The internets don't seem to love me... or at least one corner of them doesn't. When I started this month off I was posting video for all my songs to Youtube. (It got a little overwhelming workload-wise so I stopped for now) I went back to check out my views and comments a few days later and noticed my song "We will rise up" had 2 comments!! I went to see what people had to say. The page loaded and emblazened in the comment box was the message. "You …

       I’ve talked to and listened to a bunch of people who’ve had some good success in their music: Darrell Scott, Steve Seskin, Josh Ritter, Lisa Loeb. Of those folks not one said they sat down to write a “hit” song when they start writing. Steve might be the one who comes closest and he’s still just writing the songs he wants to. Darrell says he just writes what comes to him for the most part. Lisa knew Ben Stiller and Ethan Hawk when an …

The last 12 months have been really busy.  Here's a quick summary of what I've been up to in scribbly drawing form.  If you click the image you'll be taken to the full sized, zoomable image.

     I’m thinking about the first few times I wanted to write songs. I remember sitting in my room and playing a chord progression over and over and thinking how amazing it was. I mean, just gorgeous. What could I write to match that?      So I didn’t’ write anything. That’s not meant to be a judgment of my younger self. It’s where I was at the time and I believed there was some secret that could let me be great without sucking for a …

      Remember the movie “Gremlins?” A happy little Christmas story right? Well, the creative process is a lot like Christmas in that movie. It should be all happiness and presents under the tree but instead we have little monsters running around in our heads messing up everything.      When you’re sitting in front of the TV eating Ice Cream the monsters are like Gizmo. They are happy and soft, cuddly and soothing. They love you and you love …