Going to Graceland (Memphis, TN)

Some of us walk the borderline between believing in something and believing in nothing.  Whether it is our country or a divine creator, we are certain that we feel something stirring inside us, but if it is a true feeling we are afraid to let it out, because we see other people with a strong [...]

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See You In Heaven If You Make The List (Burlington, VT)

Sometimes there are coincidences in this world that are so incredible that you can’t actually appreciate them. For example, the sun is about 400 times larger than the moon at the same time that it is 400 times further from the Earth than the moon is. This creates the illusion in the sky that the [...]

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The Misuse of the Bassoon (Outside Toronto, Canada)

As we were being thrown out of Canada the other day, the immigration officer coldly said to me the words that truly hurt:
“You’re just not offering any benefit to Canada.”
And I know he meant that in an economic sense. But still. Ouch.
We were driving from Michigan to play a show in Toronto. We had no [...]

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An Easy Chair on the Chopping Block (Denver, CO)

We drove down from Salt Lake City to the redder and redder rocks of Southern Utah on Friday, to the little town of Torrey, Utah. There lives David Williams, a man who looks like Jesus, and who humbly and Jesus-like puts on shows in a little pizza place in this tiny town and asked me [...]

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A Brief History of Western Pop Music (Salt Lake City, UT)

One problem that we human beings have that won’t endear us to our future alien overlords is the way that we tend to take personal, subjective experiences and try to turn them into universal, objective truths. Probably 3 billion or so murders could have been prevented throughout the history of the world if we were [...]

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