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This afternoon, here at the MTV, my officemate Robert and I were listening to Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” — pretty loudly — for a nostalgic laugh, when MTV Radio’s assignment editor Raquel Bruno showed up at our door with ex-Smith’s guitarist Johnny Marr. Apparently, my jaw dropped, I turned red, and stammered, “Great, the one time…

I’m completely feelin’ those new HP posters in the subway that say, simply, “Everything Is Possible.” Especially the one with the astronauts. I feel that way right now. I mean, within reason. Had a great day at work. Headin’ to Cockfight rehearsal in a few minutes. Demoing new songs in the studio tomorrow night. Flying…

It was twenty degrees running along the river this morning. But as I ran eastward on 72d Street past The Dakota, the sun peaked over Central park a raging orange. I felt like Icarus or something, blinded by the glare, suddenly warm, flying almost. I’ve been working out verses as I run. I did a…

I rehearsed with Cockfight — the noisy rock band that I drum for — last night. Seems that as soon as one becomes a drummer, one acts like a drummer. I had three beers over the course of rehearsal, then dragged the band out to Wee Molly’s, a dive just south of Madison Square Garden…

So it’s a new year. And it’s off to a great start. I was off work for nearly two weeks (as you could probably tell by the lack of journal updates), and in addition to going home to suburban Philadelphia and running in Valley Forge National Park (one of my vacation passtimes), I spent a…

It was New York City’s first white Christmas in 30 years. And it was one of my favorites in a long, long time… The lyrics below are from a song I wrote and recorded a few years ago for a Christmas single. Better heads prevailed, and I left it off the single (which included my…