Most of the people who have seen me perform know me for having a big, powerful voice but often when I sing for myself I take a different approach.
I think this started because I felt self-conscious in my last living arrangement, but it’s becoming another way for me to connect to music. Sometimes a song needs to be shouted, but sometimes it’s nice to just let it float.
Before I had a job in Chicago, I would often walk the streets until two or three in the morning, listening to music or podcasts and thinking about what was coming next. My greatest memories of that city all involve moments of clarity spent under street lights with no one but a few nervous late night commuters to encroach on my solitude.
I am never going to look like Hugh Jackman.
Yet another “new start.” I am full of new starts.
Yes, I bought a turquoise case. This should surprise no one.
Tonight I saw Poncho Sanchez at Jimmy Mak’s here in Portland having very little idea what I was walking into.
I smiled, I danced (badly), I wondered why I didn’t do this more often.
Endless training classes and endless coffee and training classes and coffee and training classes and coffee and
If you are also a survivor, there is help. You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with you for feeling the way you do and you are not broken beyond repair.
Below are a few places I have turned since finally beginning to confront this over the last two months.
When I’m in a relationship, my partners have always appreciated my ability to remember dates and anniversaries. I mark them with special events and appropriate fanfare.
As a single guy, sometimes this tendency is less helpful.
This was the first comic that I made with the idea that would become “Life and How to Live It” in mind. The first time I consciously decided to use comics to capture something very real about my life without filtering it.
I think this also marks the first time (but not the last) that you’ll see my part on the wrong side of my head.
Bars are good places to make wordy, scribbled comics.