Tenner Heed was a first for me. It was the first time I realized that the best way to deal with a creative dead end was to teleport out of it and do something completely different. It seemed like a wonderful and refreshing idea when I first thought of it. “I don’t have to finish […]
I didn’t want to talk about dieting too much around here. And I especially didn’t want to talk about it two weeks in a row. (“Hello? 2008 called and it wants your old blog back.”) But I feel the need to do so just this once. I swears! When we left off last week, I […]
About a month ago, the internet found me trying and failing to hold it all together. In that post, I talked about how everything was all cattywampus (while simultaneously admitting I had no grounds to complain about anything). I’m happy to report back one month later: I found my drill. But then I lost it […]
Pat Metheny is a jazz guitarist, composer, and all around fantastic musician. If I could do anything in life one tenth as well as he plays guitar, then I’d be ten times better than the thing I’m best at now. His career spans forty-two years. He’s recorded so many albums that his discography page on […]
I don’t like spoilers. Take movies, for an example. If there’s a particular movie I know I want to see, then I do absolutely everything possible to avoid watching even a single frame of it before the big day. I want to wait until it’s in the theaters, where I can sit down with two-gallon […]