I’m a rock songwriter, guitarist and YouTuber. Songs are like my closest friends who are there for me in times of need. Maybe they can be your friends, too.
Some people go a great length to create meaning. Some run a marathon. Some write a novel. I once met a man who swam laps daily, and was counting the distance. His goal? The circumference of earth. Yes, he worked on it for years. I was listening to my next …
Making art can feel silly and indulgent. Recently I scrapped about 5 hours worth of bass and vocal takes, because I felt that the tempo wasn’t right. Tempo is a funny thing, how you feel differs depending on my energy level. If I feel tired it feels too fast and …
I used to believe that a “good” person is defined by how he prioritizes others’ needs over his own. Sacrifice himself, being a martyr. I thought that if you aren’t suffering, you aren’t trying hard enough. It’s quite a worldview, isn’t it? Actually there was nothing altruistic about …
Highly sensitives are said to have a large range of emotions. I can attest to reacting dramatically to life events and arts. People with more common emotional range may be able to use emotions as a gauge of how you are doing. That feels harder for me. From day to …
King’s X is one of my heroes and this was the first song I heard from them. I remember hearing it when a college friend played it to me and feeling dumbfounded. As in, what did just hit me? And 25+ years later, (the self-titled album from which this song …