who needs the sun when he goes away

I found myself in Boston once again. This time I had brought along a trav­eling com­panion, someone to act as a phở­tog­ra­pher and, per­haps, mit­i­gate (or at least doc­u­ment) the var­ious hor­rors that con­sis­tently befall me when­ever I attempt to do any­thing with my life besides huddle in a dark­ened room under a pile of […]

pushed over the brink

I stirred. I was not cer­tain what had awoken me. Even with aware­ness returning to me, I could feel some­thing sap­ping my energy and my strength. Sucking the very life out of me. With a cry of rage, I forced myself to my feet, shaking off the last of the feeling of lethargy. I took […]

seein’ nothin’ but blue and gray

Nos­talgia for a place I’ve never been. Regret over the end of a rela­tion­ship that I was never in. Ever had a film, book, or song give you that feeling? It’s a rare thing, dis­con­certing in a way that’s dif­fi­cult to define, yet a feeling I’ll always seek again. It’s hard to explain, but let me try, […]

oh god how did i get here

Last Tuesday, Dum Dum Girls released their first full-length, I Will Be, and I’ve been playing it ever since. They’ve got a touch of a lo-fi sound with fuzzy vocals and gui­tars, along with lazy-sounding surf-style beats and lyrics about love and longing that must be inten­tion­ally naïve — a com­bi­na­tion that seems to be enjoying […]

you won’t remember a thing

Let me con­fess some­thing. I tend to avoid pop­ular bands. All else being equal, I’m pretty sure I would like a band less just because it is pop­ular. I realize that sounds ter­rible, and no, it’s not to pre­serve my “hip­ster cred” or any­thing like that. Basi­cally, I want to like bands that I can […]

everything goes wrong

Free. I was finally free of these blog­gers, their unre­lenting rumi­na­tion upon modern music and their end­less clever metaphors. No longer would I have to act as one of them. I had seen my chance, and I had made a break for it. But they were not far behind. I fled down a crowded street, […]

into the mouth of madness

How did I get here? I never meant for this to happen. I had a wife once. Two kids. The guys at work liked me. We had beers at the pool hall every couple weeks or so. I found a cat behind the new house. I took it in. It would only eat the seafood-flavored […]