs. My initial plan was just to sleep on the couch, but […]