Comfort Zone

September 15, 2012

it starts and then it stops it never goes away I’m eating up my time I’ll make it up someday they’re running up a wall it’s crazy how they climb I don’t understand at all it’s funny how we fall there’s nothing in the way of what we’re trying to get to know you get […]

Summer Fuzz

July 24, 2012

I don’t know the problem anymore I could look forever and not see more than sky you pick at your thoughts and there’s always something bigger coming right up behind down and out and about separate the pressure from what keeps you alive fuzz me out nowhere to go, no time to arrive the summer […]

Three River Mini Bicycle Tour

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 […]

The 1-watt power amp

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 […]

I’m recording and you get to watch.

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 […]

It’s a Good Day to Face the Hard Things

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 […]

Notes on Marx and the Project of Ideology

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 […]

To the Occupiers, Now and to Come:

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 […]