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I’m not sure I’ve ever really loved. Oh sure, I’ve said it a few times. And I’ve meant it. But lately, as I plumb these depth within myself, trying to figure out just what love is, and how to know it when I’m in it, and how to sustain it for a lifetime, I’m just…

Frontmen want to be drummers, and drummers want to be frontmen. In 24 hours, I’ve been both. Thursday night’s Open Center show was a challenge, but not because of the music. Musically, the band was spot on. After some twenty plus years of performing, I don’t worry about the music. (Which is kinda’ miraculous.) I’ve…

It’s Wednesday night, er, Thursday morning. And I’m braggin’. Everything’s in place for tomorrow, er, tonight’s show. Well, mostly. I discovered yesterday that the neck was peeling away from the body of my Martin acoustic guitar, I switched to Plan B: John Rosenblatt to the rescue. After a twelve hour day at The MTV, and…

This evening ended at the Subway Inn, an aptly named dive slightly uptown from where most of my party people would normally find themselves. But by midnight, only a few of the 20+ strong MTV News team remained. The die hards — Rod, Alyssa, Jem and I — were rewarded by bottle-only beers and a…

The problem with stepping out with The Who’s ‘Eminence Front’ on one’s iPod is that one easily confuses one’s self with Sonny Crocket. The off-white coat and aviator glasses contribute, sure, but they can’t be blamed. No, the blame begins with a beat. It’s that late-80s synth sound. Long before Eddie Van Halen’s discovered it…

“One of the great adaptive virtues of our brains,” writes Jonathan Franzen in his book, ‘How To Be Alone,’ “is our ability to forget almost everything that has ever happened to us.” I am writing, now, of pain. I ran 13.1 miles in 85 degree heat this morning in a little over two hours. The…