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It has been (lovingly, I hope) brought to my attention that I am, perhaps, obsessed with the phrase “New York City skyline,” and its variations. It is a key lyric in (duh) ‘New York,’ has appeared in at least three unreleased tracks (as far back as September 2001), and in multiple Daily Journal postings (ex:…

Standing at the base of Central Park’s Cat Hill just moments into the New Year, as a brilliant gold firework exploded, cascaded and faded in front of the sliver moon and jagged city skyline, I had to believe: this will be my year. Correction: this will be our year. The Holidays were nothing short of…

It’s New Year’s Eve. I’m gazing down on Times Square, looking back over the year. Coupla’ post scripts before it ends: I had a brainstorm the other afternoon. I want to release a double CD in 2004: AM/PM. See, for some reason I write most of my songs in the morning. Probably because my frontal…

Ho. Lee. Shit. Last night was one for the record books. I mean, it’s Tuesday afternoon and I’m barely moving… It started innocently enough. I stopped into work for a minute, ate a salad in Bryant Park in the sunshine, then went to Lord of the Rings (very very long). My brother came over after…

I’m home in New York following a 24 hour sojourn to my hometown of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. I have the week off. It’s my first full week off in New York City since I moved here in 1995. I’m not entirely sure what to do with it, as spending it at The Dead Poet is…

I woke from the most excellent dream this morning (and not the one where I narrowly escaped a French Communist assassin’s bullet, appeared on CNN, then had beers with Frank Sinatra)… It was the future. The world was a construct of The Company, an oppressive technocracy that synthesized and mediated everything. Nothing was real, but…