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“The true life of a believer,” Bono says, “is one of a longer, more hazardous uphill pilgrimage where you uncover slowly the illumination for your next step.” Somewhere between running the New Jersey Half Marathon, watching the documentary, “So Goes The Nation,” shopping for furniture and doing two loads of laundry, I finished “Bono: In…

ProTools has finally made it out of its box in the closet of my new apartment to the floor of the closet of my new apartment. Just in time to capture this new idea (which is sorely in need of a Chris Abad solo) that hit me Saturday morning. The form and structure is super-familiar…

Listen, I know my life isn’t all sturm und drang. I had lunch with a longtime colleague of mine today. Now, I rarely do lunch. I usually eat a salad at my desk. But lately, that I can combine a work conversation with a change of scenery (that is, something other than my computer monitor)…

I feel like I’m fading away. There’s only one section of my interview with “Generation X” Douglas Coupland that didn’t make the MTV News article or even my complete transcript. Towards the end of our conversation, he told me (as he did The UK Register a few weeks prior) that “For about four months back…

I am staring out the window, watching the city pass me by, when I tell her that I feel old and irrelevant. Abbi and I are in the back of a yellow cab. The clock is creeping towards one o’clock. We’re on our way back uptown from Jeff Jacobson’s CD release show at Rockwood. We…

Making a great playlist is hard to do. First, you need to nail the music. Pissed off? Try a little Rage Against the Machine. Confounded? Death Cab for Cutie. Crestfallen? Sprinkle in some Laura Veirs. Next you need to find the perfect lyric. Intense love might call for Dashboard Confessional’s “Hands Down,” as sung by…