2020 was a garbage year on so many levels, but every year as of late has its tragedies. One of the hazards of growing older, I suppose—watching other people not. Tragedy, however awful, breeds incredible art, and so there was a massive influx of beauty in this terrible year. This song was written in 2018…
“Why Do I” – smooth summer pop jam from Steel Bridge Songfest
If you’re not familiar with the SBSF “Construction Zone,” it’s essentially a big rat king of songwriters with all our creative tails irreparably intertwined. We spin the bottle (literally; it’s a Jameson bottle) to choose our writing groups and then get to work crafting a sweet ditty from nothing. This lil’ bop is the result…
“Four Lights” – new release from The Cancellations for Dark Songs 2020
Folks who I’m close with know that I have a band called The Cancellations, started several years ago with my partner Joe and one of our best friends, Derek Brady. Derek was a killer guitarist & all-around wonderful weirdo. He passed away a couple months before we moved to Nashville in 2018. I’d held out…
“Ghosted” – new release from Dark Songs 2020
This was the only bottle spin I did for Dark Songs this year, but it turned out badass. We had a little trouble getting rolling, but when we heard the “snippet” version of this that Loren had created, we knew it deserved to be fleshed out into a full song. Hear & watch all of…
“This Is Not Over” – New Release from Dark Songs 2020
I’ve loved this tune since it was written by my good “song family” friends Andrea Wittgens & Vincent Gates back at Dark Songs 2012. It has the #crazyexgirlfriend vibe, which may or may not have been my, uh, signature back then. Since the festivals have gone virtual, the writers have been doing tributes (aka covers)…
on the selfishness of living childfree
I recall getting into a heated philosophical discussion with my roommate over why I couldn’t get into a scifi show he was binging. The premise: a litany of sexy ladies in skimpy space outfits and other human characters float through space on a ship many years after Earth has been destroyed. Pretty standard, right? Well,…
millennial career dysphoria and the crisis of aging in an undervalued workforce
Some friends stayed with us for a week. After the requisite beer-and-whiskey emotional loosening of discussion, we fell onto career topics. Chorlad (not his real name, or a real name at all for that matter) works in customer service. The typical phone + desk = getting yelled at 9-5 that many of our brethren have…