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Learn and Master Guitar

When I was in 1st grade, my par­ents decided that I needed to learn piano. I dis­agreed. I wanted to play gui­tar. But, they’re the par­ents so they won, and I found my young 6-year-old self sit­ting in front of a piano. How­ever, mak­ing strin­gent use of my free will, I

Two New Songs

I’ve just fin­ished writ­ing the skele­ton of two new songs. Skele­ton, mean­ing they haven’t been recorded, only writ­ten. Which is fine.

My biggest prob­lem when devel­op­ing new songs is remem­ber­ing the farkin’ things. I’ll often come up with a great lyric/melody and then for­get it. Since I don’t carry a tape recorder with

Antony and The Johnsons

A friend turned me on to these guys …

Jeff Healey, R.I.P.

In very sad news, Jeff Healey passed away yes­ter­day, March 2, 2008. He will be missed.

Seeking Inspiration

I’ve got a few songs I’m cur­rently work­ing on, but I’ve hit a wall on one. So I started dig­ging through iTunes look­ing for inspi­ra­tion. Or maybe I just didn’t want to work any more and iTunes is always the per­fect excuse … Any­way, the long and short is that I didn’t find