Communing with ghosts

This album was originally released on Humanhood Recordings as a paid release. Here it is on my own Bandcamp page as a free download. It may not be your cup of tea but I made it for myself and it is mine. I am still proud of it, the work it took to make it […]

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Programmed to seek for ever

A message from the temple. Titled, “Programmed to seek for ever” We are all programmed in so many ways.  From our first day of life we have had our parents, family and peers telling us how to live.   Western religion tells us that we must keep on coming back to them in order to […]

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Trained Chimp

My father used to tell me “musicians are nothing more than trained chimps”. I’m still trying to make music, for myself. And what other people think is none of my business.

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Luck, not skill.

At six-thirty a.m. on December twenty-sixth, 2001 it was cold in Chicago, right around twenty-five degrees on the thermometer outside my kitchen window. I drove my Porsche 928 to work that day because my Audi was still in the body shop. The Porsche wasn’t stock, none of my cars were. It had headers and some […]

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Breakfast at the Shelby Cafe

The decrepit couple shuffled their way into the diner, they were dusted with snow and didn’t bother to brush it off. They had to be in their 90’s, it took a solid New York minute to traverse the ten feet from the doorway to their booth. “Where’s my bag Bill, I TOLD YOU TO BRING […]

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Putting down my burden.

Approximately 22,000,000 minutes ago my mother died. I have felt angry that she died for most of this time, angry, betrayed, abandoned. I am trying to reconcile those feelings with the reality of the situation and I am certain she didn’t want to die – it was an aneurysm that killed her. She didn’t leave […]

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