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Apr
09

Show Alert: Brooklyn

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I'm psyched to be heading to Brooklyn this Saturday to play one of the last shows at the incredible Secret Project Robot. The full line-up: Upper Wilds (ex-Parts and Labor, current Dan Friel) Beech Creeps (Ex-Models, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) New Pope (Oneida, Starring) Joel Roston (like, literally [...]
Jun
05

Squatters’ Rites

in Blog, Just For Fun, Total Friendship tags: Liz Prince, marriage

So, my pal, comic artist and homeowner Liz Prince, made the trip to Boston from the snowy hinterlands of Portland, Maine a few weeks ago and landed in my living room for a hang/screening of Gremlins.

Jun
27

Let’s Talk About Love

in Blog, Friendship, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun, Total Friendship tags: Foreigner, Jordyn Bonds, precociousness, V

I think it’s fair to say that each of us can look back on our childhood(s) and remember times when we did our dang best to make sense of something, but, due to our limited understanding and experience with the world, just couldn’t put the pieces together correctly.

Jun
10

Me and “Me and Bobby McGee”

in Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun, Total Friendship

I don’t consider myself to be a Janis Joplin fan. I don’t dislike Janis Joplin; I just kind of don’t really consider her. The only reason she’s even on my musical radar is that I’m a Willie Nelson fan, which means that I’m ambiently aware of Kris Kristofferson and Kris Kristofferson wrote “Me and Bobby McGee,” a version of which was, of course, sung by Janis Joplin.

Feb
13

My Friend BJ

in Blog, Friendship, Just For Fun, Total Friendship
  Here’s a story about my friend BJ, which I’ll call: BJ Warshaw and How Life Works SometimesI met BJ while living in Brooklyn, NY in the year 2000. We were both music/band-people and we met through other, mutual music/band-people-friends. Fifteen years later, BJ is s[...]
Jun
26

Retrofret

in Blog, Friendship, Just For Fun, Total Friendship
[caption id="attachment_1105" align="alignleft" width="158"] 1866 Torres[/caption] A couple of days ago, I had the chance to play a classical guitar made by the hella-master-builder Antonio de Torres courtesy of Retrofret in Brooklyn, NY. It's the first and only guitar I've ever played with a[...]
Nov
14

It’s My Birthday Today

in Beautiful Weekend, Blog, Friendship, Just For Fun, Total Friendship
Beautiful Weekend, my project with Noell Dorsey, started years ago as an Olive Grain cover band. Olive Grain was a duo, one-half of which was my friend Craig Colorusso. Their only release contained six songs, the second of which, "Lily," I listen to every year on my birthday. [...]
Apr
10

Hecka-Performances This Week — Starting Tonight

in Actual News, Beautiful Weekend, Blog, Friendship, Total Friendship
So, check it: 1. I'll be playing guitar with Gamelan Galak Tika this Friday in the second of four performances of Evan Ziporyn's Tire Fire that are taking place this month. This show is happening at MIT's Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, MA. Other shows: 4/20 Phillips Academy in Andover, [...]
Feb
22

Beautiful Weekend Full-Length on the Way

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We've put the first two songs from our upcoming album Holy Hype! up on our Bandcamp page. The record will be out April 17th on Peacock Recordings.[...]
Aug
08

John Cage Score

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While attending a cook-out* at my friend Craig's house this past Saturday to celebrate his total triumph at the deCordova Sculpture Park earlier that day, he pulled out a hand-written John Cage score, composed in 1955 (or, at the very least, gifted in 1955) for a co-worker/friend of his, sculptor Da[...]