This wall is my companion It hears my pleas The floor too It is just as patient and kind My prayers hit the ceiling Echoing off the spinning blades Reflecting off books and shoes Sound is absorbed in the corners All that is trapped are my words Who is there to hear them? Who is [...]

It’s time yet again to re-evaluate my beliefs. I’ve let go of a lot of things I once held dear as a kid and I am even a different person in terms of beliefs than who I was a in college so it would be difficult for me to list the things I really believe [...]

I hate that I have to delete these files and hide these folders. It feels both weird and wrong. Wrong that it’s necessary and wrong that I want to do it. Wrong that part of me is enjoying the process. That I am even excited about it. But at the same time profoundly sad. And [...]

For the April issue of Eleven Mag I wrote a piece on the St. Louis power pop trio The Blind Eyes. You can see the version that ran in print here, and the full text below. “Could you please mention that I’m really cool and good looking?” I hadn’t needed any encouragement to write highly [...]

Since my favorite metal records of 2010 was posted over at Crustcake I figured I should post a few blurbs about all the non-metal records I enjoyed this year. Here they are in reverse order with my added 2 cents: 20. Zola Jesus Stridulum II I loved the song “I Can’t Stand” off this record [...]

This is a features piece I wrote about ((Thorlock)) for the January issue of Eleven Magazine. The best bands have a mystique about them. Some shroud themselves in mystery and intrigue while Cape Girardeau’s ((Thorlock)) shroud themselves literally in black robes. The self-labeled extraterrestrials have been gently probing the St. Louis area metal scene for [...]

My top ten heavy albums of the year plus my little blurbs about each was posted earlier today over at the metal music blog I write for Crustcake. You can read that here. I also included a few bonus lists like top EPs, this years most listened to albums released before 2010 and one about [...]

This is the full text of a features piece I wrote for the October issue of Eleven Magazine. The piece was the cover story. See the scanned version here [PDF]. The Secret’s Out: Music and Arts Renewal on Cherokee Street The mysterious St. Louis Secret Sound Society has something to share with you. No codex [...]

It could very well be factually correct that I found myself within the 12% of people Monday night at the Sleep show who wasn’t smoking weed. It could also be factually correct that I was within the 12% of people who got a contact high, but I cannot be sure since I’ve never really experienced [...]

Here is my article for the September edition of Eleven on the local band Union Tree Review. Union Tree Review like to keep things local. By local, I don’t simply mean to the city of St. Louis, but to the very neighborhood they live and play music. Union Tree Review describe themselves as a Cherokee [...]