Last month a few of my college friends and I were talking about music via twitter. The discussion eventually descended into nostalgia over a particular moment when we all sat in a room, listened to a record uninterrupted and then talked about it immediately after: the album listening party. The album listening parties were hosted [...]

PILOTS 2008 demo, that we recording with my former prof. Dr. J, is online for your consumption for the price of bandwidth only. It can be found at the same website where the 2007 demo resides. http://stlpilots.bandcamp.com Like the previous two EPs, the 08 Demo is free to stream and download. I can’t wait to [...]

After graduating from Greenville in 2006, my band (which was then referred to) When Sorrow Fails when on tour. After tour we buckled down, wrote some songs we were proud of and recorded with me using Greenville’s studios (thanks to my favorite prof., Mike Johnson!) Before we took the weekend to track the songs, I [...]

I have a few ideas for several blogs. And not just individual blogs, but blog serieses. Or series’. Or is it series’s? Anyway. First and foremost I am finally going to respond to Dr. J’s original Facebook note about the “Top 15 Albums that have changed my life.” I will do this by giving each [...]

For my birthday, Caitlin bought me with great book called “Hot Chicks with Douchebags” by Jay Louis.  The book explores what the author calls the “hottie/scrotey” phenomenon running rampant through our culture.  Not only are their fewer “hotties” for us quality guys, and there are also more, and more obnoxious, shirtless, musclebound crotchbaggers with oily [...]