Category: Mix Tape Blues

• February 27, 2016

  What The Heck Is #RecordSaturday?

  I love sharing music with people.  It compliments both my generous and my bossy nature (“Seriously, you’ll like this Steely Dan song, I swear….”) and for years, it’s what propelled my love of making mix tapes.  To be able to give someone a song that reminds you of them is a profound gesture, a portable party,…
• February 6, 2016

  The Moment We’ve All Been Waiting For….

  The Big Rewind is OUT!  Buy it at your local bookstore! Buy it on Amazon!  Buy it at Barnes & Noble!  Buy one for yourself, and another for someone you respect and admire! And if you love it, spread the word.  If you don’t, well, here’s hoping you find something ELSE you love and can…
• October 22, 2015

  On Missing Girls & Why I Can’t Listen to Eric Clapton

  The Back to the Future soundtrack is the sound of happiness.  If you don’t love “The Power of Love” than you are an inhuman monster and we have nothing to talk about. But on a weirder, darker note, I can’t listen to Eric Clapton’s “Heaven is One Step Away,” on the A-side.  It’s a halfway decent…
• October 14, 2015

  Steely Dan, New Notebooks, and Other Dark Sarcasm

  Let me start by saying that I’m listening to a lot of Steely Dan as I write this, so if it comes off as rambling, dark and sarcastic, I apologize.  Every time I put on a Steely Dan record, I find myself thinking why am I not spending every minute of every day listening to Steely…
• August 5, 2015

  Galley Copies

  My galley copies of The Big Rewind arrived yesterday and…wow.  They’re incredible.  To actually hold my own book in my hands, to see my name on a cover is such a thrill that I lack the words to describe it.  For the whole night I kept picking it up and turning it over in my hands, thinking this…
• May 30, 2015

  Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude

  I hate Jimmy Buffet.  “Margaritaville” is one of those songs that gets stuck in my head for days on end, driving me nearly to madness.  The very strains of “Cheeseburger in Paradise” make me want to go vegan.  I do NOT wish I had a pencil-thin mustache, thank you. So you may wonder then how…
• November 10, 2014

  Old Sad Bastard Music

  PLAYLIST: October Project: “Bury My Lovely” “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” the Magnetic Fields “CALL ME CALL ME” The Seatbelts feat. Steve Conte “Letters” Stroke 9 “A Murder of One” Counting Crows I’ll write about the amazing Writer Unboxed conference another day — I’m still unpacking, literally and figuratively! …But a bit ago,…