Surviving the Housing Crisis
Welcome, dear reader! You find me at a fairly peaceful time in my life. I live in a little bungalow in Los Angeles with my cat (pictured throughout the site, and especially here). I make music, produce radio, and write.…
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Music is terrible and it will ruin you
Like most of us, the second I wake up in the morning, I reorient to who I am and what I’m supposed to be doing here as my mind charges into a stream of problem-solving, anxiety-based strategizing, and hope-infused planning.…
RISKING MY LIFE TO SEE THE NICK CAVE FILM 20,000 Days on Earth
Against my otherwise cautious nature, I was recently compelled to go to an indoor, early-omicron screening of 20,000 Days on Earth. I’m sure I could have found another way to watch this film, which came out in 2014, socially distanced…
the decolonization of music post no. 1
“We must decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves..in all respects: culturally, politically, socially. We must re-define ourselves and our lives, on our own terms.” -Max Roach, jazz drummer As quoted on Folukuke’s African Skies The decolonization of music…
She-Horse: Brand Politics & The Perennial ‘Women-in-Music’
I’ve never seen a soul detached from its gender, but I’d like to. I’d like to see my own that way, free from its female tethers. Maybe it would be like riding a horse. The rider’s the human one, but…
Lyrics as Poetry
In addition to writing songs I also secretly write poetry (which you can find on my Patreon page if you have a hankering). But I also appreciate when folks regard song lyrics as their own type of poetry. Lyrics as…
The Ongoing Saga of My Baldwin Piano
If you have followed my blog at all over the past few years, you know that a) I own a magnificent 1912 Baldwin piano that I chanced upon for fairly cheap and shepherded into loving restoration by one of the…
Space is the Place
As part of the notoriously laborious process of moving to New York–which I brought upon myself voluntarily, with no job or major life reason other than to “try the New York thing,” as one of my NY veteran friends put…
Outsiders In: “Song To My City”
I wrote “Song To My City” in the summer of 2015. Portland had been changing for a while, but 2015 was the year I felt like I no longer recognized it. Being both a long-time Portlander and originally a transplant from California, I had…
OPP: Other People’s Pianos
Piano practice has always been the back bone of my life structure. It is foundational and usually comes before all other types of practice, and sometimes before breakfast. But of late, with my living situation in continual flux, my practice has shifted from luxurious focused solitude…