Posts Tagged ‘Family & Friends’
Happy Birthday Edward!
My nephew, Edward Isaac, turned two on Thursday. We celebrated Sunday morning. Two short weeks ago, Edward was wrestling with just a few new words: blue, mama, dadda. Yesterday, though, he was forming complete sentences like, “I got it.” It’s an amazing, exciting process to watch. As is the dynamic between he and his older…
Read MoreThe 2008 Brickyard 400 (Or, My Days Of Thunder)
This is it: The Fall of Rome. And this is how it goes: blue sky, 85 degrees, 300,000 people, 42 modified stock cars hurtling around a two and a half mile track at 170 mile per hour, and lots and lots of beer. This is the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, aka The Brickyard 400.…
Read MoreGlazed
I’m not thrilled to be the guy who taught Ethan how to use a Blackberry (though he used it constructively to take photos and email them to his grandparents). I like to think that what came next made up for the his early introduction to corporate handcuffs. In celebration of Ethan’s fifth birthday, Abbi and…
Read MoreBouncing Over A White Cloud – Video
Rockwood was rowdy. I was anxious. And then it all turned. Chris was on at 8. I was on at 9. So I left the office at seven o’clock and struck out through a sweltering Times Square with my guitar, computer, camera and a bag of CDs strapped to my back. I jammed onto a…
Read MoreThe Boys Of Summer
Ah, to be a kid in the summertime. Remember? Kick the can. The ice cream man. Wiffle Ball. Zinc oxide. Fireflies. I have nothing but golden memories of summer vacation. When I was really young, family loaded into the brown, wood-panelled Cutlass Cruiser station wagon, and travelled 561 miles to Lake Vermillion, Minnesota where we…
Read MoreInto The Arms Of America
Ok, so here’s the quandary. I love New York City, but thirteen years later, the place is killin’ me. I don’t just mean the fumes, shadows or concrete. And it’s more than the pace, noise, and frenzy. I’m talkin’ about politics, aspiration — the whole ladder climbing thing. A few weeks ago, a younger friend…
Read MoreThe Apostle Of Uncool
A recent Rolling Stone cover story characterized Coldplay’s Chris Martin as “The Jesus of Uncool.” And while I can’t relate to the Jesus part, I can the “uncool.” See, I have a long history of uncool. I wasn’t in the “cool” crowd in high school, wasn’t in the “cool” band in college, and — while…
Read MoreBurger, Shot, Beer (Repeat)
Rare is the rehearsal when the band doesn’t spend as much time hanging out, drinking beers and talking for as long (or usually longer) than we do playing music. Which, at this point in my musical career, is alright by me. Thursday night, however, was one for the record books. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Chris Abad, bassist Tony…
Read MoreEthan’s Fifth Birthday Party
The Re-Invention Of Monday Night
If you asked me to script a better preamble for the release of “The Invention Of Everything Else,” I’d be hard pressed. I dropped the album art (created, like most things, in that three-hour zone of sleeplessness that strikes me most nights) onto Engine Room Audio’s FTP, dashed off an email (“Leaving Now!”) and raced…
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