Category: music

  • Swimming (in my mind)

    Swimming (in my mind)

    How to navigate the complex relationships between personal history and narratives, memory, and now? “Swimming,” is a mindful acknowledgement of this conundrum.

  • Accidental Vampire

    Accidental Vampire

    One night in early July, after banging my head against a different song project for a couple of hours without any success, i started flipping through my journal and found the opening line to this tune. A few hours later after a bit of guitar noodling and some inspired moments on a long walk, Accidental…

  • The Roller Coaster

    The Roller Coaster

    The Roller Coaster is the first song I’ve written in many years, and it’s become one of my favorites to play and sing.

  • 15 from 2019

    15 from 2019

    I’ve put together another installment of my year-end favorite song mixes – this time it’s “15 songs from 2019.” There are a lot of really special songs that didn’t make the mix this year. I listened far and wide in 2019, but ultimately spent most of my time with several AMAZING records that came out…

  • Rethinking creative process

    Rethinking creative process

    I’ve learned a lot about making things and harnessing my creativity in the last twenty years, and I’m excited to apply what i’ve learned to music writing for the first time.

  • 20 from 2018

    20 from 2018

    I’ve put together a mix of the twenty best songs I heard first in 2018. From hip hop to indie rock, folk, instrumental, and R&B—it’s a diverse mix of tunes that resonated with me.

  • Fixing up the old Fernandes

    Fixing up the old Fernandes

    I picked up this guitar off craigslist some time ago, and then it sat in storage for awhile. As I am getting back into a regular practice, i thought it would be a good idea to re-string, fix, and polish up the axe. Got it hanging up in my room now and it looks pretty!