Okay, actually, it's the first song I managed to co-write and record in an actual studio with someone. It's called "Someday," and it's based on the experiences of two teens who are very important to me (but who shall remain un-named). It's about overcoming bullying and diversity to be yourself ( Read more... )

I've co-written and recorded another song!

"Done" is  now available on my Bandcamp page.

Words by me, music and production by John Russo from the band Reverse Order.

These songs of mine never actually sell much, but any proceeds I do garner will be donated to John's non-profit organization Reverse The Trend, which brings anti-bullying and self- ( Read more... )

A bit of a hodge-podge catch-up post here.

I've been slowly catching up on my book reviews here (see past several posts) and my short story reviews over on 365shortstories. Got a few more on each to fill in (some book reviews from 2014 as well as the current year, and a small handful of story reviews still to go), but progress is progress ( Read more... )

People have been encouraging me for a while now to put my two original songs up on Bandcamp ( Read more... )

This week's interview over on my website is with Nathan Schilz, the composer-lyricist of "Nightmare Man: A Musical," based on a Jeremy C. Schipp short story.  There's about a week left in the Kickstarter project to fund the musical's first performance, and I'm hoping the interview will help him raise the rest of the money he needs. So please check ( Read more... )

I haven't signal-boosted for my musician friends in quite a while, despite all of my best intentions. (Okay, I haven't signal-boosted for my author friends either, but that will have to be a different post.) So, because my old friends The Dalliance released something new today, here we go. Links to MUSIC YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO! (Because I said ( Read more... )

Home from a good weekend with Jon, Cindi and Xavier up in Oneida.  Despite the fact that I brought the rain with me ( Read more... )

I brought my laptop to work and have the itunes on shuffle next to me, since I'm the only instructor in the office for most of this week.

James Taylor's version of "Paper Moon" from the soundtrack to A League of Their Own just came on.  Just a really sweet, simple rendition.

Just felt like sharing.

caseystratton has a new cover of Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror" available for free over on his website.  "Mirror" has never been one of my favorite Michael tunes, in fact I always thought it was a bit over the top.  But Casey's rendition, while true to the original, is a bit less over-produced, a lot more heartfelt .... perhaps because any fan of Casey's ( Read more... )

I stayed late at work because I arrived late, due to that whole blood thing this morning.  Got home, and the guys who are going to try to safely, humanely, remove the bats from our attic were in the driveway.  Marcus arrived home same time I did, so we chatted with each other and with the bat-men (come on, you knew that was coming).

I opted to go ( Read more... )