White veils and thule-wrapped trees. Old theaters in Rust Belt towns. A life about to be lived. A son about to be born. Now... Things...

"I drink your water. I drink it up every day." We are the United States. Drenched in a cursed noise. Harder, better, faster, stronger....

A lost record returns home. In the fall of 2006 Brazil released their sophomore album "The Philosophy of Velocity" on Immortal Records. A...

The President is dead. Or maybe he isn't. Your friends are AI. Or maybe they all just move that way. War is peace. Freedom is slavery....

I am exactly where I need to be right now. All of this will be forgotten. You don't have to bend the whole world. Hit them with something...

I want to be a paperback writer. I am sometimes jealous of songwriters who do one thing and do it well. The Kristoffersons, the Cohens,...

I threw it out real good. I think it was for a variety of reasons, one of which is definitely my very bad habit of looking at my phone to...

Oh, the wonder. Thinking about the massive tradeoffs we've made in making everything available everywhere all the time. Perhaps mystery...

The prince is gone. Long live the prince. You could sense it coming in the air at the Birmingham show . You could see it in the Hessian...

Catching the drippings. I bought twelve notebooks the other day. They are to catch my drippings, and keep my face out of my phone. I'm a...

Old trees just grow stronger, and old rivers grow wilder every day. This week I recommend... Wenches - Stupid Sick Get your digital,...

Smoky haze of post-Independence Day hanging in the air with headaches, lethargy, puffy eyes. Like LA 1989. Meditating, I went somewhere....

Sent a song, again Muscle on the bone. This time not from a person but from the out-there. They don't come ready-made or in kits. They...

I had written a blog in this space and decided that I didn't care for what I had written, so enjoy this photo of my 33 1/3rd books in...

Chip off the ol' block. 10 AM. Regarding Father's Day.... When I was young, I never thought I'd be a dad. Now that I am, I can never...

11:12 AM Sent a song. I listen to it directly from the messaging app 3, 4, 5 times, because if I download it to my phone I have no idea...

Story + process + artifact. Anything less is a cheap tchotchke. 11:44AM This journal sometimes loses track of what it wants to be. It...

Gonna take it easy and so should you. What I’m reading: Catching the Big Fish (re-read)  (David Lynch) What I'm listening to: shitty 90s...

The never ending story. 10:30AM Have you ever been stuck in an open loop? I mean, you're probably in one right now. Unread emails, dishes...

They'll pass you by, glory days. 9:33 AM Having a weird music obsession lately. It's not cool. Not cult. Not punk. Not pushing the...