Random Awesomeness

The above screen shot is from 2008. It was the first video I uploaded to YouTube that was of artists other than myself. I was still living in Waialua, on the north shore of Oahu and my band Social Smokers was playing regularly at a bar in Haleiwa called "Kainoa's Pancake House and Sports Bar".  The [...]

So Smoke em, while you can We’re all dying slowly anyway man ------------------------------------- The creative juices were certainly flowing back in early 2008. Despite the chaos of my life, I was writing songs left and right. Here's another video I put up on YouTube that same day I did Good Boy. It's called Smoke Em While you [...]

Now I don’t do much of anything I don’t make such a fuss I just live to write songs and sing as I’m driving my bus ------------------------------------------------------- December 7th 2007 This is a screen shot of the first thing I uploaded to Facebook. Just after creating my account. It was a video. Probably saying something [...]

Wake up, Wake up, wa, wa, wa, Wake up! ------------------------------------------- Mind: "I'm going to have to cut it short this morning." Body: "oooooch!!! aaahhh!!! Dang!!" Push... Release... Sit... Ommm... Ommm... Ommm... Inhale, two, three, four, five, six… Exhale, two, three, four, five, six… Inhale, two, three, four, five, six… Exhale, two, three, four, five, six… Ahhh... [...]

Inhale, two, three, four, five, six… Exhale, two, three, four, five, six… Inhale, two, three, four, five, six… Exhale, two, three, four, five, six… ------------------------------------------- Look at the truth. Feel the real. Give up the comfortable lies. Embrace the glorious life... Of love. ------------------------------------------ Inhale, two, three, four, five, six… Exhale, two, three, four, five, [...]

Well I used to be a good boy, but that’s a long time ago If it was ever good for anything it’s in the stories I have told   ------------------------------------------------------------ Indeed,  This process of looking back and writing these stories about being a good boy is good for a whole lot. Perhaps everything. They bring up what [...]

It’s about self care It’s about care for others It’s about... -------------------------------------- Here and now. Here and now I stir my cup, type a few more words, snap a photo of me and Roxy to use as the featured image for today’s post. I smile, aware of the absurdity of this. This attempt at the [...]

Our promised plastic paradise Has putrefied somehow With too tall tails and caterwauls Silk as spun from a sow Counterfeit claims of highest aims Have reached the lowest brow Blessed be them never bought it then We're all paying for it now Then in comes pantomime the sage To land the fatal blow With random [...]

I select my Steinert number three blowpipe. It's appropriately thick and heavy. The tip glows. The furnace roars. I open doors and gather. The first gather is small. A base on which to build. It's like an opening sentence. Erasing at this point is easy. It cools quickly. Air is trapped. The first bubble expands [...]

My friend Bob was a SUPER HUGE! St. Louis Rams fan. I am not a sports guy. At all. But I became a Rams fan (for one season) for Bob. It was the fall of 2010 and by then, I had known Bob just long enough to have a some idea about what the score was with [...]