Today I awoke to a text message from my good friend Eli asking, “Is that your coexist that George Takei used to celebrate 2,000,000 fans?” Now, to be fair, the text was sent at 10:00 AM, and my phone’s persistent notifications didn’t actually wake me up until 11:00 (what, I was up late last night [...]
Sometimes an album catches you at exactly the right moment. If you were to hear it on any other day, in any other situation, you might not care for it, but given the proper set of circumstances, it can become one of your all-time favorite albums. “Rain Dogs” by Tom Waits is a perfect example [...]
Over the past week, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my online identity, and the archipelagic nature thereof. I’d been having a difficult time reconciling the different aspects of my personality, and the related interests, into one cohesive whole. I’m a singer-songwriter, whose roots are in rock music, who has a deep and [...]