Category Archives: Music
Ken Tamplin told me I’m going to jail if I don’t listen to Dino Jelusic
Far be it from me to demur from an incendiary headline, in which I accuse people of saying things they didn’t say. Although, I’m not a journalist, so: It doesn’t come natural to me I feel the odd twinge of … Continue reading
Jonny Lang’s “Signs” rolls out like thunder
I can’t exactly figure out why Jonny Lang is the recipient of complaints that he needs to “get back to the blues.” He never left it. He did manage to leave the randier, entendre-ridden traditions of the blues with his … Continue reading
Crowdfunding redux
A few weeks ago, I was standing outside, in a break area at work, tossing in my harmonies to the rhetorical cantata that was going on at the moment. My co-worker, Bill, mentioned that before he moved to my area, … Continue reading
And now–yet another project in the works
When i decided on the moniker for this blog, it wasn’t exactly a task rendered under flippant conditions. Even if the title, “Master of None” seems as if it comes out of the same comedic genepool of,”are you working hard, … Continue reading
I had a song come to me in my sleep, and Adele isn’t going to get away with stealing it
So it’s a well-known fact that the majority of my creative inertia comes during the night. I’ve had moments of epiphany that are unrivaled right after a good night’s rest. It is common knowledge that I wrote the song … Continue reading
At the Crossroads of common literary decency with Acoustic Guitar Magazine
There is a common literary technique accompanied by a lesser-known phrase, known as the In medias res—a latin phrase for “in the middle of things.” The tactic is used to suck a reader in to the main vortex of a … Continue reading
Wow, am I easily derailed
It seems only like yesterday, I was pontificating, ruminating, cogitating, deliberating and prevaricating about wanting to write my book–complete with the breathless declaration that I had completed the first chapter. Then, I went to McCloud on a church.family camp thingamabob. I … Continue reading
Oficina G3, Petra, and getting viewed 30,000 times
In case the backstory here is a bit muddy, let me give you a bit of my history. When I was a teenager, growing up in a church, and a Christian school, this was my favorite record: Not of This … Continue reading
VLOG: Apparently, Oficina G3 makes me run into other people’s cabins
If you’ve been here reading my veritable assaults against normalcy, you would well know my fascination–YEAH EVEN A FANSHIP of–the band Oficina G3. But, for all points and purposes here, NONE of that matters. All you need to know is–they … Continue reading
Master Of None 