Apesma's Lament

I know something about panhandlers. For fifteen years, I’ve worked at Real Change, in Belltown. We’re across the street from DSHS, a few d...

Men walkin' long the railroad tracks Goin someplace there's no goin' back Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge H...

This one evolved over a week. After I got comfortable with the bass line and then got inside it to work my way out again the song began to ...

Here's a tight interview that ran today on America's Disappeared, a program of the Prisoners Education Network that airs monthly on...

Tonight I found a cool groove on the Dylan classic that kind of takes it away from sixties folk dirge and makes it sound as though it was re...

I've been staring down the piano I bought last December for awhile and got out my "You Can Play Piano" book about a month ago....

I spent most of my drive time the last few days hitting repeat on this song off Nick Cave's Kicking Against The Pricks album. I'm ...

This is wrong on so many levels, but brilliant nonetheless. Take the best scene of the best horror movie of all time, make it into a sick m...

One of these days this blog will get back to substance, and I'll again recommend coming here to friends, but for now, here's a pictu...

I got on this today by messing with the little E run that starts this song, and it kind of went from there. This is what burn out looks lik...

This blog has gone to hell since I started playing guitar more, joined Facebook, and got busier and more stressed than I've been in my e...

Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra's Phaedra, by Tim and Revel. Don't ask me what this song is about. I don't know. But it's...

My interview with the Socialist Worker published yesterday, and was a rare opportunity to describe my notions of how homelessness and incarc...

Tonight I went over to Interaction/Transition, an ex-offender re-entry program up in the CD, to hear Khalil Osiris , a man who earned two de...