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Another New Song and Mastering Bliss!!!

Good Evening!  I am posting another song that I've been working on for a while.  It is another remix, but the next chunk of music that I will post will be me singing and playing.  This remix has a couple…

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New Song and Progress!

I had a bit of a breakthrough.  For this semester we need to write a paper and I have been working on trying to figure out which music producer to write about.  I thought Rick Rubin for a while, but…

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Thoughts from January 2023

I believe that God speaks to different channels at times, often times for me through music.  Earlier this year I went way overboard about a problem that ended up being alright. The next day, Devin Townsend released a song called…

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An Unfortunate Event

On Wednesday morning, I was up with the kids getting ready for work and getting them breakfast.  Everything was typical of a weekday morning but when I went to put granola on my daughter’s oatmeal I noticed my hand was…

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The Artist's Way Experiment

I am working through the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron trying to unlock some captive creativity and I am really enjoying the process. I am on week four and something incredible happened that I've had in the back of my…

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Fun Stuff and a Lent Experiment

The last couple months have been pretty interesting overall.  I played some fun gigs, and I have been doing some things at school that have been new and exciting.  This second semester is really getting long, and I am pretty…Read more
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NPR and my new big boy job

And everything has been falling into place!  I'll start off with this past weekend, because it was excellent.  The last few weeks have been tough, especially for my wife, so on Saturday we jetted off sporadically to the twin cities…Read more
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What is this "free time" you all speak of?

Greetings!!  Things have been bananas as always.  I have been subbing in several local school districts here and there, all while working at a bike shop, and playing music, and playing with other groups, and boy are my arms tired…Read more
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Lawrence Lawson and Maplewood!

Hello all!  I graduated and was lucky enough to get a cool long-term sub gig the next week.  That being said, I have been swamped to say the least, but life is good.  For the time being, I decided to…Read more
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Crazy New Year

Greetings!  So I don't know if I could really cram as much into a single month-ish of time ever again.  Within the last 30 or so days, I:

-Got married
-Conducted Sparta High's Christmas Concert
-Spent a week of 14-hour…Read more
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh my goodness, I am SOOO thankful for this break!  This has been the first break since probably July that has consisted of more than a 3-day weekend, and I didn't have to work or anything.  What a strange feeling…Read more