March 2012
12 posts
TOUR! TOUR! TOUR!
I’ve decided to break from tradition and start playing solo acoustic shows after the band I fronted broke up. It’s a new and unique idea I know, but I think it could work. I have one of those hands free harmonica holder things.
Come watch this new crazy idea in action here:
April 3: Knoxville, TN at Longbranch Saloon
April 4: Springfield,MO at Lindbergs Bar.
April 5: OKC, At...
The Slow-Books Movement →
Read Books. As often as you can. Mostly classics.
Here’s a great short article in the Atlantic that piggy-backs on the success the slow-food movement and asks the question: Shouldn’t we be at least as concerned about what we put in our minds as what we put in our bodies?
Spoiler alert, the answer is yes. But read it anyway. Then go read something terrifically arduous and...
WatchOne of the more interesting Ted talks I’ve seen in a while.
“Oh, he went to sleep, wishing he knew more things.”
– John O’Hara, Appointment In Sammarra
I'm going on tour.
Here’s the deal. This past Christmas I was too poor to buy a plane ticket and fly home to see my family. That was a bummer. This upcoming April my brother, a fighter pilot in training, is getting his wings from the Air Force. This is happening in Texas. Many of my family members will be in attendance. And since I still haven’t even met my nearly 1 year old niece, I figured...
“It’s best not to think too closely on what Elizabeth’s and...”
– David Rakoff, Half Empty
This is one of those sentences that stands out immediately as witty and clever but then endures as shockingly relevant to most things.
